The following is an aired PSA produced by KCSB's Production Coordinator. UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures presents Las Cafeteras -- performing Wednesday, September 29 at 12 PM at UCSB’s Storke Plaza. “One of the leading bands in the vibrant Chicano roots scene” (Boston Globe), Las Cafetera [...]

Set the stage… the moment is here… KCSB’s annual T-Shirt Design contest! ☆ We welcome all creativity, so don’t be afraid to let your imagination fly. ☆ Designs must include “kcsb-fm and www.kcsb.org” and follow additional guidelines. ☆ There’s a good ol’ cash prize of $25 [...]

Yousef and Marion, KCSB's internal and external music directors, have compiled a playlist of their September favorites just for you <3 Enjoy! ******* ☆SEPTEMBER 2021 MUSIC DEPARTMENT PLAYLIST ☆ MARION’S RECS  Jonathan Richman - “That Summer Feeling” - Jonathan [...]

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Art Matters Lecture series presents Ashes to Dust: American Art and the Dreadful Thirties with Justin Wolff, Professor of Art History, University of Maine. This talk examines artworks representing two catastrophes unfolding during the 1930s in the United States: on [...]

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 August 2021, KCSB’s Internal Music Director Yousef Srour goes in depth on DARKSIDE's Spiral. &nb [...]

The following is a transcript from an aired PSA, produced by KCSB's Production Coordinator. A switch towards veganism and plant-based diets continues to grow in the U.S. In fact over the last 15 years, the number of people making the switch rose from 290,000 to 9.7 million. Although [...]

Marion and Yousef, KCSB's External and Internal Music Directors, share their August music recommendations here. For more updates from the Music Department, sign up for their monthly newsletters right here on KCSB.org! Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Yousef's pick).  An escapade th [...]

For the first time ever, KCSB-FM prevailed last year in the Santa Barbara Independent’s “Best of Santa Barbara” readers survey. Now in its 34th year, the Independent’s “Best of Santa Barbara” contest has become a celebration of local businesses and other parts of our community. Several thousand r [...]

The following is a transcript of an aired PSA, produced by KCSB's Production Coordinator. This year saw the levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere at 419 parts per million -- the highest level in more than 4 million years. Though levels initially dropped during the pandemic, greenhouse ga [...]

The following is a transcript of an aired PSA, produced by KCSB's Production Coordinator.  Microplastics are plastic debris that are less than 5 millimeters in length. The increasing amount of microplastics in the environment pose a danger to ocean and aquatic life. Consumers are growingly becomi [...]