San Francisco band The Soft Moon will be releasing their second LP, Zeros, on October 30th. Tour dates are set, and they’ll be hitting da bay – December 14th at Oakland’s New Parish, and December 15th in San Francisco at the Mezzanine. You can listen to the new single “Die Life” on their website to escape…
Blackbird Blackbird & Others This Saturday
By The Rising Tide | Published May 24th, 2011Just wanted to let you know about a show happening this Saturday night, May 28th, at 105 Pioneer Street in Santa Cruz. The show features a number of local and bay area bands that might be familiar to you… BANE SHOWS PRESENTS BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD SEAPONY OLD ARC PALMZ LIVE AT 105 PIONEER ST. SATURDAY, MAY…
Victims Family, Dan Potthast and Bam! Bam! on The Rising Tide tonight!
By The Rising Tide | Published March 25th, 2011Hey there, We’ve got a wonderful trio of guests for tonight’s program. It’s going to be one of the most musically diverse shows we’ve ever had! We’ll first welcome into our studio a band from Oakland by the name of Bam! Bam! This Oakland based two-piece have been kicking around thrashy, lo-fi garage pop jams…
Gay Genius and The Art Museums on The Rising Tide Tonight
By The Rising Tide | Published January 21st, 2011Let’s dig into the bands who’ll be coming up to our treehouse up in the woods tonight! The first of which is Gay Genius. This local two-piece group is comprised of Nessie from Nessie and Her Beard and Tyler from James Rabbit, both of whom are Rising Tide alum in their own right. The duo…
Wooster and Nick Bane live on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published December 10th, 2010Tonight, on The Rising Tide, our primary musical entertainment is the local band Wooster. What can be said about Wooster that hasn’t already been said? They are a highly acclaimed soulful rock act that has graced local institutions like The Catalyst while also taking their talents both up and down the coast numerous times over…
Tonight on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published December 3rd, 2010Every 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…
sea birds live on The Rising Tide
By The Rising Tide | Published November 19th, 2010This has been an insanely busy week, but we here at the Rising Tide are working to provide you the best in local music programming, as well as spotlighting a different independent artist live in the studio each and every week. For tonight’s (11/19) Artist Spotlight, we’ll be hosting SLO’s very own Morgan Enos, a…
New show spotlight: The Rising Tide
By Music Director | Published January 21st, 2010One of KZSC’s newest shows is The Rising Tide on Friday nights (8:30pm – 10:30pm), helmed by DJ PassiveTheory is bringing to the airwaves the kind of local musicians and voices that need to be heard! This Friday night, the San Francisco-by-way-of-Berkeley indie rock trio GRAND LAKE will be KZSC’s guests live on The Rising Tide!…
This is one strange “Teen Dream”
By Music Director | Published January 17th, 2010Another new arrival at KZSC: The new Beach House record “Teen Dream” is out now on Sub Pop. Straight forward consensus? The best I’ve heard of them so far. Which is saying something. A lot of the lo-fi qualities from their previous two records are gone. Each song is a bit less shrouded in fog…
Tune-Yards re-issue?
By Music Director | Published December 17th, 2009So here’s the thing about re-issues. Often they’re just an excuse to get more attention to something that has already gotten a good deal of attention. HOWEVER, here’s one re-issue that I’m okay standing by: Tune-Yards’s “Bird Brains”. This album is undoubtedly my favorite album of 2009 (and I refuse to give that a second…