Although Bleeding Rainbow was not able to come in to the studio for a live interview, KZSC managed to interview Rob Garcia and Sarah Everton from the Philadelphia-based band at the Crepe Place a few minutes right before their show…
Local poet and therapist, Dane Cervine, joined the crew of Story Time during one profound, insightful conversation to celebrate the release of his new poetry book, How Therapists Dance. During the interview, Dane shares with us what it's like being…
Two members of the traditional Irish music group Patrick Street, Kevin Burke and John Carty, will be performing as a duo on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, in Santa Cruz, CA. Both are outstanding…
KZSC recently hosted the UC Radio Network (UCRN) student broadcaster conference, a mostly harmonic convergence of California college radio stations including KDVS/UC Davis, KALX/UC Berkeley, KCSB/UC Santa Barbara, Bobcat Radio/UC Merced and others. We've never seen so many Warby Parker glasses…
This week has been unexpectedly awesome in terms of our metal adds for the week. We've got The Ocean's highly anticipated record, which comes in two versions, one with vocals and one without. If for some reason growly vocals don't…
Bruce's first guest is Jennifer Colby talking about this year's May Day Reel World Labor Film Festival. It's happening from April 24th through May 8th. Pat Matecjek will be his guest the second half hour handling many of the political…
Kai and Richard back again to fill you in on LGBTQ News and Public Affairs: News and Notes plus the Community Calendar and announcements!
Prepare to be transported to a tropical paradise in your mind as Barry Flanagan and Ron Kuala'au, collectively known as Hapa, return to Santa Cruz. Hapa founder Barry Flangan provides the shimmering guitar work that infuses all their albums over the…
Sleepy John has local journalist Tom Honing of the Santa Cruz Observer on Talkabout taking calls from listeners!
Bruce has special guests Sarah Albertson, Theater Professor at Cabrillo College talking about upcoming performances. Also on the show is Cecile Andrews, author of Living Room Revolution. For more on Cecile, visit http://www.cecileandrews.com/ and for Cabrillo Theater, visit http://www.cabrillo.edu/academics/theaterarts/
On the fateful day of Friday March 22nd, a dramatic event that has shaken and reverberated across the entire metal community occurred: the line up at this years Summer Slaughter Festival was announced. Hordes upon hordes of furious metal…
Scribecash, an emcee and songwriter from the Inland Empire, is on the rise to greatness at only 17 years of age. Recently releasing her free EP Dauntless, Scribecash shares her vocal and lyrical talents offering original conscious and topical lyrics. …
This week in new loud rock features the newest album from the band from hell Ghost B.C. with Infestissumam. We've also got the latest, and some might say greatest, from Whitechapel in The Somatic Defilement. Other interesting releases include Suicidal…
On the first episode of Spring Quarter 2013, Lex and Marissa join Dj Kai Dragon to discuss Queer Youth Leadership Awards. During the episode, Closet Free Radio also discusses the National Day of Silence rally, tax Day implications for LGBT…
As our spring show schedule begins, things get fuzzy at The Great 88. KZSC's April Programmer Of The Month is living proof. Kendra Yoshinaga (aka DJ Teenage Dinosaur) does a show called “Fuzz Tone” Friday nights. It’s a retro garage,…
Listen here for a great interview with Dr. Paul Ware talking about the field of Physiatry, after which Michael Tierra talks about The Contemporary Chamber Music concert happening in Santa Cruz 4/14.
The longest running queer talk radio program (that we know of!) has Santa Cruz Pride organizers Sharon Papo and Chrissann McCann to talk about the upcoming event that will take place June 2, 2013. For more information on Santa Cruz…
The literary radio show, Story Time, has been around at KZSC for a whole quarter now. It seemed like the appropriate time to start sharing our episodes with our online listeners as well! On this week's episode, Kendra Yoshinaga, and…
Coming right out of left field this week is a new album by Volbeat, who found mainstream success with their last album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven. This time around, however, they're coming back with some of the heaviest stuff they've ever put forth.…
Sleepy John welcomes Representative John Leopold and David Seibung on Santa Cruz County politics (with calls from listeners). Following them is Deva Anderson on a local art project.
The great part about non-commercial radio is it is often ones only time to casually be exposed to music that isn't top 40 or something from the 70's. It is many's only chanced to really discover what types of music…