‘About’ Archives
A listen back at electroacoustic cut-up experimental comedy from KCSB’s past in the KCSBeat
In this week's KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent's column on the station's people, places, periods, and programs, Colin Marshall listens to Off the Air. Originally running from 1989 to 1994, the show offered sonically elaborate, densely layered comedy on themes from the Cold War to the nature of art to grandparental conversation:Produced and [...]
Face the Music with Jeff Matson and Jason Hallows profiled in this week’s KCSBeat
In the latest edition of The KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent's column on the whos, whats and whys of KCSB, Colin Marshall sits in on the Friday-night festival of punk and garage rock Face the Music with hosts Jeff Matson and Jason Hallows:Despite working next door to one another during the day and having significant others who happen to be [...]
DJ Kate Kelchner’s Between the Bars profiled in The KCSBeat
Under the spotlight in the latest edition of The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall's column for the Santa Barbara Independent on the people, places and things of KCSB, is Kate Kelchner, electrical engineering grad student by day and up-to-the-minute indie rock maven by (Monday) night:After graduating high school, even devoted music wonks might find their [...]
Michael Martinez and Smoooothe Beatzzz profiled this week in The KCSBeat
Colin Marshall's newest KCSBeat column for the Santa Barbara Independent goes inside Smoooothe Beatzzz, Michael Martinez's program that makes people wonder whether lightning has struck the station's transmitter:As both a UCSB art student and a die-hard prankster, Martinez can rarely resist the opportunity to catch others off guard. “Startling [...]
KCSB-FM has a brand new Website!
Welcome to KCSB-FM's brand new website. A couple of quick notes on the new features - there is now a list of the upcoming KCSB programs in the right sidebar, links to our Facebook and Twitter pages, and a brand new flash player - which pulls the current show and deejay information, and song info including album art (when available). If you [...]
The station’s jazz library explored in this week’s KCSBeat
Returning to the music library for one more examination of the rare, the weird and the delightful to be found on KCSB's shelves of vinyl, Colin Marshall focuses on the startlingly varied, nearly undefinable realm of jazz in his latest KCSBeat column:A flip through program schedules of the past reveals that most shows falling under the "jazz" [...]
KCSB’s Summer Orientation: Wednesday, June 23rd
Do you like music, news, or sports? Are you interested in becoming a part of your community's unique, non-commercial radio station? KCSB's Summer Orientation will take place on Wednesday, June 23rd from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the KCSB courtyard (beneath Storke Tower on the UCSB campus). You'll learn all about what it takes to become a KCSB [...]
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 [...]
Kittens vs. Godzilla and Intents & Purposes profiled in the KCSBeat
In the two most recent editions of The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall's column for the Santa Barbara Independent on all things KCSB, the spotlight swings two particularly interesting shows currently on the schedule. One is Tuesday morning's Intents & Purposes:As graduate students in UCSB's education department, Maaia and Grigsby savor the challenge of [...]
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 [...]
