4/12/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: zzzaharra “Chinese Tobacco” Lex
Album of the Week: Webb Chapel “Vernon Manner” Strange Mono

Iceage “Ember”
Pond “Two Hands”
Lime Garden “Do You Know What I’m Thinking”
Lola Bates “Madonna Gold”
Mei Semones “Kurage”
Mamas Gun “First Time (In A Long Time)”
Bye Parula “I Don’t Know”
Tiwayo “Unchained Lovers (feat. Kendra Morris)”
Lolo Zouaï “Coquelicot (feat. disiz)”
Wesley Joseph “Blinded”
Scott Fisher “The Great Unknown”
Chinese American Bear “Turn Up The Radio (把收音机开大点)”
Eric Gabriel “Night After Night”
American Football (feat. Brandon Yates) “No Feeling”
Webb Chapel “Consolation Prize”
Knitting “I Want to Remember Everything”
zzzaharra “Chinese Tobacco”

-hour 2-

Makthaverskan “Glass and Bones”
Kurt Vile “Chance to Bleed”
Lucky “Hide and Seek”
villagerrr “Locket”
Zoh Amba “Another Time”
My New Band Believe “Pearls”
it foot, it ears “Doomed Vacuum Duet (with Lo)”
she’s green “Paper Thin”
Brockhoff “Sunny Day”
Chelsea Days “Silver Screen”
Conscious Pilot “Human Poultry”
Sweat “Displaced”
AISHA “Trying hard is hard, so I try hard to try hard.” (Jam’s Theme)
The Lemon Twigs “2 or 3”
TV Star “Reality Cheque”
Gorillaz “The Shadowy Light (feat. Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash)”

NOT ON SPOTIFY:
it foot, it ears “Doomed Vacuum Duet (with Lo)”

Hello from LA on a Tuesday. I’m in transit, so let’s keep this tight… but still hit.

Two major highlights this week outside of the usual “Best Of” chaos:

First off pretty sure I’m the only person on radio spinning AISHA’s “Trying hard is hard, so I try hard to try hard.” aka Jam’s Theme. And yeah… what is that? Only the latest drop tied to Guilty Gear -Strive- after a massive update. Im talking FGC massive. The kind where you’d expect a “Super” repackage (you already know if you know)… but nope they just gave it away. Free update, new season pass (which you have to buy), Jam Kuradoberi playable immediately, new stage, and two new tracks. Of course, I had to run one.

Second highlight closing the show with one of Asha Bhosle’s final recordings, tucked into the latest Gorillaz project. I grew up on Bollywood. Her voice is Bollywood to me. Multi-generational, cross-cultural, era-defining. That’s legacy.

Song of the Week? Honestly, stacked week but the one that ran the stadium for me: zzzahara “Chinese Tobacco.” This follows her last single from a few weeks back, and with her currently on tour I’m reading the tea leaves. Album incoming? I hope so.

Album of the Week goes to Webb Chapel with “Vernon Manner.” Sometimes I get albums early weeks, even months ahead. This wasn’t one of those. Straight Friday drop like everyone else. But unlike everyone else, I’m telling you now this isn’t getting the shine it deserves. Under 30 minutes, in and out, but it moves. It bends your sonic palette, jumps lanes, and disappears before you’re ready.

Lastly Godzilla Minus One trailer drops at 3:55 PM PST today, and of course the internet already spoiled a major moment. Why are we like this? Let it breathe. Let us have something. Anyway The King of All Monsters hitting NYC on November 6th & ya boy may need to book a flight.

See you next Sunday.

4/5/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Dry Cleaning “Sliced By a Fingernail” 4AD
Album of the Week: Thundercat "Distracted" Brainfeeder

Jack White “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs”
Jack White “Derecho Demonico”
Lambrini Girls “Cult of Celebrity”
Weird Nightmare “Little Strange”
Dry Cleaning “Sliced By a Fingernail”
Angine De Poitrine “Yor Zarad”
SUNN O))) “Does Anyone Hear Like Venom”
Tori Amos “Shush”
Holy Fuck “Bricks”
Converge “Hum of Hurt”
Poison Ruïn “Pilgrimage”
Greg Mendez “Gentle Love”
Bleachers “you and forever”
Ecca Vandal “SORRY! CRASH!”

