This 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…
Tonight at Surf City Billiards: KZSC Welcomes Pure Ecstasy, Sleep Over and Young Prisms!
By Music Director | Published August 4th, 2010Pure Ecstasy’s take on psychedelic lo-fi music is mesmerizing, while fellow Austinites Sleep Over will draw from their atmospheric sound collages in what’s sure to be an amazing show! Rounding out the bill are the bay area’s own Young Prisms, a group who are gunning to break out of the region with their stunning live…
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…
Nursery live on The Rising Tide tonight!
By Music Director | Published July 9th, 2010Nursery electro-dance two-piece is comprised of composer Frank Wong and singer Emma Jean and has been tearing up a storm around town recently, playing to both captivated house shows as well as an impressive late-day performance at May’s SCUMFest. The electrifying duo will be making their Crepe Place debut on September 22nd (opening for electro-folk…
SCUM calengrrr
By Music Director | Published May 21st, 2010SCUM = Santa Cruz Underground Music. Here’s a calendar of all of the upcoming shows that we (so far) know about! Print it out, hang it up, hand it around, make it your desktop image!
The Wind Shift
By Music Director | Published May 18th, 2010Elena Rossman is taking the local music scene by storm. Rossman, a UC Santa Cruz junior and Santa Cruz native, has been playing guitar and writing music since she was 13 years old. She just released her five song EP, The Wind Shift, recorded at Gadgetbox Studios in Santa Cruz. The EP features Rossman’s melodic…
Tetherhorse video
By Music Director | Published April 16th, 2010Tetherhorse recently came through the KZSC studios to perform live for The Rising Tide. The band will be playing at Streetlight Records for Record Store Day on Saturday, so here’s a little preview to get you warmed up! This is Tetherhorse, here are our very own little cabin in the woods:
Matador CD release show tomorrow!
By Music Director | Published April 9th, 2010Very exciting news to report: Matthew and Dorota ie MATADOR are releasing their first record! To celebrate, there will be a big ole shabang at The Church house with performances from Beat Beat Whisper, Pale Robin, and Casey Guitar Band. Oh, and of course the birthday babies. Yum! Come out and support cute people making…
UCSC Open Mic Nite Live!
By Michael Bryant | Published February 1st, 2010Now here’s something you won’t want to miss. For the first time ever, KZSC will broadcast one of UC Santa Cruz’s talent-filled open mic nights. This week’s open mic takes place at Porter college’s dining hall. If you can’t make it in person, have no fear, KZSC is here! The live broadcast will air Wednesday…
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!…