7/12/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: The Koreatown Oddity "Ragu & Prego" Stones Throw
Album of the Week: mary in the junkyard "Role Model Hermit" AMF
 
Ezra Collective (feat. Lila Iké) "Well Organised"
Ichiko Aoba "SAYONARA PENGUIN"
Haruomi Hosono "Note of Mothership"
mui zyu "時の流れに身をまかせ"
Girl Ultra "Denisse"
The Koreatown Oddity "Ragu & Prego"
DJ Shadow "Divides"
Chuck Strangers "Bomberman"
Kelela (featuring PinkPantheress) "the bridge"
slayr "promise"
Ladaniva "Yasaman"
ZAINAB (feat. Surya Sen) "Banglahore"
Chelsea Days "Bittersweet"
she's green "dear ivy"
Slow Pulp "Not for Nothing"
Freak Slug "Girl, Intentions"
Squirrel Flower "Not Me"
Xiu Xiu "Smashy Smashy"
of Montreal "Take The Form"

hour 2

Nation of Language "The Conversation"
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom "Graveyard"
Sad13 "Pretty Little Lifers"
Plum "Bodies in Motion"
Pretty Sick "UrNewImTrue"
Lisa LeBlanc "Whole Lotta Talkin'"
Late Again "Crazy or Stupid"
Your Jack "Lip Licker"
Disgusting Sisters "Sorry Mister"
Gurriers "Party Lines"
The Linda Lindas (feat. Hayley Williams) "Closer"
Teilz "17"
Allison Russell (feat. Kara Jackson, Denitia & Explore! Pop Choir) "Cold April"
Stick Men "Swimming in Tea"
mary in the junkyard "Seek and Destroy"
The Garden "Down Doggy"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Level 5"

NOT ON SPOTIFY:
Xiu Xiu "Smashy Smashy"
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom "Graveyard"
Plum "Bodies in Motion"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Level 5"


It is officially A/C weather in Santa Barbara. I still don't have a steady gig, and I may melt away in more ways than just this heat. You aren't here for a weather report, so let's talk about New Noize.

Every week I come up with a highly curated plan of action, and this week's plan was executed flawlessly. That said, I had to drop all the metal I wanted to play. Next week's show is gonna be brutal. You have been warned.

I did a couple of themed blocks in the first hour. I hit you with an "It Came From Japan..." block featuring new music from Ichiko Aoba, Haruomi Hosono, and mui zyu. All three tracks shared a similar vibe but took completely different paths to get there. I closed out the first hour with a Polyvinyl block. I've been sitting on the new of Montreal for a while and realized I never actually played it on New Noize. That mistake has now been corrected.

Hour two got guitar-heavy, plus we got the Album of the Week, Role Model Hermit by mary in the junkyard. Full transparency: I'm already a fan of mary in the junkyard, so I'm extra elated that I love their new record. It's subtle in its delivery and somehow asks big questions very quietly, if that makes any sense. I highly recommend listening to this one in order, cover to cover. Why? It's the type of record that sticks with you. Then, many, many hours later, a melody or riff suddenly jumps into your brain and jolts you back to the album like you just discovered a clue to where the fuck Carmen Sandiego went.

New Noize Song of the Week is all about corporate sauce wars, depicted by one of our great contemporary orators who flips everyday speech into absurdly clever rhymes while enlightening his counterparts. Oh, and he also has impeccable taste in cassette tape samples. I'm talking about The Koreatown Oddity. He's back on his bullshit, and we're all better for it. I thought the only surprise I was getting this week was that Ghost in the Shell remake, and then Koreatown Oddity pulled up like "Dracarys" all over my weekend.

See you next week.