Posts Tagged ‘lo-fi’

New show spotlight: The Rising Tide

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

One 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!

Grand Lake

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! We’ll learn a little about this promising new act, talk about their upcoming show at the Crepe Place, on January 24th, where they’ll be opening for Maus Haus (more information, including ticket prices, available on the Crepe Place’s website, here). The trio is in the midst of promoting their Louise EP, a four-track recording featuring Silver Jews and Port O’Brien covers, and live on The Rising Tide the group will perform a number of songs off this EP and the rest of their songwriting playbook in what will surely be an intimate affair with an burgeoning musical talent!

SCHEDULE OF GUESTS FOR THE RISING TIDE:

- 1/29 – CP WILSEA (sc) – (1019 Records, Wolf Crystal, Palm Yard)

- 2/5 – HERMIT CONVENTION (sc)

- 2/12 – COOL BAND NOW (sc)

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This is one strange “Teen Dream”

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Beach House in the summer time-- appropriate!

Another new arrival at KZSC: The new Beach House record “Teen Dream” is out now on Sub Pop. Straight forward consensus? The best I’ve heard of them so far. Which is saying something. A lot of the lo-fi qualities from their previous two records are gone. Each song is a bit less shrouded in fog and there’s more of a range of emotion. The emotional build-up in some songs is more impressively huge than so much of what they’ve created before. Not to say that the height is better or worse than the echoing quality of their previous work–but it’s certainly something. The album is cleaner but still calls upon the same haunting qualities — the same organ, Victoria’s ever-powerful voice, and incredible song writing. It’s a favorite for me already. Here’s a weird video of the new song “Norway” for some audio sampling. For more listening, listen to selected KZSC programming or check out their myspace.

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Tune-Yards re-issue?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Tune-Yards/Merrill is wonderfulllll!

Tune-Yards/Merrill is wonderfulllll!

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