8/23/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Leon Bridges "Talk It Over"
Album of the Week: Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats "ii" Loma Vista
 
Westside Cowboy "Pin Up Boys"
Freak Slug "Girl, Intentions"
Wishy "Sensational"
Your Jack "Garage"
Getdown Services "The Definitive Map"
Echo & The Bunnymen "The Light That Surrounds You"
N8NOFACE "Paranoid"
PITCHBLACK "NO BRAKES"
Kelland & Rhyder "EXES IN TEXAS"
HOL1D4Y "Autonomic"
T.B.O.C. "EARTHQUAKE"
Actress (feat. CASISDEAD) "Live By You"
Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats (feat. JPEGMAFIA) "EVIL GRIN"
The Alchemist & Oh No, GANGRENE "Run Downs"
Portraits of Tracy "Halli Step - Raider Klan Sh-t"
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) "COURTSIDE"
The Womack Sisters "If I Let You"
Thee Sacred Souls "Any Old Fool"

-hour 2-

Leon Bridges "Talk It Over"
Ambré "Parking Lot"
Hermanos Gutiérrez "Los Andes"
Jeremy Cunningham "Some Days"
url "wescott"
Fervence "Zenith"
RIVER "City of Thirst"
Twilark "Prettiest Way To Die"
worry "regret"
Squirrel Flower "Helicopters"
Wild Pink "Still Coming Down"
The Afghan Whigs "77"
Chelsea Wolfe "Turn the Key"
Julia Holter "Fantasy"
No Joy "Süki & Amadeus"

So I promise this is the second-to-last late New Noize update you will ever get. Next week will be the last New Noize for me, and we can get into that next week.

This week I dropped another solid mix of what's what.

Two standout records came out. First up is The Dark by Chelsea Wolfe. Over the last 20 years she has expanded her sound while keeping some of the best songwriting in the game. The Dark dives deep into looking at oneself in totality. It has a sense of letting go, and that is just hitting in 2026.

The New Noize Album of the Week is ii by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats, and damn did they deliver! This is what hip-hop should be going for. It is so precise and takes you on this chaotically fun story, with two of the heaviest features on separate tracks from JPEGMAFIA and Westside Gunn. I might fuck around and play some Griselda this coming Sunday.

I ended hour 1 with The Womack Sisters & Thee Sacred Souls, and not so coincidentally, they are both playing the SB Bowl this week. The Womack Sisters record came out last week, and it's one of the best records of 2026!

The New Noize Song of the Week is Leon Bridges "Talk It Over." To be fair, he released four songs, and this one is my favorite. Looking forward to his upcoming record if this is what we are working towards.

Next week will be the last New Noize of my career. Tune in next week and prepare for an extra-long write-up.

8/16/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Erykah Badu & The Alchemist "Witch Doctor" Young
Album of the Week: Sweeping Promises "You Say I Romanticize" Sub Pop

Royal Blood "10 Over 10"
Gurriers "Nothing Happens Twice"
RAGEFLOWER "PUSH PIN"
Pretty Sick "Hyper Independence"
Grumpy "OBL"
Bella Poarch "Stay Gone"
Slow Pulp "Spill"
Everything Is Recorded (feat. Roses Gabor) "One With The Sky"
Sweeping Promises "Does He Want To Be The Weatherman?"
Kiwi Jr. "World Like Polly"
Song People "Silver Flag"
Porcelain Tongue "Orbiting"
ZAINAB "Delhi Gate"
green star "teeth"
Starcleaner Reunion "Never Odd or Even"

-hour 2-

Strange Lot "Eyes For Ya"
Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore & James Ilgenfritz "Vampire Lips"
Cold Light "LESSONS AND REHEARSALS (LOVE LIKE BLOOD TOO)"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Rapid Alpha Decay"
Exumer "Allocated Savagery"
Shabazz Palaces "Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet)"
Jon Batiste "Country Zart"
Sierra Ferrell "Trying to Love You"
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist "Witch Doctor"
Babehoven "Lasagna"
Hope Winter "If You Ever Loved Me"
Phoebe Bridgers "Other Plans"
Iniko "Man in Black"
James Ellis Ford "’Till Our Days Are Gone"

NOT ON SPOTIFY:
Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore & James Ilgenfritz "Vampire Lips"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Rapid Alpha Decay"

I saw julie at the SB Bowl, and they were great! They opened for Interpol, who killed as well. If you have never been to the SB Bowl, do not wait. It is one of the best venues in the United States.

Speaking of the best in the U.S., I crushed another New Noize set.

Your New Noize Song of the Week is "Witch Doctor" by Erykah Badu & The Alchemist, and yes, I played all 6+ minutes of this song. Apparently, this record is still coming out. It still has no title, but Ms. Badu assured us it is still a thing. I wouldn't hold my breath, though. I'm still waiting on that Starks/DOOM record, so...

