1/7/24 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: SLIFT "Weaver's Weft" Sub Pop
Album of the Week: Pile Hot Air Balloon [EP] Exploding In Sound Records

1. Pile "Exits Blocked" Exploding In Sound Records
2. HighSchool "August 19" [PIAS]
3. SLIFT "Weaver's Weft" Sub Pop
4. Folly Group "Strange Neighbour" So Young
5. Nick Manzino "Mosquito"
6. Sleeping Jesus "Ferdy" Garden Shed
7. Oh Bummer! "Listen Up"  If This Then Records
8. Buck Meek "Cuero Dudes" 4AD
9. Christine and the Queens "Stayin' Alive!" Because Music
10. Ida Kudo "The Power That Is Woman" Pasadena
11. Royel Otis "Heading For The Door"
12. ERIC HILTON "Midnight Milan"
13. Katy Kirby "Hand to Hand" Anti
14. Alexvndria "Twilight"
15. Love Fame Tragedy "Don't Want You To Sleep With Someone Normal?" Bright Antenna
16. L.A.B "Oh No (Pt. 2)"
17. Courting "Emily G" [PIAS]

-hour 2-

18. RYUJIN "Dragon, Fly Free"
19. Exit Eden "Separate Ways" Napalm
20. Bring Me The Horizon "Kool-Aid" Sony
21. SPRINTS "Cathedral" City Slang
22. The Lemon Twigs My Golden Years" Captured Tracks
23. Finnoguns Wake "So Nice" Whats Your Rupture?
24. Liam Gallagher & John Squire "Just Another Rainbow"
25. Alkaline Trio "Versions Of You" Rise
26. Teenage Joans "Candy Apple"
27. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The "Dark Bauhaus Staircase"
28. IDLES "Dancer" Partisan
29. Shygirl "f@k€ (feat. Kingdom)" Because
30. Kirin J Callinan "Crazier Idea"  WORSE

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
12. ERIC HILTON "Midnight Milan"
14. Alexvndria "Twilight"
18. RYUJIN "Dragon, Fly Free"

Let me be the last to say happy 2024! We are in the Year of the Dragon and I for one am looking forward to all that new dragon feel.

Speaking of "new" New Noize is back. My set did include some things that came out in the last few weeks of 2023 including all the new music I could get my hands on in the past 7 days or so. Do you know how hard it is to get someone from a label to get back to you during winter break? Next to impossible, trust sun.

ANYWAYS

The New Noize Song of the Week goes to SLIFT with "Weaver's Weft" I need this new album whenever it decides to come out and if the record expands on what this single sounds like we are in for one hell of a ride. For transparency, SLIFT has released 3 songs off their upcoming record, ILION (out on the 19th) and each song is over 9 minutes long. I'm confident SLIFT will be receiving the New Noize Album of the Week later this month.

The New Noize EP of the Week is "Hot Air Ballon" by Pile. Who else would it be? Following up their 2023 LP "For Fiction" (which came out this past February), "Hot Air Ballon" sounds more like an epilogue than a collection of b-sides. "Hot Air Ballon" carries over this subdued sound from "For Fiction" but is way more refined and less experimental with less chaos than its 2023 full-length counterpart.  Will Pile come out with a full length to follow up on this 2024 1st week release? I hope so.

For those that care aka my real ones, I have moved the "Best of 2023 New Noize" to its own dedicated playlist here:

You can now listen to this or any of my "Best of" playlists on my Spotify page.

Will I be posting Dragon gifs on these write-ups for the rest of the year? Check-in with me come December. 

