Terri Lyne Carrington began playing drums when she was five years old, beating out rhythms on her grandfather’s drumkit. Her father was also a saxophonist and drummer and her musical aspirations were supported by family and friends. If others admonished,…
Art by Hannah Rouland, @hannah.tor.art Remove the California Mission Bells: An Interview with Valentin Lopez, Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band August 23, 2021 Santa Cruz, California is the first city in the state to remove the El Camino…
Art by Hannah Rouland @hannah.tor.art AR-15 Stolen from Santa Cruz Police Department Four Years Ago Still Missing By John Malkin In 2017 an AR-15 assault rifle was stolen from the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) and the theft was never…
By DJ TABS (Tabatha Ruiz) For those of you who are interested in the music scene and are ready to come out and make appearances amidst this Pandemic and tiresome quarantine, you should definitely check out some of these Local Bay…
By Duncan Ober The debate over the first ever punk band is as old as the genre itself. While Ramones from New York released their first record in 1976 and over in London the Damned, Sex Pistols, and the Clash…
“Save the Children,” Gil Scott-Heron “We've got to do something, yeah, to save the children/ Soon it will be their turns to try and save the world” Gil Scott-Heron’s spoken-word lyrical style and blending of genres such as jazz and…
Story and Interview by DJ Mixolydian DJ Mixolydian is back with another feature interview for In Session. This time, KZSC presents to you: Sir Froderick. A laid-back beatmaker, record store (and label) owner, hip-hop connoisseur, and king of the tape…
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 Dolce As an Armenian American, it’s always a special experience for me to meet another person from our small diaspora and to connect on our shared experiences that unite us as a community. These experiences become even more…
By Sophie Baron Gilmore Girls has been a series that comforted me throughout my teenage years, and well into my (somewhat) adult life. For those unfamiliar with the series: Gilmore Girls is an early 2000s coming of age “dramedy” that aired…
R&B artist UMI will perform live on Friday, December 4th at 6 PM. The 21-year-old artist from Seatle is known for her genre-bending style rooted in neo-soul and R&B. This event will be the first concert hosted virtually by UCSC's…
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…
Celebrate the birthday of the late Alice Coltrane by enjoying some spacey, complex psychedelic jazz!
Soothe your soul with some of the best female voices of R&B from the 80's and 90's!
A curation of hits, rarities, and similar sounds of the one and only Mothership Connection, Parliament-Funkadelic!
By John Malkin CAHOOTS is there to provide an alternative to traditional public safety resources for all of those situations that police and other jurisdictions are being forced to respond to you without the right kind of training and without…
