9/8/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. M83 "Temple of Sorrow" mute
2. Bat For Lashes "Desert Man" awal
3. Romare "Gone" ninja tune
4. Weyes Blood "Andromeda" sub pop
5. Jenny Hval "Six Red Cannas"
6. Grimes "Violence" 4ad
7. Anamanaguchi "Lorem Ipsum (Arctic_Anthem)" polyvinyl
8. STRFKR "Fantasy" polyvinyl
9. Lower Dens "Young Republicans" ribbon
10. Wax Tailor "The Light" lab'oratoire
11. Rancid Eddie "Here We Go Again" T∆G Music
12. the Futureheads "Electric Shock" nul

-Hour 2-

13. Corridor "Topographe" sub pop
14. METZ "M.E."(Gary Numan cover) sub pop
15. Milly "Talking Secret" dangerbird
16. Lana Del Rey "Bartender" polydor
17. Blitz Vega "Lost & Found"
18. Cartel Madras "Lil Pump Type Beat" sub pop
19. the Griswolds "NICE TO MEET YA!" NHMM
20. Whitney "Giving Up" secretly canadian
21. Cattle Decapitation "One Day Closer to the End of the World" metal blade
22. Miss June "Anomaly" frenchkiss
23. Jack Peñate "Prayer" xl
24. the Safes "Baggage Claim" action weekend
25. Belle and Sebastian "This Letter" matador
26. Chris Farren "Search" polyvinyl
27. Shiny Penny "Find My Home"

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

Not On Spotify:
Jenny Hval "Six Red Cannas"
Blitz Vega "Lost & Found

Last week a wrote a LOT. I'll keep this weeks write up brief.

DISCLAIMER --PLEASE SKIP ABOUT TO BRAG --

WHAT A WEEKEND. I saw the 1st ever Lux Prima show. It was an amazing experience. Danger Mouse took the stage with an additional 10-12 people which included a 4 piece string section and back up singers behind them. Then Karen O walks out in a very shiny gown with a matching shiny crown and we are off to the races. OH did I mention I had front row dead center tickets. Normally, since I do what I do I normally get to go to these events for free but never know where my seats are. This time out I did not get the hook up, which happens and I'm totally cool with, BUT one of my show bros/awesome human Joe somehow scored a pair to opening night and they were the best seats in the house. No one had a better time than me this past Friday night. Heck, I even got a set list. If you get a chance to see this limited time run, do it. This, for me, was a "Top 10 Best Shows" I have ever been to. I will keep this moment until my grey matter starts to deteriorate.

--AND WE ARE BACK--

Another killer New Noize set. Hour one was full of dream pop magic as M83 is BACK! I have to really give it up to Mute Records, they sent me this album a while back and I have been checking with them periodically for the past few weeks on when I could bust a track off this incredible record. I got the green light and let it rip. I can not wait to share the rest of "DSVII" on future New Noize Sundays. I mean check out this video:

...Also DSVII is out on 9/20, the same day as Links Awakening, coincidence? I think so....

You know I had to dive deep on Natasha Khan's new one, Lost Girls. Cover to cover this record by Bat for Lashes rules. I hit some new music from Anamanaguchi later that hour & that Wax Tailor track "The Light" is delicious.

Hour 2 looks more like a typical New Noize show getting chaotic towards the middle of the hour with Cartel Madras, Whitney & Cattle Decapitation (talk about differing genres) then smoothing it out with Shiny Penny at the end.

Before I sign off I just wanted to say good luck to everyone playing Fantasy Football this year. I am in 3 leagues and will be crying 3x more during the regular season, can you taste these tears?

We will need a score for him on 9/16 since his last day is not until 9/19 but that would be the last one.

9/1/19 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Tool "7empest"
2. the Giraffes "Bubble Scum" applesauce
3. Eye Flys "The Triumph of Hagbard Celine" thrill jockey
4. Kyle Craft "O! Lucky Hand" sub pop
5. Gabriel Black (feat. phem) "dead yet"
6. the Shivas "Gloria" tender loving empire
7. Iggy Pop "Sonali" loma vista
8. Perry Farrell "Let's All Pray For This World" bmg
9. beabadoobee "She Plays Bass" dirty hit
10. San Fermin "The Living" sony
11. ROCH "I Love to You"

-Hour 2-

12. Bon Iver "iMi" jagjaguwar
13. More Giraffes "Playground"
14. Cigarettes After Sex "Heavenly" partisan
15. Dorian Concept "Toothbrush" brainfeeder
16. Floating Points "Last Bloom" ninja tune
17. Sudan Archives "Confessions" stones throw
18. Alessandro Cortini "BATTICUORE" mute
19. !!! "Ur Paranoid" warp
20. Ra Ra Riot "Belladonna"
21. Battles(feat. Sal Principato) "Titanium 2 Step" warp
22. Karen O & Danger Mouse "Drown"
23. NOFX "Fish in a Gun Barrel" fat wreck chord
24. Moonlight Breakfast "Summer" echoism

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

Post Labor Day weekend so you get a Tuesday update. Calm yourselves, I know all 57 of you have been anxiously awaiting this weeks New Noize, so here we go.

