11/9/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock
Song of the Week: Cat Power "Try Me" Domino
Album of the Week: Sorry "COSPLAY" Domino
Strange Lot "Hatin' You"
Common Law "Wires"
Kiwi Jr. "Hard Drive, Ontario"
Mariachi El Bronx "Forgive Of Forget"
Sorry "Waxwing"
Heaven For Real "Improvement"
Hatchie "Wonder"
ROSALÍA "La Rumba Del Perdon"
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers "WONDERFUL"
José González "Pajarito"
Freak Slug "Miss June"
Khruangbin "Dern Kala ii"
Cat Power "Try Me"
NOTHING "cannibal world"
Whitney "Damage"
The Belair Lip Bombs "If You've Got The Time"
-hour 2-
Yumi Zouma "Phoebe's Song"
Common Saints "Illusions"
Iris Caltwait "Serpentine"
Yukimi "Career Climbing"
Romy "Love Who You Love"
CAPYAC "This Tether"
Mermaid Chunky "céilí (Justin Strauss en La Piscina Remix)"
Hans Glader(ft. SG) "Drumkeeper"
Kelly Moran "Echo in the Field"
SPELLLING "Weyes Blood"
New Consellations "Believe Again"
DRAIN "Scared Of Everything And Nothing"
ZDAN "t-shirt"
Calling All Captains "Blood for Blood"
Silversun Pickups "The Wreckage"
Not on Spotify:
Common Law "Wires"
Overcast skies and internal stress were driving factors over this weekend nonsense. Lets get into it...
New Noize was solid as always. A bunch of interesting albums came out this past Friday including new release from Whitney, Iris Caltwait, The Belair Lip Bombs & Hatchie. ROSALÍA new record LUX is a behemoth of orchestral goodness. People already have it on their Best of 2025 lists — and honestly, I get it. It’s a cathedral record, it’s heavy, it’s emotionally dense. It’s a lot. I need time to process records like this, especially when they hit like a meteor.
Heaven For Real’s new album Who Dies & Made You the Dream was this close, like millimeters, to being my Album of the Week. I need to talk about it because it’s a fantastic record full of whimsy, weird riffs, and supreme style. Listening to it feels like riding your ’87 Huffy BMX downhill with all the beads on the spokes screaming for their lives.
The New Noize Album o the Week is "COSPLAY" by Sorry. I have been waiting all year for this record and it delivered. Raw. Feedback everywhere. These little melodic motifs that grab your spine Predator, style and drag you deeper in. It gives me this unusual mix of optimistic melancholy, somehow hopeful and haunted at the same time. It’s an experience. You gotta hear it.
The New Noize Song of the Week Cat Power covering James Brown's "Try Me" what else could it even be?
Speaking of Predators, yes, I saw Predator: Badlands on Friday and yes, it kicked ass. Is it my favorite Predator movie? No. But it’s still one of the best movies of 2025. The sound design is UNREAL, like you can feel the hunt in your bones. I hated the PG-13 news at first, but honestly? It made sense after watching it, the VFX needed the space, and they used it right. If you’re deeply nerdy about the Yautja like I am, this is your movie
Saturday night I hit the Arlington for Queens of the Stone Age Alive in the Catacombs. MASSIVE shoutout to my fellow music programmer’s wife for not going so I could slide in as the replacement. WHAT. A. SHOW. Two hours of reimagined QOTSA tracks for this weird, immersive “experience.” Josh sounded phenomenal and there were a ton of musicians on stage, including some locals, all absolutely crushing it despite a parade of technical difficulties. And every time something broke, Josh just leaned into it with the best MC energy: dick jokes, self-mythologizing, and pure rock-god charisma. Couldn’t afford merch, but that’s another story for another post.
Until next we meet.