12/17/23 BEST OF New Noize 2023 on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Parannoul 도착 "Arrival"
2. Blonde Redhead "Melody Experiment"
3. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown "Orange Juice Jones"
4. Yaeji 2 "For Granted"
5. Mitski "I Love Me After You"
6. Ragana "DTA"
7. Lana Del Rey(feat. Father John Misty) "Let The Light In"
8. Water From Your Eyes "Barley"
9. NewJeans "Super Shy"
10. YENSHIN! "(ON A MISSION)"
11. Mandy, Indiana "Injury Detail"
12. SZA "Kill Bill"
13. billy woods & Kenny Segal(ft. Samuel Herring) "FaceTime"
14. Fever Ray "What They Call Us"
15. M83 "Oceans Niagara"
16. yeule "ghosts"
17. Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD(ft. Blood Orange) "Alien Love Call"
18. Boris & Uniform "Endless Death Agony"
19. Killer Mike(ft André 3000, Future, & Eryn Allen Kane) "SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS"
20. Sampha "Spirit 2.0"
21. feeble little horse "Pocket"
22. Sufjan Stevens "Will Anybody Ever Love Me"
23. TEKE::TEKE "Gotoku Lemon"
24. Yves Tumor "Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood"
25. Doja Cat "Balut"
26. bar italia "worlds greatest emoter"
27. Haiku Hands "Ma Ruler"
28. Queens of the Stone Age "Obscenery"
29. Viji "Sundress in pink"
30. Wednesday "Hot Rotten Grass Smell"
31. Overmono "Good Lie"
32. King Gizzard & the Lizard "Gila Monster"
33. PinkPantheress "The aisle"
34. Jungle "Back On 74"
35. Sofia Kourtesis "Madres"
36. Nabihah Iqbal "Dreamer"
37. Dengue Fever "Touch Me Not"
38. Fly Anakin(feat. Big Kahuna OG) "Sudden Death (Biggest Fan)"
39. Palehound "The Clutch"
40. Squirrel Flower"Intheskatepark"
41. HEALTH "CRACK METAL"
42. Be Your Own Pet "Big Trouble"
43. 100 gecs "Dumbest Girl Alive"
44. Toro Y Moi "The View"
45. 화사 (HWASA) - 'I Love My Body"
46. IDLES "Dancer"
47. Big Thief" Vampire Empire"
48. Thundercat & Tame Impala "No More Lies"
49. Tatsuya Kitani "Ao No Sumika" Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2
50. Godzilla 1.0 Godzilla Suite I"

WE DID IT! What a year 2023 has been! So much amazing music came out and I tried to tackle all of it. 

First and foremost thanks for listening. I am a one-man show so if I missed anything apologies. These “wrap-up-the-year shows” are always my most stressful sets, especially when figuring out what goes where and cutting out over 4 hours of music. Regardless here is the final product. 50 tracks, mostly all from an EP or LP the rest are singles. This "best of" list is very different from other wrap-up lists from outlets like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Anthony Fantano, and Stereogum but just as important if not more so. So if you are sick of hearing the same "Best Of" list from all these respected outlets I GOT YOU. Feel free to hype this on your own or share it with a friend or foe I don’t discriminate

This was the last New Noize show of the year, but I will be back in 2024 where we will start all this new music discovery back up.

12/10/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: IDLES "Grace" Partisan
Album of the Week: HEALTH "RAT WARS"
 
1. Eliza McLamb "Strike"
2. IDLES "Grace" Partisan
3. Day Wave "As You Are" Play It Again Sam
4. Ducks Ltd. "Hollowed Out" Carpark
5. Tom Petty "Love Is A Long Road" Geffen
6. Sly5thAve No, No, No Pt. 2 (feat. Jonathan Mones)"  Tru Thoughts
7. Arlo Parks "I'm Sorry (ft. Lous and The Yakuza)" Transgressive
8. Analogue Monsta "So Ridiculous" Young Art
9. HEALTH "CRACK METAL" Loma Vista
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain "jamcod" Fuzz Club
11. sophie meiers "hotline" Epitaph
12. Vera Sola "I'm Lying" City Slang
13. Josaleigh Pollett "Jawbreaker"
14. Come Closer "Blue Eyes"
15. Middle Kids "Bend"
16. Hovvdy "Bubba" Arts & Crafts

-hour 2- aka the New Noize Holiday Special

17. LAPêCHE "Christmastime"
18. The Aquadolls "Xmas Wrapping" ENCI
19. Eels "Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This"  [PIAS]
20. Are We Static "The Christmas Song"
21. Delta Spirit "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" Dualtone
22. Kevin Rhodes & Tom Gossin "Doghouse Christmas"
23. Aqua Teen Hunger Force "Feliz Navidad"
24. Brooke Graham "Merryachi Christmas"
25. Alex Cuba "Christmas Made For Love" Caracol
26. The Yuletime Lifters "Time For Love" Daptone
27. Ladytron "All Over By Xmas" Cooking Vinyl  
28. Odetta Hartman "Christmas Together (Maybe This Year)" Transgressive
29. Norah Jones & Laufey "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
30. Elton John "Step Into Christmas"
31. Ivan & Alyosha "Being Home For Christmas"

