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APRIL 1

JAZZ MONTH CELEBRATION


We’re kicking off our FUNdraiser with 24 hours of jazz programming curated by our own Jazz Director, Michael Fishman. This event is brought to you in partnership with the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation (http://www.ellafitzgeraldfoundation.org).

APRIL 5

MOVIE NIGHT


Join us in the Harris Hall Courtyard for an outdoor screening of Invisible War (http://www.notinvisible.org) from Academy Award Nominated Director, Kirby Dick. Co-presented with Program Board.

APRIL 7

BANDS AND BINGO AT GROUND ZERO


TIME: 7 PM to 10 PM

We’re partnering with GZ (http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/gzcoffee) to bring you some rad students bands and a bingo game with awesome prizes (free milkshakes?). We personally can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday evening at USC.

APRIL 7

DUBLAB TAKEOVER


TIME: 12 PM to 8PM

Tune-in for 8 hours of unique, live programming from DubLab (http://dublab.com), an internet radio station that’s exploring the possibilities of audio entertainment. There will be special giveaways, DJ sets, live performances, and more.

APRIL 14

KXSC FLEA MARKET


TIME: 12 PM to 6PM

KXSC welcomes vendors from USC and the surrounding community for our first-ever flea market! Snatch a grab bag of CDs from our Music Department, check out the wares for sale, and jam to some blissed-out Sunday afternoon beats from KXSC DJs.

APRIL 16

65 YEARS OF STUDENT RADIO


TIME: 10 AM to 8PM

Celebration of KXSC and the history of student radio here at USC, from the 1950's to today!

This event will devote an entire day of programming to every period of USC student radio's diverse history. On April 16th, we will be re-airing old programming and discussing the history of the station in order to celebrate our heritage and preserve it for future generations of DJs and staff.

Hear programming from all eras of college radio and interviews from passed DJs recalling all the trials and triumphs of being a student run college radio station

APRIL 19

BATTLE OF THE BANDS


TIME: 8 PM to 12 AM

Come on down to Tommy’s Place (http://tommysplaceusc.com) to see some of the best student and local bands duke it out for killer prizes. Grand prize is 5 hours of studio recording, on-air promo, and a website profile of the band. If you can’t make it in person, never fear. We’ll be broadcasting the complete battle live on air. This event is proudly co-sponsored with Spectrum (http://sait.usc.edu/spectrum/).

APRIL 24

ELLA FITZGERALD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY: 24 HOURS OF PROGRAMMED ELLA


Happy Birthday to the First Lady of Song! We’re celebrating with 24 hours of Ella Fitzgerald recordings curated by our Jazz Director, Michael Fishman. Much thanks to the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation (http://www.ellafitzgeraldfoundation.org) for their support!

APRIL 26

TRADDIES HAPPY HOUR


We’re partnering with Traditions (http://www.usctraditions.com) to bring you a special Traddies & KXSC happy hour, featuring live KXSC Djs, drink specials for students over 21 years-old, and food specials for all ages!

APRIL 27

RADIO KICKBALL


Come watch KXSC play a friendly tournament of kickball with other college stations (KXLU, UCLA, KSPC) while our sports DJs give a live play-by-play on-air.

APRIL 14 - APRIL 27

24 HOUR PROGRAMMING EXTRAVAGANZA


Tune in for two weeks of 24 hour programming by our beloved DJs!

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Sunday
Oct142007

From the Reject Bin Part 1

Ugly Beauty "You Are Unique (Just Like Everyone Else)"

whale

Cows and whales are arguably the two worst animals you can have on an album cover. This is because neither affiliates with any form of music, or, at least, any viable form of music. Somehow, Michigan's Ugly Beauty managed to fit 10 cows and 2 whales on their cover (plus another lone cow on the back). The band also has an annoying penchant for oxymoronic phrases. This is to be expected, i guess. They ARE called Ugly Beauty, afterall. And check out the album title. Deep stuff man. It seems that everything cancels itself out in the Ugly Beauty idiom. You can be ugly, but still win a beauty pageant. You can be unqiue, but still be another face in the crowd. And whales? Well, they can fucking FLYYYY.

But enough discussion about the laser-printed flap. The music is a fusion of 80s glam metal riffs, and hardcore-lite (oxymoronic!) vocals. Perhaps the most annoying thing is that it's not as funny as the album cover suggests. It's only bad. And merely being bad, as opposed to being holy-fuck-hide-the-children-bad, might be the worst kind of bad there is.


Rabid "Skull"

rabbit

What is it with this trend? So we get a CD and there's some arbitrary animal on it- lets say, an emu, a bald eagle, or, in this case, a rabbit, and although we know it's going to be 12 tracks of pure awfulness, we still have high hopes for something strange or satanic. But once we pop the disc in, it's just a regurgitation of the worst glam metal cliches: scale shredding, toms and more toms, etc.

And has anyone ever read "Bunnicula"? Cause the album cover is totally reminiscent of that.


DLo "I Dare You To Love Me" (single)

DLo

dlo

There's bit of a mystery with this single. If you look close enough, you'll notice that the front and inside cover features the exact same head! So who is DLo? And why did the people at MTM Entertainment need to place his cropped-off cabasa on two seperate bodies? And who do those bodies belong to? These questions are undoubtedly far more intriguing than the song itself.

"Dare You To Love Me" is your standard R&B fare that longs for the days of Boys II Men. If you can't get enough of it, the second track adds saxomophone to the mix, and the third is all instrumental (just in case you want to play it over your Fergie acapella cuts). We're not touching this stuff, even if DLo (if he even exists) names it "Double Dog Dare Ya."

Reader Comments (3)

i agree that this picture is real crazy looking but i assure you the head goes with the body not the same color because of bad graphics trying to make me look younger. The only thing i love about this project is my voice everything else you can praise MTM and the name on the poster at the bottom. Peace

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