-hour 2-

KNEECAP “FENIAN”
Arlo Parks “Get Go”
hackedepicciotto “Wiederbelebung”
Puma Blue “Sweet Relief”
Thundercat(feat. A$AP Rocky) “Funny Friends”
Gelli Haha “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep”
Fcukers “Getaway”
Magi Merlin “SpiceKick”
Dylan Brady “Throat Song”
Laibach(feat. Wiyaala) “Musick”
Disclosure “The Sun Comes Up Tremendous”
KÁRYYN “END TO KNOWING YOU”
HEALTH “A.L.O.N.E.”
Bon Iver “P.D.L.I.F. - Red Hill Auditorium, Perth, AU. Feb 26 2023”
Basement “The Way I Feel”

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NOT ON SPOTIFY:
Weird Nightmare “Little Strange”

April is here and still no steady income. At this point, even King Kai is probably like “bruh, what are you doing?” I’ve been surviving off flipping relics from my own life; vintage concert tees, untouched sneakers, pieces of my past just to keep the lights on. You’d think after 20+ years in the music world something would’ve locked in by now, but nah… we’re still in side-quest mode. The struggle is very real.

That said, I did get a much-needed break from the existential spiral & on Saturday I made the run down to Hollywood High to catch the final night of Mitski’s LA residency. Being back in a school building after two decades was already surreal, but then you add this intimate, almost living-room-style production on stage? Different level. Her latest record leans heavy into the anxiety of just existing, so it hit. Hard. For my currently-unemployed-self, it felt like a reset. The sound was incredible, she was incredible, and for a moment things actually felt OK. Maybe even hopeful.

Fast forward to Sunday night & I was hyped. Kicked things off with back-to-back new Jack White joints (and seriously, go watch that SNL episode best one of 2026 so far, easy). Then we slid right into the Song of the Week: “Sliced by a Fingernail” from Dry Cleaning. They’ve got that signature deadpan delivery so detached, but sharp and it just works. I don’t know if a new album is coming, but after hearing this? I just want a tour.

Speaking of tours I’ll be pulling up to Disclosure this Wednesday at the SBBowl as the prep for Coachella with back-to-back nights at one of the best venues in the country. On top of that they casually dropped a new track like it’s nothing. Always curious what kind of production they’re about to bring. Trust I’ll report back.

One of my personal favorites from the night: Tori Amos “Shush.” You already know I’m a sucker for a slow burn.

And then there’s SUNN O))) with “Does Anyone Hear Like Venom”, the longest track of the night of New Noize and somehow the shortest on their new self-titled. They’re on Sub Pop now, played LA recently, and yes I missed it. The FOMO is still lingering.

Angine de Poitrine is having one of those “if you know, you know but also you should know” moments right now. Internet buzz is building, and for good reason. Vol. II expands on everything they set up before using chaotic, whimsical math rock that somehow feels both precise and unhinged. Much like the Absolute DC universe I’m all in. Don't take my word for it, Dave Ghrol was just gushing about them. Ok he was just talking about them but I rarely get to use the word "gush" and its such a fun word.

The longest song from last night's set belongs to SUNN O))) “Does Anyone Hear Like Venom” which also happens to be the shortest song on their latest self titled record. Oh and they are on Sub Pop now plus they played a show in LA that I missed which gave me serious FOMO.

Album of the Week goes to Thundercat with Distracted. Look, I’m biased. I could go on for paragraphs about how absurdly groovy this record is (because it is), but what really stood out this time is the features. This might be the most collaborative Thundercat project yet, he even got the Lemon Twigs on a track! At least our current timeline has dope music.

I might be back in LA on Friday for another show, stress on the “might.” Not even sure if I’m getting in. But if I do? You’ll hear about it next week. And if I don’t you’ll definitely hear it next week. 

