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The Top 50 Underground Rap Albums of 2022

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…

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add of the month blog music music reviews January 15, 2023

January’s Add of The Month – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood

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 .…

blog featured music music reviews May 16, 2022

May’s Add of the Month: Everything Was Beautiful by Spiritualized

Words by: Yousef Srour, Internal Music Director It’s been 30 years since Spiritualized's first album (with most of this catalogue now available domestically on Fat Possum Records). It’s a long time in which you can redefine your sound, taking influence from pop culture,…

blog featured music music reviews April 18, 2022

April’s Add of the Month: PUNK GOES DRILL +** HOSTED BY SHOKURADIO

No one does “sample drill” better than New Yorkers. From Shawny Binladen to Pop Smoke, these new-age drill artists have been reworking popular culture’s biggest radio hits into grimey, bass-heavy tracks about running drills (i.e., hitting a lick, using your tool, etc). Of…

blog featured music music reviews March 7, 2022

March’s Add of the Month: Earl Sweatshirt’s “SICK!”

The Odd Future camp is having a hell of a run. With Tyler, The Creator’s last album, Call Me When You Get Lost , he became the first lead rapper to solely produce and arrange a Billboard 200 #1 album .…

blog featured music music reviews February 7, 2022

February’s Add of the Month: Chief Keef’s 4NEM

Drill music has proven to be one of the most controversial subgenres of hip-hop to emerge in the 2010s. Largely developed by artists such as Fredo Santana, Waka Flocka Flame, and Lil Reese, there’s an astute level of nihilism that goes into each…

blog featured music music reviews December 22, 2021

Add of the Month

Make Drunk Cool Again - RXK Nephew This review is not for the faint of heart. I foreword my review with this statement because RXK Nephew makes music that is egregiously alternative - it’s music that sounds so anti-music that it wavers into…

blog featured music music reviews December 22, 2021

Top 25 Albums of 2021

Yousef and Marion, KCSB's music directors, have compiled their picks for the 25 best albums of 2021. Yousef: For me, this year has been as hard as can be. Dealing with my mental health and constant turmoil within my relationships, I’ve had to…

blog featured music music reviews October 12, 2021

October’s Add of the Month: Injury Reserve’s By the Time I Get to Phoenix

KCSB’s music department is sitting down each month to write to you about one album added to our music library that left a strong enough impression on them to be crowned Add of the Month. For October 2021, KCSB’s Internal Music Director Yousef…

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KCSB Presents: Coco & Clair Clair!!!!

KCSB INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THE FIRST IN-PERSON SHOW WE'VE HOSTED IN OVER TWO YEARS ☆♬○♩●♪✧♩✧♪●♩○♬☆ KCSB is inviting all on-campus music lovers to our first live concert since Winter 2020, featuring Atlanta pop-rap duo Coco & Clair Clair. Channeling retro-futuristic Y2K aesthetics mixed…

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