Every week here at the Rising Tide we are working to provide you the best in local music programming, as well as the focal point of spotlighting a different independent artist live in the studio each and every week. This week we have two such artists. First off, let me introduce you to The Groggs. This…
Telekinesis on Pop Molecule!
By Station Manager | Published October 18th, 2010Tune in to KZSC’s “Pop Molecule”, today, Monday October 18th at 2pm for a special acoustic performance by the band Telekinesis. Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner, an indie pop musician from Seattle, WA. Michael will be performing songs from his first album, Telekinesis!, as well as from his upcoming EP, Parellel Seismic Conspiracies. You can…
King of The Dead surfaces in KZSC mailbin
By Music Director | Published September 4th, 2010KZSC’s mail owl dropped a parcel from Marc Maynon, of Maynon (L.A.), at the doorstep to the little log cabin today. Enclosed was Maynon’s 4 track demo “Grand Horror Spectacle Songs” and a handwritten note, and the illustrated-by-hand single frame comic you see above. For your efforts Marc, I applaud you! I’m jealous of the…
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…
KZSC Welcomes: The Growlers & The Entrance Band – June 23rd
By Station Manager | Published June 19th, 2010Next Wednesday, June 23rd, KZSC Welcomes: The Growlers & The Entrance Band at The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz. The Growlers are a pop and rock band from Long Beach, California and put on one hell of a live show. The Growlers play a variety of different styles including 1960′s influenced rock and roll and…
Seahorses EXPO’d
By Music Director | Published June 17th, 2010Wolf Parade just picked the world up and dropped it on my head. An advance copy of their latest Sub Pop release, Expo 86, just landed at our station, and our pet seahorse is still recovering from the impact. We don’t really have a seahorse, I just needed an excuse to embed this video: http://www.youtube.com/v/8lWSawPgQgQ…
KZSC Welcomes: Magic Bullets, Good People, Hermit Convention – June 19th
By Station Manager | Published June 16th, 2010This Saturday, June 19th, KZSC Welcomes: Magic Bullets, Good People, and Hermit Convention at The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz. Magic Bullets is an indie pop/rock six-piece hailing from San Francisco. They have played shows with bands such as The Walkmen, Perry Farrell, Voxtrot, and Cold War Kids. Both opening bands, Good People and Hermit…
Porterpalooza LIVE-ALL DAY on KZSC’s Online-Only Side Stream!
By Intro to Radio Instuctor | Published May 15th, 2010Porterpalooza is an annual event put on by Residential Life at Porter College. It’s a chance to showcase all of the talent concentrated at Porter plus innumerable bands and performers from across the UCSC campus, all of whom come out to play for free at Porter College. Ranging from acoustic indie songwriters to hip-hop ensembles…
Top plays!
By Music Director | Published April 14th, 2010Here is an update on our top Electronic, Rock, and the occasional Hip-hop plays! Rank Artist Recording Label 1 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop 2 SPLINTERS Kick Double Negative 3 SHE AND HIM Volume Two Merge 4 COCK AND SWAN Unrecognized Dandelion Gold 5 LOVE IS ALL Two Thousand And Ten Injuries…
White Hinterland’s “Kairos” is to die for.
By Music Director | Published March 18th, 2010Really really really. If you don’t remember le grand White Hinterland, their last album “Phylactery Factory” came out in 2008 and featured a lot of boring piano-based songs sprinkled with a few gigantic gems (“Napoleon at Waterloo” and “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” are so overly gorgeous that it makes the whole album close to…