10/1/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Chelsea Wolfe “The Culling” sargent house
2. Tricky (feat Asia Argento) “Wait for the Signal”
3. Oxford Coma “Cartoons”
4. The Black Dahlia Murder “Matriarch” metalblade
5. Zola Jesus “Ash to Bone” sacred bones
6. Ty Segall “Alta”
7. the Horrors “World Below” caroline
8. Matt Cameron “Time Can’t Wait” 
9. Tame Impala “Confide In Me” (Kylie Minogue cover)
10. Little Dragon (feat Faith Evans) “Peace Of Mind”
11. Jamila Woods “BLK Girl Soldier” jagjaguwar
12. GRIZ “Feelin Fine” (Rowland Evans Remix)
13. Dawn People “Inner Refuge” dfa
14. Jonti “Sleeping and Falling”

-Hour 2-

15. Run the Jewels “Mean Demeanor” off the FIFA 2018 video game soundtrack
16. Kamasi Washington “Humility” young turks
17. Ibeyi “Valé” xl
18. Torii Wolf “Shadows Crawl”
19. The Flaming Lips “Do Glowy”
20. Mac DeMarco “One Another”
21. Super Organism “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” domino
22. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile “Continental Breakfast”
23. William Patrick Corgan “The Spaniards” 
24. Protomartyr “Don’t Go To Anacita” domino
25. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Little Thing Gone Wild”
26. Beliefs “1994” hand drawn dracula
27. Ariel Pink “Kitchen Witch” mexican summer
28. L.A Witch “Good Guys” suicide squeeze
29. the Safes “Crystal Ball” hidden volume popular sounds
30. the Clientele “The Museum Of Fog” merge

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

Music Not On Spotify List:
13. Dawn People “Inner Refuge” dfa

Is there a week where I can just talk about my playlist, how bad my NY Football Giants and Fantasy Football teams are doing or whats going on in the world of video games? No because the dark sun has risen upon this earth and everything is retracting into the infinite abyss.  

Look October 1st is the greatest day every year. Why? If you know me in real life October 1st is a day that the sky opened up and brought not 1 but 2 of the best people on the planet. I would argue 2 of the greatest humans in the history of humanity. I am talking about Hamza and Rohan, who just happen to be my little bros. Hamza just turned 35 and Rohan 27. They were born exactly 8 years and some minutes apart on October 1st. In a world that can hammer you to the point of not caring, these 2 have always been there for this guy. I am a lucky man and even more blessed older big brother. I am so proud of these 2 and they continue to be a source of everything awesome in this world. I love my brothers. We fight, we laugh and we deal with shit as a family. I am forever grateful too have these 2 dudes in my life. Thanks brothers. 

RIP Chales Bradly
RIP Tom Petty
Stay Up Vegas.

9/25/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. the Clientele “Lunar Days” merge
2. King Krule “Dum Surfer”
3. Shout Out Louds “Porelain” merge
4. The Lemon Twigs “Why Didn't You Say That”
5. Lovely Bad Things “Slug Boy” burger
6. Tycho “Slack” ghostly
7. L.A. Witch “Feel Alright” suicide squeeze
8. ODESZA feat. The Chamanas “Everything At Your Feet”
9. Griz “Faded” ryhmesayers
10. Slothrust “Sex and Candy”
11. the Safes “Hometown” hidden volume popular sounds
12. Wild Belle “Untamed Heart”
13. Shame “Concrete”
14. SSHH “Jet Engines”
15. Cloud Control “Lights on the Chrome” 
16. Mister Heavenly “Pink Cloud Compression” polyvinyl 

-Hour 2-

17. Ibeyi “Me Voy”
18. Bjork “The Gate”
19. Death From Above “Nomad” 
20. Giraffage (ft. Matosic) “Maybes”
21. Perfume Genius “Slip Away”
22. Ariel Pink “Feels Like Heaven” mexican summer
23. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Little Thing Gone Wild”
24. METZ “Sink” sub pop
25. Swears (ft Biddy Smiles) “Dance with the Devil”
26. Prawn “North Lynx” top shelf
27. Chad Vangaalen “Static Shape” sub pop
28. Joseph of Mercury “Find You Inside”
29. Mount Kimbie “Four Years and One Day” warp

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

Music Not On Spotify List:
9. Griz “Faded” ryhmesayers
16. Mister Heavenly “Pink Cloud Compression” polyvinyl 

AHHHH WHAT HAPPENED? Every Sunday I go in and out of showcasing my New Noize playlist with highlights of a few tracks I have played, mixed with some commentary on anime, movies, video games and some sweet ass gifs. I am chaining bit up this week and apologize in advanced.

I no longer understand wtf is going on with the powers that be. Over the weekend a president that I did not vote for who holds office spewed some more fassisct garbage at a rally about prohibiting free speech in the United States. Wether you take a knee during the anthem (a tradition which by the way started as a propaganda movement post WW1) burn the flag or wear it as thong bikini we here in the USA have the right to do whatever we want. Pretty sure my parents left Pakistan for that reason along with a thousand others. Can you imagine as a citizen of this great country getting shot for an opinion by the state? Probably not, especially if you haven’t visited any of these politically unfree nations. You will never understand that feeling of repression, unless you are a minority, a woman or gay in the United States. 

