4/28/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: UNA "Puddles" Cool Jewel Records
Album of the Week: Deerhoof "Noble and Godlike in Ruin" joyfull noise

she's green "Figurines"
Greg Freeman "Point and Shoot"
Bag People "UPS"
Deerhoof "Return of the Return of the Fire Trick Star"
Sunflower Bean "Sunshine"
Mess Esque "Liminal Space"
Viagra Boys "The Bog Body"
Colin Miller "Cadillac"
Arcade Fire "Pink Elephant"
Deafheaven "Heathen"
Paradise Slaves(ft. Trevor Phipps) "Swim North"
Space Chaser "Ignite the Skies"
Divide and Dissolve "Dichotomy"
Our Chronicle "Stop Motion"
Freezemachine "Edge of a Knife"

-hour 2-

BIG BRAVE "innominate Nº viii"
UNA "Puddles"
Fly Anakin (feat. lojii) "CheckOnMe"
Silas Short "LUSHLAND"
Emma-Jean Thackray "Where'd You Go"
Femi Kuti "Last Mugu"
Gabriel da Rosa "Pê Patu Pá"
Durand Jones & The Indications "Flower Moon"
Luke Titus "Natures Eternal"
Salami Rose Joe Louis "Hobbies"
Bitter:Sweet "Stay"
ISTA "Aim For the Heart"
Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl"
Nazar "Anticipate"
Fontaines D.C. "It's Amazing To Be Young"

Corrections from last week. Okay, slight correction from last week's write-up:
Turns out the team we beat in the championship weren't lawn bowling teachers.
They were actual teachers. My bad. I got a little carried away. That said — the outcome was still nuts. I can officially add LAWN BOWLING CHAMPION to my short but deeply chaotic list of life accomplishments.

Here's the play-by-play:
Ninth frame, we’re down by three.
My last bowl — last of the frame — I drop an absolute dagger. Swing the score. We’re now up by one.

Tenth and final frame:
They’re about to win, they're up by two, poised for the kill... and I somehow pull another miracle bowl out of nowhere, snatch a point, and put us back up by one.
Their last player steps up... misses.
By the grace of Allah coupled with a lot of work we won!!!! I have been wearing the medal sans taking it off during a shower this whole week.

New Noize this week was chaotically perfect — the way it should be. Bounced from hardcore to dreamy indie to Brazilian ballads and somehow made it all work.

One of my favorite discoveries was Bag People — a band I had never heard of, mostly because I was probably still eating glue when they were around. Self-titled record, curated by Drag City, who dug into the archives to make this happen. If you’re a Sonic Youth fan, stop sleeping. This is essential listening.
Big respect to Drag City for doing the lord’s work and putting this into existence. Got to it a few weeks late — still counts.

New Noize Album of the Week is no surprise — it’s Deerhoof. Noble and Godlike in Ruin is a beast of a record. Been spinning it non-stop since it landed in my inbox early (thanks for the early hookup). Chaotically cohesive this newest collection of songs on Noble and Godlike in Ruin is some of their most ambitious. Its kinda all over the place in all the right ways. Deerhoof is essentially a live band with really fun records. Noble and Godlike in Ruin captures this live energy better than most of their other records. Feels alive in a way a lot of records don't.

The New Noize song of the week is UNA "Puddles". This track hit immediately.
Trust me. (And not just because I’m a lawn bowling champion now.)

Until next time.

4/20/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Deadstick"
Album of the Week: Floating Points, Bonobo, Kamasi Washington Lazarus OST

Young Gun Silver Fox "Late Night Last Train"
Theo Bleak "Said Like A Poet"
Kula Shaker "Charge of The Light Brigade"
Yumi Zouma "Bashville on the Sugar"
Folk Bitch Trio "The Actor"
Tunde Adebimpe "Somebody New"
Japanese Breakfast "Picture Window"
Thalia Zedek Band "Naming Names"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Deadstick"
Lionmilk "only one"
Matmos "Changing States"
Floating Points "Ajar"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Bonobo "Dark Will Fall"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Kamasi Washington "Lazarus"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Adrian Younge "O Som do Amor"

hour 2

Red Baraat "Gaadi of Truth (feat. Stewart Copeland)"
SUMAC & Moor Mother(feat. Sovei) "Scene 4"
Melvins "Short Hair With A Wig"
Byzantine "Floating Chrysanthema"
Rivers of Nihil "American Death"
A-Z "Nothing Is Over"
Superheaven "Numb To What Is Real"
Propagandhi "Cat Guy"
Bruce Springsteen "Blind Spot"
Julien Baker & TORRES "No Desert Flower"
Shura "World's Worst Girlfriend"
Wisp "Get back to me"

Good things happened this past Sunday! Happy belated 4/20. I celebrated... hard. Double holiday energy this year with Easter and 4/20 falling on the same day, so if you observed either one, or both, I hope it was a glorious one. Somewhere between lighting candles and lighting joints, I also knocked out another round of New Noize.

