Top 10: 1. LONE - Reality Testing / R&S 2. CHROMEO - White Women / Atlantic 3. DEADMAU5 - While(1<2) / mau5trap-Astralwerks 4. TAYLOR MCFERRIN - Early Riser / Brainfeeder 5. BADBADNOTGOOD - III / Innovative Leisure 6. LIDO -…
This week Thee Oh Sees jumped back to #1 and Flashlights album Bummer Summer got a top add! Top 10: 1. THEE OH SEES - Drop Castleface 2. PARQUET COURTS - Sunbathing Animal What’s Your Rupture? 3. WOODS - With Light…
As it is apparently, all goods things must come to an end. Lucky for us at KZSC, things are just starting to heat up for the jazz and blues department thanks to some great adds and tunes. Most notable, the…
The multiple Grammy Award winning Cajun band BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet will be playing for a dance at Don Quixote's International Music Hall in Felton, CA at 7pm on Sunday, June 29, 2014. Native Acadian fiddler Michael Doucet has spearheaded…
Top 10: 1. PARQUET COURTS - Sunbathing Animal 2. ORWELLS - Disgraceland 3. FUCKED UP - Glass Boy 4. THEE OH SEES - Drop 5. WOODS - With Light And With Love 6. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Only…
We're happy to introduce the toothsome--and toothy--cover star of the KZSC 2014 Summer Program Guide. Jaws is jammin'! Look for your own copy at local businesses that support community radio (contact our station manager if that describes you). You can…
Top 10: 1. CHROMEO - White Women / Atlantic 2. DEADMAU5 - While(1<2) / mau5trap-Astralwerks 3. LONE - Reality Testing / R&S 4. CONRAD CLIFTON - Picture In Picture / Self-Released 5. TENSNAKE - Glow / Astralwerks 6. VARIOUS ARTISTS -…
Sweat out that warm summer Santa Cruz heat with some cool jazz at the Great 88. I'm excited to have some greats come into the station from Grammy award winning vocalist Gregory Porter to rock icon Ginger Baker. I anticipate…
This week Parquet Courts moved to #1 on the KZSC charts and #2 on CMJ's national charts and we added a new record by the Antlers and a great EP by the Front Bottoms. Top 10: 1. PARQUET COURTS -…
Fonzie caught up with Jarren Benton of the Funk Volume label on June 1 before his show at the Catalyst. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z7koTWmzlI&feature=youtu.be Watch Fonzie's other interviews on the blog and stay tuned for more coming up!
Coming up this weekend is the 38th Annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Sat-Sun June 21-22, 2014, with continuous concerts, workshops, dancing, and acoustic jamming from noon-10pm each day at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco. While donations will be accepted, this…
Tech N9ne and his Strange Music camp are work-horses. They tour for two-thirds of the year, and still manage to find time to release many quality albums. Strange Music put out 13 projects in 2013 alone. Tech N9ne made…
All is swell at Great 88 here in the Jazz/Blues department. Your new Jazz/Blues Director to happy to report her first official adds and top played tracks from the Great 88's Jazz/Blues Department. I know many here are particularly excited…
Top 10: 1. CHROMEO - White Women / Atlantic 2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hyperdub 10.1 / Hyperdub 3. BADBADNOTGOOD - III / Innovative Leisure 4. TOURIST - Patterns / Monday 5. HETEROTIC - Weird Drift / Planet Mu 6. PARKINSON WHITE…
Fonzie got a chance to ask Freddie Gibbs a few questions before his show on Sunday, June 1st at the Catalyst on Tech N9ne's Independent Grind 2014 Tour! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8RJTSQqoNU Stay tuned for more interviews with Fonzie coming…
Happy June, everyone! This week we kept on playing Thee Oh Sees and gave the new Parquet Courts album a top add. Top 10: 1. THEE OH SEES - Drop 2. DYLAN SHEARER - Garagearray 3. WOODS - With Light…
Listen with caution! One listen through of this album may leave you couch-locked as a result of your mind being fully blown. Fucked Up’s latest Matador release, Glass Boys, is nothing short of a juggernaut of an album. The band’s…
We say farewell this month to KZSC's longest-serving (suffering?) Broadcast Advisor and host of our Thursday morning Beatles show, Michael Bryant. Michael started at The Great 88 in 2001 and helped move us into the Millennium with technical changes such as bumping the signal…
On R.E.M.'s new live release showcasing their 1991 and 2001 MTV Unplugged sessions, there are almost two different bands displaying a similar sound. In the first CD that contains the 1991 MTV Unplugged session, there is a young, emotional band…
Hey, metal listeners! These are the top metal picks for the week. ADDS 1 TRAP THEM Blissfucker Prosthetic 2 BURY TOMORROW Runes Nuclear Blast 3 BROTHER FIRETRIBE Diamond in the Fire Pit Spinefarm 4 VOYAGER Voyager IAV/Nightmare 5 HEAVY GLOW…
Perfect Pussy's full-length first album, Say Yes to Love is a fantastic showcase of the unique, unclassifiable sound that the band has to offer. After the band's debut EP last year, several people got excited about the band's future. And…