3/29/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: The Claypool Lennon Delirium “Meat Machines” ATO Records
Album of the Week: Fcukers "Ö" ninja tune

Fouk “Sundays”
Elder Island “Pink Lemon”
MRCY (feat. Yazmin Lacey) “Better Days”
YE “WHATEVER WORKS”
Brooklyn Funk Essentials “Black Butterfly”
Flea “Morning Cry”
Collin Sherman “Dystopian Bulgar”
Selah Sue & The Gallands “Movin”
Bye Parula “KISSBURN”
Camp Crush “Gravity”
Future Islands “Find Love”
Paula Kelley “Static”
Robyn “Sexistential”
Wax Motif & Ty Dolla $ign “Bad & U Know It”
John Summit, The Chainsmokers & Ilsey “All The Time”
Peking Duk (feat. Rico Nasty) “Thrills”
HEALTH “VIBE COP (LIL TEXAS RMX)”
Frozen Soul (feat. Machine Head) “Invoke War”

hour 2

Këkht Aräkh “Three Winters Away”
Death Lens “Debt Collector”
Clarion “Blue Fairy”
The Bug Club “Yours (If You Want Me)”
The Yum Yum Tree “Turn Down The Noise”
Charlotte Cornfield “Lucky”
Indigo De Souza “Come To God”
The Claypool Lennon Delirium “Meat Machines”
Courtney Barnett “Wonder”
Mitski “If I Leave”
Fcukers “Play Me”
José González “Losing Game (Sick)”
Snail Mail “Agony Freak”
Cheekface “Black Site”
Weezer & Best Coast “Go Away”
Orange Doors “Gizmo Gadget”
Sublime “Until The Sun Explodes”

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NOT ON SPOTIFY:
The Yum Yum Tree “Turn Down The Noise”

A Tuesday update because I was busy covering for my music director… but also, let’s be real, my own laziness should probably be studied.

Speaking of studying let’s dive into this past Sunday’s New Noize set.

Flea dropped a jazz record where he’s on trumpet, and yeah it’s a full-on groove. While we’re talking jazz checkout “Ouroborosuite” by Collin Sherman—heady, hypnotic, and quietly flexing. Want to go darker? Këkht Aräkh is back doing what he does best cold, raw, and absolutely unbothered. If you want something smaller in scope but just as haunting, Clarion’s latest EP was in a serious battle for Album of the Week.

And speaking of EPs, HEALTH is back again, THE RAT WARS CONTINUES, with the third R-TYPE EP, stacked with remixes that somehow hit just as hard as the originals. Need to move a bit differently? Robyn’s got you with “Sexistential.” Need to be politically fired up but still somehow floating above it all? José González continues to weaponize calm & his latest work is one of the most quietly devastating listens I’ve come across in a minute. And Courtney Barnett? Dropped a gem that somehow nobody is talking about but I’m talking about it.

Can we talk about “Bad & U Know It”? Wax Motif and Ty Dolla $ign cooked up something that has fully burrowed into my brain. I catch myself humming unconsciously. Future Islands are back with “Find Love.” Frozen Soul (feat. Machine Head) with “Invoke War” is exactly what you think it is, BRUTAL. And the new Orange Doors track “Gizmo Gadget”? Don’t sleep.

After all that I went with the new The Claypool Lennon Delirium single “Meat Machines” as the New Noize Song of the week. This is the 2nd single from this insanely talented band and the hype only grows after letting the “Meat Machines” in your life, something the band doesn't recommend. Listen to the song it will make sense

Album of the Week goes to Fcukers whose name I absolutely cannot say correctly on air because of the FCC. “Ö” feels less like a debut and more like a statement: we’re present, we’re loud, and we’re ready to move. It’s a masterclass in controlled fun with form. The White Stripes, Run The Jewels, Sofi Tukker and now Fcukers are firmly in those "killer duo" conversation.

Don’t let the humor and bounce fool you this is layered, intentional, and packed with grooves that bend genres in ways we don’t get nearly enough of. I’ve seen them a few times now; most recently a Halloween DJ set here in SB and even in that format (which can be a gamble), they treated it like a full performance. If you get a chance to see them live, go. Do not wait. Future regret is real.

Spring anime is knocking at the door and I’m still recovering from winter.

Jujutsu Kaisen? Peak. The Culling Game arc is setting a new standard. Picking up from Shibuya with insane fight choreography and one of the best soundtracks of the year. MF Ghost kept drifting deeper into my heart. Hell’s Paradise went full throttle against the Tensen, delivering episodes that just drained the imagination in the best way. Fire Force is finishing things up so Soul Eater can start.

And then out of nowhere “Sentenced to Be a Hero.” Flips the whole power fantasy/immortality trope on its head, with an art style that’s putting Studio Kai on the map.