Yes I opened New Noize with all 15 minutes and 43 seconds of TOOLs next to last track 7empest (it also bangs the hardest) I for one am happy that Tool is back with their potentially last album. There are only a few stand out songs but Fear Inoculum begs to be listened to cover to cover in it's entirety.

Even though I am on my game sometimes things slip through even my fingers and HOW I could miss the Giraffes new album Flowers in the Cosmos back in April. Well it happened and I'm sorry. If you like that NYC rock then you need to get up on the Giraffes.

IDK who the Shivas are, but if this single is any indication of what this potentially new record is going to sound like, I'm in. Also IDK who ROCH is but I'm glad I rolled the dice, its just plain good.

Hour 2 clearly has more BPM than the hour 1 & that was done on purpose. Stonethorw's Sudan Archives comes with her new single "Confessions" along with new BATTLES! I am seeing Karen O & Danger Mouse later this week down in LA so I had to revisit my favorite song "Down" from Lux Prima.

Lastly there are a lot of things I can go into September (and I will) but I will focus on 1 thing, Carole and Tuesday. This one is for all my music Industry folks. FULL WARNING THIS IS ANIME ITS OK FELLOW HUMANS ITS A LEGIT MEDIUM AND JUST FOR ONCE Please watch Carole and Tuesday.

Shinichirō Watanabe does it AGAIN and through this anime weaves a whimsical look into the current music industry referencing current trends, sentiments and technology. I have always been a fan of Watanabe as he is one of the only Anime directors that depicts so much diversity for human and non-humans alike. This is the guy who did Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. I have only made it to episode 4 but I can say Carole and Tuesday has some of the best original music I have heard in 2019.

~~~TANGENT: I AM VERY AWARE I JUST WROTE ABOUT CANON BUSTERS, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW DIVERSE THE ANIME CHARACTERS ARE AND HOW GOOD THE MUSIC IS. WELL YEAH, WE GOT LUCKY BUT LETS KEEP THIS TREND GOING. ALSO THE MUSIC IN CANON BUSTERS IS REALLY GOOD, BUT CAROLE & TUESDAY IS IN ITS CONCEPT A SHOW THAT REVOLVES AROUND THE ENTITY KNOWN AS MUSIC~~~

The timeline takes place a decade from now (maybe more) on Mars and there are SO MANY relevant references to music/artists/bands/art/etc you will have to re-watch this series just to catch'em all. I'm pretty sure they put FKA TWIGS in this anime. The story follows 2 artists struggling to find their voice, dealing with adult hood, surviving the city of Alba, and navigating the "industry" while cultivating their new found friendship. Carole and Tuesday come from 2 very different worlds but so far these differences do not deter this blossoming relationship. In fact, much like real life friendships their history is revealed AFTER they make the universal connection, and that connection is music. It feels so familiar, to be young and meet a complete stranger & become in sync within nanoseconds through the cosmic magic of liking the same audio frequency. This initial connection is elusive but when it happens, it for me is the best thing about being human. I speak from personal experience and thats what Shinichirō Watanabe has captured. This moment, this felling, this magic, this instance in episode one and carries it throughout the series. Feels like my youth, feels like NYC.

I am currently working on trying to get some of the original music from this anime onto New Noize, so stay tuned for that. For now I have compiled a fun playlist based on the episodes in chronological order, oh yeah in the mid-transitions of these episodes Watanabe flashes a 45s. The 45s are are real, and they are also the title of that particular episode (Watanabe you are my boy, you are my GOD). So here is the episode list of that are currently available on Netflix. Again YES these are the titles for each episode:

True Colors
Born to Run
Fire and Rain
Video Killed the Radio Star
Every Breath You Take
Life Is a Carnival
Show Me The Way
All the Young Dudes
Dancing Queen
River Deep, Mountain High
With or Without You
We've Only Just Begun

ADDED BONUS: PLAYLIST:

The 2nd 1/2 of Carole and Tuesday will be releasing hopefully soon on Netflix. For now, especially if you are in the music industry watch this.

Did I mention that both Flying Lotus and Thundercat are in this anime? Yeah they are in this anime

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.