This past week on KSPC's talk program The Interchange we celebrate the month of monsters and magic with a special radio drama entitled "The Robot Killer" performed by Claremont Colleges' Bottom Line Theatre. Listen below to see what happens when…
1. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, R Plus Seven, Warp Records                                                                           2. TY SEGALL, Sleeper, Drag City 3. BOARDS OF CANADA, Tomorrow's Harvest, Warp Records 4. ADULT. The Way Things Fall, Ghostly International 5. JACKSON SCOTT, Melbourne, Fat Possum 6. BASS DRUM…
This week’s genre is more widespread than the previous niches. As usual, we will look at this issue by analyzing a main band, chiefly CAKE for this week. There are plenty of bands who have blended rap and rock before,…
As far as I am aware, there are not many films made about 70 year-old men from Detroit, Michigan with a Wikipedia profile listing them as a singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, excavation worker, and demolition worker. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)…
Dr. Reed Gratz will be a guest on DJ Larry the Fox's show "All that Jazz" at 4:00 pm on Saturday, October 19. Dr. Gratz is a Professor of Music and Music Department Chair at the University of La Verne…
I’m a dancer, so music has always been a very important part of my life. Truth be told, however, my taste in music, which happens to very eclectic if not somewhat bipolar, is based much more on gut reactions than…
KSPC's latest installment of The Interchange, our Public Affairs program, featured the work of Stephanie Huang, whose poem "Flora" can be found below. "I'm a sophomore at Scripps majoring in Media Studies and minoring in Poetry. For me, poetry…
To be honest, this is one of the hardest types to categorize out of my repertoire. The WIB for this week is based mostly off of the Swedish band Wintergatan. They have a general air of electronic, but also…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_CDrF3fss Check out this music video for God is an Astronaut's "Spiral Code" sent in by KSPC listeners and this week's featured artists Tyler Haywood and Johnny Chew! "Our inspiration for the video revolved around a few elements, but we were…
For me this was very difficult to narrow down to 10 tracks because I have so many favorites at the station. I tried to keep it to the hidden gems I've found through the years. Most of these are variations…
1 DAVID LYNCH The Big Dream Sacred Bones 2 BATHS Obsidian Anticon 3 TY SEGALL Sleeper Drag City 4 NO AGE An Object Sub Pop 5 GRUMBLING FUR Glynnaestra Thrill jockey 6 ISLANDS Ski Mask Manque Music 7 SALVIA PLATH…
1. Jon Hopkins - "Sun Harmonics" This album's one of my favorites of the year, and "Sun Harmonics" is a wonderfully textured, relaxing song, and the moment when the drums kick in around 1:54 is just masterful. 2. Mount Kimbie - "Blood…
The first thing I heard was rhythmic drumming, and an electronic, voice-like synthesizer. Then the speakers exploded with Native American chanting. I was thus introduced to A Tribe Called Red, a Canadian band that blends elements of “First Nation†music…
TOP 30 1 SLEEPER Ty Segall Drag City 2 WAS DEAD King Tuff burger records 3 EXPECTATIONS Moses Campbell Big Joy 4 DRIFTERS/LOVE IS THE NEW DEVILÂ Dirty Beaches Zoo Music 5 SILVER WILKINSON Bibio WARP 6 LOUD CITY SONG…
Bodegas were so lovely as to come into our basement studio this summer... Â Check out the recordings of this IE favorite. xoxo KSPC Track 1 - One Track 2 - Finna Track 3 - Scum Track 4 - Natural Selection…