What about Death?
By Duncan Ober The debate over the first ever punk band is as old as the genre itself. While Ramones from New York released their first record in 1976 and over in London the Damned, Sex Pistols, and the Clash…
This Blessed Osmosis: A Playlist by Alyce Thornhill
“Save the Children,” Gil Scott-Heron “We've got to do something, yeah, to save the children/ Soon it will be their turns to try and save the world” Gil Scott-Heron’s spoken-word lyrical style and blending of genres such as jazz and…
Artist Spotlight – Hook
By : DJ Honey Bucket Hook is an up-and-coming rapper from Riverside, California. (Shoutout to Queen Beats (on KZSC Tuesdays at 10 pm) for enlightening me.) Her stepdad was a rapper and encouraged Hook to pursue music by helping her…
DJ Dolce’s Interview with Bei Ru
By DJ Dolce As an Armenian American, it’s always a special experience for me to meet another person from our small diaspora and to connect on our shared experiences that unite us as a community. These experiences become even more…
Life Changes, Music, and Gilmore Girls: An Interview with Sam Phillipps
By Sophie Baron Gilmore Girls has been a series that comforted me throughout my teenage years, and well into my (somewhat) adult life. For those unfamiliar with the series: Gilmore Girls is an early 2000s coming of age “dramedy” that aired…
DJ Dolce’s Entrevista con la banda Mundaka
By Audrey Peshkam Recently, I had the amazing opportunity to interview three out of four members of the band Mundaka. The band is based in Lima, Peru and is a part of the city’s small underground rock scene. The band…
INTERVIEW WITH TIM BLACK OF CAHOOTS / WHITE BIRD CLINIC ABOUT COMMUNITY SAFETY WITHOUT POLICE
By John Malkin CAHOOTS is there to provide an alternative to traditional public safety resources for all of those situations that police and other jurisdictions are being forced to respond to you without the right kind of training and without…
Interview with upcoming Scotts Valley Band, Chouch
By DJ Pierce A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview two members of the band, Chouch, a local alt-metal band based in Scotts Valley, California. During the interview, I spoke with Zélee Sharnée, an 18-year-old vocalist…
Club Penguin X Soccer Mommy Live Show Review
By DJ Honey Bucket On April 16, the year of our lord, two thousand and twenty, indie rock quintet, Soccer Mommy, graced the virtual Club Penguin Rewritten stage to perform their newest album in its entirety to an audience of…
Destroy Boys at Noisepop (Bottom of the Hill) 3.1.20
By dj saratonin All photos by Sarah Tello. Attending our second night at Noisepop, DJ Frenzy and I were more than eager to catch the essential Bay Area four-piece, punk/rock band Destroy Boys. The previous night we desperately tried to…
Slow Hollows at Café Du Nord 2.29.20
by Madeline Carpou You get to Café Du Nord through a descending stairway under a neon-lit awning. It’d been so long since I’d been to a show, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I should have been expecting,…
Duster at The Catalyst 2.28.20
by Andrew Agena The first time I listened to Duster, I felt immediately teleported through the gritty nostalgia of the 90s and the spacy rock feel of a trip gone right. This unique distorted warbling was influential to many musicians…
Noisepop Presents: Good Morning! + Interview 2.28.20
By DJ Melanchollie Shrouded in pink smoke and enveloped by beams of blue light, the experimental bedroom pop duo Good Morning graced the stage of the Starline Social Club this past Friday and filled the intimate space with their jangly…
Album Review: Green Day’s Father of All Motherfuckers
by Nicolas Ruiz Despite being a lifelong Green Day fan, I think I was only able to stomach Father of All Motherfuckers because I was tired of stomaching the same material since ¡Uno!. Up until now, this seminal group was…
Noisepop x KZSC Presents: Chastity Belt Live at The Catalyst
All photos by Henry Thomas By Henry Thomas Chastity Belt Show Review. Febraury 9, 2020 I went into this show knowing absolutely nothing about Chastity Belt except for a 60 second clip of their music video for “It Takes Time”…
Terminal Aggressor II EP Review
By Nicolas Ruiz Silently creeping out of the mysterious dungeons where they lurk, the death/doom metal band Dragged into Sunlight is back after half a decade with a new release. Known for their dark, twisted experience that was their 2009…
Computer Love: A Modern Romance Playlist (Techies Disregard)
Computer Love: A Modern Romance Playlist (Techies Disregard) By DJ Honey Bucket Since the invention of technology, communicating with the cuties in our lives has been a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Subtle nuances in tone get lost in translation, you get…
A Talking Heads Playlist
by DJ Mixolydian We all know the 7-on-A baseline of “Psycho Killer”, or the chorus to “Burning Down the House”, but here are some tunes that may have slipped by you that definitely deserve a listen. Though David Byrne recently…
An Interview with the Greeting Committee’s Addie Sartino
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GREETING COMMITTEE’S ADDIE SARTINO On November 20th of 2019, The Greeting Committee took the stage of the Catalyst Club as the opening act on Hippocampus’ most recent tour. What follows is an interview between resident…
The Greeting Committee: An Extremely Personal Show Review
By DJ Parkour This was a special one for me, y’all. I’d already seen Hippo Campus twice so attending their show for the third time around at the Catalyst on November 20th felt like reuniting with old friends, even if…
First Saturday of the New Year 2020: HALCYON presents Westend
by TABS Our headliner for the night, Westend is a fairly known DJ in the Dirtybird scene, having been on the Line up for the Dirtybird music festival for 2019. Originally from New York, his real name is Tyler Morris.…