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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

 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 […]

 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]