11/30/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: Cain Culto(feat. Xiuhtezcatl) "¡BASTA YA!" Hive
Album of the Week: Ikonika "SAD" Hyperdub

Ragana & Drowse "After Image"
silhouette "chaos fades"
Crash Richard "Emancipated Being"
Matt Hitt "I'm Sorry, New York"
Glyders "Stone Shadow"
Cain Culto(feat. Xiuhtezcatl) "¡BASTA YA!"
The Crooked Stuff "Black Holes"
True Blue "Truest Of Blues"
Rochelle Jordan "Doing It Too"
Ikonika "SENSE SEEKER"
Apparat "An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)"
Nikki Nair and Foodman "Deep Miso"
Sébastien Tellier "Thrill Of The Night (feat. Slayyyter & Nile Rodgers)"

-hour 2-

Asher Gamedze "Following Up"
Devon Thompson "Wishing"
Dirt Buyer "Get to Choose"
Sydney Sherrill "CLOSER"
Radio Free Alice "Rule 31"
Lianne La Havas "Disarray"
Theo Bleak "Megan in New York"
Keyland "Double Dip"
BROCKHOFF "Easy Peeler"
Trainwreck Boyfriend "Checkmate"
Cardinals "Barbed Wire"
Poolside(feat. Thunder Jackson & MiiRACLES) "Otherside"
Mindchatter "Drug In Us (feat. Poolside)"
Alan Vega "Outlaw"
The Mommyheads "Finally Free"

So how was everyone's Thanksgiving? I caught something after dinner and turned into a useless NPC from Friday through Sunday morning. Still pulled myself together in time for New Noize though. This show stays undefeated.

Side note: I may be falling apart spiritually, emotionally, financially but Mashallah my waistline is looking so "fit"...We’re talking medium Japanese tees fitting crispy and skinny jeans (which I never wear and were forced onto me) slide on like butter. Small W's.

New Noize always gets a little weird around this time of year. The new-music machine never stops, especially postThanksgiving when every artist you’ve ever heard of suddenly wakes up like, “Drop a holiday single right now.” But instead of getting sucked into that vortex, I like to spend this episode digging into things I missed, forgot, or accidentally launched into space over the last few months. Not everything here is “new-new,” but it’s all new to the set, which is what matters.

The New Noize song of the Week goes out to all my Latin fans, Cain Culto(feat. Xiuhtezcatl) put out a banger "¡BASTA YA!". This thing absolutely detonated the studio monitors. This song has the power to raise the dead.

New Noize Album of the Week goes to Ikonika with "SAD". Despite the title, the project isn’t monochrome. It’s textured, emotional, and full of breath. Ikonika is working across the full 39:47 runtime, bending structure, asking questions, and letting you live inside the rhythm. It’s not shy, but it’s welcoming. I’ve only given it a few spins so far, and every time something new reveals itself from the static. Love a record with a code you gotta crack.

Lastly Metroid Prime 4 is supposedly out this week on the 4th. I’ll believe it when I see it downloaded on my Switch 2 but I am hyper excited. Marketing’s been suspiciously quiet, but I like going in blind anyway. Call me old-fashioned, but I love forming my own opinion without 4,000 trailer breakdowns from YouTubers named “RetroTechNovaPrimeGuy.”