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
1. Eliza McLamb "Strike"
20. Are We Static "The Christmas Song"

Last New Noize new music show of the year. IT'S OVER! What a year it has been & this coming Sunday I will do the "Best of New Noize 2023 Wrap-Up Special" which will be 3 hours long highlight the best of the best this year had to offer.

Let's talk about this past New Noize.

HEALTH's RAT WAR finally came out and was worth the wait. This LA noise ensemble has come into their sound which is highlighted on every track on RAT WARS. This album is "full on" and is much more coherent for the uninitiated. If this is your first time hearing HEALTH then RAT WARS is a good place to start.

IDLES grabbed the New Noize song of the week with "Grace". Can you fellas just release the record already? Please...

Hour 2 I hit you with my New Noize Holiday Hour which had some new holiday music mixed with some past yuletide gems. It was a fun hour.

See you next Sunday for the final New Noize show of the year. 

12/4/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: MGMT "Bubblegum Dog"
Album of the Week:Haiku Hands "Pleasure Beast"
 
1. Naoki Sato "Godzilla-1.0 Suite I" Godzilla Minus One OST
2. Full of Hell & Nothing "Spend The Grace" Closed Casket Activities
3. Chelsea Wolfe "Tunnel Lights" Loma Vista
4. Thomas Powers(Featuring Julien Baker) "Empty Voices"
5. Jonathan Rado "Blue Moon"
6. MGMT "Bubblegum Dog" Mom+Pop
7. youbet "Carsick" Hardly Art
8. Omni "Exacto"  Sub Pop
9. Glitterer "Plastic" Anti
10. James Supercave "FAKE PRETTY BABY"
11. Yard Act "Petroleum"
12. Alex Nicol "Hollywood"
13. The Jacklights "Past Tense"
14. Porno For Pyros "Agua"
15. Harp "Throne of Amber" [PIAS]
16. Whispering Sons "The Talker" [PIAS]

-hour 2-

17. Real Estate "Water Underground" Domino
18. Future Islands "The Fight" 4AD
19. Haiku Hands "Grandma" Spinning Top
20. O. "Moon" [PIAS]
21. STRFKR "Armatron" Polyvinyl
22. Tiga & Hudson Mohawke "Love Minus Zero"
23. 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne "Crazy Thick" Def Jam
24. JID ft. 21 Savage "Surround Sound" Interscope
25. Revival Season "Pump" (feat. Shaheed Goodie)
26. Atmosphere (feat. Buck 65 & Kool Keith) "Hello Pete" Rhymesayers
27. Don Streat, Animal Gang, Smimooz "Animal Barz"  Animal Gang
28. Deltaphase "Fckd Up"

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
Thomas Powers(Featuring Julien Baker) "Empty Voices"

GODZILLA MINUS ONE BEST MOVIE OF 2023

I will save the exhaustive long movie write to simply say this movie is not what you expected in all the right ways.

Let's get to New Noize

Song of the Week goes to MGMT with "Bubblegum Dog". I have been highly critical of these Brooklyn dudes with everything they put out and am happy to report I am into the 2 singles they dropped this year, "Bubblegum Dog" being the most recent. It's got this David Bowie Ziggy Stardust feel throughout this new single, check it.

Haiku Hands finally came out with their new LP "Pleasure Beast" and I love it. There are a few other records that were close to this #1 spot including the new collab record by Full of Hell & Nothing "When No Birds Sang", Godzilla Minus One OST & Tiga & Hudson Mohawke's collab record "L'Ecstacy". Ultimately I went with  Haiku Hands cause it's the most fun and we need some fun. Regardless you should listen to "Pleasure Beast" by Haiku Hands and everything else I listed.

So next week will be the final New Noize (maybe) of the year then I will be doing my "Best of 2023" 3-hour wrap-up show the following Sunday, maybe.

Until then see you all next week, maybe.