Deerhunter / Monomania / Out via 4AD on May 7th, 2013 Like any well-oiled pop machine, Atlanta’s avant-garage outfit Deerhunter knows when to slowly gas the psych propellers into an ambient blissout, and bust out pedal-to-the-metal spurts of pure punk rock as soon as the lighters get raised. The band’s fifth studio album Monomania dropped May…
Between the Buried and Me’s Newest Album Teases With Some Sexy Foreplay But Will Never Call Back
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published October 9th, 2012When Between the Buried and Me came to San Francisco for Summer Slaughter, I had the great fortune to sit down with Dan Briggs and Dustie Waring. Of course, one of the main things we discussed in detail was their newest addition to their diverse discography, The Parallax II: Future Sequence. We talked extensively about the…
Something Pretty for Your Ears
By Rock Director | Published June 20th, 2011Rejoice, 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,…
He Won’t Sit Down And He Won’t Shut Up
By Program Review Committee | Published February 18th, 2011Music, I think most of you would agree, is primarily about emotional experiences. So when people claim that so-and-so is their “favorite artist of all time,” I sometimes have a hard time believing their statement because well, Ghostface Killah may be a skilled rapper, but I don’t think he really resonates with a lot of…
Fall Be Kind
By Music Director | Published December 19th, 2009So, yep they did it. To us. Again. Through the heart? Maybe. Animal Collective released a new collection of songs: their Fall Be Kind EP. As a long-time AC fan, it’s kind of easy for me to slip into really loving everything they do. However, their last album (Merriweather Post Pavillion) sort of threw me…
Show review: Vault Dweller, Fell Voices
By Music Director | Published November 13th, 2009Picture bodies packed into a cozy garage, possibly not fully sound-proofed walls, narrow, people hanging from the rafters like the apes we are, moshing into the band, and oh so much beautiful noise. Church last night. Third St in Santa Cruz near the Boardwalk was crammed with bodies Saturday night, wall to wall, two-stages; one garage…
CMJ Day 3: UUVVWWZ, Little Teeth, and college music awards!
By Music Director | Published October 23rd, 2009On the plate yesterday: more bagels, EXTREME pizza on Bedford in Brooklyn, The Knitting Factory and college music awards! Yesterday CMJ gave away a slewww of prizes and awards at their annual College Music Awards. While KZSC is only winning at home (and with you) right now, our neighbors KSSU Sacramento took home a mountain…
Lost in the AIR WAVES
By Music Director | Published August 7th, 2009Dear KZSC lovers, It’s time we sit down and cuddle up to something that I personally cannot get my ears to move away from. The band is Air Waves, out now on Catbird Records. This is what happens when you get a copy: your hand is filled with this beautiful, screen printed, yellow artwork on…
We’re youthful and alive: Charts from 6/22!
By Music Director | Published July 26th, 2009They’re not quite coming from the beyond the grave; these are our charts from last Tuesday. Next Wednesday will bring new joys, but until them, check out this greatness: Rock music wins:
Strangeways, Here We Come
By Music Director | Published July 15th, 2009Good day to you all! My name is Lee Bedrouni and I’m the former RPM Director and current DJ for two of KZSC’s radio programs this summer, Wandering Stars and Louder Than Bombs, the Smiths tribute show. I decided recently that it’s about time I contribute to the KZSC.org blog, and what better way to…