Tune in to "Gachan Gachan" this Thursday from 4-6pm for the latest installment of our Sound Art miniseries! This week, Rachel D. and DJ Space Cadet bring you a live performance and interview with LA-based musician and composer Chris Kallmyer.…
Sound picture (c) Laura Steenberge Tune in to "Gachan Gachan" with DJ Space Cadet this Thursday, 3/4 from 4-6pm to hear LA-based sound artists Cat Lamb and Laura Steenberge perform a collaborative exploration of sound colorations by numbers for viola,…
Tune in Wednesday at 10am to hear a special performance by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, founders of Monome. Monome designs an adaptable, minimal interface device favored by many artists and electronic musicians, including LA cult favorite Daedelus. For more…
On Saturday, November 28th, join Cinefamily as they screen this ambitious, highly faithful late-'40s Alice adaptation that took years to complete, and features an abundance of impressive, meticulous and labor-intensive stop-motion work from pioneer puppeteer Lou Bunin. Remarkably, the film…
Kendra Atleework On Friday, November 13th, Clint Conley (bass, vocals) of MOB did an interview on Hopscoth with DJ Special K (Friday nights 8-10). That Sunday they played to a packed Echo in celebration of their new album. Clint Conley’s…
It's 2 AM on Friday, which means you just missed the latest KSPC Blowout! First up was Magical Mistakes (formerly known as Death by Panda, generally known as Erik Luebs) of Pitzer College's Rainbow Destroyer collective, a one-man electroambientpopsomething outfit…
Another classic from Legendary Music's Grouch and Eligh! This album has some of the deepest, most insightful content I've ever heard in Hip-Hop. It has several great guest artists, including Slug, Gift of Gab, and Sage Francis. Overall it's an…
Tune in to No Coast of Nebraska this Tuesday, October 5 at 8:30pm (PST) to hear DJ Rachel D. interview Gina Birch, singer and bass player for groundbreaking UK post-punk band the Raincoats! This fall, the Raincoats embark on a…
Two former KSPC Blowout guests make their triumphant return to the LA area together—could it be? It was! On Thursday, Sept. 24, KSPC's two favorite East Coast indie punk bands—Glen Rock, NJ's Titus Andronicus and Brooklyn, NY’s the So So…
KSPC is pleased to wish a happy birthday to two darlings of the Underground programming block: the Minutemen's punk classic Double Nickels on the Dime and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore! Hailing from San Pedro, CA, the Minutemen were a…
Were you aware that KSPC DJs occasionally moonlight as vigilante crimestoppers? Last week, DJ Zeitgeist, aka Zach Lester, aka "Zack" Lester, laid down some two-fisted, extra-curricular justice! From the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: CLAREMONT - A former Claremont High School…
Hark! It’s Nashville’s- nay!! The SOLAR SYSTEM’s mightiest surf rockers, LOS STRAITJACKETS!!! The instrumental band has washed up (ever so gallantly) with its eleventh studio compilation- The Further Adventures of Los Straightjackets. While the supposed top-track ‘Sasquatch’ is indeed superb…
Wha wha wha? WHALES… is Ryab Adlaf and John Nixon of Highland Park, California. This wet debut pours progressive rock, sonar sounds, and kiddy electro-weirdness into a stellar sea of five tracks that free thinkers and Free Willy can equally…
Jupiter is Starfucker's second album, a mini-LP (or mega-EP) full of smooth, playful, dancy electropop with new wave vibes. Their first album was similar in many ways, but for this album they've apparently added a fourth member and given their…
On the front side, spinning five tracks wide, BIPOLAR BEAR, LA’s own fuzzy punks. On the flip, spinning four tracks deep (and into your eardrums they seep) Seattle’s psychedelic marching miscreants, Talbot Tagora. Bipolar Bear has once again birthed some…