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

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.”

11/23/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Lifeguard "Ultra Violence" Matador
Album of the Week: Oneohtrix Point Never "Tranquilizer" warp

Shygirl "BAWDY is A LOT" [Nick León + Six Sex]
Oliver Night (feat. Kaya Fyah) "Vibez"
Low End Activist "BRILLOS TEETH"
Boy Deluxe "I FOUND GOD"
nimino "Rest Easy"
Pepe Deluxé "Before You Leave" (DJ Slow 2025 remix)
Archive "Wake Up Strange"
TEED "Come Tonight"
Oneohtrix Point Never "Lifeworld"
The xx "Insects"
HEALTH "SHRED ENVY"
KNEECAP "No Comment"
Converge "Love is Not Enough"
Lime Garden "Maybe Not Tonight"
Twen "Allnighter "
Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover "Fluorescent Light"

-Hour 2-

Lifeguard "Ultra Violence"
Mola Oddity "A SCARLET RIDING HOOD"
Lance Ferguson "Oz Bump (Soul Thing)"
Plantoid "Good For You"
David Byrne "T Shirt"
Sara Devoe "Cruel"
Maria Somerville "Garden"
Torri Weidinger "BIG RED EYES"
The Charlatans "Glad You Grabbed Me"
Grouper "Adorned"
congratulations "Fought 4 Love"
STILL BLANK "Dead and Gone"
LAPêCHE "Happy 4U"

The Sunday before turkey slaughter day is always a fun set here in Santa Barbara. A bunch of early celebrators are already back home, so of course I had to serve them up a full plate of new everything.

The first hour was pure movement high BPM dance and electronic tracks stitched with some experimental and atmospheric layers. It worked. (I think.)  

That being said the New Noize song of the week goes to Lifeguard newest single "Ultra Violence". I like this band a lot and would not be mad if they snuck a new record before the end of 2025.

Before I get into the New Noize Album of the Week I want to mention a fun EP by Mola Oddity "Cave Crackers". This Beijing based band have constructed an ep that has this cinematic mid 70s Asian feel. Pulling distinctive asian riffs you get transported to this zone filled with old school motifs with a new school delivery. Fun and filled with moog-ish organ sounds you should check out this gem of a record.

The album of the week goes to" Tranquilizer" by Oneohtrix Point Never. What an atmosphere. A lot of this record feels like the observer is observing in real time which changes their observation. It sounds like the soundtrack of when one transmutes into the 4th dimension. I could be wrong & the only way to prove it is to listen to the album.

I'll be in Santa Barbara for Thanksgiving. This is the first turkey death day I am missing with the fam (sans covid) since I moved to California in 2004 and I'm not good with it but whats a dude to do? You deal with life not loath it and Inshallah next year the Ahmed clan will be at full force feasting over this commercial holiday I hold so dear. At least the NY Giants are playing a Monday night game which means I can gobble gobble in peace.

Oh Saturday if you are in Santa Barbara the SBIFF is showing Demon Slayer Infinity Castkle at 11am at the Riviera for only $1 with complimentary popcorn and drinks (courtesy of Crunchyroll). This is the first partnership I am aware of with the anime streaming service and I AM ABOUT THIS. Anime is rare in our little beach community so I am hyped to see this movie despite it being the English Dub, which is understandable. Again the anime community is small out here.

And since I am in town for Thanksgving there will be New Noize this Sunday, see you then

11/16/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Marlon Magnee "Nuage Gris" Disque Pointu
Album of the Week: Star Card "Trash World" Already Dead Tapes & Records

Triple Blind "Sketchy Invention"
Kalia Vandever "Withholding"
Roy Ayers "Dragon's Nest"
Hawk In The Nest "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Lord Jay-Monte Ogbon "Texting This Fine Shit for a Month"
TIWAYO "I've Got To Travel Alone"
Summer Walker, Latto & Doja Cat "Go Girl"
GENA "CIRCLESZ"
Ora the Molecule "Løveskatt (Midnight Magic Remix)"
Danny Brown (feat. underscores) "Baby"
Eliza Rose & Oppidan "Too Slow (All Night)"
FKA twigs (feat. PinkPantheress) "Wild And Alone"
Bicep "CHROMA 011 A.L.O.E II"
Ankhoï & Luch "THE FUTURE"

