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Tape Quarantine: Sonic Youth’s Sonic Death

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matty McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This time around, they dive deep into Sonic Youth's dreamlike Sonic Death. In Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger…

blog featured music reviews January 1, 2021

December’s Add of the Month: Ichiko Aoba’s Windswept Adan

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. In December, External Music Director Finnegan Smith goes…

blog featured music reviews November 30, 2020

November’s Add of the Month: Chester Watson’s A Japanese Horror Film

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. This month, Internal Music Director Yousef Srour goes…

blog featured music reviews October 30, 2020

October’s Add of the Month: clipping.’s Visions of Bodies Being Burned

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. This month, Internal Music Director Yousef Srour goes…

blog featured music reviews October 4, 2020

Tape Quarantine: The Rapture’s Echoes

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This time around, they dive deep into the genesis of dance punk and the Rapture's Echoes. I…

blog music music reviews September 30, 2020

September’s Add of the Month: Bbymutha’s Muthaland

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. This month, Internal Music Director Yousef Srour goes…

blog music reviews September 18, 2020

Tape Quarantine: Chorus by Flying Saucer Attack

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they take a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative…

blog music reviews September 17, 2020

Tape Quarantine: Blonder Tongue Audio Baton by the Swirlies

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they take a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative…

blog featured music reviews September 15, 2020

Tape Quarantine: Feed Me With Your Kiss by My Bloody Valentine

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. In the eighth edition of Tape Quarantine, they listen to Foot Village on his new Walkman.…

blog featured music reviews September 14, 2020

Tape Quarantine: Mee-Eaux by Bethany Curve

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they takes a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative…

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