KSCL - Shreveport Blog/Podcast

An In-Studio With Science and the Sea

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:10:36 PDT

Cazes does an in studio program with Science and the Sea.

You can check out their music at www.myspace.com/scienceandthesea

And as always you can request their music at KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

Natalie, YOU JUST GOT INTERVIEWED!!!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:37:46 PDT

The Very Talented Natalie Warner Gets Interviewed By Zakk and Cazes Of KSCL

You Can Check Out Natalie and Her Music At nataliewarner.com

And As Always You Can Request Her Music At KSCL Shreveport 91.3FM

Pennan Brae, The Interview!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:21:04 PDT

Rob From Pennan Brae gets interrogated by the KSCL Music Directors.

His website and his music can be located at www.myspace.com/pennanbrae

And as always you can request his music at KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

Her Space Interview

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:11:22 PDT

Cazes Interviews Marc Bianchi of Her Space Holiday

You can Check out Marc on his website at www.herspaceholiday.com

And As Always you can Request his works at KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

It's a Manufactured Interview

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:08:09 PDT

Zakk and Cazes Interview the fun loving guys of Manufactured Defects

You Can check them out on their website at manufactureddefects.com

And as always, you can request their music at KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

Rosemary's Garden Interview

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:05:22 PDT

This is beautiful Interview with Rosemary's Garden

You can check him out on his website www.myspace.com/rosemarysgarden

And as always you can request their music right on KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

Rhyme University is Coming Tomorrow!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:56:42 PDT

Hey guys, this is your wonderful KSCL Music Director Zakk. You probably heard it all around town, but KSCL is hosting another concert. This time we are hosting several hip-hop artist! Rhyme University is the main act and let me tell you, this guy is amazing! Probably the best hip-hop I have ever heard. Charles is the main member in the band and this guy is the most down to Earth ever. This music is not the same old hip-hop you hear on other stations, this hip-hop bring a new sound that I have not heard before. Rhyme University was the number hip-hop album in our station for 2008. Did I mention that it is free.... OMG! It's free? Yes it is true. So if you have nothing to do on Saturday night, come see Rhyme University in the Shell located in the middle of Centenary's campus. It is from 7-10 pm. I hope to see you there.

Forever We Fall into interviews

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:23:58 PDT

Featured at 94 on the top 100 of of KSCL 2008 it's the fantastic band Forever Falls.

You Can Check them Out on
www.myspace.com/foreverfallsonline

And as always you can request their music on KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

Interviews! Interviews! Interviews! Attractive!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:19:55 PDT

The first ever Interview with Erik Bergland from the band Attractive.

You can check him out on his website www.myspace.com/erikberglundmusic

And as always you can request his music right on KSCL Shreveport 91.3fm

It's Way too many Bands!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:04:40 PDT

The Jason Birthday bash At Lil' Joes this June 27th has offered us the chance, At KSCL, to do this amazing in-studio session. It's High Paced, It's Action Packed, it's a Huge Band Blowout, and it's Just one Hour!
This Amazing Interview Features the Artists.
Black Swamp Cajun Death Metal
Pokerface
Colt Landon Baker
Hitleristic Darwinists
Mission Vs. Madness
Science and the Sea
Tyrants of Steel
Pearl Street Riot
And Pandora's Kyn

Some Acts That Have in the Semester

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:59:23 PDT

What's up guys? It is your dear friend and music director Zakk Owens. I have been so busy lately that I neglected the blog. :( But look, turn those frowns upside down, I am bakk. So this year Cazes and I have been responsible for bringing some acts to Shreveport, such as: Sounds Under Radio, TXRX, Have Gun Will Travel, Intercept, Distant Lights, Anavan, and Riverside Railway. So all the concerts were amazing and if you did not go then it is your lost.

The summer just started and Cazes and I are booking or helping the booking process for other venues! Keep your eyes open! (Rhyme University and Rosemary's Garden)

Rocking You, Less Like a Hurricane, More Like a Tornado

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:26:24 PDT

In case you weren't consciously aware of it, a tornado attacked Shreveport last night. Okay, maybe "attacked" is a strong word, but it cause power outages and a bit of widespread destruction (reaching from east Texas to Ruston and South Arkansas, not the same tornado, mind you). The storm knocked campus' power out, so the station was off air for some amount of time. Since I was at home, there was not a lot I could do, but Zakk (I do believe) got everything up and running when the power came back on.

