8/25/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Kim Gordon "Sketch Artist" matador
2. Boris "Love" thirdman
3. METZ "Pig"(Sparklehorse cover) sub pop
4. Eye Flys "Crushing of the Human Spirit" thrill jockey
5. Russian Circles "Kohokia" sargent house
6. Thom Yorke & Flea "Daily Battles"
7. the Flaming Lips (f_ Mick Jones) "Feedaloodum Beedle Dot" warner
8. KAYZO & UNDEROATH "WASTED SPACE" ultra
9. Julien Chang "Butterflies from Monaco" transgressive
10. DIIV "Taker" captured tracks
11. Tummyache "Median" poor man
12. the 1975 "People" interscope
13. the Shelters "You're Different" warner

-Hour 2-

14. Venus Furs "Guards in the Garden"
15. Faux Ferocious "Good Times Ahead" burger
16. AJR "Dear Winter" bmg
17. Great Grandpa "Mono No Aware" double double whammy
18. Ships Have Sailed "Stay"
19. Lower Dens "Galapagos"
20. Joyero "Steepest Stairs" merge
21. Gavin Haley "Show Me" red bull
22. Eliza and the Delusionals "Just Exist" cooking vinyl
23. Crooked Ghost "Sinew in Red" 861642
24. Olivia I Barker "Change Your Mind"
25. Cautious Clay "Swim Home" interscope
26. COMA "A-Train" city slang
27. Frankie Cosmos "Wannago" sub pop

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

Not On Spotify:
6. Thom Yorke & Flea "Daily Battles"
14. Venus Furs "Guards in the Garden"
15. Faux Ferocious "Good Times Ahead" burger

Almost the end of summer and I am making the most of it. This past Saturday I saw the Yankees lose to the Dodgers (but they won the series Jerry, yeah I am talking to you!), saw Boris Belchin at exchange and then hit a warehouse party where Incognito was supposedly spinning. My head didn't hit my friends air mattress until about 6AM...So yeah Sunday drive up to Santa Barbara was especially hard since I apparently had to cover the Reggae Soundclash last hour as the Cool Rullah got a last minute call to announce Iration at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Welcome to my life, lucky for me I had the foresight to see this clusterfuck and setup my show Thursday night just in case.

I wanted to start the show off with some of the most exciting news of 2019, KIM GORDON SOLO RECORD! A bit surprising that a solo record is coming so late from this force of nature, but it is. I'm looking forward to hearing how this is going to be different from her work with Sonic Youth, Free Kitten & Body/Head. Check out the single, you will understand.

METZ is out with new old shit with their cover of Sparklehorse's "PIG". OH and talking about METZ they are featured on a new video game soundtrack called "Freedom Finger". I am buying this game for my Nintendo Switch just to listen this insane mix of bands featuring Red Fang, METZ, Power Trip, Com Truise, White Fence, Ty Segall, Makeup and Vanity Set, True Widow, The Radio Dept., Danimal Cannon, Drab Majesty, John Maus, Vektroid, Cleaners from Venus, Male Gaze, Ezee Tiger, The Mall, and more...check this trailer

School maybe in session soon but I'm extending my summer well into next month. I am going to LA next weekend to check Karen O & Danger Mouse on Friday (and hopefully Saturday, label willing). Later that month I will be checking Russian Circles in Ventura & BORIS in Camarillo. There is more on the schedule but it escapes me. What shows are you going to? And more importantly what shows are WE going to?

Also good luck to all who are drafting their Fantasy Football teams. I am in 3 leagues this year.

8/18/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Bent Knee "Hold Me In"
2. Local Natives "When Am I Gonna Lose You" loma vista
3. Spoon "No Bullets Spent" matador
4. oso oso "dig" triple crown
5. Babe Rainbow "Many Moons Of Love" 30th century
6. the Hives "Good Samaritan"
7. Strung Out "Under the Western Sky" fat wreck chords
8. Black Belt Eagle Scout "My Heart Dreams" saddle creek
9. RIDE "Future Love" wichita
10. Shura "forever" Secretly Canadian
11. Claud "Miss You"
12. Automatic "Too Much Money" stones throw
13. Ross From Friends "Epiphany" brainfeeder
14. Tourist "Bunny" monday
15. Salami Rose Joe Louis "Sitting with Thoughts" brainfeeder
16. Cones "Moonstone" dangerbird