-hour 2-

BENEE "Underwater"
JMMR "Kiosk Radio"
Austra "Fallen Cloud"
Felsmann + Tiley (feat. Pet Deaths) "OPIOID"
Jim Jarmusch and Anika "Spooky"
Witch Post "The Wolf"
Sword II "Disconnection"
Jean Dawson "Prize Fighter"
Odonis Odonis "Hijacked"
Star Card "Oblique Strategies"
AVTT/PTTN "Heaven's Breath"
Team Trust "Beside the Tree"
Tara Lily(feat. King Krule) "Tropical Storm"
JJJJJerome Ellis "Evensong, part 2 (for and after James Harrison Monaco)"
Marlon Magnee "Nuage Gris"
The Orielles "Three Halves"

Not On Spotify
Triple Blind "Sketchy Invention"

Well that’s a surprise, Spotify doesn’t have my first track?! This is why you gotta catch the live set IRL. That’s the full New Noize experience.

Anyway, dramatic intro aside, these November vibes got me feeling all kinds of ways. Could it be the rain? Could it be the lack of steady income? Could it be both? Who’s to say. All I know is Sunday hit different and we landed in a moody zone. A good moody though. A cinematic one. A “rain hitting the curb, headphones on, hoodie up” type ish.

The flow was obvious Jazzy into lite R&B/hip-hop a fat slices of electronic excursions then guitars & feedback to close it out.

So many full lengths dropped this week. But I gotta shout out a recommendation that came via text from my guy Bernie. Dude was like, “You heard BENEE?” and then wouldn’t shut up about it. He sent me “Underwater,” and now I’m fully in. Her record Ur an Angel I'm Just Particles dropped a few months back and absolutely slipped through the cracks for me. Thank you, Bernie. Hollaz.

My heart’s heart, Aphrodite herself, blessed us with another release to close out 2025. Afterglow is more like a part two or an epilogue to Eusaxual. It has this post party feel, the kind of music you would rock after you are done with a rave and the sunrise is still below the horizon but the glow is lightning up your way to a motel as you look forward to a low thread count tumble with someone you just met. I love this record and I love that FKA Twigs decided to not release this as a "deluxe" but give "afterglow" the proper roll out is deserves.

If you want something aggressively electronic, Bicep’s CHROMA 000 is IT. They’ve been doing these CHROMA drops all year and now it’s all bundled. This thing goes hard by the 30-second mark. Your heartbeat will sync up whether you want it to or not.

Oh and this new JMMR record, Resistance is Fertile" also pumps and has a ton of sax.

Tara Lily EP is out and the world is a better for it. This small collection of songs hit just right during these rainy November nights. You can practically feel the pre-freeze air hit your nostrils as the asphalt cools to ice. Lo-fi melancholy in its purest form.

Sword II new album is one of my favorite albums of the year. If you are longing for an alternative band that sounds a bit loose but is real tight than checkout Electric Hour. There’s something familiar here that I can’t quite quantify. I’m just drawn to it like a moth to a reverb-soaked flame.

The New Noize Album of the Week is "Trash World" by Star Card. Ill be honest I was not familiar with this band at all. I was in my usual routine of listening to countless records, half-bored, half-zoned out… and then Trash World hits. And suddenly I’m not multitasking anymore. I’m 15 again, in my bedroom in New Jersey, headphones blasting, just feeling things. It’s youthful. It moves. It pulls. It hits. Take the ride. Trust me.

Singles Corner:

• Ankhoï & Luch “THE FUTURE”… this is pure dance-floor joy.

• Lord Jay-Monte Ogbon “Texting This Fine Shit for a Month”… hilarious and accurate.