This week was back to the usual 2-hour block — no triple marathon set like last time — but still packed with heavy hitters and new gems worth your precious ear-time.

Lets talk singles. Lionmilk “only one.” Pure vibes, pure jam, no notes. But Song of the Week? That crown belongs to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with Deadstick. These dudes release music the way most people change socks. Every time you think they’ve topped themselves, they drop another album and casually rewrite the rules.

Now for the New Noize Album of the Week — a rare and beautiful situation. Instead of one artist, three heavyweights — Floating Points, Bonobo, and Kamasi Washington — each dropped their own separate albums for the same anime soundtrack: Lazarus. Shoutout to Shinichirō Watanabe and Adult Swim for pulling this off. If you know Watanabe’s work (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, etc) you already know — the music’s always more than background, it’s a main character.

And let’s give some flowers to Milan Records too, same squad behind the ASH OST, for making this a reality. I’m praying to the vinyl gods that this soundtrack gets a wax release because the music in this is top notch. For now here are links to the albums via Spotify (click on the image):

Bonus round!! Shoutout to Tunde Adebimpe, whose long-awaited Thee Black Boltz finally dropped and, no surprise, it rules. Melvin’s and Superheaven both delivered new albums that are loud, raw, and everything you want if you like your music heavier than your rent. Oh — and Julien Baker and TORRES teamed up for a country album nobody saw coming... and it turned out great. Go figure.

And on a totally unrelated note, my lawn bowling crew, Lawntourage, made it to the championship. We’re up against some certified scrub-lords who, in true fragile white dude fashion, teach lawn bowling for a living but still dropped themselves into the beginner league just to flex on people. Real inspiring, right? Look, we already hit our goal — making the finals — but if by some glitch in the matrix we actually win? OH, THE LEVEL OF SHIT I WILL TALK. Olympic-tier sun.

If anyone from the league’s actually reading this? Hi.

Catch you next week.

4/13/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Igorrr "ADHD"
Album of the Week: Valerie June "Owls, Omens, and Oracles"

Jamael Dean "Paradox"
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke "Gangsters"
Tune-Yards "Heartbreak"
Mamalarky "Blush"
Bardo(feat. Combo Chimbita) "Renacer"
Lifeguard "It Will Get Worse"
Pissed Jeans "Waves of Fear (Lou Reed cover)"M
Florist "Moon, Sea, Devil"
The New Eves "Highway Man"
Brian Eno  Beatie Wolfe "Suddenly"
LA Witch "The Lines"
Bon Iver "Day One (feat_ Dijon and Flock of Dimes)"
Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, stargaze "Opposable Thumb"
Midnight "Cleveland Metal"
Eric Hilton(feat Puma Ptah) "Leave It All"

hour 2

Sahara Grim "Blindfold"
Valerie June "Changed"
Jangus Kangus "Goldilocks"
Arcade Fire "Year of the Snake"
Turnstile "NEVER ENOUGH"
LSDXOXO "QT (feat. Cobrah)"
yeule "Evangelic Girl is a Gun"
HAAi, KAM-BU "Shapeshift"
GRYFFIN & Band of Horses "The Funeral"
Jlin "B12"
Igorrr "ADHD"
Idle Heirs "PILLOW TALK"
Yuno "Massive"
young friend "loose"
Pulp "Spike Island"

hour 3

KADAVAR "Regeneration"
We Are Scientists "Please Don't Say"
Cold Specks "Cold Goodbye"
Garbage "There's No Future In Optimism"
mclusky "chekhov's guns"
Slow Teeth "Still You Speak"
Atticus Roness "Teens"
Messa "Fire on the Roof"
gloryBots "Abscond"
Alisa Xayalith "Kiss Me Like You're So In Love"
EKKSTACY "forever"
Alien Boy "Pictures Of You?"
Camp Crush "Shadows"
The Kooks "Sunny Baby"
The Jaws Of Brooklyn "Litebringer"
CURSE "MIND"

Not on Spotify:
Eric Hilton(feat Puma Ptah) "Leave It All"
gloryBots "Abscond"

Sads you’re not out in the desert for Coachella? Don’t be. Neither am I — and honestly, not catching a rogue firework to the face or melting under the $20 bottled water sunburn tax is a win in my book. I’ll take my 3rd-degree-burn-free living room over the influencer-thunderdome any day.