Other than that bit of exciting (and almost harrowing) bit of news, KSCL and your station manager doesn't have much do report. Well, other than I am back on board for round/year two of managing/dictating! (I'm kidding on that last bit). After a two and a half hour Media Committee meeting, the current heads decided on the 2009-2010 heads! Congrats to Todd Johnson (Congo), John Wadsworth (Pandora), Michelle Junot (Yoncopin), Anna Media (Film Society) and myself!

Yes, I just congratulated myself. Why? Because after that two and a half hour meeting, three of the current media heads went to SGA to get our budgets approved. While they haven't been voted on yet, we still deserve a big ole' congrats!

And check it! Vanessa Boyd will be in town for an art show opening April 18th at 8:00 at Minicine! I'll do a more in depth post later, but keep your schedules clear!

We Landed On the Moon!!!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:28:55 PDT

Check out a We Landed on the Moon Interview!

Zakk and Cazes go down to Lake Charles Louisiana to Interview We Landed On the Moon. A Baton Rouge Based Band of epic portions. They were featured at #54 on the 2008 top 100 countdown of KSCL.

Hey, hey LISTEN!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:12:16 PDT

BATTLE OF THE BANDS IS TODAY!!!

Come out after the Big Event at 2pm and chill with your favorite local college radio station (that would be KSCL) and listen to eight great bands!

The best part is, it's FREE! We will have a $1 raffle with some great prizes.

If you aren't attending the Big Event, or find yourself feeling bored around 1pm, come down to the Shell early and check out Rhyme University perform as our very own opening act!

Also, I will be following Jon's footsteps and will be tweeting live from the Event. If you weren't aware, KSCL has it's own Twitter (along with myself), so check out both for updates throughout the day!

Can't wait to see y'all there!

Battle of the Bands Line-up!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:22:03 PDT

I promised you guys, and after waiting a few days to make sure no one has bailed, I bring you the BotB line-up! The eight lucky bands are (in no particular order)

AJ Haynes
Electric Dollhouse Groove Buggy
Eye of Anger
Sumthin Serious
Three Day Weekend
Missoni Lanza
Riverside Railway
Louisiana Haywire

The event kicks off at 2pm in the Shell (Kilpatrick will be the rain stage, but lets hope not!) and we will have raffle tickets for lots of cool prizes.

Have a Merry St. Patrick's Day tomorrow!

Happy Birthday, KSCL!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:20:59 PDT

It's March and you know what that means! KSCL is a whopping 33 years old. We'll be going through a midlife crisis before you know it. Maybe then we'll get a better ride...

Here's some updates for you kiddos!

KSCL will be hosting a two day event we like to call "South By Drive By." It's our way of bringing SXSW to you! Have Gun Will Travel will perform Tuesday, March 17th and TxRx will play Wednesday, March 18th, both at 8pm in the Shell. For other SXSW bands performing in Shreveport that week, check out Flentge Productions (sadly not in cahoots with KSCL's venture, maybe next year?).

But it is that time of year again. Battle of the Bands is looming ever closer! And tonight we managed to narrow down a list of 16 bands to 8! And boy was the competition tough. I hate to disappoint, but I'm gonna withhold the finalized list for a few more days. It's just to make sure that the list won't change dramatically. But hey, it gives me a reason to have to post! Right right?
I should be doing it anyways...

But just to remind you:

BATTLE OF THE BANDS
MARCH 21ST
2PM
THE SHELL

It's a free event open to everyone! Students, faculty, staff, community members, animals, and your parents. We're gonna have awesome raffle prizes, great music, and probably even some food provided by the folks running the Big Event! Please make it a point to come out and support your fellow students or community members or musicians.

6th Annual Battle of the Bands!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:42:43 PST

Hey kids, guess what? It's that time of year again. Time for Battle of the Bands! This year's contest will be March 21st at the Hargrove Amphitheatre (aka The Shell) and will take place in conjunction with Centenary's 2nd Big Event!

A lot of the specifics are yet to come, but keep your ears and eyes open!

However, I have come to tell all you bands that we are taking submissions. Now! If your band would like a chance to perform and win some money (and maybe other prizes?), please submit some tracks for review. You can either send mp3s to us at ksclbotb@gmail.com or snail mail a CD to us at the following address:

KSCL
ATTN: Battle of the Bands
2911 Centenary Blvd
Shreveport, LA 71104

The deadline for submission is March 11th, so make it snappy!

Peace and love, all you kiddos. Keep checking back with us for more information about Battle of the Bands and other upcoming Centenary events!

picture courtesy of Centenary College

Poet and Rock & Rock Mother[blank] to Receive 19th Annual Corrington Award

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:47:01 PST

Paul Muldoon is a rock-and-roller, a Pulitzer-Prize winning Poet, a professor and now the 19th Annual Corrington Award recipient. The Centenary College English Department will award Muldoon Thursday, January 22th, at 7pm in the Whited Room located in Bynum Commons. The event is free and open to the public, and will entail a reading from the author.

