♪♪♪☆ It is time… this year's KCSB Fund Drive is officially here!! ☆♪♪♪ From February 15th - 24th, KCSB is launching our annual fundraiser in celebration of 61 years of people-powered radio—radio from the ground up! For decades, we've had the privilege of providing educational, alternative, and in [...]

As a part of various endeavors to grow KCSB’s archival collection, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be blogging about our collection of audio archives. For the remainder of the school year, you’ll get a chance to explore our collection, highlighting the stories of some of our most formidab [...]

words by: Dorien Medina (Digital Media Coordinator 22-23') It’s that time of the season when everyone puts together their end-of-year lists to highlight the best music they heard, BUT this time I’m doing something a little different, because If I had to rank my favorite albums across ALL genres m [...]

Words By: Lekha Sapers UCSB lore is illustrious – particularly as it is documented from the KCSB lens. Coming from the archives coordinator herself, no event embodies the station’s core tenet more so than the February 25, 1970 Bank of America Burning. Station lore has documented this anti-establi [...]

Words by: Jack McKinnon (Int. Music Director), Justin Africawala (Music Librarian), & Marion Suchowiecky (Ext. Music Director) As 2022 has wrapped up, and 2023 has begun, KCSB’s music department has reflected upon their favorite releases of the year, and compiled them all, along wit [...]

Words By: Marion Suchowiecky (External Music Director 22-23')  Edited By: Ava Kuredjian  When I was 15 and in high school, I spent many lunch hours in the library, nervously poring over the lyrics of Father John Misty’s third album Pure Comedy. The omniscient narrator in this story p [...]

words by: Ava Kuredjian Music is a huge part of Iranian culture. From classical to jazz to pop to hiphop, Persian music covers every base imaginable. Before 1979, Iranian music was a meld of influences from around the world, merging them with a distinct Persian flair. However, after the Islamic R [...]

Words by Marion Suchowiecky, edited by Ava Kuredjian KCSBfm’s External Music Director, Marion Suchowiecky, sits down to reflect on her Thanksgiving weekend, a knee-deep delve into Mexico City’s music scene. This article is a dispatch and scene report from CDMX, from the point of view of a former [...]

words by Jack McKinnon, Internal Music Director 22 As Thanksgiving ends and we are approaching the holiday season, we need to find some new festive music to diversify our seasonal needs. What we really need is some soul music to soothe our own souls while we sip hot cocoa by the firepla [...]

This holiday season, KCSBfm’s executive committee put their heads together to bring you the best tunes to keep you warm and jolly! We hope these songs will be the soundtrack to your wholesome winter season!  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eAvOyajeq7HDm8BXwhHBF?si=533c313811eb4b6b MARION’S RE [...]