KZSC Jazz/Blues 7/27-8/3
Check back every Sunday for a playlist full of our jazz and blues spins of the week!
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…
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,…
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…
Interview with The Devil Makes Three’s Pete Bernhard
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…
Album Review: Green Day’s Father of All Motherfuckers
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…
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”…
Terminal Aggressor II EP Review
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)
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…
Presto: An interview with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong’s Greg Ormont
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…
A Talking Heads Playlist
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
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…
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…
Interview with AG Club!
By phlegmatuc Live in KZSC’s Studio, phlegmatuc had the opportunity to interview AG Club straight from their hometown based in the East Bay Area. The Club was enthusiastic to talk about how they started their music career in the hip-hop…
KZSC End of the Decade Playlist
By DJ Maybe A little bit ago I asked some KZSC DJ's what their favorite songs from the decade were. A complicated question. Kind of hoping for a "first thought, best thought" bunch of instinctual answers. Instinct compiled this playlist,…
Shoreline Mafia at The Warfield 11/24/19
by Dominic Wong West Coast hip hop collective, Shoreline Mafia, has been teasing the charts and roaming the states during their “Paid in Full Tour”. During a slow rise in the 2010s, Shoreline Mafia gained traction in the underground. They…
Local Artists Need Recognition Too
By: Tabatha Ruiz BOOTS N’ CATS Presents “FUNCTION” @ ELEV8 NIGHTCLUB November 23 @10PM (21+) 30 South 1st Street, San Jose 95113 BOOTS N’ CATS is an event company based in San Francisco for the Bay Area. The mission of…
Motown Playlist
Check out this DJ Mixolydian composition of some hits and some rarities of the sweet soulful sound of Hitsville, USA. Motown brought us many, many numbers that make everyone’s day a little bit brighter, so why not make your rainy…
The Garden Live + Interview at The Catalyst 10/26/19
All photos by Sarah Tello. by Dariahn Hernandez The dynamic band of brothers from Orange County took the Catalyst stage once more this past halloweekend entertaining a crowd of ghouls and ghosts. Sporting costumes reminiscent of villains found in 90s action…
Soundtrack Review: Joker (2019 film)
By Mariana Soria HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….JOKER’S SOUND….HAHAHAHAH….TRACK…. HAHAHAHAHA….WAS…….HAHAHAHHA…... …. Sorry about that. What I meant to say is that the JOKER film soundtrack put a wide smile on my face. Just moments after smiling however, I…