12/17/23 BEST OF New Noize 2023 on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Parannoul 도착 "Arrival"
2. Blonde Redhead "Melody Experiment"
3. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown "Orange Juice Jones"
4. Yaeji 2 "For Granted"
5. Mitski "I Love Me After You"
6. Ragana "DTA"
7. Lana Del Rey(feat. Father John Misty) "Let The Light In"
8. Water From Your Eyes "Barley"
9. NewJeans "Super Shy"
10. YENSHIN! "(ON A MISSION)"
11. Mandy, Indiana "Injury Detail"
12. SZA "Kill Bill"
13. billy woods & Kenny Segal(ft. Samuel Herring) "FaceTime"
14. Fever Ray "What They Call Us"
15. M83 "Oceans Niagara"
16. yeule "ghosts"
17. Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD(ft. Blood Orange) "Alien Love Call"
18. Boris & Uniform "Endless Death Agony"
19. Killer Mike(ft André 3000, Future, & Eryn Allen Kane) "SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS"
20. Sampha "Spirit 2.0"
21. feeble little horse "Pocket"
22. Sufjan Stevens "Will Anybody Ever Love Me"
23. TEKE::TEKE "Gotoku Lemon"
24. Yves Tumor "Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood"
25. Doja Cat "Balut"
26. bar italia "worlds greatest emoter"
27. Haiku Hands "Ma Ruler"
28. Queens of the Stone Age "Obscenery"
29. Viji "Sundress in pink"
30. Wednesday "Hot Rotten Grass Smell"
31. Overmono "Good Lie"
32. King Gizzard & the Lizard "Gila Monster"
33. PinkPantheress "The aisle"
34. Jungle "Back On 74"
35. Sofia Kourtesis "Madres"
36. Nabihah Iqbal "Dreamer"
37. Dengue Fever "Touch Me Not"
38. Fly Anakin(feat. Big Kahuna OG) "Sudden Death (Biggest Fan)"
39. Palehound "The Clutch"
40. Squirrel Flower"Intheskatepark"
41. HEALTH "CRACK METAL"
42. Be Your Own Pet "Big Trouble"
43. 100 gecs "Dumbest Girl Alive"
44. Toro Y Moi "The View"
45. 화사 (HWASA) - 'I Love My Body"
46. IDLES "Dancer"
47. Big Thief" Vampire Empire"
48. Thundercat & Tame Impala "No More Lies"
49. Tatsuya Kitani "Ao No Sumika" Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2
50. Godzilla 1.0 Godzilla Suite I"

WE DID IT! What a year 2023 has been! So much amazing music came out and I tried to tackle all of it. 

First and foremost thanks for listening. I am a one-man show so if I missed anything apologies. These “wrap-up-the-year shows” are always my most stressful sets, especially when figuring out what goes where and cutting out over 4 hours of music. Regardless here is the final product. 50 tracks, mostly all from an EP or LP the rest are singles. This "best of" list is very different from other wrap-up lists from outlets like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Anthony Fantano, and Stereogum but just as important if not more so. So if you are sick of hearing the same "Best Of" list from all these respected outlets I GOT YOU. Feel free to hype this on your own or share it with a friend or foe I don’t discriminate

This was the last New Noize show of the year, but I will be back in 2024 where we will start all this new music discovery back up.

12/10/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: IDLES "Grace" Partisan
Album of the Week: HEALTH "RAT WARS"
 
1. Eliza McLamb "Strike"
2. IDLES "Grace" Partisan
3. Day Wave "As You Are" Play It Again Sam
4. Ducks Ltd. "Hollowed Out" Carpark
5. Tom Petty "Love Is A Long Road" Geffen
6. Sly5thAve No, No, No Pt. 2 (feat. Jonathan Mones)"  Tru Thoughts
7. Arlo Parks "I'm Sorry (ft. Lous and The Yakuza)" Transgressive
8. Analogue Monsta "So Ridiculous" Young Art
9. HEALTH "CRACK METAL" Loma Vista
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain "jamcod" Fuzz Club
11. sophie meiers "hotline" Epitaph
12. Vera Sola "I'm Lying" City Slang
13. Josaleigh Pollett "Jawbreaker"
14. Come Closer "Blue Eyes"
15. Middle Kids "Bend"
16. Hovvdy "Bubba" Arts & Crafts

