2/26/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Cuco "Best Disaster" Interscope
Album of the Week: shame "Food for Worms"
 
1. Algiers (feat. Zack de la Rocha) "Irreversible Damage" Matador
2. shame "Yankees" Dead Oceans
3. FIDLAR "Centipede"
4. Hannah Jadagu "What You Did"  Sub Pop
5. Durand Jones "Lord Have Mercy"  Dead Oceans
6. Hammerhedd "Tunnel"
7. Black Belt Eagle Scout "My Blood Runs Through This Land" Saddle Creek
8. Only A Visitor "All You've Held Since"  Mint
9. Gemma Ray "Howling"
10. strongboi "ugi"
11. Franklin Jonas "Cocaine"
12. Fenne Lily "Dawncolored Horse"  Dead Oceans
13. Bria "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" Sub Pop
14. Miss Grit "The End" Mute

-hour 2-

15. ALASKALASKA "TV Dinners" Marathon
16. Babygirl "Sore Eyes"
17. Murray A. Lightburn "Once Upon A Time In Montréal" Dangerbird
18. Rahill "I Smile For E" Big Dada
19. Cuco "Best Disaster" Interscope
20. US Girls "Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)" 4AD
21. Yaeji "Done (Let s Get It)" XL Recordings
22. Madame Gandhi "Crystals and Congas"
23. CHVRCHES "Over"
24. The Aces "Always Get This Way"
25. The Darcys "Trouble Found Me"
26. Hippo Campus "Kick In The Teeth"
27. RVG "Nothing Really Changes"
28. almost monday "only wanna dance"
29. VOLORES "Nothing New (In The Unknown)"

This is the kinda New Noize set I love to do, mainly because there were a ton of full length releases that need your attention. Like Esben the Witch? Check out the new album by Black Belt Eagle Scout "The Land, The Water, The Sky'' Feeling kinda trashy, give the new Hammerhedd record "Nonetheless" a listen. If cover songs of the Country or should I say Cuntry is your thing Sub Pop got you covered with Bria latest EP "Cunrty Covers Vol. 2". Do you like anime the way I like anime? Then check out Miss Grit's "Follow the Cyborg". Aggressiveness you style? "SHOOK" the new LP by Algiers is your jam. Want something just plain old fantastic, fun and free? US Girls' "Bless This Mess" will make you cry in all the right ways. This week's New Noize Album of the Week belongs to shame. "Food for Worms" is a record that is on constant repeat, every song is dramatically different from the next and every listen has revealed something new. Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's ugly but it's there and so are you so take it.

New Noize Song of the Week wasn't any easier to lock down. I rarely pick songs from album drops and I am not going to start now BUT if I did I would have selected US Girls' "Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)". It is a song from the perspective of a hyper neglected Tux and yes it's even more amazing than it sounds. The New Noize Song of the Week belongs to SoCal's heartthrob Cuco with "Best Disaster". It's like silk and honey fused inside both your ear holes.

So I am taking suggestions on what video game I should play before May's madness. I finally finished Final Fantasy Crisis Core Reunion and I DID NOT CRY at the end. I don't know if I am going to platinum trophy the game BUT I do plan on beating Minerva at some point this week. I have yet to platinum trophy FFVII Remake and haven't even touched the interGRATE DLC as I want to replay all this before FFVII Rebirth drops this winter. I am a HUGE Metroid Prime fan but don't know if I can play remakes back to back. I have never played Dead Space. OctoPath Traveler II is also out. I was thinking about getting back into Destiny with Lightfall about to drop. HELP ME DECIDE.

I have been hitting that retro anime pretty hard. I have never watched Hajime no Ippo and it's SO GOOD. How did this fly under my radar? I also found out that Memories is streaming on Amazon (Magnetic Rose is AMAZING) along with Robot Carnival is streaming on Crunchyroll and with the recent cold snap it makes sense to stay in and rewatch these classics. If you have never seen either of these, let's call them films, you really REALLY should. Even if you are not a fan of anime this is something else.

BUT THE ONE I AM WAITING FOR IS FINALLY RELEASING THIS WEEK. ATTACK ON MOTHERFUCKING TITAN FINAL SEASON PART 3 EPISODE 1 IS OUT THIS SATURDAY. This 1st episode is actually 3 episodes long so an hour of AoT which I am excited about. What I am not excited about is how they are rolling this out, which is annoying AF and I am being nice about it. Apparently there will be 24 episodes in the final season (4th season) third and hopefully final part. The “Final Season” will be split into two sections of 12.

