His name was Lincoln, but most of the music world knew him as Sugar. Starting a recording career in the late 1960’s as part of The African Brothers band, Sugar Minott became popular as a solo artist in Jamaica during the mid-70’s. Sugar was an early pioneer of reggae’s dance hall sound; he developed a talent for writing new songs to fit over existing rhythms (which at the time was common when singers performed live but rare in the studio), often proving more popular than the original songs. His career skyrocketed in the U.K. and the U.S. after the release of “Herbman Hustling” in the early 80’s. Sugar focused his fame (and money) into championing up and coming talent through his Youth Promotion sound system. Decades later, he was still recording and touring around the world.

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Porterpalooza is an annual event put on by Residential Life  at Porter College.  It’s a chance to showcase all of the talent concentrated at Porter plus innumerable bands and performers from across the UCSC campus, all of whom come out  to play for free at Porter College. Ranging from acoustic indie songwriters to hip-hop ensembles to screaming rock balladeers and everything in between, it’s evident that the people of Porter know how to have a good time.

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The time has come! This Saturday KZSC announced the arrival of it’s Spring pledge drive. This is the time when you can show us how much we mean to you. Your donation means that we can continue to broadcast over the air and through your computer year-round, without commercials, and and without sacrificing our completely original programing.

To show you how much your support means to us, we have bucketloads of goodies to give back to you. Tune in to any of your usual favorite shows to see what they’ve got for you.

For those of you into indie rock, we have SIX of the new Beach House records to give away, “Teen Dream”. The CD comes paired with a DVD that features a video for each of the songs on the album. And, by the way, this album is killer. Read our review here and check out the video to their song “Silver Soul” below.

Shows that may be offering this yummy gift include Flavor of the Week, Dream Scream, and Pop Molecule, all of which are airing tomorrow. On Tuesday check out Get Your Kicks and Pocket Full of Seahorses on Thursday. We also have goodies from the Magnetic Fields, The Album Leaf, Zeus, No Age, and The Apples in Stereo to give away.

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Mason Jennings

Greetings KZSC Listeners! This is Benny Goodman Einstein of Sad Bastard Music speaking to you over the internet! I just wanted to let you all know that I will be interviewing Mason Jennings live in studio on Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:15 PM. He’s going to play a show at The Catalyst that night, and he has graciously given up an hour of his busy day to come up to KZSC and play a few acoustic songs in our air studio. Be sure to tune in, it should be a thought provoking and interesting little music experience. Thanks in advance for tuning into the Great 88!

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Here at KZSC, we’re all about the beauty of impermanence. And by beauty, we mean beauty.

Tomorrow is the official start of our new Summer Schedule. Plenty of your old favorites will be sticking around for the sunny months, but a few are out on vacation. To fill their place, we’ve got an arsenal of interesting shows to keep you entertained. Here are a few of the highlights. 

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