Hey I’m not saying you don’t have a right to be out right disgusted by people protesting the flag, you can totally hate it. BUT you can’t take that right away. You CAN’T have the president of the united states voice his un-American opinion name calling citizens that are peacefully protesting. 

Here is a fact about your president, he has never served or held any type of military position and attacked a war vet who was also a Prisoner of War. Yeah that is a fact. 

WITH ALL THAT SAID Puerto Rico needs us bad but you don’t see our president grandstanding about a relief effort. Instead he is flaming the fires of war via twitter and creating an extreme amount of tension for our allies in Asia, specifically Japan and South Korea. 

The only silver lining I see is that as soon as this Cheeto offends a group of people, they come together to respond to (insert hateful comment). I am not down with this divide but I am taken back by the reliance that is the United States and our ability to come together even though the president is trying to divide us. 

*jumps off soap box*

Sorry about that but I had to get that out there. Instead doing my normal song and dance about what I have played I am gonna brag about the shows I am going to this week. 

TONGHT is Tycho, they are playing a small venue called the Lobero here in town. Super duper excited to get my instrumental rock on. Wednesday night its Perfume Genius and the XX at the SBBowl. I am getting there early as I do dig me some Perfume Genius. My instgram game will be busy this week.

Until next Sunday…

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

1. Bjork “The Gate”
2. Eric Copeland “Boogieman” dfa
3. TOKiMONSTA “Bibimbap”
4. Andrew Hung “Animal”
5. ODESZA (feat. Leon Bridges) “Across The Room“
6. Alice Glass “Blood Oath”
7. Cut Copy “Black Rainbows”
8. Abhi The Nomad “Mama Bling”
9. Giraffage (ft. Japanese Breakfast) “Maybes”
10. Washed Out "Get Lost" (J Rocc Remix) stones throw  
11. Ani DiFranco “Even More”
12. Fleet Foxes “On Another Ocean”
13. Beach Slang “Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas”

-Hour 2-

14. Ariel Pink “Dreamdate Narcissist” mexican summer
15. METZ “Lost In the Blank City” sub pop
16. Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever “Wither With You” sub pop
17. Chad Vangaalen “Host Body” sub pop
18. Bully “Running” sub pop
19. Gruntruck “Bar Fly” found
20. Lee Ranaldo “Purloined” mute
21. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Little Thing Gone Wild”
22. Deer Tick “Doomed from the Start” partisan
23. Deer Tick “Look How Clean I Am” partisan
24. the National “Turtleneck” 4ad
25. Tera Melos “Warpless Run” sargent house
26. Deerhoof  (ft. Awkwafina) “Your Dystopic Creation Doesn't Fear You”
27. Mount Kimbie feat Micachu “Marylin” warp
28. Manhattan Murder Mystery “Dumb” miedlena

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

Music Not On Spotify List:
2. Eric Copeland “Boogieman” dfa
10. Washed Out "Get Lost" (J Rocc Remix) stones throw
15. METZ “Lost In the Blank City” sub pop

Welcome to another week in New Noize and as always it’s your boy with another New Noize playlist, write up and gifs. This week was thick with full length albums arriving on my desk and it took HOURS to get this show set up. I seriously had about 4 hours of music to cut down to the 2 hour show run time and it was difficult to say the least. 

For hour 1 I ran with that electronic feeling and kicked things off with the spirit animal known to us mortals as Bjork. I did play the radio edited version (as the album version is about a 6 minutes long) of “The Gate” and if this is setting the tone for her new album (which supposedly is going to be called Utopia) then I am all in. I just hope she doesn’t price out her fans, her last tour was FUCKING EXPENSIVE. I didn’t see Bjork on her last tour mostly because of the price and the fact the label could care less if I attended. Hopefully when she comes around this time I will be able to see this force of nature. 

Another success story of hour 1 is the return of TOKiMONSTA. She has had a rough year. Apparently she had brain surgery and in a recent interview she said the doctors “cut out the part of the brain that makes music” and had to relearn everything. I can’t imagine the struggle TOKiMONSTA had to endure to get back to top form. The road to recovery has paid off in spades as her new music is pure fire. Looking forward to the rest of this release. 

Hour 2 I shifted gears and got in the deep end on some full lengths I mentioned earlier in this write up. Ariel Pink is back and I don’t think this dude knows how to make a bad song. I am completely in love with “Dedicated To Bobby Jameson” and once it comes out you should fall in love with it to. I created a Sub Pop block with METZ, RBCF, Chad Vangaalen and Bully. FYI Sub Pop is slowly draining my bank account, all these “loser” editions vinyls are just so damn cool. Most of hour 2 was handpicking select tracks from all the full lengths sent my way including music from the National, Deerhoof, Tera Melos, Mount Kimbie, Manhattan Murder Mystery and Deer Tick. Deer Tick is releasing a double album. Volume 1 is all acoustic but then in Volume 2 Deer Tick plugs in. I am more of a Volume 2 kinda guy. 