-hour 2- aka the New Noize Holiday Special

17. LAPêCHE "Christmastime"
18. The Aquadolls "Xmas Wrapping" ENCI
19. Eels "Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This"  [PIAS]
20. Are We Static "The Christmas Song"
21. Delta Spirit "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" Dualtone
22. Kevin Rhodes & Tom Gossin "Doghouse Christmas"
23. Aqua Teen Hunger Force "Feliz Navidad"
24. Brooke Graham "Merryachi Christmas"
25. Alex Cuba "Christmas Made For Love" Caracol
26. The Yuletime Lifters "Time For Love" Daptone
27. Ladytron "All Over By Xmas" Cooking Vinyl  
28. Odetta Hartman "Christmas Together (Maybe This Year)" Transgressive
29. Norah Jones & Laufey "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
30. Elton John "Step Into Christmas"
31. Ivan & Alyosha "Being Home For Christmas"

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
1. Eliza McLamb "Strike"
20. Are We Static "The Christmas Song"

Last New Noize new music show of the year. IT'S OVER! What a year it has been & this coming Sunday I will do the "Best of New Noize 2023 Wrap-Up Special" which will be 3 hours long highlight the best of the best this year had to offer.

Let's talk about this past New Noize.

HEALTH's RAT WAR finally came out and was worth the wait. This LA noise ensemble has come into their sound which is highlighted on every track on RAT WARS. This album is "full on" and is much more coherent for the uninitiated. If this is your first time hearing HEALTH then RAT WARS is a good place to start.

IDLES grabbed the New Noize song of the week with "Grace". Can you fellas just release the record already? Please...

Hour 2 I hit you with my New Noize Holiday Hour which had some new holiday music mixed with some past yuletide gems. It was a fun hour.

See you next Sunday for the final New Noize show of the year. 

12/4/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: MGMT "Bubblegum Dog"
Album of the Week:Haiku Hands "Pleasure Beast"
 
1. Naoki Sato "Godzilla-1.0 Suite I" Godzilla Minus One OST
2. Full of Hell & Nothing "Spend The Grace" Closed Casket Activities
3. Chelsea Wolfe "Tunnel Lights" Loma Vista
4. Thomas Powers(Featuring Julien Baker) "Empty Voices"
5. Jonathan Rado "Blue Moon"
6. MGMT "Bubblegum Dog" Mom+Pop
7. youbet "Carsick" Hardly Art
8. Omni "Exacto"  Sub Pop
9. Glitterer "Plastic" Anti
10. James Supercave "FAKE PRETTY BABY"
11. Yard Act "Petroleum"
12. Alex Nicol "Hollywood"
13. The Jacklights "Past Tense"
14. Porno For Pyros "Agua"
15. Harp "Throne of Amber" [PIAS]
16. Whispering Sons "The Talker" [PIAS]

-hour 2-

17. Real Estate "Water Underground" Domino
18. Future Islands "The Fight" 4AD
19. Haiku Hands "Grandma" Spinning Top
20. O. "Moon" [PIAS]
21. STRFKR "Armatron" Polyvinyl
22. Tiga & Hudson Mohawke "Love Minus Zero"
23. 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne "Crazy Thick" Def Jam
24. JID ft. 21 Savage "Surround Sound" Interscope
25. Revival Season "Pump" (feat. Shaheed Goodie)
26. Atmosphere (feat. Buck 65 & Kool Keith) "Hello Pete" Rhymesayers
27. Don Streat, Animal Gang, Smimooz "Animal Barz"  Animal Gang
28. Deltaphase "Fckd Up"

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
Thomas Powers(Featuring Julien Baker) "Empty Voices"

GODZILLA MINUS ONE BEST MOVIE OF 2023

I will save the exhaustive long movie write to simply say this movie is not what you expected in all the right ways.

