9/3/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Ursula 1000 “Chess King”
2. LCD Soundsystem “Other Voices” dfa
3. Bicep “Glue”
4. Cloud Control “Rainbow City”
5. Queens of the Stone Age “The Evil Has Landed” matador
6. Io Echo “Harm”
7. Cloakroom “The Sun Wont Let Us Go” relapse
8. Wolf Parade “You're Dreaming”
9. Zola Jesus “Remains” sacred bones
10. Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett “Over Everything”
11. Liars “Face to Face With My Face” mute
12. Midnight Sister “Leave You” jagjaguwar

-Hour 2-

13. Ibeyi (feat Kamasi Washington) “Deathless”
14. Brendon Small “Icarus Six Sixty Six”
15. Cripper “Mother”
16. Ensiferum “Way of the Warrior”
17. Living Colour “FOX”
18. Cults “I Took Your Picture”
19. Car Seat Headrest “War Is Coming (If You Want It)”
20. Bully “Running” sub pop
21. Cardi B (feat Offset) “Lick (Remix)”
22. Nosaj Thing “U G” innovative leisure
23. Julia Jacklin “Eastwick”
24. the Preatures “Girlhood” harvest
25. Wu Tang (feat Redman) “People Say”
26. Lana Del Rey ”In My Feelings”

https://play.spotify.com/user/haaris_ahmed/playlist/2Q6QQ6UsXh91SRTOg3yT9G

Music Not On Spotify List:
9. Zola Jesus “Remains” sacred bones
15. Cripper “Mother”
17. Living Colour “FOX”

What up from the melting point which is Santa Barbara California. Over this Labor Day Weekend all along the golden coast temperatures SKY ROCKETED. As a dude who has no Air Conditioning things were pretty unbearable. On Sunday luckily I went to a Fantasy Football draft at my Music Programmers spot and he has AC. Around the 4th round the temperature dropped, it got dark and then over the next 8 minutes the sky broke into buckets of water, the winds were roaring through the backyard and I got some salad dressing on my laptop. OH and the power went out and for a round and a half yahoo decided all of our 4th and 5th round picks. The word on the street is it was a mini hurricane, but global warming is real right America? 

I know, you aren’t here to read about Fantasy Football or the weather are you?

You’re here for New Noize and I hope I delivered this past Sunday. So much to unpack here so I will give all you New Noizers out there some of my highlights. LCD Soundsystems new Album is like butter, it goes with everything. I also hand selected cuts from other full lengths including QOTSA, Cloakroom (which I am obsessed with) Liars and the hauntingly thick Zola Jesus record. In the second hour I spun a small metal block which included “Icarus Six Sixty Six” by Brendon Small. Small’s new album Galaktikon II: Become the Storm is fantastic and its got my conspiracy brain working. Think about it for a second, Brendon Small is releasing a new record, Mastodon is releasing a new EP and Gojira is on tour in America right now. Put all of those factors together, mix in some serious speculation and a dash of hope and my brain spits out a new Metalocalypse. For reals are these guys getting the greatest animated metal band to grace the history of humanity back together?  This Dethklok fan sure as hell hopes so.

On the singles side of things the new Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett “Over Everything” is the motherfuckin jam. I hope they cut a whole record together like Jigga and Yeezus did. It would be the Indie rock equivalent of “Watch the Throne” for white people. Before you get into a tizzy, indie rock is DOMINATED by white people. FACTS! I could go on and on about each and every song I played but I suggest just following my New Noize playlist on Spotify and getting into the groove yourself. 

HYPE TIME! Did anyone else play Gundam Versus beta this past long weekend? I sure as hell did and was rocking cats in Deathscythe, Wing Zero and Epyon mobile suits. The beta was great! Huge roster to choose from, multiple game modes and the ability to play online made this demo/preview/test loads of fun BUT I do have one complaint Bandai. How in the name of Char Aznable did you not make the tutorial mode open in this beta? How do you expect new players to dive deep or even get a sense of Gundam Versus with the tutorial mode locked? And why is this the ONLY MODE that is locked? Bandai needs to get to the bottom of this and make moves. Other than that huge flaw this beta was a welcomed experience and I will be getting this game on launch.

TONIGHT it's all about DESTINY 2! I have been waiting years for Destiny 2 to come out and now I’m counting down the hours. Are there any other guardians out there? Get at me, I will be building my clan up and getting down on both PvE and PvP. Many hours will be burned in the next arc of the Desitny universe.

See you in orbit at 9pm PST tonight guardians and next Sunday for New Noize. 

Dead orbit for life.