A few big releases I have been waiting on finally dropped.

ZAINAB finally dropped her first official EP, Canal View, and it bangs HARD. She is going to be one of those DJs people lie about seeing live "way back when." I have watched her career blossom over the years and OMG, what gorgeous musical petals are blooming. She is serving her own style, one that has been simmering in NYC with deep Pakistani flavors.

Let's be real, I don't need to talk about the new Phoebe Bridgers record because every outlet is talking about her album, and justifiably so. Lost Weekend is slow, haunting and takes its time. Nothing is forced, and it has a very Radiohead feel to it in the most atmospheric sense.

Your New Noize Album of the Week is Sweeping Promises' You Say I Romanticize. What a fun late-summer record. It has these joyful moments that really stand out throughout the whole LP. Sub Pop doesn't miss, and neither do Sweeping Promises. This is the perfect "what do I want to listen to right now?" record.

Until next time.

8/9/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: The Avalanches (feat. Portraits of Tracy) “Can’t Get Over Losing You” Modular
Album of the Week: Slow Fiction “dollhouse” Tight Knit

DIIV “The Fountain”
BODEGA “Weather Me”
Imperial Teen “Overdrive”
Freak Slug “If I Could”
Girl Ultra “Denisse”
The Avalanches (feat. Portraits of Tracy) “Can’t Get Over Losing You”
Ela Minus & Nick León “lose my cool”
Two Shell “Closer To The Sound”
Arlo Parks (feat. John Glacier) “Floette”
@ “Punish My Mind”
This Is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”
WHY? “In Spirit”
The Koreatown Oddity “Yahtzee”
Your Old Droog (feat. A-Reece, Masta Ace & DJ Harrison) “Pavlovian Effect”
4-IZE “4EVA Chemicals”
James Ellis Ford “The Ever After”

hour 2

The Wow! Scenario “Zacuti!”
Horse Lords “Second Galactic Utopia”
Overmono “Knight In Shining Prada”
Gorgon City (feat. Jem Cooke) “Oracle”
Linney “TOUGH LOVE”
Hot Flash Heat Wave “Dog”
Ceremony “10 Planets”
SSK “Quincy is a Punk”
AJJ “Phlamethrower”
Slow Fiction “dollhouse”
Virginia Creeper “TV After the Super Bowl”
Blums “Sinking Soaring”
Chelsea Days “Mystery”
Strange Lot “Eyes For Ya”
Marcelo Callado “Brado”
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies “Revenge”
Lowly "Softly"

NOT ON SPOTIFY:
4-IZE “4EVA Chemicals”

The Fiesta festivities are done here in SB and Monday is hitting like a ton of bricks. Lucky for ya boy, I got a few tamales from Our Lady of Guadalupe to ease me back into reality.

This past Sunday’s New Noize set was one of my more eclectic ones, especially compared to previous shows.

My favorite surprise of the week was the new DIIV song, which I opened with Sunday. In fact, this set was dominated by new singles rather than albums. My favorite single, and your New Noize Song of the Week, is the latest from The Avalanches featuring Portraits of Tracy with “Can’t Get Over Losing You.” The Avalanches are gearing up for another monster record and I am here for it.

Like I said, not a lot of LP selections this week, but there are some, and the ones featured are heavy hitters. I am obsessed with the new Virginia Creeper record. It hits like a good chili, it takes a minute to rest, get in the zone, and once you start, you can’t stop.

Ceremony just dropped their latest record, Tell Me Your Dream, and there is no filler. This one has to be heard cover to cover a few times, back-to-back, to fully immerse yourself.

Being a huge Overmono fan, you know I had to give them some shine. On their latest record, Pure Devotion, they continue to deliver some of the best electronic music of our age. Pure Devotion expands their sound as they use more and more “unique” ways to make music, yet still have a pop-forward sound that would make any audience get out of their seat and move to their specific beat.

Your New Noize Album of the Week is dollhouse by Slow Fiction. Working at a mostly alternative/modern rock station, this is the kind of record you would expect to hear in normal rotation. Pulling elements from garage rock and adding this texture of contemporary sound has created a wonderful LP full of upscale nostalgia in the best way. They are not doing a traditional homage or anything like that; it feels more like the progression of alt-rock in the best ways.

Things are a bit up in the air. I’ll have more on that next week.

