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I have this friend who, whenever I play her a new album, immediately rattles off a list of all the bands it reminds her of. Although most of the time I can completely see how the gruff edge of a singer’s voice could reminds her of The National, or how a frenzy of synthesized beats could evoke Discovery, for some reason this drives me crazy. As soon as the list becomes a weird four-part hybrid (“It’s totally like…Miike Snow meets Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear, with a little Animal Collective…”) I wonder why it can’t just be a fabulous experience of new music.

Chiphop / Nerdcore group A_RIVAL will be an in-studio guest on the Video Game Music Show this Friday 10/7/11 at 6pm. Game music producer, composer, and performer A_Rival, proudly announces the release of his debut CD, "8-Bit Pimp"; the first…

The next SC3 arcade party will take place on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 12 noon to 12 midnight, at the Nucleus gallery in Alhambra, CA! As always, we'll have dozens of bona fide vintage coin-ops and home consoles on…

Mikal Cronin’s new, self-titled album (out now on Trouble In Mind Records) was the #1 played album on KSPC last week. It’s the young garage-rocker’s first album! Find out what else was being played on KSPC here!

Why is Largo the best thing all of the time?
That, of course, is a rhetorical question. Any venue that can collect the Watkins siblings, Jackson Browne, Benmont Tench, Sebastian Steinburg, Blake Miller, Joe Purdy, and Fiona Apple onto a single stage deserves all the praise that it can receive. The Watkins Family Hour is a Largo tradition, and its most recent edition was a typically stellar showing. The only complaint that one could possibly make about the night was that it ended far too quickly, with barely enough time to bring all the guests onstage, much less let Sara and Sean Watkins really stretch out into some epic fiddle-and-guitar bluegrass breakdowns. (Having seen the Watkins Family Hour perform for more than two hours last year in the intimate Little Room of the Largo is probably a critical bias.) Which is not to say that there was a deficit of pickin’.

For a certain kind of person, it was a star-studded night last Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to the names on the marquee, there were such luminous guests as T-Bone Burnett and St. Vincent, not to mention Neko Case’s fellow New Pornographer Kurt Dahle and the lost Wainwright half-sibling, Lucy Roche. Although none of these artists have achieved mainstream success (notwithstanding The National’s gold plaque for High Violet), anyone with an interest in Americana-inflected rock ‘n’ roll could not help but marvel at the array of musical talent brought to bear underneath the full Los Angeles moon.

Catch LA band, BLEACHED, for a live in-studio performance tonight on the Lost @ Sea show with Maru, from 8-10pm. The band plays 60s beachy/psychedelic pop that is sure to get you singing and shouting along. Don't miss out!

Check out an interview with great local musician Patrick Carrico & The Black Alley Voodoo. The interview will be during "Underground with Suzy" on Saturday night, September 3, during the 7-9pm slot. Their music is around the genres of blues/acoustic/southern…

The Olympia-based band Letters are gracing KSPC with their tunes today at 2:30pm on "Sweets for Geeks." Tune in to 88.7fm or stream at kspc.org to hear their electroacoustic/ambient/dancey tunes!

On Monday, 8/15 Candy Claws will be playing a live in-studio set on KSPC! The two-piece band from Fort Collins, CO is in town gearing up for their show @ the Echo on Wednesday, 8/17. To hear their psychadelic/shoegaze/tropical/pop for…

KSPC and Rhino Records present a free in-store performance by Pulse Out this Thursday, 8/11 at 7PM! This is the second to last show in our free summer concerts series at Rhino Records. Rhino is located at 235 Yale Ave.…