Spring’s about to get wild too. From the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist comes Daemon of the Shadow Realm. Dorohedoro Season 2 continues building one of the strangest worlds that somehow feels way too real. JoJo fans rejoice!!!! Finally got Steel Ball Run (Episode 2 is a different situation). Ghost in the Shell is back. Re:Zero Season 4 is on deck. Wand and Sword Season 2. And a new Fist of the North Star remake?

No guarantees any of this hits but expectations are high. And with new anime comes new music. Winter 2026 already gave us one of the best soundtracks of the year with JJK Culling Game Part 1, so yeah… the bar is stupid high already.

Anyone going to be in LA this Saturday? I will be going to Hollywood High as Mitski is currently playing residency. I’ve been talking (annoyigly) about this for a minute and now it’s here! If you’re around, hit me. Let’s link before the set.

OH and late-night eats after are 100% happening. You’ve been warned.

3/22/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: OOIOO “Gamel Be Sure to Spiral” thrill jockey
Album of the Week: underscores “U" mom+pop

OOIOO “Gamel Be Sure to Spiral”
Lightning Bolt “Cloud Core”
Setting “Gum Bump”
Billy Woods & Mickey Diamond “Peter and the Wolf”
It Foot, It Ears “Sermonette”
ford. (feat. Barrie) “Som Time”
Cola “Conflagration Mindset”
Eric Gabriel “Rent”
Sook-Yin Lee “Locked Boy”
Sweat “Don’t Know Why I Bite”
The Afghan Whigs “House of I”
The Undercover Dream Lovers “Molly”
deary “Alma”
more eaze “The Producer” (sentence structure in the country)

-hour 2-

U.S. Girls “You’ve Got Everything (But a Smile)”
Mitski “Dead Women (Radio Edit)” (Nothing’s About to Happen to Me)
MUSE “Muse Be With You”
underscores “Do It” (Wallsocket / U)
Grace Ives “My Mans” (Girlfriend)
Pastel Blank “Sweet Nic”
Avalon Emerson “Happy Birthday” (Written Into Changes)
Poolside “Looking Backwards”
Boys Noize Kungs “Get Away”
Zainab "JADOO“
Kaleena Zanders “Bazooka"
Innellea “Slave to the Hype (Radio Edit)”
SIDEPIECE “Wild (Radio Edit)”
Sharada Shashidhar “Arches” (A Foot on the Ground)
Cannons “Light as a Feather”

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NOT ON SPOTIFY:
It Foot, It Ears “Sermonette”
Zainab "JADOO“
Kaleena Zanders “Bazooka"
Sharada Shashidhar “Arches”

EID MUBARAK delay to all my people....

Today I will be going to my first show of 2026! Excited to see Father John Misty as he kicks off his tour in Ventura. Enough about me lets take New Noize

This was one of those doozy shows and honestly, that’s OOIOO’s fault. When you drop an 11+ minute monster like “Gamel Be Sure to Spiral,” you’re not just opening a set… you’re setting the tone for everything that follows. And yeah, I LOVE OOIOO, so I’m biased but also I’m right.

They’re finally back in North America working out a tour after 11 years, and somehow I’ve still never seen them live. Every single time they come around, life decides to life. One day it will happen and until then, this track is doing the heavy lifting while easily being your New Noize Song of the Week.

I also want to highlight someone who’s been quietly leveling up and really carving out her own sound, Zainab (fka Zeemuffin). She just dropped a new track, “JADOO,” via Ninja Tune / Technicolor, and ya boy had to run it on New Noize. Big energy. Big future. Big things are coming from this hungry Pakistani New Yorker so you have been warned.

Then we slid straight into chaos with that viral “Bazooka” flip which Kaleena Zanders absolutely bodied that track. I had to go to war to track that version down, but we got it, and now you’re stuck with it forever. This is one of those songs that latches onto your brain and just lives there rent-free until the end of time. No escape.

If you’re even remotely into 100 gecs, you NEED to tap into underscores’ new record “U.” This is not background music. This is “blow your speakers out and annoy everyone within a 10-foot radius” music. It’s chaotic, maximal and a bit unhinged in the best way. There are moments that feel like Sleigh Bells got dropped into a digital blender, and it works. It really works.

We’ll see if I survive long enough to make it to next week.