Curiosity didn’t kill the cat. It made the feline so fat and sassy that the kitty went off to recline and digest all the ‘radio feed’ that KZSC provides. That ‘Cool Curious Cat’ lives at KZSC in every programmer-student or community member-who has graced the airwaves with their particular brand of broadcasting. With nearly 11…
Gravitational Pull
By Hip Hop Director | Published February 16th, 2011Coming from Colorado, a CD titled Gravity made it’s way into KZSC. This album by T Money is completely self-produced with amazing rhymes, smooth flows, and dope beats. However, each song is totally different. While one song samples a Notorious BIG’s Respect, others take on a jazzy undertone. T Money raps with a smooth flow…
The Crooked Jades & Water Tower Bucket Boys
By Folk Department | Published February 16th, 2011The Crooked Jades (SF Bay Area) and The Water Tower Bucket Boys (Portland, OR) will be in concert Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Don Quixote’s, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA., starting at 7:30pm, (831) 603-2294. Both bands play a blend of bluegrass, country, and old-time string band music, with fresh interpretations of older classics as…
Zydeco Magic
By Michael Bryant | Published February 15th, 2011“The King of Zydeco” Clifton Chenier grabbed Andre Thierry by the arms at the age of three and deemed him a future accordion player. Clifton’s prophecy was correct: Andre has become an exceptional self-taught musician who merges traditional Zydeco-Cajun music with blues, jazz and rock, getting crowds dancing wherever he plays. It may not be…
Feminism, Leg Hair, and The Shirelles.
By Program Review Committee | Published February 15th, 2011Living in the city of Santa Cruz has a relatively profound impact on one’s sense of political ideology, and hailing from a much more conservative part of California, provides a little more liberal exposure than I was once accustomed to, especially as a female. When noting this, a few particular instances come to mind: In…
Best Post-Romance Songs Of All-Time
By Program Review Committee | Published February 15th, 2011Seeing as yesterday was the day of Saint Valentine, when lovers of the world join together to go out and eat expensive dinners and parade their affection for all the world to see, when greeting card companies and florists rake in the big dough, when cupid flies across the land, shooting his painful golden arrows…
Ryan Matsuoaka’s Final Regular Home Game for the Slugs Tonight
By Charlotte Gibson | Published February 15th, 2011On Tuesday, February 15th, the UCSC men’s basketball team will host their final home game of the regular season vs. rival CSU Maritime. While the game is highlighted by the rivalry dubbed “the battle of the furloughs” because of the recent financial crisis within both the California State University and the University of California education…
Dry Branch Fire Squad
By Folk Department | Published February 14th, 2011The Dry Branch Fire Squad is a veteran bluegrass band founded in 1976, led by mandolin player and master of dry wit, Ron Thomason. Other current members include Brian Aldridge on guitar, Tom Boyd on banjo, and Dan Russell on bass. Their latest of a dozen releases over the decades demonstrates they’ve only gotten better…
Nell Robinson with John Reischman & The Jaybirds
By Folk Department | Published February 12th, 2011Bluegrass on Valentine’s Day? No lack of love songs there…the Bay Area’s rising star Nell Robinson joins veteran bluegrassers and multiple Canadian Folk Music Award winners John Reischman and the Jaybirds for an evening of tight harmonies and virtuoso picking Monday, February 14, 2011, at Don Quixote’s, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, starting at 7:30pm….
The Bee Eaters
By Folk Department | Published February 12th, 2011The Bee Eaters will be in concert Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8pm at New St. John’s Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Dr., Aptos, CA. They’re a quartet playing new acoustic music drawn from bluegrass, old-time string band, Celtic, jazz and pop influences, featuring hammered dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman, banjo player Wes Corbett, and the sibling…