Rejoice, for Bon Iver’s new album comes out today! Bon Iver, Bon Iver is the second album from folk it-dude Justin Vernon’s band, his first album being the overwhelmingly pretty, often-hyped For Emma, Forever Ago, the one that has the highest play count on my iTunes. Of course the new album is also overwhelmingly pretty,…
Nostalgia = brutal.
By Intro to Radio Instuctor | Published November 30th, 2010When I was twelve years old, I couldn’t help but be disappointed. The reason was not because I had just moved to a new area, nor because I hadn’t received my acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, nor because I was a chubby, awkward, redheaded girl who was in middle school. No, it was…
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…
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…
Night Work, gotta do the night work…
By Intro to Radio Instuctor | Published July 14th, 2010Listening to a Scissor Sisters album is like getting into a car with a friend who, while being brash and exciting, might lack a tiny bit of common sense and doesn’t give a damn about it. Finally, after four years, countless scrapped songs, and a near dissolution of the band, we can go on more…
Exiled From the 70′s
By Michael Bryant | Published May 15th, 2010“So after working for eight years I discovered at the end that nobody had ever paid my taxes and I owed a fortune. So then you have to leave the country. So I said fuck it, and left the country” -Mick Jagger April in Paris conjures up images of tranquility; down in the south of…
60s girl groups + sounds of thunder + psych noise joy!!
By Music Director | Published February 15th, 2010Elk’s “Honey Range EP” is a CD that for about a month, had fallen by the wayside. It was released only limitedly in the begining of December and I neglected to download it until I returned to this log cabin in January. Since I finally recovered it’s digital-only files, it’s been a non-stop play for…
You’re offensive
By Music Director | Published January 31st, 2010We love (a brand new “we love”): Dadfag. Yes, offensive. Yes, dirty dirty grimy thrashy and sexy. Dadfag’s newest record is called “Scenic Abuse” and was described as a mix of Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, and hardcore punk. Dear god I’m in love. Give it a listen here. Also, these guys are from San Francisco…
YAWN: not-so-boring tropical adventure
By Music Director | Published January 29th, 2010Okay, not quite a tropical adventure, per se, for there are no vines in this album but I swear I can hear monkeys hooting in the background. The album in question? Yawn‘s self-titled debut EP which sounds like a mix of Capybara, Animal Collective, and Vampire Weekend. Seriously. I think this album is the love-child…
Mail Call: Cars & Trains (and whistles and bells?)
By Music Director | Published January 20th, 2010Another update straight from the envelope to you! Yeah that’s right, this is getting to YOU before it’s even getting to our DJs (how’s that for exclusive?!). The album in waiting is “The Roots, The Leaves” by Cars & Trains. The album rides on my favorite musical goodies such as tape samples, banjos, children’s toys,…