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Wake the Dead, Sat Nov 2nd

The Wake the Dead band who are mostly from the SF Bay Area, blends traditional Celtic music played on acoustic instruments with the songs of the Grateful Dead. They'll be performing at Don Quixote's International Music Hall in Felton, CA on Saturday, November 2,…

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Halloween Electronic Music Charts

Santa Cruz has a couple of big RPM/Electronic music shows happening on Halloween. If you want to get the feeling on your own sound system, here's a list of Halloween end of October picks from KZSC. Our current Top 10…

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Rock Charts – Mid October

Top 10: 1. FUZZ - Fuzz 2. JACUZZI BOYS - Jacuzzi Boys 3. JESSY LANZA - Pull My Hair Back 4. COSMONAUTS - Persona Non Grata 5. AU REVOIR SIMONE - Move In Spectrums 6. NIGHT BEATS - Sonic Bloom…

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Rock Charts – Early October

Top 10: 1. MAZZY STAR- Seasons Of Your Day 2. TERRY MALTS - Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere 3. FRESH AND ONLYS - Soothsayer 4. DIRTBOMBS - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey! 5. BLOUSE - Imperium 6. KELLEY STOLTZ - Double…

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Make A Donation, Get Some Lips!

You've already got your costume figured out, but what about where to spend your Halloween night? KZSC has your treat because we have tickets to The Flaming Lips show Halloween night, October 31st  at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San…

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Mid-October New RPM Sounds

Just before the Halloween parties begin, here's a list of 5 new and spinning releases on KZSC electronic music/RPM shows: SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND / Tribes (Upstream) ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / R Plus Seven (Warp) MOBY / Innocents (Mute) VITALIC…

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The ‘Adrian Peterson Effect’ & Basketball

Hey sports fans, I want to talk about the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. What used to be one of the most dreaded injuries that could befall a professional sports player has in recent years been viewed as considerably less…

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SCARED SENIOR!

That's right lovely listeners, you wouldn't believe it but many UCSC students and KZSC DJs have begun their last year as undergraduate banana slugs. Commonly, I like to write a blog about a new fun event or cool artist that…

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Annais ♥

As we welcome back new and returning banana slugs for the school year, we here at The Great 88 would like to take the time to remember a very special member of our KZSC family who is missed very, very…

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New Electronic/RPM

Students are back at UCSC. You'll hear electronic music blasting from dorm to dorm, but here's what's Top 10 on KZSC: JACKSON AND HIS COMPUTER BAND/Glow (Warp) MODERAT/II (Mute) CANBLASTER/Infinite [EP](Marble) JESSY LANZA/Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub) SINJIN HAWKE/The Lights…

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College Radio Day Today!

Happy College Radio Day! Today KZSC will band together with over 500 College Radio stations around the world to celebrate the low end of the FM band. Beginning last year College Radio Day has been celebrating and bringing awareness to…

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