I am not the music festival type. One too many bruised, sun-burnt, dehydrated days in front of a stage may have led to this conclusion, but the bands at FYF Fest this past weekend drew me out into the heat and dust of downtown Los Angeles, and I regret nothing! I’ll tell you how it…
Space Oddity For Kids
By Promotions Director | Published September 6th, 2011Bowie fans can now rejoice the fact that Space Oddity has been turned into a book. Illustrator Andrew Kolb’s idea for this book was to take the lyrics from the iconic song and turn it into something that Bowie fans can read to their children. The story revolves around Major Tom and his adventure in…
The Last Hurrah of Summer 2011
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published September 5th, 2011The summer has been littered with great music across the country. Music festival after music festival, maybe I saw you at one. With the summer coming to close (a summer in Santa Cruz means a foggy one.) where are you going to get the last music festival fix? How about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass one…
Iris Dement Sunday Sep 11th
By Folk Department | Published September 4th, 2011Iris Dement, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, guitar and keyboard player, will be performing on Sunday September 11, 2011 at 7:30pm at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz, CA (831) 479-9421. Her earlier recordings in the folk/country genre were introspective, personal, and spare in presentation, and received great acclaim for her songwriting. Iris’s later…
KZSC: The Musical
By Michael Bryant | Published September 4th, 2011Not quite a musical but a fine six minute documentary on The Great 88. Directed and produced by UCSC student Marc Atkinson, it’s a pretty good snapshot of the current staff and philosophy of KZSC. SEE IT HERE. [Parental Warning: contains one word we cannot say on the radio and some serious air guitar playing]…
The 5 Bands DJ Brootalisk Would Do ANYTHING To See Live
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published September 4th, 2011Yeah, I’m doing another top 5 list, so what? It’s easy to write, and quite frankly it’s more interesting to read than me rambling on about how much my mouth hurts from whoever stole my wisdom teeth (I WILL FIND YOU). Also, it should be noted that I didn’t include any bands I’ve already seen…
3 Tools to Find New Music
By Electronic Music Director | Published September 3rd, 2011Have you been playing the same album on repeat for a week? Is your iTunes looking a bit lackluster? Are you searching for more sweet, sweet tunes to savor? If you’re at all internet savvy, I’m sure you’ve heard of Pandora and Last.fm, but here are 3 more sites that are great for discovering new music….
UCSC Women’s Volleyball
By Charlotte Gibson | Published September 2nd, 2011The UCSC women’s volleyball team will be participating in the Puget Sound Tournament this weekend in Tacoma, Washington. Saturday September 3rd, the Lady Slugs will matchup against DIII University of Wisconsin-Stout at 9 AM. To round out the action, the Lady Slugs will finish the tournament against DIII Pacific Lutheran at 1 PM. Best of…
Rene Lopez’s “Electric Latin Soul”
By World Music Director | Published September 2nd, 2011Get ready, world music lovers, because Rene Lopez’s newest album has hit world charts this past July, and let me tell you, it is FULL of flavor! E.L.S, an acronym for Electric Latin Soul, is a musical genre which Lopez developed, in which he melds Latin soul, Boogaloo, Rock, R&B, Hip-Hop and more to create…
Modern Traditions in Ska and Rocksteady
By Program Review Committee | Published August 31st, 2011Ska and Rocksteady have their musical roots in Caribbean, jazz, and R&B music – and are the forebears of modern reggae. There are competing claims as to the origin of the term “ska” which emerged in the early 1960s in Jamaica. In late 1970s England, these sounds evolved into second wave ska (sometimes referred to…