KZSC Jazz Charts 5/6 and Featured Artist Sarah Elizabeth Charles
All of the cats at KZSC have been enjoying a huge influx of the finest jazz in lieu of the recent JAM (Jazz Appreciation Month) of April. Now that April has ended, the fun hasn’t stopped in May and we...
View ArticleDeerhunter – Monomania
Deerhunter / Monomania / Out via 4AD on May 7th, 2013 Like any well-oiled pop machine, Atlanta’s avant-garage outfit Deerhunter knows when to slowly gas the psych propellers into an ambient blissout,...
View ArticleFrom MJ to MJ: Take a Chance on “Acid Rap”
Chancelor Bennett is not old enough to buy alcohol. Chances are (heh), he probably doesn’t remember when mixtapes were actually tapes. Despite all of this, Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper,...
View ArticleDisclosure’s “Settle”
After dropping single after single, brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence have finally come through with their debut album. Filled with the sounds of UK’s past, the album draws heavily on UK Garage and deep...
View ArticleToo ‘Modern’ for the 1920s?
Jay-Z, Andre 300, Beyonce, will.i.am, Fergie, The xx, Florence and the Machine, Lana Del Ray, and Jack White. Now, lets mull on those artists a bit… What comes to mind? Obviously the Roaring 20′s,...
View ArticleKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Float Along and Fill Their Lungs with the...
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are a seven-piece psychedelic rock group from Victoria, Australia, whose previous albums (including 2012′s garagey/surfy psych rock jam sesh 12 Bar Bruise and this...
View ArticleRosetta’s The Anaesthete: A Transformation Worth Exploring Instead Goes Ignored
Post metal outfit Rosetta have recently undergone a thorough face-lift. Their “modernized” band logo is entirely unreadable. Their new album cover is a striking aberration from the ensemble’s previous...
View ArticleDepeche Mode’s new CD “DELTA MACHINE”
Depeche Mode’s new CD “DELTA MACHINE” has the group back with the electro-grundge sound that harkens back to their mid ’90s material. The group now features a full-time drummer and Martin seems to play...
View ArticleYUPPIES – s/t
Boredom. It’s all around us — in our classrooms, at the park, in our bedrooms, choking up our thoughts and actions like static on the TV screen. Disaffected youth toss cigarette butts into the streets...
View ArticleBrootalisk’s Top Ten Loud Rock Albums of 2013
When each year is over, I’m always at a loss for how to summarize what a phenomenal year it’s been for metal, and 2013 was no different. It was the first year ever that a metal album was named the best...
View ArticleBloomfield Box Set Revisits 60′s Icon
In the 1960′s there were few guitarists more prolific and higher profile than Michael Bloomfield. Cutting his teeth with blues masters like Muddy Waters, session playing for Bob Dylan’s famed Highway...
View ArticleAmbrose Akinmusire Does it Again
Ambrose Akinmusire (ah-kin-moo-sir-ee) and his new album The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint really cooks! His second release on Blue Note records since his debut in 2011, Ambrose truly takes...
View ArticleUpdates from the RPM Department
Greetings, KZSCers! There’s a lot going on in the RPM department right now. We’ve been flooded with so many great releases in the past few weeks that some may have flown under your radar. Here’s a...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Natural Child – Dancin’ With Wolves
For the current crop of garage rockers its not 1965 anymore. Many of the bands who have been champions of scenes like the now virtually defunct San Francisco one have moved on from their raunchy roots...
View ArticleThe Jazz Charts: 3rd Week of April
CHARTS: 1 LISA HILTON Kaleidoscope Self-Released 2 AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint Blue Note 3 BRAD MEHLDAU AND MARK GUILIANA Mehliana: Taming The Dragon Nonesuch 4...
View ArticleFamily Photo takes Indie Rock to New Musical Heights on Debut Album
Taking sounds from the furthest reaches of indie rock, jazz, electronic music, and everything in between, Family Photo’s debut full-length, All We Ever Do, is a tour de force of artistic ingenuity,...
View ArticleThe Jazz Charts: End of April
As we barrel towards summer, don’t let the heat get to your head, hepcats. Stay cool and enjoy what’s swinging high this week in KZSC’s Jazz Department. TOP TEN CHARTS: 1 ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ The...
View ArticleOmar Sosa: Tribute to Miles
Omar Sosa and his group have released a new CD entitled Eggun- a tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. Melodies are constructed by taking bits and pieces of Miles’ various solos throughout the album...
View ArticlePerfect Pussy – Album Review
Perfect Pussy’s full-length first album, Say Yes to Love is a fantastic showcase of the unique, unclassifiable sound that the band has to offer. After the band’s debut EP last year, several people got...
View ArticleRecord Review: Glass Boys
Listen with caution! One listen through of this album may leave you couch-locked as a result of your mind being fully blown. Fucked Up’s latest Matador release, Glass Boys, is nothing short of a...
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