Episode 1: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Episode 2: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Episode 3: Saturday, March 18, 2023
Episode 4: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Episode 5: Saturday, April 1, 2023
Episode 6: Saturday, April 8, 2023
Episode 7: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Episode 8: Saturday, April 22, 2023
Episode 9: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Episode 10: Saturday, May 6, 2023
Episode 11: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Episode 12: Saturday, May 20, 2023

Good news is MAPPA claims that part four will continue in 2023. Let's hope they don’t pull some "final movie" nonsense at the end and give this Attack On Titan the proper finale it deserves. For now check out this trailer:

2/19/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Beck "Thinking About You"
Album of the Week: Pile  "All Fiction"
 
1. Squid "Swing (In A Dream)" Warp
2. Iguana Death Cult "Sensory Overload"  Innovative Leisure
3. Dommengang "Society Blues" Thrill Jockey Records
4. Quasi "Riots and Jokes"  Sub Pop Records
5. DEBBY FRIDAY "SO HARD TO TELL" Sub Pop Records
6. Desire Marea "Be Free" Mute
7. the GOLDEN DREGS "Sundown Lake" 4AD Ltd
8. The Noise Who Runs "Beautiful Perhaps" Rogue Noise Recordings
9. Beck "Thinking About You"
10. Dry Cleaning "Swampy" 4AD Ltd
11. Pile "Gardening Hours"  Exploding In Sound Records
12. Yo La Tengo "Aselestine" Matador
13. Léa Sen "Dragonfly" Partisan Records
14. Barrie "Races"  Winspear

-hour 2-

15. M83 "Amnesia" Mute
16. Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again" Columbia Records
17. Elijah Kessler(ft. Toro y Moi) "ZEISS"  Company Records
18. A Certain Ratio "Samo" Mute
19. Wesley Joesph feat. DEAN "SUGAR DIVE"
20. Oval "Touha" Thrill Jockey Records
21. Kelela "Missed Call" Warp
22. Bjork(feat. Shygirl) "Ovule"
23. Marisa Anderson "La Llorona"
24. Siege of Power "Oblivion" Metal Blade Records
25. Thrice "Silhouette"
26. Narrow Head "Sunday"  Run For Cover Records
27. Eyelids "Everything That I See You See Better"
28. modernlove. "Only Ever Only You" Akira
29. 100 Gecs "Hollywood Baby" Dog Show Records/
30. Lisa O'Neill "If I Was A Painter"

A Sunday off last week because of the Super Bowl and a Monday off yesterday plus Wind storms and power outages yesterday means the New Noize Update comes in today.

By the way if you gave me 10 opportunities to pick what RiRi would have opened her return to performing live i would have not have guessed "Bitch Better Have My Money".

This past Sunday I packed 2 weeks worth of new music into the set but to be honest there is so much new music to sort through it feels like every week I have to cut out a decent chunk to squeeze into a 2 hour set. 

The Song of the Week belongs to Beck with "Thinking About You". The New Noize album of the week is  "All Fiction" by Pile.

2/5/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: mui zyu "Ghost with a Peach Skin" Father/Daughter
Album of the Week: Young Fathers "Heavy Heavy"
 
1. Geese Cowboy "Nudes" Partisan
2. Bosque Brown "You Said"
3. Complete Mountain Almanac "February" Bella Union
4. Built to Spill "Rocksteady"
5. Lael Neale "I Am The River" Sub Pop
6. Yves Tumor "Echolalia" Warp
7. Alsarah "Farasha"
8. Young Fathers "Sink Or Swim"
9. brad allen williams "boomer" Colorfield
10. mui zyu "Ghost with a Peach Skin" Father/Daughter
11. Eyedress "House Of Cards" (Kevin Shields Remix) Lex

-hour 2-

12. BIG|BRAVE "the fable of subjugation" Thrill Jockey Records
13. WAKE "Vast and Infinite"  Metal Blade
14. Jake Shears "Too Much Music" Mute
15. girli "Imposter Syndrom"
16. Frankie Rose "Sixteen Ways" Slumberland
17. GloRilla "INTERNET TROLLS" Interscope
18. AJJ "Dissonance" Hopeless
19. Whitney "For A While" Secretly Canadian
20. Rose City Band "Chasing Rainbows" Thrill Jockey Records
21. The Rural Alberta Advantage "Plague Dogs" Saddle Creek
22. Unknown Mortal Orchestra "Layla" Jagjaguwar
23. quinnie "flounder"
24. exPorter ”Lusitania"
25. This Coast Bias "Still Not OK" Droflim

A week before the big game, New Noize once again showed up to play. This set was diverse but a bit more subtle then all the things that went down this Sunday We had the Grammys, the pro bowl, Last Of Us and I got an air fryer. I know I am late to the air fryer gang but now is my time to make non oven wings and the hype is real. You aren't here for my french fry mastery, you want that New Noize.

