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Announcing: First City Festival Line-Up / Tickets on Sale May 9th

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First City Festival line-up has been announced!  The Monterey festival will take place August 23rd and 24th this year.  Full line-up below:

BECK, THE NATIONAL, THE NAKED AND FAMOUS, PHANTOGRAM, BEST COAST, DAWES, CULTS, COCOROSIE, BLIND PILOT, LAKE STREET DIVE, TOKYO POLICE CLUB, GEOGRAPHER, UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, MIDLAKE, HOW...

ORMF 2014

ORMF Banner Facebook Final Please join KDVS in our 14th annual Operation Restore Maximum Freedom Music and Art Festival. Every year KDVS likes bringing the Sacramento Valley community a vision of the eclectic, freeform music we listen to at the station. This year in collaboration with Sudwerks Brewery...

Spring Mix!

Spring is here! The sun is shining, allergies are in full force, and Molly Raney (also known as Poppet) has put together an awesome playlist for y'all!  Throw on your shades and turn up the volume on this upbeat mix.

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Interview: Zoom Lens

yukiko_shirt We had an opportunity to talk with several artists from Zoom Lens. Described as "humanity across the digital divide", Zoom Lens is a collective of several musicians with a "digital punk rock spirit". Although the label isn't limited to a particular genre, they have been...

Interview: Surf Club and Yung STKTN

surf curse In this two-parter interview, we talked with Frankie and Marcos from the dream pop project Surf Club. They are currently on tour with Weekend and Cities Aviv, and playing a show at Harlow's in Sacramento March 23rd (21+ only). For the second part of...

Music That Deserves Your Attention

By: Meagan Faller

So we’re all trying to find the most obscure band. Due to their accessibility over social media, we are forced wade through endless recommendations of this lo-fi punk duo and that garage-recorded indie artist. I did the hard research for you, and compiled a list of low-budget bands that are relatively novel,...

The people behind the clipboard

voting_lgWhat is it like to walk around with a clipboard and solicit money and time from students? Mark de Dios is on a mission to find out. Aired 3/5.

The Quarter system

fall_curriculum_2011Camellia Gregorian interviews students to see what they think about UC Davis’s quarter system. Aired 3/4.

The Playlist That Would Have Been

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By: Hannah Strumwasser

On Friday I took a somewhat spontaneous road trip to L.A. with my good friend DJ Mollcatz. Ok, she's not actually a DJ, but if she was, that would definitely be her DJ name. We managed not to die on...