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

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.  

5/4/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Fruit LoOops "Appendicitis"
Album of the Week: Mei Semones "Animaru"

The Slackers "My Last Star" (Dub Version)
Car Seat Headrest "True False Lover"
PRIMUS (feat Maynard James Keenan) "Little Lord Fentanyl"
Indigo De Souza "Heartthrob"
Stereolab "Melodie Is A Wound"
Humour "Neighbours"
Miynt "Blu-ray Land"
Mei Semones "Dangomushi"
Gabriel da Rosa "No Fundo"
Mocky "Music Will Explain"
Suzanne Vega "Love Thief"
PUP "Olive Garden"
Lael Neale "Come On"
McKinley Dixon(Feat. Teller Bank$) "Recitatif"
Born Ruffians "Athena"
Plastic NUDE Martini "Fourteen Days PDE"

-hour 2-

Nilüfer Yanya "Cold Heart"
Real Bad Man & Boldy James "ITT Tech"
MRCY "Wandering Attention"
Jenny Hval "The gift"
Child Seat "Hyperphantasia"
Sextile "Push Ups"
PUNCHBAG "You Used To Be So Sexy"
Avalon Emerson "On It Goes (feat. Storm Queen)"
Fruit LoOops "Appendicitis"
jointheinternet "Sorceress"
The Happy Fits "Everything You Do"
Brògeal "Friday On My Mind"
The Beths "Metal"
Blondshell "What's Fair"
Propagandhi "God of Avarice"
Lucius "Old Tape"

Not on Spotify:
Plastic NUDE Martini "Fourteen Days PDE"

The 5th is for the Sith!

Fruit LoOops takes Song of the Week honors with “Appendicitis”—a frantic, sparkly gut-punch of a track off their upcoming record Everything Is Clear To Me Now, dropping June 6 on Orange Milk Records.

The New Noize Album of the week goes to Mei Semones "Animaru" This record is one of my favorite indie records out of Brooklyn this year and trust a ton of indie records come out in Brooklyn. It's sweet, haunting and pulls at the infinite void where my heart used to be as a reminder that it was once a warm place. It’s bilingual magic. Mei slides between English and Japanese like it’s no big deal—and yet, every note lands right where it hurts (in a good way). The strings? Took me straight back to watching Disney movies with my little brother on the brownest carpet in New Jersey. I don’t even know what half the lyrics mean, and it still hit like a memory I didn’t know I missed. This record’s a keeper. It's a gem and you should rock cover to cover.  

Also when life kicks you in the teeth remember you can live off of baby food.

I'll see you next week. 

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.