Hour 2

17. Russian Circles "Sinaia" sargent house
18. The Flaming Lips(feat Mick Jones) "Electric Fire" warner
19. BABYMETAL "Elevator Girl(English Ver)" cooking vinyl
20. Alexander Tucker "Montag" thrill jockey
21. Bat for Lashes "The Hunger" awal
22. Miynt "Subway Madness" B3SCI
23. Wildlife "Euphoria" culvert music
24. Velvet Negroni "KURT KOBAIN" 4ad
25. the Bird and the Bee (feat Beck) "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen cover release me
26. Kayzo & Our Last Night "Alone" welcome
27. Alexandra Savior "Saving Grace" 30th century
28. Big Thief "Not" 4ad

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

Not On Spotify:
1. Bent Knee "Hold Me In"
20. Alexander Tucker "Montag" thrill jockey
27. Alexandra Savior "Saving Grace" 30th century

EID MUBARAK YA'LL. That’s the reason there was no New Noize last week, but I'm back with a 2 hour mix which is strong in its diversity. Bat for Lashes, Flaming Lips (who's new record, Kings Mouth, feels like a majestic run down Snake Way after you leave King Kai’s house), Russian Circles, freaking STRUNG OUT and one of the best covers of 2019 "Hot for Teacher" featuring BECK by the Bird and the Bee. Do yourself some good and follow my playlist on Spotify so you can get an auto update every Monday (well almost every Monday) to the New Noize mix.

I had a solid weekend & besides boring you with all the dope details I'll share 1. I saw the Cat Power this past Saturday and it hit all my feels. She is one of my favorite artists that plays with silence as if it’s a musical instrument. She made it through the whole set and it was an slow burn of throughout the entire show. Mostly bleeding songs into one another she and her band did not do a lot of "breaks". I may have been a bit moist in the eye area but my allergies were on fire (they weren't, it was an emotionally riveting show that spoke directly to the sickly soul and caressed is with no judgments whatsoever. If my friend Haley didn't hold my hand during the whole show I may have totally broke down, yes both me and Kanye have "gentle sentimental's") Thanks to the people that hooked this up (killer seats so great full THANK YOU AGAIN, you know who you are), the fine staff at the Lobero Theater and of course Cat Power.

For those that will be in LA this weekend, so will I! I will be seeing the Yankees take on the Dodgers, which I believe is a preview to the World Series. If you are in the hood, hit me up! I will be donned in full Yankee regalia.

8/4/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard "Planet B" flightless
2. Monolord "The Bastard Son" relapse
3. DragonForce "Highway to Oblivion" metal blade
4. Bad Wolves "I'll Be There" eleven seven
5. Foals "Black Bull"
6. Iggy Pop "James Bond" loma vista
7. ROCH "All Time Favourite Girl"
8. Safer "Sleepless Nights"
9. BAD CHILD "Breathing Fire" universal
10. Mikal Cronin "Show Me" merge
11. Miss June "Best Girl" frenchkiss
12. Ezra Furman "Evening Prayer aka Justice" bella union

-Hour 2-

13. Starcrawler "Bet My Brains" rough trade
14. BORIS "Peaches" trash-up
15. Meg & Dia "American Spirit" pure noise
16. San Mei "Something Good" etcetc
17. Janet May "Lessons To Learn" avenue a
18. Sleater-Kinney "Can I Go On" mom+pop
19. G Flip "Stupid" future classic
20. Boniface "Wake Me Back Up" transgressive
21. Angie McMahon "Keeping Time" dualtone music group
22. Beeef "Little Guys" 581977
23. Orange Animal "Dive" john ramsey
24. Miynt "The Idiot" B3SCI
25. Flying Lotus "Remind U" warp
26. Cuco "Ego Death In Thailand" interscope

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

Not On Spotify:
everything made it this week

Ok yes, this New Noize post is late but its been a whirlwind of a week. Tool is finally on Spotify, Fiesta Week here in Santa Barbara, and the most important thing had to be EVO this past weekend, especially if you are Pakistani. Why? Arslan Ash came out and absolutely BODIED the entire Tekken 7 circuit. Lets be honest for a hot minute, in America there are very few "positive" reflections of "us". This is changing with people like Aziz, Mindy and Hassan, but lets take an amazing show that know for its inclusive and diversity, EUPHORIA. This HBO show is fantastic but apparently in this surreal portrait of Americana all Asians are non-existent or stuck in AP class. The season ended in a freaking musical sign off very reminiscent of EVERY BOLLYWOOD movie in existence yet not one South Asian kid even in the exit number?

