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Highway 17 Landslides

Many students here at UCSC live either on campus or within the city of Santa Cruz. Catching the City Metro, riding a bike, or simply walking out of their dorms and straight to class is the most commuting that the…

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Tycho at Treasure Island Music Festival

This past October, two of KZSC's DJs had the opportunity to head up to the Bay Area's annual Treasure Island Music Festival and sit down with Scott Hansen, the frontman and creator of the ambient electronic band Tycho.

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Santa Cruz Music Festival at Downtown

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The Santa Cruz Music Festival returns to downtown February 18th and 19th. Over 250 mostly local artists are playing at venues on and near Pacific Avenue. And this year, KZSC programmers will be broadcasting interviews and some music from the event! Listen in to get a taste of the amazing local music scene that we are blessed with--and come out to the festival to support the hardworking musicians live!

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Nef The Pharoah Interview & Concert Review

I caught Vallejo rapper, Nef The Pharoah last week during his Changuary Tour stop at the Catalyst. We talked about his extensive amount of vlogging done in high school, Nardwaur, and alcohols endorsed by other rap artists. Enjoy that and…

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RPM Charts January 2017

A lot is happening in the world of RPM! Our new KZSC Winter Schedule started just last week and our RPM shows have started out with a bang. We have The Groove Institute with Black Cow Tuesdays at 9pm, Night…

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Activism in Santa Cruz County

The Artists on Art show for January 18th, 2017, featured spiritual activist and author, Ami Chen, community activist Miriam Stombler and Didje Koffa to talk about the protests happening in Santa Cruz County in response to the inauguration of the 45th President…

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Reporting Unbiased News in a Divided Country

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Tune in this Friday and Saturday to KZSC for updates from DJs who will be in our nation's capital, as well as our home of Santa Cruz, CA and the greater Bay Area. No exaggerations, only eye-witness accounts from us to you. KZSC's students are teaming up with Student Media at UCSC to send student reporters to D.C. and create multimedia projects based on these events and more. "Like" Santa Cruz Media Coalition on Facebook for more unbiased media that's to come. And, of course, keep an eye out on KZSC's Facebook page, Instagram, and Twitter for more reports and photographs.

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LOUD ROCK JANUARY CHARTS

Brrrrrr my goodness it's getting chilly! To get you through this inclement weather, and as a reward for surviving the holidays, here are some great loud rock releases from the month of January and the latter half of December. Black…

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Wobbleland in San Jose: back for 3 days!

Wobbleland 2017 back at the City National Civic in San Jose, February 17, 18 and 19 Wobbleland is back for three days this year! One of the most well known bass festivals of NorCal is back in San Jose. Last year,…

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Caleborate Interview & Concert Review

Wassup radio family, Last week I caught up with Berkeley rapper, Caleborate for a hefty interview before his headlining show in the Atrium. Rizal Aliga aka Mr. Hella Hyphy himself was also in attendance and wrote a solid concert review which…

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WARM BREW! Tracing their Footsteps…

     Warm Brew is quintessentially West Coast – the two are synonymous. Their lyrics, though, are anonymous. (you’ll never hear ‘em copy! Top Notch Baby! Never coming less, sky’s the limit, you gots to believe up in… the Brew!)…

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LOUD ROCK NOVEMBER CHARTS

So much beautiful metal is released this time of year...must be the weather, I suppose! Here's some of my top picks for the brutal-est and grooviest metal out now. Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation (Black Metal) Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis (Death Metal)…

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