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El Vive Latino 2024

Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Words by: Angel Lopez Photos courtesy El Vive Latino El Vivo Latino music festival happens once a year, usually on the 3rd weekend of March in Mexico City. This year had 5 stages, 1 surprise stage, a comedy stage and a Lucha Libre ring. 88 bands performed in the span of two days at the [...]
Words by: Angel Lopez Photos courtesy El Vive Latino El Vivo Latino music festival happens once a year, usually [...]

Shabang 2023 Festival Review

Monday, January 29th, 2024
KCSB's program director, Naila, visited San Louis Obispo last year to get our audience the scoop on Shabang! As the 2024 lineup begins to make its rounds, we hope this review of last year's festival gives you an idea of what to expect and look forward to. words and photos by Naila Irfan Last y [...]
KCSB's program director, Naila, visited San Louis Obispo last year to get our audience the scoop on Shabang! As the 2024 [...]

Life Is Beautiful 2023 Recap and Review

Monday, October 16th, 2023
words by Will Bacaj photos courtesy Life Is Beautiful KCSB’s Promotions Director Will Bacaj attended the Life is Beautiful festival in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada Sept 22-24, 2023. Here’s his report from the scene. Having never been anywhere in Las Vegas beyond the Strip, going to Las Vegas [...]
words by Will Bacaj photos courtesy Life Is Beautiful KCSB’s Promotions Director Will Bacaj attended the Life is Beaut [...]

Portola 2023 Recap and Review

Thursday, October 12th, 2023
words by Yasmeen Tsipena Photo courtesy of Portola Music Festival Six months ago I let my roommate convince me to buy a 300 dollar ticket to a music festival I had never heard of.  The 21+ electronic music festival took place the weekend of September 30th on the vast lot of Pier 80 in San [...]
words by Yasmeen Tsipena Photo courtesy of Portola Music Festival Six months ago I let my roommate convince me t [...]

We’re Going to Rolling Loud! – Artists to Watch

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
KCSB is headed to Rolling Loud! Every year Rolling Loud brings some of rap music's hottest talent all over the world, and they're finally landing back in California! From March 3rd-5th, we're going to be seeing some of our favorites perform on the big stage! Fans will also be able to experience t [...]
KCSB is headed to Rolling Loud! Every year Rolling Loud brings some of rap music's hottest talent all over the world, [...]

KCSB Raves: The First Annual Portola Music Festival in Pictures

Wednesday, October 05th, 2022
Yousef Srour, the former Internal Music Director, went to Portola Music Festival to watch the best artists in electronic music perform. He just so happened to bring his camera and a flip phone. Here’s a photo essay of San Francisco’s First Annual Portola Music Festival. DJ Holographic [...]
Yousef Srour, the former Internal Music Director, went to Portola Music Festival to watch the best artists in electronic [...]

KCSB Goes Way Out West

Monday, September 12th, 2022
Words by Yousef Srour, Internal Music Director 21-22' Welcome to Way Out West. For those of you who aren’t enlightened and haven’t been to the premier festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, this is a three-day festival with five stages, four theaters, and seven independent music venues spread out througho [...]
Words by Yousef Srour, Internal Music Director 21-22' Welcome to Way Out West. For those of you who aren’t enlightened [...]

✷ LOONA: Live at the Wiltern ✷

Monday, August 08th, 2022
Words by Chloe Kimmel Digital Media Coordinator 21-22' It’s a Tuesday in Koreatown two hours before the venue doors are scheduled to open and the line for general admission already wraps around the block in a complete loop. Wiltern staff are perplexed at how to manage such a [...]
Words by Chloe Kimmel Digital Media Coordinator 21-22' It’s a Tuesday in Koreatown two hours be [...]

Pitchfork Music Festival 2022: Smaller Sets, Bigger Hearts

Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
Words by Ryan Miller, Promotions Director 2021-2022 Pitchfork Music Festival is a 3-day festival held in Union Park, Chicago, and organized by the curators behind Pitchfork Media. Whether you love them or not, the website has long been an important platform to highlight left-field, alternative, [...]
Words by Ryan Miller, Promotions Director 2021-2022 Pitchfork Music Festival is a 3-day festival held in Union Park [...]

Concert Review: Ty Segall at the Teragram Ballroom

Thursday, July 14th, 2022
Words by: Marión Suchowiecky The Teragram Ballroom sits between a convenience store called Rosa Mini’s Market and a dry cleaners. Tall buildings with intricate scaffolding designs tower over this modest venue, which is just a 10 minute drive away from the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. It [...]
Words by: Marión Suchowiecky The Teragram Ballroom sits between a convenience store called Rosa Mini’s Market [...]