8/2/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Blonde Redhead “Blood Spilled” section1
Album of the Week: DOMi & JD BECK “WHO ASKED?” Blue Note
 
THAO (feat. Tune-Yards & The Linda Lindas) “Sick of the Times”
Pretty Sick “City Kid”
total tommy “Trapezoid”
Origami Angel “Play Around the Crit”
1-800-Mikey “Me and My Only”
Dinosaur Jr. “Blowin’ Up”
Upper Wilds “Fever”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Alien Metal”
GULFF “neighbo(u)r”
Dis Fig (feat. the wind between) “The Account”
DOMi & JD BECK “RAiN”
Annie Leeth “Effexor”
Arca “Syncope”
Teilz “Pretty Please”
Sofie Royer “Opium”
Benny Sings “Durnham Dew”
Tipa Tipo “No Me Fui”

-hour 2-

Blonde Redhead “Blood Spilled”
Josh da Costa “Sleepy Babe”
New Constellations “Hot Blooded”
Mollie Elizabeth “Puppet Show”
Dexys Midnight Runners “You’ve Got the Love”
Charlie Horn “Marble and Mud”
Wolves of Glendale “Reptile Guy”
V.V. Lightbody “Practice Smiling”
Tōth “Easy”
Wild Pink “500 Is the New 250”
Twilark “Tired to Sleep”
Liana Flores “Silvershoes”
Blind Yeo “The Lemoine Point”
Black Duck & Elena Setién “Connects by Water”
Julia Holter “My Lost One”

NOT ON SPOTIFY:
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Alien Metal”
Charlie Horn “Marble and Mud”

August-bound, and we are still trucking through this heat-filled summer with new music. This week here in SB, we are gearing up for Fiesta.

This past Sunday’s set was devoid of any metal or hip hop. Not on purpose, it just happened, and I was left scratching my head. Trust, there was plenty of music to choose from, and it’s always a chore cutting the show down to under two hours, but I made it work without two of my core genres.

Let’s start with two heavy-hitting albums from this week.

Arca is back with XXXXX, and yet again, she blasts conventional commercial sounds with her latest interpretation of self. I say this because she is an artist who creates sounds and musical landscapes that other artists cultivate on. Arca is the source, and she amplifies that fact all over XXXXX.

Early impressions: This is one of her most dynamic and bombastic projects yet, with a level of maturity that almost all of her contemporaries don’t have. In a sea of artists screaming, “Look at me,” Arca instead says, “Look at this.”

Is this a precursor to Arca’s possible participation in GTA VI? None of the radio stations have been confirmed as of this writing.

I love this record and can’t wait to finish this write-up so I can start listening again. XXXXX is very distracting and will draw all of your attention.

WHO ASKED? is a question posed to me way too often, and it is also the question DOMi & JD BECK are asking. What a follow-up to NOT TiGHT.

DOMi & JD BECK are a duo taking the music industry on a delightful ride with some dramatic changes on their latest record. The biggest is the singing, which the duo didn’t really do before. On their second studio record, they decided to open their mouths, and thank the jazz gods they did.

Their voices bring in a pop vibe that wasn’t there before. It’s pretty dramatic how a simple element like singing can change the entire dynamic of a song. Yes, DOMi & JD BECK are packing in some serious pop vocal harmonies, but don’t worry, jazz purists these two are still one of the hottest acts doing what they do, and on WHO ASKED? they do it WELL.

This entire record, cover to cover, is a celebration of self in the most exploratory of ways. DOMi & JD BECK never feel too far from the music or the audience as they strum through their new album, which is also your New Noize Album of the Week.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard dropped another five-plus-minute electronic groove, “Alien Metal.” Is this record coming out? Definitely. They love putting out music, and it could happen any second or they could just keep doing what they’re doing.

Wild Pink is always so extra! I have no idea what “500 Is the New 250” means, but I dig the F out of this song. It has a very relaxed, almost effortless feel to it. It feels like it could be complex, but it’s really simple to feel and even better when you crank the volume to 11.

Cranking something to 11 is what we old-timers use as a turn of phrase because there was nothing past 10 on the volume dial. A dial is a physical knob you turn to control something.

I love a song with humor, and Wolves of Glendale’s “Reptile Guy” is just that. It’s a fun, silly song about a man, his affection for reptiles, and the social hurdles he has to hop over to live as his true self.

The New Noize Song of the Week was a no-brainer. Chances are, if Blonde Redhead puts out a new song, I will play it on New Noize and that’s exactly what I did with their latest single, “Blood Spilled.”

I don’t know the status of the band, whether this is a one-off or if they’re ramping up for a new album release. Just know that if they do, I will be all over it.

“Blood Spilled” is a great example of Blonde Redhead’s latest expansion of sound. Building heavily on their last record, “Blood Spilled” brings similar motifs and ear feel, which I can’t get enough of.

Try it!!!

Oh, and you know I watched the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. It was so good!

It was a solo trip for yours truly, and I’m glad I went by myself. The Arlington Theatre does not have air conditioning, which is a fact I wish I had known beforehand. It was a bit stuffy in there, but that didn’t hinder my viewing experience at all because of how good the movie was.

Adulthood is hard for anyone, especially if you’re a superhero in NYC who saved the universe and your reward is everyone forgetting about you. They really struck a chord with me, and my face was covered in this weird moisture dripping out of my eyes.