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…
By DJ Mixolydian For this week's In Session feature, we're traveling to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to acknowledge the terrific bass work of Mr. David Hood. Hood was a member of Rick Hall's "Swampers", a group of studio musicians in the Muscle…
By DJ Mixolydian For this installment of In Session, KZSC was blessed to sit down (via Zoom) with legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter. Hailing from the greater Detroit area, Carter began his career as an upright bassist by playing gigs at…
By DJ Mixolydian For this week's In Session feature, KZSC presents to you the music of Bob Babbitt. A legendary studio bassist who traded off sessions with James Jamerson of Motown Studios, Babbitt spent considerable time with both the Funk Brothers…
In Session: By DJ Mixolydian Did the sound of the albums Innervisions, Let's Get It On, and Black Byrd leave a lasting impact on your ears and mind? Then you are a fan of the sweet sounds of David T. Walker's guitar…
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…
Check back every Sunday for a playlist full of our jazz and blues spins of the week !
Check back every Sunday for a playlist full of our jazz and blues spins of the week!
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…
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,…
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…
DJ Mixyolydian Listen below to an interview with bluegrass guitarist Pete Bernhard of The Devil Makes Three. The bluegrass trio formed in Santa Cruz in the early 2000's and will be coming back to the Catalyst for a homecoming show…
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…
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”…
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) 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…
On Thursday, February 6, DJ Mixolydian got a chance to talk with singer/rhythm guitarist Greg Ormont, one of the four members of Maryland-based funk band Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. PPPP has recently embarked on their winter tour of the west…
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 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…
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…
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…
