Loud Rock Charts: 5/7
Sodom's Epitome of Torture dropped on our (metal)heads two weeks ago. What the hell? How did I miss that? More importantly, who's the assbag that forget to send me a memo and do my job for me? Also, if you have yet…
Loud Rock Charts: 4/30
With these last adds/charts comes the end of April, and the beginning of something beautiful. And metal. Can we dub this month "Metal May"? Because there are some seriously mindblowing tours coming to the Bay Area and Santa Cruz over…
Loud Rock Charts: 4/23
This week has been unexpectedly awesome in terms of our metal adds for the week. We've got The Ocean's highly anticipated record, which comes in two versions, one with vocals and one without. If for some reason growly vocals don't…
A Critical Analysis of the Summer Slaughter Butthurt
On the fateful day of Friday March 22nd, a dramatic event that has shaken and reverberated across the entire metal community occurred: the line up at this years Summer Slaughter Festival was announced. Hordes upon hordes of furious metal…
Rookie Rising
Scribecash, an emcee and songwriter from the Inland Empire, is on the rise to greatness at only 17 years of age. Recently releasing her free EP Dauntless, Scribecash shares her vocal and lyrical talents offering original conscious and topical lyrics. …
Loud Rock Charts: 4/16
This week in new loud rock features the newest album from the band from hell Ghost B.C. with Infestissumam. We've also got the latest, and some might say greatest, from Whitechapel in The Somatic Defilement. Other interesting releases include Suicidal…
Loud Rock Charts: 4/9
Coming right out of left field this week is a new album by Volbeat, who found mainstream success with their last album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven. This time around, however, they're coming back with some of the heaviest stuff they've ever put forth…
Finding New Music
The great part about non-commercial radio is it is often ones only time to casually be exposed to music that isn't top 40 or something from the 70's. It is many's only chanced to really discover what types of music…
This Pope Shall Not Abdicate
All hail Pope Lou Reed the Only. His robe is a Velvet Underground. His throne, the mighty city of Berlin. Whose Mary Magdalene's were transvestite streetwalkers on the wild side. Who turned the other cheek when struck viciously with flowers…
Why The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Should be the Next Poet Laureate of the United States
As a creative writing major here at UCSC, I'm all too aware of the changing times and how they're affecting writers of all varieties. A lot of people are under the impression that a lot of writing, particularly poetry, is…
Coming Soon In Hip Hop
The next month holds some exciting news for hip hop fans. Here at KZSC we're especially stoked to see the release of 2 albums, the first being from none other than Tyler, The Creator. His third studio album Wolf is…
Loud Rock Charts: 4/2
This just in: all members from Kvelertak found rendered unconscious in a freak belly dancing accident. Also, April Fools. However, you know what isn't a really bad joke? This week's charts! 1 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Disarm The Decent Roadrunner 2…
Loud Rock Charts: 3/26
Happy Spring Break! I hope everyone has been having a very metal vacation because I sure have. I've been booty bumpin Thy Art is Murder's newest album, Hate, and Byzantine's self titled comeback record. By the way, if you are…
Passing of the Horn
Happy Friday. A great thanks to all of our promoters for providing premiums for our pledge drive a couple of weeks ago . Our listeners thoroughly enjoy all of the new material, as well as their new gifts from our…
Loud Rock Charts: 3/19
One of the better weeks in terms of Loud Rock Adds, this time we see Clutch drop what could be their greatest album to date, Finnish monster costumers Lordi release a "beastly" (teehee) record, and the highly anticipated Kvelertak album…
Caspian’s Drummer Joe Vickers Discusses Newest Album and Current State of Post-Rock
Post rock outfit Caspian recently stopped by Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to close out the Noisepop 2013 Festival, and holy mother of god what a way to go out. Before the prodigious climax however, I was lucky…
Loud Rock Charts: 3/12
Unfortunately, last week there as a mix up with KZSC's CMJ subscription, hence the lack of charts and adds. With this week, however, KZSC is back in business, and boy what a week. This time around sees hard rock band…
Charts and Adds 3/8/2013
Here are KZSCs latest jazz charts and adds for the week. We had an error in our CMJ subscription the past week, but it is now fixed and here are the results for the past two weeks. Charts: 1 JOSE…
Between the Buried and Me Bassist Dan Brigss Talks New Tour, New Band & Album
I recently was given the opportunity to chat with the bassist from progressive metal giant Between the Buried and Me. Below you can read highlights of our conversation in which we cover Russian Circles, Dan's new band Trioscapes and even…
New Growlers Album: Hung At Heart
Self-branded as "Beach Goth", the Orange County crew The Growlers are road warriors. Playing a seemingly endless string of dates, the quintet wander the country like modern day pranksters delivering a tight set of their jaunty organ-infused surf rock. Costa Mesa's psych-surf…
Loud Rock Charts: 2/26
Thursday night, I witnessed one of the greatest acts on metal this world has seen. No, it wasn't any big name bands like Opeth or Gojira. It was just a small three piece band, who use nothing more than 2…