KZSC is known for having the freshest ticket giveaways for our dear listeners every week (several times a day)! This week's spotlight giveaway is for Wobbleland 2016, a two-day EDM Festival (Friday February 26th- Saturday February 27th) at the San Jose Civic! Listen to Cr8 Diggers Anonymous (Tues 3 pm) and Eclectic Avenue (Wed 10 pm) KZSC this week for your chance to win a pair of weekend passes to this event (ages 16+)!
KZSC is bursting with pride, for Closet Free Radio! They've been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Diversity Center Santa Cruz County. Closet Free Radio is the longest running radio show about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning issues in the country. You can count on CFR for a comprehensive stream of LGBTQ news, interviews, and entertaining commentary every Monday at 7 pm.
There’s not really any sort of cohesive way to discuss a band like Godspeed You! Black Emperor that doesn’t begin to sound either extremely pretentious or like an academic paper. As I sat on the base of a pillar in…
The Catalyst Atrium | January 13, 2016 About a month ago, KZSC teamed up with the Catalyst to present indie hotshots Surfer Blood in The Atrium. Attendance was high for a weeknight and the audience's energy was palpable. The sound of…
Two stars of Hawaiian music are at the Rio Theatre Thursday February 4th--Keola Beamer, composer, singer-songwriter, accomplished slack key guitar master and Henry Kapono, singer-songwriter, actor, and rocker. Moanalani Beamer will grace the stage with hula. These gentlemen of music brought us many of the original songs that have formed the identity of Hawaiian music since the 1970s.
This Thursday January 28th @ 9pm The Donkeys and Jackie Zealous will be playing at The Crepe Place on Soquel Avenue (just a block from the Rio Theater). Jackie Zealous is a local Santa Cruz surf/garage trio, who have made impressionable performances all…
In Wouter Kellerman's album Love Language, he focuses on classical flute styles intertwined with Roots music. Kellerman's mixture of contemporary music, and traditional musical styles from South Africa, brings a refreshing new spin on classical flute instrumentation. He's worked with…
"Junun" is still our number one for the top ten new world tracks. Even so, stay tuned for new artists climbing up the ranks. Such as Carla Morrison, Grupo Fantasma, and Wouter Kellerman. Stay Worldly Slugs. Top Ten: Jonny Greenwood/Shye…
Top Ten: BARONESS -- Purple HATCHET -- Fear Beyond Lunacy LEFTOVER CRACK -- Constructs Of The State ZULUS -- II GRAVE BABIES -- Holographic Violence MADAME MAYHEM -- Now You Know SHINING -- International Blackjazz Society DRACONIAN -- Sovran USELESS…
KZSC has shed many a tear in the last couple days over the loss of a legend. As Vonnegut would say, so it goes. In preparing the CMJ Charts & Adds for the week, I discovered this new B-side, "David Bowie Songs," released by The Spook School just hours before Bowie's passing. In addition to Blackstar itself, The Spook School's Try To Be Hopeful was one of our Top 5 Adds this week at KZSC.
Station staff member Tony Evans gives us a wonderful interview with legendary west coast hip hop artist and producer Warren G.
El niño is approaching and KZSC has a storm of its own! Here are the new musical releases to look for as we enter the new year. Stay worldly. Jonny Greenwood/Shye Ben Tzur/Rajastahan Express-Junun Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet-Intercambio Karavan Sarai…
Nothing really says DIY like a good ol' house show, and nothing says underground like bands that have forged their own distinct sound. I'd known Floral's guitarist since his punk rock days back when our bands were equally pissed off and equally terrible in that beautiful way that only punk is. What a few semesters at Berklee had done to him was simply mindblowing. With only a compressor to cut out feedback and static, his high treble tapping brought the room to a mathy frenzy. Fingers flashed and blurred. Feet flew over massive and elaborate pedalboards. Surely, math has never before been this rock. Or rock been this math. You know, whichever.
It's pretty difficult for me to rank my favorites, but here are my personal top 25 favorite releases (albums, mixtapes, EPs) of 2015. It's mostly hip-hop since that's what I listen to most as hip-hop director here at KZSC! Please comment how I left off your favorite album (I know I probably did). It's hard to keep up with everything!
Warm it up, Santa Cruz! Welcome the Island sounds of Paula Fuga and Anuhea to Moe's Alley Wednesday, December 16th at 8:30 pm. Paula has a truly exquisite voice and she uses her talents to be a cultural ambassador for her Hawaiian home and people. Anuhea, brings new reggae-tinged holiday music to the stage at Moe's Alley. Get your Island sway going on, groove to the music and the rare treat of having these two talents together on the mainland.
KZSC Presents Surfer Blood’s fuzzed-out indie-surf rock and Cayucas’ nostalgic sunny pop at a rockin’ show January 13th at The Catalyst. Surfer Blood released their third album, 1000 Palms, this past May and Cayucas just released their second album, Dancing at the Blue Lagoon.
Nahko and Medicine for the People play the Catalyst in downtown Santa Cruz Saturday, December 12th, with the Wheeland Brothers opening the show up at 9:00 pm. Nahko is of Apache, Puerto Rican and Filipino cultures and adopted into the family of music. With the power of Real Talk Music, Nahko gathers a tribe of truth seekers to each concert and event.
It's December! AAAAAAAAAHGGGHGHGHRG DECEMBER! FINALS! WHY ARE YOU READING THIS?! GO STUDY FOR YOUR FINALS!!! GGRRAAAGAAGARHRGHARGHH!!!!!!!!! MEDICINE MOON - Medicine Moon EP KILLING JOKE - Pylon TYONDAI BRAXTON - Hive1 IAMX - Metanoia ZULUS - II ATOM AGE - Hot…
Hopefully all you punks, metalheads, and rockers had a pleasant Thanksgiving. Or had a pleasant time explaining why Thanksgiving is rooted in genocide and jingoism. Or, perhaps best yet, simply had an opportunity over the past week to spend some…
Tülips from way down south in Los Angeles just finished up a tour for their debut album "Doom and Bloom". For their final date, we here at KZSC had the opportunity of asking them some questions about their noisy poppy sound…
Recently, we at KZSC had the opportunity to talk with the guitarist of the legendary Santa Cruz Skate Punk band, Mike Neider. Recently, the band put out a new EP with Dave Grohl on drums and Chuck Dukowski on bass…