Muldoon currently wears the crown of the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University where he is Chair of the Lewis Arts Center and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, as well as the current Poetry Editor for the New Yorker.

The Northern Irishman will be on campus to sit in with classes and meet with students (and hopefully with someone from KSCL to get an interview!)

The John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence is presented annually by the Department of English on behalf of the Centenary student body and faculty to an established writer who has earned the critical esteem of readers who distinguish artistic accomplishment from commercial success. The first recipient in 1991 was Eudora Welty and last year's recipient was Alice McDermott, author of Child of My Heart.

Photo courtesy of I Am New Jersey

Live from NYC #5: Ansel Matthews

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:21:34 PST

Vanessa Boyd is back at it again. This time "Live from NYC" features Ansel Matthews at the Zinc Bar, two days after Christmas. Matthews is a singer and acoustic guitarist, who draws on inspiration from the likes of Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole. His latest CD is called "Raised from the Dust."

KSCL will air Live from NYC #5 Sunday, January 25th at 11am, Wednesday, January 28th at 11am, and possibly Sunday and Wednesday of the following week at the same time (depends on if and when I remember to remove it from automation!)

This episode clocks in at 6'33" (download)

Vanessa Boyd graduated from Centenary College in 1999. She was a co-program Director at KSCL from 1997-98. Now, she's a musician and artist living in New York City. If you or your band is traveling to New York and would like to set up an interview with Vanessa, contact Kelly Dunnigan (me).

Photo courtesy of Ben B Miller.

Procrastination of Historical Proportions

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:48:07 PST

I sit on the floor of my dorm room, precariously located next to the illegal space heater. I'm procrastinating on my Radio Broadcasting reading in order to take care of KSCL business (I figure it makes it okay). Emails have been sent out about Thursday's DJ interest meeting. Our Twitter has finally made a tweet. This semester has barely just begun and I'm making sure I don't fall behind on any of my work. I'm also composing a blog. Shocking, I know!

However, at the moment I'm operating under "Reading be damned, full speed ahead!" I might regret this, oh say, on Friday when we have a quiz.

Today was a historical day no matter how you want to look at it. As a student of history, it's worth noting the significance. I'm sitting on my warm floor on the eve of a revolution of thought and action. Revolutions are what intrigue me the most. While I was far from a rabid Obama support during the election, I'd rather not bring politics into a politics fight, so to speak.

I sat in the Whited Room today with my friends, faculty members and guest speakers to watch history happen. The history part was heavily underlined by the guest speaker, AP Tureaud, who became the first African American admitted (begrudgingly) to LSU as an undergrad. Look forward (hopefully) to a podcast interview with this man soon.

In other not as hope-inspiring news (cue the John Williams score), less significant history will be made on the 22nd when Centenary students will no longer be contactable by their @centenary.edu email addresses. For all further KSCL correspondence, please contact your favorite staff member by changing the ending of their address to @my.centenary.edu!

KSCL hosts MV and EE !

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:54:04 PST

KSCL 91.3 FM Centenary College Radio is hosting MV & EE (left) for a show at Artspace on Thursday January 29 at 7:00 PM. Also you will enjoy opening act Miss AJ Haynes (performing solo as big Mamma Thump-It).

MV & EE will give a rustic performance of psychedelic blues/folk while Big Mamma Thump-It introduces us to some original tunes and a survey of jazzy covers of classic songs. For you those of you not familiar with MV & EE you may want to check out their myspace or visit Ecstatic Peace for more info. MV & EE share the same professional label on which Thurston Moore released his last solo album Trees Outside the Academy.

The MV & EE show will be held at Artspace located at 710 Texas Street in Downtown Shreveport. Admission charge will be $5 at the door. All ages welcome. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase at the Artspace cafe' area.

Image from Google.com

changes to come

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:15:04 PST

hello everyone, hope your holidays were great and now its time to get back to the grid, with a new year brings a new semester which brings some new and exciting events, Kelly will let you know what those are later. For the website I will be making some changes in the near future with updates and such so check back soon and see whats going on with KSCL 91.3 Centenary College Radio.

your hypothetically award winning news directer
Casey

Failure in a Few Ways

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:22:23 PST

I'm a bad, bad Station Manager. I don't update this blog nearly enough. I could give a lot of excuses, one being that I'm still settling into my dual life as student and manager extraordinaire. Honestly, I just can't find time to sit down and blog and when I do have time, I'm always doing a hundred different things I need to be doing. But here it is, the long awaited Thanksgiving Break! I have time, finally. But I also have something to blog about...

