Happy New Ear!
What shock to the system for the station to be off the air at the end of 2013 for some tower maintenance. We lost track of how many people asked us why they could not get the great 88 tuned…
What Is A PRC?
Here's the inside scoop: all the programming you hear on The Great 88 is masterfully put together on our quarterly schedule by KZSC's Program Review Committee. The PRC reads over piles of proposals, reviews current shows and offers advice on…
The Dairy and the Dead
On August 27, 1972, The Grateful Dead played a legendary set on Ken Kesey's farm in Veneta, Oregon. This show has long been traded among Dead Heads but has never been available as an official release. Until now. The Dead…
College Radio Day Today!
Happy College Radio Day! Today KZSC will band together with over 500 College Radio stations around the world to celebrate the low end of the FM band. Beginning last year College Radio Day has been celebrating and bringing awareness to…
New Website for KZSC
It's been a busy year for KZSC and we now can add "Brand New Website" to the list of accomplishments for 2013. Razorfrog Web Design in San Francisco created a completely new version of our website while keeping the look…
Goodbye And Hello
KZSC's Business Manager is a student position. And like the tides at our world famous surf breaks, they come and go. Goodbye to Kevin Candelar1a, the 2012-13 Business Manager who graduates in June. Kevin was also voted "Most Likely To…
Not Fade Away
My two-year stint as KZSC's music librarian is coming to an end this month. It has been a fascinating plunge into music of all kinds. I am happy to say that Chris Jong is returning as librarian for the station…
Passing the Torch
Every year for KZSC comes the bittersweet moment of our old governing board stepping down and being replaced by their mentees. Tonight is night that this transition completes. Know that regardless of this transition KZSC is and will always be committed to community radio…
Passing the Torch
Every year for KZSC comes the bittersweet moment of our old governing board stepping down and being replaced by their mentees. Tonight is night that this transition completes. Know that regardless of this transition KZSC is and will always be committed to community radio…
Time To Get Savage
The brutal truth is this: there's a lot of stuff in your life that needs to get moved out the door and down the road and KZSC is no exception. We have a fantastic music collection that has grown (or…
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…
Meet Emily, KZSC’s New Volunteer of the Month
UCSC sophomore Emily entered through the door to KZSC just a week ago. She received a tour, filled out her student volunteer forms, learned how to process music and was on her way as a KZSC volunteer. So far Emily has…
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…
Submit to Anonymous Callers 2nd Edition
Back by popular demand and just in time for the cold, harsh, lonely winter months, KZSC's 2nd edition of Anonymous Caller is now accepting submissions. The theme for this issue is graffiti-you've-spotted-around-that-looks-cool. That means photos of bathroom graffiti, wall graffiti,…
Best Album Artwork of 2012
We've all been told not to judge a book by its cover, but what about albums? Imagine walking in to your local record store, pumped to flip through bins and let your eyes scan over the endless possibilities for a new…
KZSC’s Annual Music Sale Nov. 17th
If you haven't been to one of these before and you LOVE music, plan to join the crowd Saturday, November 17th for KZSC's Annual Ultimate Music Sale. Thousands of CDs & LPs will be available for purchase from bunches of…
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools may make you think of a Grateful Dead song or a song from The Doors, but the history behind this 3-word phrase is really quite amazing. It first appears in 1494 as a book, Das Narrenschiff, written…
Reminder on PSA Guidelines
As KZSC's Public Service Announcement Director I receive piles of emails every day. Just like tofu, the easier your submission is to digest, the faster you'll hear it on the air. Here are some of the basic points when sending…
UCSC Student Open House @ KZSC
KZSC has space for new UCSC student volunteers. No experience is needed (we provide the training), so if you're a UCSC Student with a passion for music, sports, talk radio and/or pizza, then a KZSC's Student Open House Event is…
Website Update
Love our Instagram pictures we've been posting to our Facebook page? All of them are available for viewing on the KZSC website. Just look on the right hand side of our homepage, under the "RECENT TRACKS" and click the Instagram…