Death is a curious concept. We see and hear of death every day, from movies and television to newspaper headlines. We all know someone who has died— an acquaintance, a pet, even a close family member or friend. We all know death is inevitable for each and every...
Electricity filled purple-lit skies and eager eyes as nearly 20,000 guests trickled into the annual, highly-anticipated music and arts festival, Lightning in a Bottle. Born in 2004 from the roots of a birthday party gone well, the DoLab has continued to craft and create an unparalleled experience known...
Those who like camping often enjoy researching a fun hike at a national park, making a reservation for a campground, looking forward to s’mores around the fire ring, dinner served on a picnic bench, and mentally preparing for what creepy bugs could be hiding in the campground bathrooms....
After six long years, rap revolutionaries Gorillaz released their fourth album, Humanz, on April 28th. It’s massive: 26 tracks – six of which are interludes, plus one introduction – featuring 22 different artists in addition to the four virtual virtuosos (cyborg spitters? mechanical MC’s?) of the band itself....
Welcome to Utah: ski destinations, salty lakes, birthplace to a religion, numerous national parks and monuments and, as of recent, controversies surrounding them. Right before leaving office, former President Barack Obama dedicated a plot of land in Utah as a national monument – a 1.35 million acre plot named...
DAMN. may not be drastically expanding and exploring the genre of hip hop, but as Kendrick Lamar did on his last album, To Pimp A Butterfly, DAMN. is a masterpiece. Lamar’s most recent release is the best representation thus far of his persona. From the second track on the...
Presenting dense textures of noise weaved through bright vocals and esoteric samples, Panda Bear’s 2007 album Person Pitch is a modern classic that brings indie rock to the platform of a fine art. The third solo album by Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear), widely known as a founding...
Hip-hop fans have an uncanny knack for being critical of their favorite artists changing sounds or styles. The phrase, “I miss the old *insert rapper name*” is littered throughout any and every hip-hop music video’s comment section on Youtube. After relative radio silence since 2015, when he released...
Gabe Rodriguez from Hideout came to the KCPR studio to play some acoustic songs off his new album So Many Hoops, So Little Time. The songs off the new album are representative of the album’s title. Rodriguez’s lyrics are sweet, reflective and exhausted by the notion that there...
As the twentieth anniversary of Radiohead’s magnum opus OK Computer is approaching, I want to take a look back at one track off the album that changed my vision of music and holds its relevance two decades after its release. Although all may not agree that “Paranoid Android”...
After a quick round of mimosas, The Frights, a San Diego surf punk band, came in to answer some questions for us and play “Hype or Swipe.” The Frights started out as a joke. Eventually, and accidentally, they blew up into one of the best SoCal outfits around. Mikey Carnevale...
Nucklehead and Pancho and the Wizards are growing in recognition in the Central Coast’s DIY music scene. Between the two bands, they’ve opened for punk powerhouses like Tijuana Panthers, Joyce Manor and The Frights. This week, the two acts will perform at San Luis Obispo’s homegrown music festival, Shabang,...
Go ahead, call me an angry woman – because I am. There are a lot of things to be angry about right now in the face of our misogynistic government, ask any woman. The wage gap is alive and well, Planned Parenthood is fighting to receive federal funding....
Local bands, Pancho and the Wizards and Nucklehead, are taking on the music scene here in the Central Coast, playing alongside huge names in the California surf punk realm such as Joyce Manor, Tijuana Panthers and The Frights. This week, the two acts will perform at San Luis...
Teen angst is as natural as the sun rising in the morning. Breakups, fights with parents, friend drama, the often painful process of self-discovery– they’ve all provided the basis of countless books, films, and television series. From “The Catcher In the Rye” to “90210,” society has always had...
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