Words by Ryan Miller, Promotions Director 2021-2022 As part of my last hurrah here at the station and Santa Barbara, I’ll be heading over to the Windy City to cover this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival from July 15th through 17th! With one of my favorite lineups of genre-defining musicians this y [...]

On Wednesday, July 13th at 7:30pm, Corinne Bailey Rae is performing at the Lobero Theatre as part of her SUNLIGHT / SUNLIGHT! Tour. The two-time GRAMMY Award-winner shot to stardom with her #1 UK debut album. Featuring the global hits “Put Your Records On” and “Like A Star”. This su [...]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Kkx4vMxqZ69z7THGzdYtL?si=966f2a0947054b0b As a goodbye from the 2021-2022 music department, each member of the music department picked 5 songs that they think the other two members would like.  MARION’S PICKS FOR YOUSEF  “Sao Paulo” - Braxton C [...]

Words by: Yousef Srour, Internal Music Director Composed of Ela Melo, Darrick “Bozzy” Keller, Ethan Goodpaster, Jess Haney, and Charlie Holt, the five members together make up Rainbow Kitten Surprise. Everyone in Santa Barbara knew their names and chanted for them when they came on stage. It’s Ma [...]

It was a hot sticky summer afternoon in 2018. The kind of afternoon that eagerly awaits the night. The Déjà Vu Circus was set up on the southbound shoulder of a two-lane highway. The dusty road rose to life as the show began. Acrobats, clowns, fire breathers, trapeze artists, cats and dogs. Sweat [...]

Words by: Yousef Srour, Internal Music Director Foreword: I am sad to say that this will be my last Add of the Month. With that came pressure – a pressure to choose the best album, to choose an album that’s reflective of my time at KCSB, an album that I can write on and on about because it’s imp [...]

As a part of the newly instated Throwback Thursday series, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be blogging about KCSB’s collection of audio archives. For the remainder of the school year, you’ll get a chance to explore our 60th Anniversary audio collection, highlighting the stories of some of our [...]

    Angela Davis is a woman known for her assumption of multiple positions. Perhaps she best fields the identity of renowned UC Professor of Philosophy– or stalwart communist leader – or scholar, champion of Black rights, among other honorifics.      By the late 1960s, she had garnered quite [...]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZkgZrhZD6yNlspBDId4qe?si=8dcdfdd12a82476b&nd=1 MARION’S RECS  “Lady In The Darkest Hour” - Kate Bollinger - Kate Bollinger’s voice is so remarkably sweet. This is a song about being patient when times are tough, and trusting that better days are arou [...]

Words by Lekha Sapers, Archives Coordinator Cy Godfrey is the owner of perhaps the best-known last words in KCSB History: I did not set the bank on fire. As General Manager between 1969 and 1970, Godfrey led the station through some of Isla Vista’s most tumultuous historical touchpoints. Over the [...]