• And Marlon Magnée’s “Nuage Gris”. I have no idea what he’s saying (my French is trash), but that’s the New Noize Song of the Week.

I need to put the AC unit back in storage and pull out the plug-in heaters.

Until next Sunday.

11/9/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Cat Power "Try Me" Domino
Album of the Week: Sorry "COSPLAY" Domino

Strange Lot "Hatin' You"
Common Law "Wires"
Kiwi Jr. "Hard Drive, Ontario"
Mariachi El Bronx "Forgive Of Forget"
Sorry "Waxwing"
Heaven For Real "Improvement"
Hatchie "Wonder"
ROSALÍA "La Rumba Del Perdon"
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers "WONDERFUL"
José González "Pajarito"
Freak Slug "Miss June"
Khruangbin "Dern Kala ii"
Cat Power "Try Me"
NOTHING "cannibal world"
Whitney "Damage"
The Belair Lip Bombs "If You've Got The Time"

-hour 2-

Yumi Zouma "Phoebe's Song"
Common Saints "Illusions"
Iris Caltwait "Serpentine"
Yukimi "Career Climbing"
Romy "Love Who You Love"
CAPYAC "This Tether"
Mermaid Chunky "céilí (Justin Strauss en La Piscina Remix)"
Hans Glader(ft. SG) "Drumkeeper"
Kelly Moran "Echo in the Field"
SPELLLING "Weyes Blood"
New Consellations "Believe Again"
DRAIN "Scared Of Everything And Nothing"
ZDAN "t-shirt"
Calling All Captains "Blood for Blood"
Silversun Pickups "The Wreckage"

Not on Spotify:
Common Law "Wires"

Overcast skies and internal stress were driving factors over this weekend nonsense. Lets get into it...

New Noize was solid as always. A bunch of interesting albums came out this past Friday including new release from Whitney, Iris Caltwait, The Belair Lip Bombs & Hatchie. ROSALÍA new record LUX is a behemoth of orchestral goodness. People already have it on their Best of 2025 lists — and honestly, I get it. It’s a cathedral record, it’s heavy, it’s emotionally dense. It’s a lot. I need time to process records like this, especially when they hit like a meteor.

Heaven For Real’s new album Who Dies & Made You the Dream was this close, like millimeters, to being my Album of the Week. I need to talk about it because it’s a fantastic record full of whimsy, weird riffs, and supreme style. Listening to it feels like riding your ’87 Huffy BMX downhill with all the beads on the spokes screaming for their lives.

The New Noize Album o the Week is "COSPLAY" by Sorry. I have been waiting all year for this record and it delivered. Raw. Feedback everywhere. These little melodic motifs that grab your spine Predator, style and drag you deeper in. It gives me this unusual mix of optimistic melancholy, somehow hopeful and haunted at the same time. It’s an experience. You gotta hear it.

The New Noize Song of the Week Cat Power covering James Brown's "Try Me" what else could it even be?

Speaking of Predators, yes, I saw Predator: Badlands on Friday and yes, it kicked ass. Is it my favorite Predator movie? No. But it’s still one of the best movies of 2025. The sound design is UNREAL, like you can feel the hunt in your bones. I hated the PG-13 news at first, but honestly? It made sense after watching it, the VFX needed the space, and they used it right. If you’re deeply nerdy about the Yautja like I am, this is your movie

Saturday night I hit the Arlington for Queens of the Stone Age Alive in the Catacombs. MASSIVE shoutout to my fellow music programmer’s wife for not going so I could slide in as the replacement. WHAT. A. SHOW. Two hours of reimagined QOTSA tracks for this weird, immersive “experience.” Josh sounded phenomenal and there were a ton of musicians on stage, including some locals, all absolutely crushing it despite a parade of technical difficulties. And every time something broke, Josh just leaned into it with the best MC energy: dick jokes, self-mythologizing, and pure rock-god charisma. Couldn’t afford merch, but that’s another story for another post.

Until next we meet.