By Brandon Gutierrez Rap Journalist The world is filled with talented individuals, but when it comes to music, it’s sometimes difficult to narrow down or understand the growth of an artist until their break out song. Once that hit record … Continue reading Support Local Rappers
By Andrew Vela Music Journalist Denmark legends, Iceage, are about to release a new record titled Beyondless after their latest release, Plowing Into the Field of Love. Iceage is a post-punk band breaking boundaries by mixing their sound with a bit folk … Continue reading Denmark Legends
By Jesse McMann Rap Music Journalist I would like to take this time to draw readers attention to another channel of music I have discovered. This new music outlet is called Tiny Desk Concerts by NPR. The quality of artists … Continue reading Tiny Desk Concerts
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist For us to properly fear the darkness that lies on the edges of humanity, we must first understand it. We must play like explorers, flashlights affixed to our helmets as we plunge into the bottomless … Continue reading The Gauntlet: A Journey Through Rate Your Music’s Five Lowest Rated Albums
By Avery Dawson Music Journalist As Women’s History Month comes to a close, there really is no better time to shine the spotlight on the extremely talented young ladies that form the band Pinky Pinky. Based out of Los Angeles … Continue reading Not Your Average Girl Group
By Guarionex Molina Martinez Rap Journalist Website: http://awfulrecords.com/ Instead of a single artist spotlight, I want to introduce Awful Records as a whole. It’s a label that definitely follows its own rules and is better for it as it gives … Continue reading Showcasing Awful Records
By Victoria Roxanne Hill Music Journalist There were various artists that viewers believe were snubbed of awards on Grammy night, (Kendrick, SZA, Lorde… the list goes on). One group that was objectively deserving that night was Fleetwood Mac. You may … Continue reading Why They Still Matter: Fleetwood Mac
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist The year is 2013. Like any self-respecting indie teen of the time, I’m going through a heavy The xx obsession. My greatest, never-to-be-fulfilled dream is to go to Coachella, a veritable playground of all the … Continue reading Close Up, Far Away: A Different Kind of Concert
By Guarionex Molina Martinez Rap Journalist Artist: Azizi Gibson Website: http://zi.azizigibsonlive.com/#0 Azizi Gibson is an artist with a very unique take on rap music as a whole. He is constantly developing and improving upon his own sounds is definitely one … Continue reading Introducing Azizi Gibson
By Eduardo Baz Music Journalist In Patti Smith’s self written memoir, “Just Kids,” Smith, poet/singer-songwriter, documents her journey into becoming a musician who consistently tries to combine expressive literature and poetry into her songwriting. In the first verse off of … Continue reading Literature in Music
By Eduardo Baz Music Journalist We are all aware that music can be a promising medium when it comes to expressing and evoking emotion. After all, music is highly addicting and something we simply can’t get enough of. The range … Continue reading The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist This year marked the 50th anniversary of D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary, Dont Look Back, released in 1967, which follows a young Bob Dylan–quickly ascending to the peak of his fame–on his spring 1965 tour of … Continue reading Bob Dylan, Dont Look Back, and 1965
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Emotion and music have been tightly knit together for centuries, since long before it was an art-form of the masses. In its current form, the musician funnels their inner feelings into their art for consumers … Continue reading The Music of Trauma
By Brooke Vega Music Journalist Bane’s World, formerly known as Shane Blanchard, is a 21 year old dream-pop/indie-jazz artist from Long Beach, California. With this artist being so young, he has the time to grow in this evolving genre he … Continue reading Hop into a Dream Boat with Bane’s World
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist How many of us speak no Spanish and yet love singing along to “Como La Flor”? Or have gone through a heavy K-pop phase and used the common catchphrase, “I have no idea what they’re … Continue reading Your Introduction to Francophone Music
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Here are KTSW, we consider our job to basically be turning you, the audience, on to new music. This is all well and good, but the fun is the process of discovering and coming to … Continue reading KTSW Spotlight: Shallow Rewards
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist It’s probably happened to you before. Through some means, you’ve come in contact with a song that lies outside the range of what you consider to be “good” music. However, the song draws some sort … Continue reading Guiltless Pleasure
By Troy Vita Music Director I got a chance to talk with Dent May about the dynamics of home recording, collabing with other artists and loving the city life alongside our Promotions Director, Andrea Torres. Check out the interview above … Continue reading KTSW Sit Down with Dent May
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Every music listener has a certain genre of music to which they pay gratitude as a catalyst for their life-long love of the art form. If you ask any fan of music who was born … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Nu-Metal
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist If you have ever been a fan of Weezer’s Blue Album or Pinkerton, you have probably spent some amount of time lamenting the band’s steep and ugly decline. I was very much the same, shaming Weezer … Continue reading Weezer’s Discography: Ranked
