2/22/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: Lana Del Rey "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter" Interscope
Album of the Week: Hen Ogledd "DISCOMBOBULATED" Domino

Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist "Empty Pages"
Baby Keem "House Money"
J. Cole, Future & Tems "Bunce Road Blues"
Maxo Kream, Denzel Curry & JPEGMAFIA "Fake Jeezy"
Denzel Curry & The Scythe (feat. TiaCorine & A$AP Ferg) "The Scythe"
SZA "Save The Day"
Don Toliver (feat. Travis Scott) "Rosary"
Thundercat (feat. Mac Miller) "She Knows Too Much"
L’Eclair (feat. Erin Kimberly) "Ring My Bell"
Fcukers "Beatback"
Odd Mob (feat. Lizzy Land) "Never Alone"
Boys Noize "SH5B0MBE"
Gumshoe "Born to Feel"
Kim Gordon "Dirty Tech"
Yael Naim "Multicolor"
Hen Ogledd "End of the Rhythm"
Jon Hood "Primrose"

Hour 2

Lana Del Rey "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter"
Ken Park "Shatter"
The Haunted Youth & Max Fry "Deathwish"
Charm School "Scene Queen"
Clarion "Blue Fairy"
Grace Ives "Stupid Bitches"
La Sécurité "Bingo"
Genesis Owusu "STAMPEDE"
Lucid Express "Setback"
The Bug Club "Watching the Omnibus"
Mirah "To Me"
Tiwayo "Sunshine Lady"
My New Band Believe "Numerology"
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis "Rules of the Game"
Exhumed "Shovelhead"
Flore Laurentienne "Régate"

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So much is happening right now. It’s Ramadan, it’s Lent, Lunar New Year energy is still floating around, Olympic golds popping up on the timeline, Pisces season feelings in full effect, the 30th anniversary of Neon Genesis Evangelion (yes I am absolutely in FOMO overload and yes I am still jobless), and we’ve got a planetary alignment coming at the end of the month.

And somehow… New Noize is still the most chaotic thing in my life.

The onslaught of new music refuses to stop and neither do I. I had to cut a lot from this set (like, a painful amount) so just know there was a whole ghost-version of this show that never made air.

Anyways getting to the thick of things so many amazing record were out this past week. A few standouts include the new Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist "Spiral Staircase" Baby Keem "Ca$ino" Yael Naim "Solaire" & Jon Hood "Pieces of Rality". Each can stand up on their own and deserve a listen cover to cover.

The New Noize Album of the Week goes to DISCOMBOBULATED by Hen Ogledd on Domino. I genuinely cannot cleanly categorize this record. It’s not art rock, not alternative, not experimental… but also completely all three. The band pulls from sounds that feel both ancient and futuristic, almost like progressive music that predates recorded history. Crescendos crash into textures that feel regional but placeless, pulling from eras of time, familiar but unreachable.

This is my favorite kind of album: maximum re-listenability. Comfortable extremes. Some songs barely pass the one-minute mark while others stretch toward twenty. DISCOMBOBULATED feels like sitting inside someone else’s mind and watching their memories as home movies. You recognize the feeling even if you’ve never been there.

Song of the Week was brutally hard to choose. Fcukers keep dropping banger after banger with “Beatback.” Thundercat gave us “She Knows Too Much” from his upcoming release featuring his friend Mac Miller (RIP). Genesis Owusu swung punk on “STAMPEDE.”

Then there is Lana Del Rey talking about making her husband dinner on "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter". She sings over this musical landscape that has this old school Hollywood Arabian Halloween feel, almost like you are navigating in the bayous of Agrabah during the fall full moon harvest.

Looking forward to next week's set & hopefully you come through. Until then....

2/15/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: TOMORA "Come Closer" Capitol Records
Album of the Week: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Culling Game -Part 1- OST Milan Records

Danny L Harle(feat. PinkPantheress) "Starlight"
KAVARI "IRON VEINS"
Steve Aoki x Gammer x Dimatik "A Cruel Angel's Thesis (Radio Edit)"
Yoshimasa Terui "Hunter"
Proc Fiskal "Signalmessanger"
Mandy, Indiana(feat. billy woods) "Sicko!"
Fcukers "L.U.C.K.Y"
Tame Impala "Dracula (JENNIE Remix)"
Thundercat(feat. Lil Yachty) "I Did This To Myself"
Leaf(feat. Groovy) "Nobody"
MUNA "Dancing On The Wall"
Joji "Silhouette Man"
Puma Blue "Jaded"
Charli xcx "My Reminder"
TOMORA "Come Closer"
Central Cee & J Hus "Slaughter"