Other thing things of note that happened this weekend was me failing over and over trying to achieve any wins in the Trails of the Nine. If you play Destiny you know what I am talking about. If you are reading this and you are a Trails player and want to help me out hit me UP! MenglerMeng is my PSN name. 

I also saw Mother this weekend. It was TERRIBLE. SO freaking bad. How did this dumpster fire cost 33 million dollars. Oh and I get what the movie was trying to say/convey, I’m not that thick but come on! This movie was not entertaining, not thought provocation or scary. Anyone that says they like Mother is riding around on a unicycle sporting a man bun while smoking an old school pipe with a flying squirrel sleeping in his left chest pocket. I can not get my 2 hours back and I should have seen IT. 

Before I peace out I just wanted to say, GO GIANTS! Now go enjoy the rest of your week. 

9/10/17 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. the National “I’ll Still Destroy You”
2. Tera Melos “Trash Generator”
3. Lovely Bad Things “Teenage Grownups”
4. Fleet Foxes “On Another Ocean”
5. Beck “Up All Night”
6. Mathew Dear feat Tegan and & Sara “Bad Ones”
7. Gary Numan “My Name Is Ruin”
8. Motorhead “God Save The Queen”
9. Eddie Vedder    “Out of Sand”
10. St. Vincent “Los Ageless”
11. Dream Wife “Fire”
12. Alle Farben & Janieck “Little Hollywood”
13. Alvvays “Your Type”
14. Cloud Control “Zone” ivy league

-Hour 2-

15. Bicep “Opal”
16. LCD Soundsystem “emotional haircut” dfa
17. Deer Tick “Don't Hurt”
18. Good Tiger “The Devil Thinks I'm Sinking”
19. Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Anymore” painbow
20. Io Echo “Harm”
21. Phoebe Bridges “Motion Sickness” dead oceans
22. Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett “Over Everything”
23. the Lonely Biscuit “Talk About”
24. Ibeyi (feat Kamasi Washington) “Deathless”
25. Camp Cope “Jet Fuel Cant Melt Steel Beams” run for cover
26. Midnight Sister “Daddy Long Legs” jagjaguwar
27. Cloakroom “Hymnal” relapse 

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

Music Not On Spotify List:
17. Deer Tick “Don't Hurt”

So moms was right everybody, this eclipse is really throwing the Earth for a wobble. Well she’s semi true according to my 15 minutes of research via google. Not only did we get a solar eclipse, there was a huge solar flare that is stirring up the Earths emotions much like a Puerto-Rican ex girlfriend. Lets look at the madness which occurred after the eclipse and solar flare. In my local zone we got hit with a heat wave that concluded in a “microburst” which is a mini hurricane/tornado/wtf is going on storm that lasts for about 10 minutes which messed up the downtown scene. On a national level Houston’s situation is pretty scary and now Florida has to deal with 3 concurrent hurricanes. On an international level Pakistan, Bangladesh & India have been devastated by earthquakes and floods which have left millions displaced and thousands dead. Then last night right before my New Noize set in Santa Barbara the night sky started to roll and lite up with a beautiful lightning show (which is a rare occurrence in this area). But hey, climate change still isn’t a thing right my fellow Americans? 

On to things we can control, and you can blame me 1000% on this past Sundays New Noize playlist. Despite the solar flare & thunderstorm New Noize weathered the chaos for 2 hours of curated new music. Of course I joined the band wagon and played something off the new National record, it’s a pretty good album. I also explored some other full lengths including Phoebe Bridges, Camp Cope, Midnight Sister, Tera Melos & the Twins Peak Soundtrack (like I wasn’t gonna play Eddie Vedder)

In the world of singles I spun the highly hyped new St. Vincent track “Los Ageless”. IDK whats up with St. Vincent. This new persona she is using to promote her new record is rubbing me the wrong way. It’s like a dead pan Paris Hilton NYC socialite. Growing up in the Tri-State I had two deal with these bohemian rich white NYC ladies and I didn’t dig it then and I sure as hell don’t dig it now. I mean I get it, satire is something I do understand but this is wasted on me. I'm being a bit critical on Anne, but I really dig all of her records and am hoping that the music will outshine the oddness of this new persona. If you are from this area rule #1 is you don’t bite other peoples style and it seems like St Vincent is biting off of Father John Misty. Let Josh do Josh and you do you Anne. 

Another single I have issues with is the new Beck. I have nothing but good things to say about this guy in real life. I have met him a few times now and though the encounters are brief, he’s a genuine dude, a nice guy and his Japanese sneaker game is premier. With that said Beck released yet another single off his record that is never coming out. I have waited of this album for years now, yes it has been years since "Wow" (ok its been a year but it feels like a decade) Beck you are not a member of the Wu-Tang Clan so please stop biting their release game and come out with this record. Seriously every single he has release that is going to be on his upcoming record has been supremely funked out, and I NEED THE FUNK BECK!

I’ll say it again, I need the funk. 

NYC STAY UP SUN. You know what it is, I will never forget.