3/1 @ the Echoplex I last saw !!! ten years ago; the singer had a rat tail, the horn section from OutHud was accompanying, and they were friggin' fantastic. This time, there was no rat tail (thankfully) or horn section,…
Towards the end of his set at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, Atlas Sound, a.k.a. Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, looked to the side of staged and mouthed “5 minutes!? 15?†It was the first of two shows…
Legendary Alto Sax Jazzcat Bruce Babad (B'Bad) will be a guest on DJ Larry the Fox's show, "Claremont Straight Ahead" at 1:00 pm on Monday, March 12, on KSPC Claremont 88.7 FM. Bruce is not only a master of the…
Tennis comes in at #1 for the second week in a row! Check out the rest of the charts below! TOP 30 1   Tennis   Young & Old   Fat Possum 2   Beach Fossils   Shallow   Captured Tracks 3   Cloud Control   Bliss Release  …
Capillary Action’s second studio album, Capsized, sounds like a band Messiaen would have put together with five Brazilian percussionists and a cadre of Phil Spector era background singers had he grown up in Philadelphia in the 90’s and played the…
Welcome to the Big Dig! This is DJ Ignatz, delivering some treasures I’ve found lurking in KSPC’s miraculous vinyl library… First up, a song from Final Countdown, a compilation of garage mod groups. The track I was most drawn to…
KSPC rung in its 56th birthday on Friday, February 17th with cupcakes, dancing, and some of our favorite bands at Pehrspace on Glendale Boulevard. Letters started the night off by encircling the audience with yarn; their set was low-key and…
TOP 30 1   Tennis   Young and Old   Fat Possum 2   Beach Fossils   Shallow   Captured Tracks 3   Wild Nothing   Nowhere   Captured Tracks 4   Hospitality   Hospitality   Merge 5   Sleeping in the Aviary   You and Me, Ghost   Science of Sound 6   Tycho   DIVE   …
Fingerprints Music in Long Beach, CA: February 19th 2012 Anyone who knows me knows I love Milo Greene. I mean, since seeing them for the first time last summer at the Troubadour (opening for Lord Huron), I have never been…
Topping our charts this week is Cloud Control's debut Bliss Release, a rhythmic but folk-y album full of catchy melodies. Check out other weekly favorites below! TOP 30 1 Cloud Control Bliss Release Turnout 2 Phantogram Nightlife-EP Barsuk 3 Sleeping…
A KSPC listener, Rod Thompson, recently sent me a copy of a western novel he wrote which was published last year by the Penguin Group Division of Berkley Books. I had never read a western novel, but felt obligated to…
The Noise Academy is really just a long room adjacent to Aladdin Jr.’s, a Mediterranean restaurant in Pomona. But as far as a hardcore venue goes, it’s perfect. There were other bands (Stresscase and Plagues) playing this show but I…
Next Tuesday there's a show in LA that's probably going to be one of the best hardcore shows of the year. It's a benefit show for the heart surgery of the daughter of ACxDC, one of the bands playing the…
Wowser Bowser’s debut, their self-titled album out on Adair Park Recordings, shows a lot of promise for this Atlanta-based band. Wowser Bowser gives high-energy performances, which has garnered their live shows incredibly positive reviews. The complexity of the music, through…