Monday November, 24th, 2008 KSCL will be off-air. Don't freak out. Centenary is doing work on electrical conduits (what that mean, no one really knows) so power will be out for most of the campus. No one is clear how long these repairs will last, but there is a possibility that the power will still be out on Tuesday. Unfortunately there's nothing much we can do other than wait it out.

We've dealt with power outages before (both expected and unexpected) and luckily we've had more than a days notice this time. Unfortunately, it's hard to get word out to the listeners. I know we'll probably get a million phone calls (that no one, including the answering machine, will answer).

Now, I can promise to update more regularly, or I can promise to keep the station trucking along. In all honesty, I can make sure I can do the latter. The former, I'll try. Please don't hurt me!

'Cause You Don't Know What Ya Got Till It's Gone...

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:13:59 PST

This is a personal entry. About my finger. And trust me it's relevant to radio. I promise.

So, recently I've taken this endeavor to motorize my Schwinn Cruiser bicycle thereby turning it into an awesome moped that will make me cooler than your burnt out, punk-rock uncle and a total chick magnet to boot.

Anyway, today I was working on my bike, minding my own manly business when all of a sudden I lose my grip on the screw driver I was using, and my knuckle on my right index finger catches the sharp tip of a shiny, exposed handlebar. DEEP CUT!

OUCH!

I bleed. I see the blood. I feel like crying, but curse instead because that's what a real man does. And then I almost faint while cleaning the wound...

Now it doesn't look that bad in the pics, but that's because I cleaned it. I was worried I might need stitches, however that terrifies me, so I just decided to put the flap of skin back on my finger and bandage it up.

Why am I telling all this to you on the KSCL blog? Because right now I am sitting at my laptop typing with gauze and a sawed-off No. 2 Office Max pencil taped to my finger for a splint wondering how in the heck I'm gonna press all the damn buttons in the radio station tomorrow.

My finger hurts. And it's like black and stuff now.

This is a message mainly to all you youngsters out there (and maybe a message to some of you oldsters too). And it's a relevant message with Thanksgiving approaching too. The message is "be thankful for what you have even if it's a index finger that works properly, cause we all take things like index fingers for granted sometimes."

That being said, I want for all of you to think about what you are thankful for whenever you turn on 91.3 FM this Thanksgiving. Thank you.

Parts & Labor Concert- A Great Success!

kscl@centenary.edu (KSCL) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:58 PST

I jsut wanted to thank everyone who showed up for the concert with Parts & Labor last night. It was a really awesome show in my opinion. Goth Conglomerate opened the evening with a few laughs for everyone, and then we got to hear some awesome music from a talented group who is definitely on the up-and-up.

Almost 90 people came to Artspace for the show last night. I know it was a late event for a Tuesday evening, and many of you had to leave because you had school the next day, but we all really appreciate your supporting the station and the artists who performed.

I just wanted to post some pictures in this blog article and give you a link to some video I took last night in case you missed anything.

I also wanted to explain something else that you might have seen at the show last night. There were several people wearing black t-shirts painted with graffiti-type stencil work. These were shirts that I made as a performance art project for a multimedia writing class. The t-shirts had two lines of poetry printed on front and back, and each shirt was a different piece of the poem. The idea was to have a poem published on t-shirts and have the poem constantly moving about the room. The actual poem itself was written by me, Tyler, and was an homage to bad love songs/poetry. And the significance of having the poetry constantly moving and changing is relevant to how the same ideas in literature get rehashed in different ways by different people.
Thank you again for coming to show, and double thanks to those of you who came to show and also helped me finish my English homework by wearing one of my shirts!

PS
Here's the poem in it's entirety:

A Dead Language: Poetic

I know my words hang wet on my lips.

So my heart will pump in Poetic-

The language of those who love someone-

The tongue of the black and red Poetic.

A dedicated, lovely, little heart-

He will translate my words to Poetic.

I'll look to the sky for the Satellite.

Red Heart says, "Lover's moon!" in Poetic.

And a man named Smith, who is dead today,

Whispered words to my ear in Poetic.

But a girl in my arms, who was there tonight,

Taught my heart to beat in Poetic.

So I thought, I think I'll dream in Poetic.

I think, I'll understand in Poetic.

I want Her to know me in Poetic.

So I'll tell her, "I love You"- Poetic.

--Tyler Davis 9/9/06