8/27/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Wu-Tang Clan (feat Redman) "People Say”
2. Cardi B “Bodak Yellow”
3. Liars “No Tree No Branch” mute
4. LCD Soundsystem “Tonite” dfa
5. Beck “Dear Life”
6. Yum Yuck “Waiting On Love”
7. Death By Unga Bunga “Into the Night” ja
8. Tricky feat. Martina Topley-Bird “When We Die”
9. the Horrors “Machine” wolf time
10. Queens of the Stone Age “Head Like a Haunted House” matador
11. At the Drive In “Call Broken Arrow”
12. Mosquitos “Quantum Romanticum”
13. the Front Bottoms “Raining”
14. Foxtrax “Grey Morning” soul sounds

-Hour 2-

15. The War On Drugs “Pain”
16. Brand New “Can't Get It Out”
17. Gogol Bordello “Seekers & Finders” cooking vinyl
18. METZ “Mess of Wires” sub pop
19. Cloakroom “Big World” relapse
20. Lee Ranaldo “Thrown Over The Wall” mute
21. Alex Cameron “Running Outta Luck”
22. Bully “Feel The Same” sub pop
23. Ariel Pink “Feels Like Heaven”
24. Zola Jesus “Siphon” sacred bones
25. Japanese Breakfast “Road Head”
26. Happy Hollows “Feel the Moon”
27. Bonzie “Combback”
28. Lana Del Rey ”In My Feelings”

https://play.spotify.com/user/haaris_ahmed/playlist/2Q6QQ6UsXh91SRTOg3yT9G

Music Not On Spotify List:
7. Death By Unga Bunga “Into the Night” ja
21. Alex Cameron “Running Outta Luck”
24. Zola Jesus “Siphon” sacred bones
26. Happy Hollows “Feel the Moon”

New Noise playlist action coming at ya. This past Sunday was stacked with jam after motherfuckin jam. New Wu Tang featuring Redman? YES PLEASE! According to the RZA this new full length Wu album was constructed my Mathematics, long time DJ for the entire Clan when they tour. This is contradicting RZA previous statements that Ghostface was producing this entire Clan record, unless Tony Starks is working on an additional Wu Tang album. The speculation continues as according to the RZA this album will be out this year, I’m not holding my breath.

Wu-Tang wasn’t the only one to drop new music. I finally got my hands on the full length for Queens of the Stone Age. The jury I out on how I feel about “Villains”, which is on the short side. I will give it a few listens and report my findings in the upcoming weeks. Other full lengths I highly recommend are Cloakroom’s “Time Well” and Zola Jesus’s “Okovi”. 

Oh yeah and Ice Dragons are coming at ya in 2018. 

8/20/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. UNKLE (feat. Mark Lanegan) “Looking For The Rain" 
2. LCD Soundsystem “Tonite” dfa
3. Griz (feat Cherub) “PS GFY” (opiuo remix)
4. Nine Inch Nails “The Lovers”
5. Liars “The Great Delusion” mute
6. Purity “Asido”
7. Valmont de Ragondas “The Watcher” Dead Cells Soundtrack
8. Protomartyr “My Children”
9. Manchester Orchestra “The Mistake” loma vista
10. Japanese Breakfast “Road Head”
11. Cloakroom “Hymnal” relapse
12. Grouplove “Remember That Night”
13. Geowulf “Drink Too Much”
14. Enter Shikari “Live Outside”

-Hour 2-

15. Lana Del Rey (feat Playboi Carti & A$AP Rocky)“Summer Bummer” interscope
16. Cardi B “Bodak Yellow”
17. Dead Cross “The Future Has Been Cancelled” ipecac
18. Bully “Feel The Same” sub pop
19. METZ “Drained Lake” sub pop
20. Ariel Pink “Feels Like Heaven”
21. Alvvays “Plimsoll Punks”
22. Yoke Lore “Goodpain”
23. Manchester Orchestra “The Sunshine” loma vista
24. The Bronx “Two Birds”
25. Chad VanGaalen “Mind Hijacker's Curse”
26. SWIMM “Bedrooms”
27. Yum Yuck “Waiting On Love”
28. Vessels feat. Wayne Coyne “Deflect The Light”
29. Widowspeak “Let Me”

https://play.spotify.com/user/haaris_ahmed/playlist/2Q6QQ6UsXh91SRTOg3yT9G

Music Not On Spotify List:
5. Liars “The Great Delusion” mute
7. Valmont de Ragondas “The Watcher” Dead Cells Soundtrack
Widowspeak “Let Me”

Hey party people, Haaris here. Today may have been the most hyped solar eclipse in the history of dragons eating the sun (I could have made a Norse reference, but I am Asian). Last night I dropped another legendary New Noize playlist like I do every Sunday.