Song of the week was difficult as always, so many bangers including Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Lael Neale & Yves Tumor but this Sunday's spotlight belonged to mui zyu with "Ghost with a Peach Skin". I had a listener call in and say "what the fuck is this?" I replied simply with "Its fuckin fantastic" The dial tone respone was a tell tale sign that the caller totally agreed with me.  

New Noize album of the week was the highly anticipated Young Father's album "Heavy Heavy". These cats can DO NO WRONG. This album casts a wide net and is all over the place cross blending genres and styles in a uniquely digestible sound that will make you groove but question why you are grooving. This is one of those records that every listen is a bit different and begs you to listen to it in different settings. It fits any emotional obit.

There will be no New Noize next Sunday due to the Super Bowl, maybe...

1/29/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Tanukichan (feat. Enumclaw)"Thin Air" Company
Album of the Week:  Sightless Pit "Lockstep Bloodwar" Thrill Jockey
 
1. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra "Future Shaman" International Anthem
2. Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations (feat. Anthony Joseph)"My Negritude" Transgressive
3. Jonah Yano "portrait of a dog" Innovative Leisure
4. J Rocc "Joy & Peace" Stones Throw
5. Rosalía "LLYLM" Columbia
6. Bonobo & Jacques Greene "Fold" OUTLIER
7. Kelela "Contact"
8. Algiers (feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews) "I Can't Stand It!"
9. Fever Ray "Kandy" Mute
10. Nosaj Thing (feat. Kazu Makino)"My Soul Or Something"
11. Ruhail Qaisar "Namgang" Danse Noire
12. Auto Chlor "conspiratorial irrelevancy" off the album Kid Gloves
13. Auto Chlor jamb" off the album Crystal Math
14. Oozing Wound "Crypto Fash" Thrill Jockey
15. Sightless Pit (feat Frukwan & Industrial Hazard)"Low Orbit" Thrill Jockey

-hour 2-

16. Tanukichan (feat. Enumclaw)"Thin Air" Company
17. Lowertown "Bucktooth"
18. Mudhoney "Almost Everything" Sub Pop
19. Gabrielle Shonk "People Pleaser" Arts & Crafts
20. Genevieve Artadi "Visionary" Brainfeeder
21. King Tuff "Tell Me"
22. Fucked Up "Nothing's Immortal"
23. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs "Ultimate Hammer"
24. CIVIC "Blood Rushes" ATO
25. Gina Birch "I Play My Bass Loud" Third Man
26. Blondshell "Joiner" Partisan
27. Samia "To Me It Was" Grand Jury
28. The Arcs "Sunshine"
29. Fenne Lily "Lights Light Up"

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
Auto Chlor "conspiratorial irrelevancy" off the album Kid Gloves
Auto Chlor jamb" off the album Crystal Math

Ok ok ok let's be clear, I cut about 55 minutes off this set so I could fit the New Noize run time to under 2 hours and it was difficult. I love having this issue but it also spins me into a dark hole of wtf am I gonna cut, it was stressful but I survived.

One of my favorite releases comes from Auto Chlor who dropped a double LP but the thing is each LP has a different name, Kids Gloves and Crystal Math. Both are great and I highly recommend them.

Album of the week goes to Sightless Pit. Thrill Jockey rarely disappoints and when I heard the new Sightless Pit was coming out I was HYPED. The majority of Lockstep Bloodwar has features which by no ways is a bad thing but a bit surprising. The features include Mideife, YoshmiO, the late Gangsta Boo, Lane Shi Otayonii & a few more. This record is not for everyone and that's exactly the reason I like it.

Song of the week goes to Tanukichan featuring Enumclaw with "Thin Air". Put it on and I dare you disagree. 

I will catch you all next week.