DON’T MISS: Art After Hours 4/5
Come down to Pomona College Museum Thursday evening for an evening of math, math rock, prog jazz punk, post prog-skronk space-tropicalia math-lounge (?!!!) Basically, there will be amazing music. And snacks of course. And projections. Maybe even some tiny canvas…
KSPC Charts for 3/19-3/26
New York's Yellow Ostrich tops the charts this week with their 2012 album Strange Land--upbeat, rhythmic pop sensibilities that edge into noisy garage rock. Check out the rest of the charts below!! TOP 30 1   Yellow Ostrich   Strange Land   Barsuk…
DOUBLE FEATURE: Kitchen Hips in-studio; @ Rhino Records
Be sure to catch Pomona College's very own Kitchen Hips on this Wednesday, March 28, at 11 pm on Flower Hours with DJ Lilly. Kitchen Hips writes about vegetables, flowers, bicycles, honey, & love. Taking inspiration from early crooning females…
PLAYLIST: some new tunes for your enjoyment!
Welcome to a new segment where we highlight individual songs instead of full albums. The beginning of this year marked the comeback of artists like Lambchop, as well as the best work yet of Sharon Van Etten and Perfume Genius…
DON’T MISS: The Loom In Studio and at Pitzer’s Grove House
On Friday, March 30 from 5-6pm, some very special guests will be visiting KSPC to perform their music live and have a short interview with DJ Rubix! Listen in and check out The Loom, a five-member band from Brooklyn that…
KSPC & RHINO Present: Katie Ferrara @ Rhino Records
On Sunday, March 25th KSPC is kicking off our "5-C Invasion" in-store series at Rhino Records in the Claremont Village with Pitzer alum Katie Ferrara! Every Sunday at 3pm from March 25- April 15th, mosey on down to Rhino and…
Charts for 3/12 through 3/19
For the third week in the row, we give you Tennis! TOP 30 1   Tennis   Young & Old   Fat Possum 2   Tycho   Dive   Ghostly International 3   White Rabbits   Milk Famous   TBD 4   Wowser Bowser   Wowser Bowser   Adair Park 5   Neverever   …
Special Event: Jazz Roundtable
In celebration of April being National Jazz Appreciation Month, KSPC's first-ever Jazz Roundtable will be moderated by DJ Larry the Fox on his show "Claremont Straight Ahead" from noon until 2:00 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012. The Jazz Roundtable…
!!! and Wild Belle @ the Echoplex
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,…
CONCERT REVIEW: Atlas Sound @ Center for the Arts
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…
INTERVIEW: Legendary alto sax jazzcat to be guest on “Claremont Straight Ahead”
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…
Weekly Charts 2/27-3/4
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  …
ALBUM REVIEW: Capillary Action’s Capsized
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…
The Big Dig
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…
Belated Birthday Wishes for KSPC
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…
Weekly Charts 2/20-2/27
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   …
SHOW REVIEW: Milo Greene @ Fingerprints Music
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…
WEEKLY CHARTS 2/13-2/20
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…
Special Feature! BOOK REVIEW: The Black Hills
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…
SHOW REVIEW: Xerxes and Code Orange Kids
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…