Interview with Shana Cleveland from La Luz
Interview by Polly Gone KZSC's Polly Gone interviews Shana Cleveland from the Seattle born indie band La Luz.
folkYEAH! Presents Beach Fossils at The Chapel – 10 Year Anniversary Show
By Isabella Balbi Brooklyn garage pop group Beach Fossils, known for their dreamy lo-fi sound and candidly relatable lyricism, played a three night residency from October 17th through the 19th at The Chapel in San Francisco as part of the…
A Compelling Introduction to Santa Cruz: The Sun Room live at The Catalyst
Written by Rebecca Oregel During my first full week of Santa Cruz, I won a pair of tickets to Sun Room, a band complete with four guys from Southern California who play indie rock with a youthful surf sound. Having…
KZSC Interviews Folk Punk Musician Shannon Lay
"KZSC’s DJs DJ Shove It and Goose interview musical artist Shannon Lay about her Santa Cruz current tours and musical inspiration"
A Night in Late May: Girlultra at the Catalyst
More often than not, some of the best live performances are the ones you prepare for the least. On a comfortably cool Monday night, Girlultra performed in the atrium of the Santa Cruz Catalyst–the more intimate stage. My experience with…
Ian Noe – Live at the Brick & Amp; Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco, CA
By Mia Duisenberg If you are at all into country or folk music you are going to want to read this, but if you are too lazy to read, simply go listen to Ian Noe on Apple music or Spotify…
mssv – Live at Winter’s Tavern in Pacifica, CA
Pastel pink skies of a Highway 1 sunset were settling into the horizon as I pulled off into the small coastal town of Pacifica at the prospect of seeing Mike Watt slap bass live on tour as mssv (Main Steam…
Yellow Days – Live at the Catalyst 11.15.21
Written by Kate Marsden I started listening to Yellow Days (the musical alias of alternative music star George van den Broek) in high school and his gravelly, pining sound became a part of the soundtrack…
Alice Phoebe Lou – Live at the Chapel in San Francisco
By Anna Tarasova After discovering Alice Phoebe Lou, I immediately fell in love with her sound and lyrics. It felt like she took the little thoughts in my brain about yearning for love and put them behind some of…
Phoebe Bridgers at the Greek in Berkeley
By Brooke Bernard It’s rare to find music you immediately connect to. I seriously disliked most of my favorite artists today the first time I heard them. Phoebe Bridgers was the exception. The first song I ever heard of…
Dinosaur Jr. – Live at The Fillmore
By Sebastian Gonzalez Watching Dinosaur Jr. perform has always been at the top of my list of must-see live acts, so when it was announced that the band would be playing the legendary venue The Fillmore in San Francisco for…
Festival Review: Outside Lands 2021
Written by DJ Melanchollie In the land of laser lights, camel backpacks, and body glitter, time exists outside linear reality. The evening autumn air is sickly sweet with sweat and clouds of cherry flavored vape. Neon beams of blue, orange…
KZSC X Greer Interview: Live from the Catalyst
KZSC X Greer Interview: Live from the Catalyst Interview by DJ Buddha Hannah, DJ Shove It, and DJ Ligma November 5, 2021 KZSC’s own DJ Buddha Hannah, DJ Shove It, and DJ Ligma had the distinct and rockin’ pleasure…
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…
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”…
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…