Enter the chosen one, a kid that put an entire nation on his back, Arslan Ash. All of his wins prior to this were deemed by almost everyone as "flukes" as he came out of no where. This warrior won EVO Japan and people still doubted him until this weekend. He ran through the competition, easily made it to the top 8 where he continued his domination and the finals. After wining he knelt to the ground (as all Muslims do 5x a day) to give thanks to the almighty and reinforced all that in all his messaging while including his mom.

I'm not crying, your crying. As you read this you may think this is not a big deal, you are WRONG. We are not represented in anything sports related at all, Baseball, basketball, hockey, football, USA soccer, until now. This is all thanks to the Fighting Game Community, specifically the EVOLUTION tournament. A tournament like no other in the world, a TRULY INCLUSIVE tournament. Pro, amateur, male, female, trans, gay, straight (or any spectrum) any race, any creed and any age as long as you are human you can enter. I am glad to be a part of this community and thankful for its existence.

For all those that missed it, here is the championship bout between the Tekken GOD Arslan Ash vs Knee(a Tekken GOD in his own right, only he gets crushed)

and here is the dude on ESPN:

This happened on Sunday as I was covering the Reggae Soundclash before switching over to New Noize and let me tell you I was HYPED for a solid 2 hours. Since I was on full tilt I kicked off the show with a healthy dose of metal and smoothed out the rest of the 2 hours with all the latest jams. I am really digging this band called Miynt. Their new album "Stay on Your Mind" is thick with solid jams that will fill your space with dopeness

Lastly I'm seeing Flylo on Thursday, its his 1st show of his new tour and I will have loads to say about that as well as giving you another 2 hours of New Noize come next Sunday.

Getting back to EVO...

You know I am a Dragonball FightersZ guy here is the finals between SonicFox vs GO1 (again IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE) and yes my GUY SonicFox maynot have won Dragonball FightersZ but he did end up winning Mortal Kombat 11.

My GUY SonicFox may not have won Dragonball FightersZ but he did end up winning Mortal Kombat 11.

This time for reals, see you next Sunday.

7/28/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. DIIV "Skin Game" captured tracks
2. BORIS "To the Beach" trash up
3. girl in red "i'll die anyway" marie ulven
4. Miynt "Lucy In Disguise" B3SCI
5. Green Buzzard "I Don't Want To Be Alone" I OH YOU
6. Boy Scouts "Get Well Soon" anti-
7. Cooperr "Like I Do" marshmallow pavement
8. Demob Happy "Autoportrait" SO recordings
9. Cuco "Feelings" interscope
10. YACHT "SCATTERHEAD" dfa
11. Queen of Jeans "Get Lost" topshelf
12. Speaker First "If It Ain't You"
13. Nnena "Lovesick" loud robot
14. BOO Seeka "Millennium Drive" sureshaker

-Hour 2-

15. DJ Shadow (feat. De La Soul) "Rocket Fuel" mass appeal
16. Metronomy "Salted Caramel Ice Cream" because music
17. Oscar Scheller (feat. Lily Allen) "1%" wichita
18. Ra Ra Riot "Bad To Worse"
19. Pinky Pinky "My Friend Sean" innovative leisure
20. Calexico and Iron & Wine "Midnight Sun" sub pop
21. CHYLD "Can We?" tommy boy
22. FEET "Outer Rim" clapped
23. Hawa "Kill Some" b4
24. Steve Gunn "Motion Pictures (For Carrie)" <--Neil Young cover
25. Ty Segall "The Arms"
26. Great Time "Rushin" great time studio
27. Jaeo Draftpick "Bless the Trap" tommy boy
28. Caamp "Peach Fuzz" by and by
29. Dude York "Should've" hardly arts

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

Not On Spotify:
Speaker First "If It Ain't You"
Steve Gunn "Motion Pictures (For Carrie)" <--Neil Young cover
Ty Segall "The Arms"

This summer has been full tilt. This past weekend I saw the Melvins open up for the The Raconteurs at the Santa Barbara Bowl and it was great. It was a "no cellphone" show which is fine, I honestly don't care either way.

Fiesta week is upon us and for all the non-locals that read this blog you should come into town and get down with the raddest part SB has to offer. {so much cultural appropriation} For all the party people that are attending I'll be working the beer garden Saturday night at the Casa Cantina, stop by and give me all the high fives.

New Noize was popping as it always is. Side note I am SO PROUD of myself, I got Trash-UP records in Japan to forward me the new BORIS EP "tears" for last Sundays show. It is a slight departure form their sound and is much more "fun & lighthearted" than their normal work which is refreshing.

See you next Sunday. BE WARNED, I will complain about all the confetti i have to clean.