I kicked off the show with new UNKLE and I must say the album itself sounds very cinematic. It also could have even the fact that I listened to the new UNKLE before watching Game of Thrones.

I finally got to play Japanese Breakfast’s “Road Head” and if you haven’t check out the music video, well here it is:

The surprise of the week has to be the new Cloakroom album. I popped it into the home stereo and was blown away. Its pretty fantastic, if you are a fan Jesu, Russian Circles or Boris, definitely  check out Cloakroom.

In other media its gonna be a quite week when it comes to video games. I completed Hellbalde and what a ride! Ninja Theory hit a homer on this gem. Graphics, gameplay, story and the hellish audio (it is a must you play this with a headset) made Hellblade an experience that I will share with anyone willing to listen. I’m gonna be finishing up some of games in my backlog until Absolver comes out next week. Then, dudring the 1st last week of September all things will shut down as DESTINY 2 is finally out! If anyone out there likes to game on the PS4 hit me up, my handle is MenglerMeng. 

Peace out until next Sunday. 
 

8/13/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Crimfall “The Last of Stands” metalblade
2. Portrait “Burn the World” metalblade
3. Dead Cross “Shillelagh” ipecac
4. A Giant Dog “Get Away” merge
5. the Dream Rebel “Hurt Me Bad”
6. Joywave “Shutdown” hollywood
7. Rose of the West “Love & War”
8. Marlon Williams “Vampire Again”
9. the Glorious Sons “Everything Is Alright” black box
10. Rainer Maria “Possession” polyvinyl
11. Manchester Orchestra “The Sunshine” loma vista
12. Grieves “RX”
13. Sam Coffey & the Iron Lungs “Voicemail” burger
14. El Ten Eleven feat. Emile “She’s a Live One” 

-Hour 2- 

15. Valmont de Ragondas “Fight For Fate” taken from the Dead Cells soundtrack
16. Beat Vince “Title Screen” taken from the Tokyo 42 soundtrack
17. Enter Shikari “Live Outside”
18. Cut Copy “Standing In The Middle Of The Field”
19. Nine Inch Nails “This Isn’t The Place”
20. Liars “Coins In My Caged Fist” mute
21. Purity Ring “Asido”
22. Vessels feat. Wayne Coyne “Deflect The Light”
23. Downtown Boys “Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas)” sub pop
24. METZ “Drained Lake” sub pop
25. Bully “Feel The Same” sub pop
26. Liam Gallagher ”For What It's Worth”
27. Phoebe Bridgers ”Motion Sickness”
28. Nina Nesbitt “The Moments Im Missing”

https://play.spotify.com/user/haaris_ahmed/playlist/2Q6QQ6UsXh91SRTOg3yT9G

Music Not On Spotify List:
4. A Giant Dog “Get Away” merge
10. Rainer Maria “Possession” polyvinyl
14. El Ten Eleven feat. Emile “She’s a Live One”
15. Valmont de Ragondas “Fight For Fate” taken from the Dead Cells soundtrack

New Noize all up in your business. This weekend reality set in and I am just amazed at whats going on here in the good ol USA. Goating North Korea into a nuclear war and empowered white supremacists in Virginia have me pretty blue, but at least Game of Thrones and New Noize exists. 

Despite the stress of the world events I personally found solace in one of the best gatherings I have been to this year. I’m talking about my music programmer, DJ extraordinaire and one of my great friends Mr Dave Hanacek got hitched this past Saturday. As bummed out as I was with all thats going on, Saturday night showed that when friends and family come together everything else is just noise. I was also seated at the Radiohead table, it was pretty rockstar. Fellow DJs Phat J & Ricky Biggs were in the house and whenever the radio fam hangs power levels exceed 9000. 

Lets talk New Noise. This Sunday I started on the metal side of things and smoothed out as the hour progressed.

At the top of the second hour I dropped some music from the Dead Cells soundtrack, an indie game I DESPERATELY want to be ported onto the PS4 (and the vita LOLz). Currently Dead Cells is available on Steam and from the videos I have watched it looks like a freaking good time. I also circled back to music from Tokyo 42 as this game is finally coming out this Tuesday August 15th on the Playstation. If the game is half as good as this soundtrack then I will be a happy camper. Want to watch me play? Follow me on my youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo65Q8fi_Os7jQOlu4OiyqQ

See ya next Sunday.