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Colin Marshall talks to sonic curator, writer and composer David Toop on the Marketplace of Ideas this Thursday
This week (Thursday, June 17th), The Marketplace of Ideas features a conversation with David Toop, composer of sound, writer about sound, curator of sound and research fellow at the London College of Communication. His works in text include Ocean of Sound, Exotica, Haunted Weather and the Rap Attack books. His latest is Sinister Resonance: The [...]
“Paris Goes Pop!” Tonight on “Rock It Properly,” 8-10pm
Of her next broadcast (June 13th), DJ Darla Bea says, “On this week’s edition of ‘Rock It Properly’, grab your Beret and a Baguette because we'll be taking a "Tour de France" of the musique created in Ooh La La Paris! Learn about the artists who rocked us Euro-style! Join me on KCSB for some 'French' Trivia. -What French #1 Hit Wonder's [...]
KCSB Supports Otter Productions’ Summer Solstice Reggae Festival on Sunday, June 20th, at Avila Beach Resort
On Sunday, June 20th, Otter Productions Presents the Summer Solstice Reggae Festival on the beach at Avila Beach Resort. The lineup features the following acts: Fat Freddys Drop (a seven-piece dub/reggae band from New Zealand), Alborosie (from Sicily and now Jamaica), rock-reggae group The Dirty Heads, Still Time, and Top Shelf, the latter three [...]
KCSB & Club Mercy Present Oso CD-Release Party (& Final Show?) on Thursday, June 10, at SOhO
On Thursday, June 10th, Club Mercy Productions and KCSB-FM present Santa Barbara indie-rock quartet Oso, live in concert at SOhO Restaurant and Nightclub. The event is a CD-release party for Oso’s newest self-released album, “Harm Reduction.” Fusing progressive and math-rock layering with world music influences, Americana twang, and [...]
Colin Marshall talks to Japanese-American experimental novelist Todd Shimoda this Thursday
This week, The Marketplace of Ideas features a conversation with novelist Todd Shimoda, author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware. Shimoda calls his stories "somewhat experimental, post-modernish, dealing with Asian or Asian-American themes to some degree, but also broad questions of existence," [...]
Outer-space electro house show The N.A.S.A. Broadcast profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall's Santa Barbara Independent column on everything to do with KCSB, spend some time with Captain Z and Nicolebot, formerly known as Kevin Olsson and Nicole Goulding, host of Saturday night's blast of electro house music, The N.A.S.A. Broadcast:Unlike most of the station's staff, both happen to be advanced [...]
“Afrikan Kaleidoscope” (Sundays 5-6pm) Announces May Program Schedule
"Afrikan Kaleidoscope" (Sundays 5-6pm) announces its May schedule of topics and guests, below: May 16th 2010 ART AND THE SINGLE MOTHER: Meet Janet Roberts, a four-time cancer survivor, and a woman who raised 3 successful daughters while fulfilling her deep calling as an artist and maintaining her connection to the spiritual energy. Choosing [...]
The KCSBeat discovers the potential within KCSB’s classical music collection this week
In his latest KCSBeat column for the Santa Barbara Independent, Coin Marshall returns once more to the music library to explore its 6,000-vinyl selection of classical music. Noticing that there aren't any all-classical music shows on the schedule at the moment, he makes a case for one by pulling three examples of the section's diversity.As New [...]
“Art of Peace” features Filmmaker Mark Manning About ‘A Dialogue for Peace’ (Wednesday, 7-8pm)
Listen in as "Art of Peace" host Philip LeVasseur interviews filmmaker Mark Manning about building relationships for a peaceful future. Manning will appear at UCSB's Multi-Cultural Center on May 9th as part of the The Iraq Peace & Reconciliation College Tour where a live video-conference will be conducted between students at University of [...]
The KCSBeat profiles Ted Coe and the Freak Power Ticket
In The KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent's column on all things KCSB, Colin Marshall profiles station development coordinator Ted Coe and his program The Freak Power Ticket, which serves listeners their recommended weekly dosage of politics, culture and zombies:"I kind of see the show as a magazine," Coe said, describing the program's core [...]
