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☆Desert Island Playlist☆

For this month's playlist, the music department imagines that while on a journey across the high seas in search for great music for the KCSBfm music library, their ship is wrecked by a torrential storm and they were left stranded on a desert…

blog DJ Posts featured playlists July 11, 2022

cancer season ☾✩☽

Words + Music Curation by Chloe Kimmel, Digital Media Coordinator 21-22 June 21 - July 22 element: water key words: empathetic, maternal, intuitive, sensitive, dreamy, observant, creative, nurturing symbol: the crab modality: cardinal – active, quick, and ambitious planetary ruler: Moon. Classically, the moon was thought to be the…

blog featured music playlists June 28, 2022

☆JUNE MUSIC DEPT. PLAYLIST☆

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 Cook - I think you’d like this song because…

blog featured music playlists May 31, 2022

❀ Music Department Spring Playlist ❀

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 around the corner. My favorite parts of this…

blog DJ Posts featured music playlists May 20, 2022

Exploring Asian American Artists with EASTBOUND

Words by Justin Huang boylife boylife is the solo project of Ryan Yoo of mmmonika, a Los Angeles-based indie band. The boylife sound was first introduced with the song peas, a song more reminiscent of a slow R&B song with upscaled production and…

blog featured music playlists April 29, 2022

☆60TH ANNIVERSARY PLAYLIST☆

To celebrate KCSBfm’s 60th anniversary, the music department, with the help of DJ Darla Bea, created a playlist showcasing our favorite tunes from each decade since KCSB’s inception. 1960s - MARION I’ll preface this by saying that KCSB did play classical music for the first…

blog DJ Posts featured music playlists April 20, 2022

6 Hip Hop Songs to Soundtrack Your 420 High

Happy 420 to all the KCSBong rippers and KCSBlunt smokers out there supporting community powered radio. Hip Hop has a long history of producing music about marijuana and, over the years, some truly fire joints about firing joints have made their way into…

blog interviews music playlists April 7, 2022

A Personal and Political History (and a Playlist) of Ukranian Experimental Music

Adrian Ivakhiv (Courtesy photo) On Monday April 4, "Selectric Davyland" welcomed Adrian Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont and Visiting Scholar at UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center, to the KCSB studios (our first in-person guest in 2 years!) for a special…

blog featured music playlists March 31, 2022

Femmes in Clubs Playlist✩

What better way to end Women’s History Month than on the dance floor? I curated this Femmes In Clubs playlist with inclusivity and bass in mind, so throw these songs on the CDJ and embrace this eclectic mix of hard techno, jersey club,…

blog featured music playlists March 17, 2022

☆MARCH MUSIC DEPT. PLAYLIST☆

Enjoy this playlist featuring songs that KCSB’s music department has been listening to this March! MARION’S RECS “Waters Of March” - Marisa Monte, David Byrne - This track perfectly utilizes musical tension to emulate that funny little game the seasons play with us each…

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