Let's get to New Noize

Song of the Week goes to MGMT with "Bubblegum Dog". I have been highly critical of these Brooklyn dudes with everything they put out and am happy to report I am into the 2 singles they dropped this year, "Bubblegum Dog" being the most recent. It's got this David Bowie Ziggy Stardust feel throughout this new single, check it.

Haiku Hands finally came out with their new LP "Pleasure Beast" and I love it. There are a few other records that were close to this #1 spot including the new collab record by Full of Hell & Nothing "When No Birds Sang", Godzilla Minus One OST & Tiga & Hudson Mohawke's collab record "L'Ecstacy". Ultimately I went with  Haiku Hands cause it's the most fun and we need some fun. Regardless you should listen to "Pleasure Beast" by Haiku Hands and everything else I listed.

So next week will be the final New Noize (maybe) of the year then I will be doing my "Best of 2023" 3-hour wrap-up show the following Sunday, maybe.

Until then see you all next week, maybe. 

11/26/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Miso Extra "2nd Floor" Transgressive
Album of the Week: C'Mon Tigre "Habitat"
 
1. The Smile "Wall Of Eyes" XL
2. Colouring "For You"  Bella Union
3. gglum "Easy Fun" Secretly Canadian
4. The Golden Dregs "Dealer"  4AD
5. J Mascis "Can't Believe We're Here" Sub Pop
6. a.l. west "Lake Song"
7. Kurt Vile "Like a wounded bird trying to fly" Verve
8. Kishi Bashi "My Name is Kishi Bashi" Joyful Noise
9. Bleachers "Alma Mater" Dirty Hit
10. C'Mon Tigre "Nomad At Home" Intersuoni
11. Dengue Fever "Prahok in My Suitcase" Tuk Tuk
12. Sandunes (feat. Ramya Pothuri) "The Surge" Tru Thoughts
13. almost monday "coast to coast" Hollywood
14. Pile "Only For A Reminder"

-hour 2-

15. Danny "Brown Tantor" Warp
16. Jonah Yano "concentrate" Innovative Leisure
17. Sleaford Mods "West End Girls" Rough Trade
18. Björk & Rosalía "Oral"
19. Babebee "CIGARETTES/TWO DOVES" Epitaph
20. Shygirl "Thicc"
21. Vince Clarke "White Rabbit" Mute
22. Ghostly Kisses "Golden Eyes" Akira
23. Miso Extra "2nd Floor" Transgressive
24. Gifted & Blessed "Invitation" Stones Throw
25. H31R "Train of Thought"
26. Cactus Flower "Flowers In Her Hair" People.Parties.Places.
27. Ben Frost "Turning The Prism"
28. The Ivy "Good Faith"

Back from turkey slaughter day in Florida and it was fantastic. The Ahmed clan was at 100% (which is rare) plus minimal family drama. Something feels off...Anayay back in SB and yes we New Noize'd last night.

Since I missed a few shows this set was packed with a bit of everything.

New Noize song of the week goes to Miso Extra with "2nd Floor" It has this strange offness about it. It is ultra pop with some unique sonic distance that works well backed by her buttery voice. It may be all over the place but you should grab it while you can.

The New Noize Album of the Week was scooped by C'Mon Tigre with "Habitat" This record has a jazz/r&b base foundation but don't peg these humans because this record is truly versatile. Some may say even chaotic. The journey a band makes to figure out their sound is full of discoveries picking up various audio assets and incorporating them into their tool kit. C'Mon Tigre takes this to the next level, some tracks might have you scratching your head pondering if this is the same band you started to listen to. I assure you it is and you should definitely give "Habitat" a chance.

Also seeing Godzilla Minus 1 this Thursday at the smallest IMAX in the US. Yay? Whatever its almost Godzilla time...

It's good to be back in Santa Barbara.