When was the last time you saw a band you weren’t familiar with, and left with your mouth hanging open? Spirits of the Red City are an 8-piece acoustic folk band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that includes two sets of siblings, the sounds of a cello, mandolin, viola, drums, guitar, accordion, trumpet, banjo, upright bass,…
KZSC Welcomes: Memoryhouse, Baths, & More!
By Promotions Director | Published July 29th, 2010KZSC Welcomes Memoryhouse, Baths, Mountain Animal Hospital, and Brown Irish this Friday, July 30th at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz! This is going to be a stellar show that you do not want to miss! Memoryhouse is an up-and-coming dream-pop act out of Canada that mixes ambient loops, breezy samples, and synths in…
Furniture-weaving/tape-recording his way to a club near you
By Music Director | Published July 28th, 2010Have you ever drifted asleep at the bottom of a dried up well, but when you woke up you realized that you’d actually been floating on a crude bamboo raft on a murky urban river, the bends and bows of which had deposited you on the beer-sticky parquet floor of the dive-est night club in…
Size Matters.
By Michael Bryant | Published July 27th, 2010KZSC has been adding music to our archives ever since there were 8-track tapes. At last count, we have stored over 70,000 CDs, 12,000 LPs and tons of tapes, 45s and a few things that just look weird. Is that enough? Just ask any music collector and they’ll tell you it’s never enough. If you…
Dark Monk & Mobonix and DJ Quickie Mart Interviews Tuesday Night!
By Hip Hop Director | Published July 27th, 2010Tune in Tuesday night 10:30pm-12:30am on Approach to Danger for dual live interviews with the hip-hop duo Dark Monk & Mobonix as well as DJ Quickie Mart. Hailing from the ATL, Dark Monk & Mobonix’s recent track “Real Terror” off the album “True Underlord” is heat and has been played on kzsc multiple times. DJ…
KZSC Welcomes Pocahaunted – Be Ready!
By Music Director | Published July 25th, 2010Bethany and Amanda comprise Pocahaunted. They look so happy – kinda like The Carpenters (if Richard was a girl and who knows) – however most of Pocahaunted’s music is buried in a murkier, ambient sort of dark primitive experimental sound. Bethany describes it as, “Talking Heads meets Cocteau Twins thrown into a blender after smoking…
Check out Michael Gaither live on Backroads!
By Music Director | Published July 23rd, 2010Michael Gaither, local singer-songwriter, is live RIGHT NOW on KZSC’s Backroads program. He’s a writer of entertaining and often humorous songs that reflect on everyday experiences. Tune in until 2 pm to catch the performance and interview. Michael will also be performing in “An Evening of Songs and Stories: Three Songwriters In-The-Round” with Nancy Cassidy…
The First Jazz Post or How I Learned to Stop Being Lazy and Love The Blog
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published July 22nd, 2010Ya see what I did there? That was a Kubrick reference, which means that I am a witty fellow. Worship my prowess. To begin, my name is Dan Davis, and as of several months ago I became the Jazz and Blues Director here at the ever lovely re-purposed music room known as KZSC Santa Cruz….
Rude and Adorable Post-Punk
By Music Director | Published July 21st, 2010We just got this record in from Crustacean Records: It’s the new release from Screamin’ Cyn Cyn & The Pons, “Damn Girl.” Behind the plastic-gem bedazzled gold acrylic nails is a band that appear not to take themselves very seriously. If they are serious about anything, it’s penning irreverent and offensive songs that poke fun…
Maps & Atlaseseseseses
By Music Director | Published July 20th, 2010Heyyy did you catch the Maps & Atlases show at Kuumbwa on Sunday? I did! Those Chicagoans whumped and warbled their way into the hearts of the assembled believers. If you’re in southern CA, head’s up! They’re headed your wayyyy! If you ain’t gonna to catch ‘em on this go around, big ugly yellow couch…