What’s caught our ears this week…   Conor Oberst – Ruminations: You may know him from his work as Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst is back with his 7th solo album. Recorded in 48 hours during wintertime, this album is just as poetic as his other solo releases and packs the classic Oberst emotional right hook. […]

What’s cool in our new music on KVSC? Everything…but here are a couple to check out:   Dirty Mercury – Violet Light: Sophomore album from these local champs. Follow up to their 2014 debut “Sound of Mind”. They have a unique way of bringing 90’s alternative feeling into the modern day. Black Marble – It’s […]

KVSC plays tons of different genres of music on air and our music department does the best they can to get the best music into our studios. Although we do follow some "rules" as to what can or cannot be played on air, we are willing to give everything a listen! The number 1 rule that […]

 On May 25th 2014, over 30,000 fans flocked to Canterbury Park for the Soundset Hip Hop festival. From its humble beginnings in a South Minneapolis warehouse between local Hip Hop groups, Soundset has grown into one of the largest and most revered Hip Hop festivals in the country. With tickets selling out for the first […]

 After collaborating with members of the Twin Cities own hip-hop powerhouse, Doomtree, a lonely drifter by the name of Astronautalis finally settled in his new home in Minneapolis. Along with his move, he decided to unveil his fourth album, This Is Our Science. Beginning with raucous “The River, The Woods,” the rapper establishes that he […]

After a busy year and a half of touring across the country and signing to Rhymesayers, Grieves finally unveils Together/Apart. Beginning with “Lightspeed” which gives the listener a glimpse into the Seattle emcee’s past shifting between ages and cities, until bringing them up to the present. Soon the listener is slowly immersed within a series of songs […]

New York experimental rock royalty Battles return with "Gloss Drop," out from Warp Records earlier this week.  This is the band’s first release since frontman Tyondai Braxton left the group back in 2010 to pursue a solo career, thus making Battles a trio, with Dave Konopka on bass/guitar/effects, Ian Williams on guitar/keys, and John Stanier […]

As the Music Director at KVSC, a large part of my job consists of describing and defining music. Every now and then, an artist or album comes along that defies such a definition. Morning Teleportation is one such band. The Portland, OR based quintet just recently released their debut full-length album titled "Expanding Anyway." The […]

I have this problem with music, or at least I think it’s a problem. I can become so overwhelmed by, so infatuated with, a particular song that it completely dominates my musical mind. The same is true for new artists, or at least new albums. When I find something I like, it tends to get […]

This week, it’s a bit of a revenge of the nerds on the top of our charts. Owen Pallett, who you may have known as Final Fantasy (named after the well-known [in gaming circles] series of video games), came out of the wilderness to melt hearts and soothe ears with his electro-classical arrangements and strange […]