-hour 2-

Baby Rose(feat. Leon Thomas) "Friends Again"
Arlo Parks "Heaven"
Lala Lala "Arrow"
Mitski "I'll Change for You"
Anna Calvi(feat. Iggy Pop) "God's Lonely Man"
Genza "SUJI"
Chat Pile "Masks"
Prostitute "Judge (Fast)"
Truckfighters "GATH"
Converge "Amon Amok"
Angel Du$t "The Knife"
Thrice "Gnash"
Puscifer "Mantastic"
They Might Be Giants "Wu-Tang"
Weird Nightmare "Might See You There"
Edgehill "lol"

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Leaf(feat. Groovy) "Nobody"
Truckfighters "GATH"

We back in action hi all.

Because the Super Bowl hijacked the airwaves a couple weeks ago, New Noize went dark for a Sunday, which means this episode basically became the “you ordered a sampler platter and accidentally got the family-size” edition. Two shows’ worth of music crammed into two hours and honestly… it kinda ruled.

Soundtracks quietly took over this week. You heard Charli xcx "Remember" off the Wuthering Heights soundtrack but there is another OST that was in the spotlight, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Culling Game -Part 1-. Besides being a mouthful to say this soundtrack RIPS. The album works even if you’ve never watched a second of the show. It’s structured almost like a narrative album (tension, release, dread, momentum). Tracks like “Hunter,” “The Front of the Back,” “The Eldest Brother of Ten Siblings,” and “Connection” constantly escalate into this controlled chaos. It genuinely feels like a sonic Domain Expansion.

Song of the Week goes to a collaboration I absolutely did not see coming but now completely need in my life: TOMORA “Come Closer.”

Take Tom Rowlands from The Chemical Brothers, combine him with AURORA, and somehow the result is emotionally devastating electronic pop. This is their second single and it’s loaded with atmosphere. We also got a release date (4/17) and I am very ready for whatever this project turns into.

How they met? No idea.
Am I glad it happened? Extremely.

Ill see what's what with y'all next week

2/1/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: GEZAN "TRANSIT" kilikilivilla/13th records
Album of the Week: Blackwater Holylight "Not Here Not Gone" Suicide Squeeze

Thundercat (feat. Lil Yachty) "I Did This To Myself"
Miso Extra "Right Here"
GEZAN "TRANSIT"
ISTA "Gods In Heat"
Kekht Arakh "Three Winters Away"
Softcult "Hurt Me"
CRLLL "No Sex"
Miss Grit "Stranger"
The Soft Pink Truth "Orchard"
By Storm (feat. billy woods) "Best Interest"
Cat Power "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Violet Grohl "THUM"
Dream Nails "House Of Bones"
Barry Walker Jr. (feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon) "Peridot, Call Me"
KNEECAP "Liars Tale"
Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon "Nah, You're Mad Extra"

-hour 2-

SPRINTS "Deceptacon"
Christine and the Queens (feat. Thee Diane) "Ah Ya"
Eric Hilton (feat. Natalia Clavier) "Lalita"
Sébastien Tellier (feat. Slayyyter & Nile Rodgers) "Thrill of the Night"
James Blake "Death of Love"
Proc Fiskal "ADDICTIONZ"
POST SEX NACHOS "SOS"
Blackwater Holylight "Void To Be"
Beck "I Can’t Help Falling In Love"
HELD. "New You Anthem"
The Tammy Shine "Junk Mail"
J’cuuzi "Advance / Decline
Devon Thompson "Hunger"
Eaves Wilder "Hurricane Girl"
Butterfly Vendetta "Veneers"

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Did everyone get the Grammy show they wanted? I did watch the awards, but my focus every Sunday is always New Noize, so let’s get into it.

Singles always get me amped for the full-length releases to follow, and this past Sunday I dropped a ton of new singles — including new music from Thundercat, Miso Extra, KNEECAP, and James Blake.

This week’s Song of the Week goes to Japanese band GEZAN. Their newest record, I KNOW HOW NOW, drops on the 11th and is currently up for pre-order exclusively on Bandcamp. GEZAN push conventional sounds aside in favor of their own brand of quirky experimentation, grounded in classic progressive stylings. The two singles released last week couldn’t be more different from each other, which makes me especially curious to hear how the album sounds front to back.

