HFICLSI playing LIVE on The Weather Report 6/15/09
Tune in on Monday June 15th from 8-10pm to hear HFICLSI of San Diego performing live at KSPC on The Weather Report. Their first album "KALEIDOSCOPE", released this April, blends angular math rock dynamics and a brattiness similar to that…
KSPC T-Shirt Contest
Do you need some flair in your wardrobe? A little bounce in your step? Why not create the new KSPC T-Shirt. The contest will take place throughout the month of June, and the winner will receive a free shirt, a…
KSPC Interview: Douglas Rushkoff
Click here to listen online now to a KSPC exclusive interview with Douglas Rushkoff -- Doug shares his vision of the Media Squat radio show, his views on media and media studies, as well as his views on emerging local…
Join the Media Squat!
As a non-commercial, educational radio station and community service, KSPC endeavors to inform and inspire the people of our local community -- it is in that spirit that media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff will return to the KSPC airwaves…
Narwhal Party LIVE on The Weather Report 6/01/09
Narwhal Party will be performing live in the KSPC basement on The Weather Report (Mondays 8-10pm) on Monday June 1st. Tune in to hear this Rancho Cucamonga based group belt out their spazzy punk stylings. It's a fun party, and…
Barry Mosley & Stephan Oberhoff on Claremont Straight Ahead
Barry Mosley & Stephan Oberhoff of the Barry Mosley Quartet will be guests on "Claremont Straight Ahead" hosted by Larry Fox at 1:00 pm on Monday, June 1, 2009. Barry is a fine valve trombonist who has played with such…
KSPC DJs in the news
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…
KSPC Presents: Nomo at the Spaceland
KSPC Presents: Nomo at Spaceland "With its third album, Ghost Rock, Detroit, Mich. band Nomo sets itself apart from the Afrobeat masses. For much of this decade, dozens of austere instrumental bands have copied scratchy ’70s funk styles, often demonstrating…
The Jazz Bakery is moving
The wonderful Jazz Bakery will be moving from the historic Helms Bakery complex at the end of May. The non-profit jazz venue has been host to hundreds of amazing musicians over the past 16 years, as well as Bakery Art…
Future Static show this Saturday in Riverside
Future Static and HMS presents image via Azalia Snail myspace Azalia Snail Virginia Reed Mothers of Gut Brian Walsh White Marsh Saturday, May 16, 2009 at the Pharaohs Den 3579 University Avenue Riverside 5 dollars, doors at 8pm
KSPC, Club Underground, and Echo Presents Ponytail @ Echo this Friday, 5/15
KSPC is excited to present Ponytail at the echo on Friday, May 15th!!! Ponytail is a four-piece art rock band hailing from Baltimore, which the likes of similarly eccentric Dan Deacon and Ecstatic Sunshine call their home. Noisy battling guitars,…
Claremont Straight Ahead: Tim Gill interview
JAZZ INTERVIEW: Tim Gill is a 25-year old award -winning LA-based trumpeter, vocalist, composer, and arranger. He is leader of The Tim Gill All-Stars, a high energy 10-piece big band. Mixing vintage, rump-shaking groove with exuberant youthful energy, this one-of-a-kind…
Identify Our Favorites, Win a New Favorite CD – TAKE #2! WITH RULE CHANGE!!!
(Due to the fact that the names of the musicians in the photos featured in our original giveaway contest were easily found by right-clicking on the photos, we are back with 5 more unidentified KSPC favorites. Same contest, second attempt.…
REVIEW: Los Straitjackets – The Further Adventures of… (YepRoc)
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…
REVIEW: Whales – Whales (LogJams)
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…
Claire Cronin at Rhino Records
If you didn't catch the in-store performance by Claire Cronin this past Sunday afternoon at Rhino Records, you missed out! There is still hope for you: we will be playing excerpts of her performance soon on KSPC, and she's also…
The Ever So Talked (Blogged) About Wavves -04.16.09 Show Review
Mandy’s Performance Quality Scale- C+
I have seen many shows during my two years at the Claremont Colleges. There have been highs and lows in terms of performance and band personality, and after many months I have created a Performance Quality Scale in my mind. Ponytail at The Smell on 10/10/08 being at the high end of the scale and Band That Shall Remain Unnamed on 11/22/08 in Dom’s Lounge, Pomona College at the other end of the scale. On this scale, Nathan “Wavves” Williams lands somewhere in the middle.
REVIEW: Starfucker – Jupiter (Badman)
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…
REVIEW: Bipolar Bear/Talbot Tagora – Abstract Distractions 10″ (OlFactory)
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…
REVIEW: King Khan and the Shrines – What Is?! (Vice)
King Khan and the Shrines more or less started when King Khan (on tour with former band The Spaceshits) toured through Germany and ended up settling down there. This album was the King Khan and the Shrines' debut on Hazelwood…