I did a full 3-hour takeover this week ‘cause I covered the Reggae Soundclash ahead of my usual slot. A blessing in disguise, because there was way too much good stuff to squeeze into two hours anyway.

Album of the Week goes to Valerie June’s Owls, Omens, and Oracles — a record that plays like you’re staring at a staticy CRT screen, waiting for your high school crush to sneak out so you can hit that sweetleaf, and meet the crew for a midnight horror flick. Americana, old-school reverb, church pew grooves, 50s arrangements, and Valerie’s signature voice — this album’s got the kind of vibes that’ll make you wanna slow dance on a rooftop, cocktail in hand, as the sun dips into the Pacific.

The Song of the Week? It’s Igorrr – ADHD. If chaos were a genre, Igorrr would be its mascot. This track’s got everything: glitchy electronic mischief, operatic vocal samples, classical piano breakouts, and double-bass drum blasts for days. If you like your music to sound like a cyberpunk demolition derby, this one's for you.

Also — shoutout to Record Store Day! I managed to scoop up the only two records I cared about: Flying Lotus’ Spirit Box and Wu-Tang Clan’s Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: From the Wu-Tang, The Saga Continues Collection. The Wu release even came with 5,000 individual, one-of-a-kind album covers. Yay for consumerism

See you next Sunday.

4/6/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Tortoise "Oganesson"
Album of the Week: Σtella "Adagio"

Evanescence "Afterlife"
Kamasi Washington "Vortex"
Replaced "Void"
ODESZA & Theodore Shapiro "Entering Lumon" (ODESZA Severance Remix)
Flying Lotus "MOUTH BLOOD"
TEKE::TEKE "Meikyu"
Jack Black "I Feel Alive"
cootie catcher "Friend of a friend"
The Bug Club "Jealous Boy"
Witch Post "The Wolf"
Car Seat Headrest "CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)"
Whitehall "Malibu #2"
Wet Leg "Catch These Fists"
Anika "Oxygen"
girlpuppy "Champ"

-hour 2-

Miynt "I am I am what"
Tortoise "Oganesson"
Butcher Brown "Change in Weather [feat_ MIA GLADSTONE]"
Σtella "Omorfo Mou"
Eiko Ishibashi "Trial"
Jenny Hval "The artist is absent"
Bria Salmena "Radisson"
Yukimi "Break Me Down"
Noonzy "Buffalo"
Lucy Dacus "Modigliani"
Momma "How To Breathe"
Great Grandpa "Emma"
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets "Weird World Awoke"
PUP "Get Dumber"
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs "Blockage"
The New Pornographers "Ballad of the Last Payphone"
Black Country, New Road "Happy Birthday"

I’M BACK, BABY. Did you miss me? Eid Mubarak to all—this Ramadan had me running on divine melatonin. Ya boy was tired.

This week’s set was a sleeper in the best way—dreamy, cinematic, and built to soundtrack your life. First seven songs? All from soundtracks. That’s right, it’s an OST takeover:

• Evanescence – “Afterlife”: straight off the Devil May Cry anime

• Kamasi Washington – “Vortex”: from Lazarus, MAPPA + Adult Swim + Shinichirō Watanabe magic

• Replaced – “Void”: a future cult-classic video game OST in the making

• ODESZA x Theodore Shapiro – “Entering Lumon”: Severance remix from the show you all watch (except me)

• Flying Lotus – “MOUTH BLOOD”: from the ASH OST, directed/produced/scored by FlyLo himself

• TEKE::TEKE – “Meikyu”: featured in the new Assassin’s Creed Shadows

• Jack Black – “I Feel Alive”: from the Minecraft movie—yes, really

This week’s Song of the Week? Tortoise with “Oganesson” Chicago post-rock royalty. They’re back, and I’m hype like it’s the first time I heard TNT in my college dorm. If you’ve never seen them live, that’s a life experience waiting to happen.

Album of the Week goes to Σtella “Adagio”. A chill, lush, multilingual springtime dream. This album’s meant to be played at golden hour with a Negroni in hand and your lover staring off into the middle distance like you’re both extras in a Wes Anderson scene.

Apologies for the late write-up—life’s been moving fast.