Before wrapping things up, I wanted to give some extra love to Softcult’s latest release, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow. It’s fun, confident, and noticeably more mature than their previous work. Clocking in at around 30 minutes, the album takes you inside their inner world of anxiety-laced themes mixed with harmonies, truths buried under guitar riffs, and melodies hiding between the lyrics. It all clicks.

Album of the Week goes to Blackwater Holylight, who just dropped Not Here Not Gone via Suicide Squeeze. Fuzz-drenched guitars, thick low-end bass lines, and a heavy emotional weight throughout make this record an ideal way to kick off February.

Yes, another late post. 2026 is pulling me in ways I never knew were possible. I’ll keep you all updated on when I post next… hopefully not late.

1/25/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: The Claypool Lennon Delirium "WAP" ATO
Album of the Week: Ski Team "Burnout/Boys" Only One On The Mountain

Barry Can’t Swim "Chala (My Soul Is On A Loop)"
GorpoPap "Acid Rain"
Charlotte Day Wilson "Lean"
Jane Remover "So What_"
Puma Blue "Hush"
Harry Styles "Aperture"
sosocamo "keep steady"
Ski Team "Landslide"
Snail Mail "Dead End"
The Claypool Lennon Delirium "WAP"
This Is Lorelei "Holo Boy"
Cat Clyde "Another Time"
Jeff Jakobs "Yesterdays News"
Local Weatherman "The Hole"
Woo "Pokhara"

hour 2

Em Spel "Geographic"
Tinariwen "Sagherat Assani"
Courtney Barnett "Site Unseen"
Wolf Parade "I’ll Believe in Anything"
.idk. "EVERYONE KNOWS"
Durand Jones & The Indications "Let’s Take Our Time"
Vundabar "Death Punch"
The New Pornographers "Votive"
Shellshaker "Leather Jacket"
Death Lens "Monolith"
Cut Worms "Windows on the World"
Caroline Carter "Watchdog"
Anna Tivel "Memphis"
KÁRYYN "COLLAPSE PHASE"
White Denim "Lock and Key"
Tigers Jaw "Ghost"

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GorpoPap "Acid Rain"Don’t get too used to me dropping these a day late, but here we are talking New Noize.

This past Sunday’s set leaned a little more subdued, and honestly? That’s not a bad thing. Sometimes maintaining a groove is better than reaching all over the place, and that was very much the vibe for this week’s New Noize. A steady, locked-in flow for whatever version of doomscrolling you found yourself in.

Don’t get it twisted there were still some loud, off-the-wall moments in the mix. Death Lens’ “Monolith,” Shellshaker’s “Leather Jacket,” and White Denim’s “Lock and Key” made sure of that. But overall, this was a balanced meal of new music grooves.

Cat Clyde’s “Another Time” is one of those tracks, pure sunset-in-Wyoming energy.

I also played the new Harry Styles track, and I somehow walked away with more questions. Apparently this album was heavily influenced by LCD Soundsystem live sets and disco dancing, which… yeah, I’m absolutely here for.

Snail Mail is back with “Dead End,” and if this is any indication of what we’re getting later this year, we’re all going to be laid to waste.

My favorite song and New Noize Song of the Week goes to The Claypool Lennon Delirium’s “WAP". Not a Cardi B cover (something Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon would totally do). “WAP” marks the return of a collaboration that has already proven to be a fantastic meeting of two musical titans. There’s a heavy Beatles earfeel throughout, but it stays cohesive and weird in all the right ways. This band loves diving into the deep, uncharted parts of the audio sea, and if this is any hint of what the next record sounds like, assuming it actually comes out, I’m very ready.

Speaking of new releases…

Local Weatherman dropped a new EP packed with guitar riffs. If I were still in school, this is exactly what I’d play during the sweet release of recess. If I had a job (yes, I’m still looking for a corporate gig. How I’ve survived this long, I truly don’t know), this would be on the moment my lunch break hits. Which reminds me, I need money. Anyway.

I don’t usually highlight reissues on the show, but Woo’s 1982 album Whichever Way You Are Going You Are Going Wrong (Expanded Edition) is so much more than that. The original release was wildly ahead of its time, and somehow the expanded edition still sounds current decades later. This mostly instrumental gem will have you mentally planning your next vacation on the French Riviera regardless of your actual bank balance.

What I don’t need money for is telling you how much you’re going to love the New Noize Album of the Week, Ski Team's "Burnout/Boys". Locking down their sound is hard to describe, but once you hit play, you’ll get it. And the getting it part is what makes this album so good. They subtly expand their sound in ways you only notice after a few listens and trust me, you’re going to listen to this more than once.