5/11/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: Lifeguard "Under Your Reach"
Album of the Week: Mclusky "the world is still here and so are we"

Nicolas Bougaïeff "Prime"
MxNxSTxR & DESTRUCTO "What You Need (feat. Thunder Cat & Channel Tres)"
Baxter Dury "Allbarone"
Boy Deluxe "FERAL"
Ebi Soda "bamboo"
DJ Haram "Voyeur"
Amy Millan "Wire walks"
Guerilla Toss "Psychosis Is Just a Number"
Parcels "Yougotmefeeling"
Tyler Ballgame "Help Me Out"
Indigo De Souza "Heartthrob"
Fiona Apple "Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)"
Maruja "Look Down On Us"
Mclusky "unpopular parts of a pig"
Lifeguard "Under Your Reach"

-hour 2-

TEKE::TEKE "Mienai Iro"
Unwed Sailor "Monster Collecting"
Cola "Mendicant"
Miynt "Something in the way you move"
Jamael Dean "Akoda"
Toro Y Moi "Stars And Sons"
The New Eves "Rivers Run Red"
waterbaby "Amiss"
Gringo Star "Blood Moon"
WHY? & Aupheus "Ocracoke"
Quadeca "MONDAY"
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke "This Conversation is Missing Your Voice"
Maia Friedman "Russian Blue"
Alien Boy "Pictures Of You"
Kills Birds "Trace"

Heat wave. Full moon. Mother’s Day. One of those weekends where everything felt a little too loud and weird in just the right way. Perfect New Noize conditions.

I was up late watching EVO Japan, so this Monday was Monday-ing hard. Like coffee-can’t-help-you-now hard. But then we landed on this week’s Song of the Week: Lifeguard’s "Under Your Reach." These guys love a good EP. I respect it, but let’s be honest—I’m itching for a full-length. Something to tear through. If you miss raw, sweat-on-the-floor garage bands with something real to say, this Chicago trio is essential listening. Have I seen them live? No. Will I fight to the front row the minute I get the chance? No I am 45 and my insurance doesn't cover that BUT I will be in the back pretending like I am on the guardrail. 

New Noize Album of the Week? That goes to Mclusky and their beautifully titled the world is still here and so are we. It's noisy. It’s fast. It’s pissed off in the best way. Like your favorite amp on the verge of blowing. A reminder that loud music can still be profoundly honest.

I do have 2 honorable mentions when it comes to LPs that just dropped.

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke’s new one, Tall Tales, isn’t a new Radiohead record—but it doesn’t need to be. It’s a world of its own. I don’t agree with Thom Yorke’s current takes on geopolitics, but musically? The guy doesn’t miss. And Mark Pritchard’s resume is carved in stone. Together, they’ve made something spacious, strange, and worth sitting still for.

Then there’s Unwed Sailor, a band I hadn’t heard of before, and now I can’t stop playing. Their new record, Cruel Entertainment, is fully instrumental—and all the stronger for it. No vocals, no gimmicks, just raw tone and vision. It’s the kind of album that unfolds an infante number of vistas in your imagination as you listen. On a blistering weekend like this one, it was perfect. 

Lastly PAKISTAN ZINDABAD. These colors don't run Ricky Bobby and I hope for peace in this region mostly cause I have family all over this gorgeous country. Do I think its gonna happen in my lifetime? No but I can hope.