8/2/26 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock
Song of the Week: Blonde Redhead “Blood Spilled” section1
Album of the Week: DOMi & JD BECK “WHO ASKED?” Blue Note
THAO (feat. Tune-Yards & The Linda Lindas) “Sick of the Times”
Pretty Sick “City Kid”
total tommy “Trapezoid”
Origami Angel “Play Around the Crit”
1-800-Mikey “Me and My Only”
Dinosaur Jr. “Blowin’ Up”
Upper Wilds “Fever”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Alien Metal”
GULFF “neighbo(u)r”
Dis Fig (feat. the wind between) “The Account”
DOMi & JD BECK “RAiN”
Annie Leeth “Effexor”
Arca “Syncope”
Teilz “Pretty Please”
Sofie Royer “Opium”
Benny Sings “Durnham Dew”
Tipa Tipo “No Me Fui”
-hour 2-
Blonde Redhead “Blood Spilled”
Josh da Costa “Sleepy Babe”
New Constellations “Hot Blooded”
Mollie Elizabeth “Puppet Show”
Dexys Midnight Runners “You’ve Got the Love”
Charlie Horn “Marble and Mud”
Wolves of Glendale “Reptile Guy”
V.V. Lightbody “Practice Smiling”
Tōth “Easy”
Wild Pink “500 Is the New 250”
Twilark “Tired to Sleep”
Liana Flores “Silvershoes”
Blind Yeo “The Lemoine Point”
Black Duck & Elena Setién “Connects by Water”
Julia Holter “My Lost One”
NOT ON SPOTIFY:
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Alien Metal”
Charlie Horn “Marble and Mud”
August-bound, and we are still trucking through this heat-filled summer with new music. This week here in SB, we are gearing up for Fiesta.
This past Sunday’s set was devoid of any metal or hip hop. Not on purpose, it just happened, and I was left scratching my head. Trust, there was plenty of music to choose from, and it’s always a chore cutting the show down to under two hours, but I made it work without two of my core genres.
Let’s start with two heavy-hitting albums from this week.
Arca is back with XXXXX, and yet again, she blasts conventional commercial sounds with her latest interpretation of self. I say this because she is an artist who creates sounds and musical landscapes that other artists cultivate on. Arca is the source, and she amplifies that fact all over XXXXX.
Early impressions: This is one of her most dynamic and bombastic projects yet, with a level of maturity that almost all of her contemporaries don’t have. In a sea of artists screaming, “Look at me,” Arca instead says, “Look at this.”
Is this a precursor to Arca’s possible participation in GTA VI? None of the radio stations have been confirmed as of this writing.
I love this record and can’t wait to finish this write-up so I can start listening again. XXXXX is very distracting and will draw all of your attention.
WHO ASKED? is a question posed to me way too often, and it is also the question DOMi & JD BECK are asking. What a follow-up to NOT TiGHT.
DOMi & JD BECK are a duo taking the music industry on a delightful ride with some dramatic changes on their latest record. The biggest is the singing, which the duo didn’t really do before. On their second studio record, they decided to open their mouths, and thank the jazz gods they did.
Their voices bring in a pop vibe that wasn’t there before. It’s pretty dramatic how a simple element like singing can change the entire dynamic of a song. Yes, DOMi & JD BECK are packing in some serious pop vocal harmonies, but don’t worry, jazz purists these two are still one of the hottest acts doing what they do, and on WHO ASKED? they do it WELL.
This entire record, cover to cover, is a celebration of self in the most exploratory of ways. DOMi & JD BECK never feel too far from the music or the audience as they strum through their new album, which is also your New Noize Album of the Week.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard dropped another five-plus-minute electronic groove, “Alien Metal.” Is this record coming out? Definitely. They love putting out music, and it could happen any second or they could just keep doing what they’re doing.
Wild Pink is always so extra! I have no idea what “500 Is the New 250” means, but I dig the F out of this song. It has a very relaxed, almost effortless feel to it. It feels like it could be complex, but it’s really simple to feel and even better when you crank the volume to 11.
Cranking something to 11 is what we old-timers use as a turn of phrase because there was nothing past 10 on the volume dial. A dial is a physical knob you turn to control something.
I love a song with humor, and Wolves of Glendale’s “Reptile Guy” is just that. It’s a fun, silly song about a man, his affection for reptiles, and the social hurdles he has to hop over to live as his true self.
The New Noize Song of the Week was a no-brainer. Chances are, if Blonde Redhead puts out a new song, I will play it on New Noize and that’s exactly what I did with their latest single, “Blood Spilled.”
I don’t know the status of the band, whether this is a one-off or if they’re ramping up for a new album release. Just know that if they do, I will be all over it.
“Blood Spilled” is a great example of Blonde Redhead’s latest expansion of sound. Building heavily on their last record, “Blood Spilled” brings similar motifs and ear feel, which I can’t get enough of.
Try it!!!
Oh, and you know I watched the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. It was so good!
It was a solo trip for yours truly, and I’m glad I went by myself. The Arlington Theatre does not have air conditioning, which is a fact I wish I had known beforehand. It was a bit stuffy in there, but that didn’t hinder my viewing experience at all because of how good the movie was.
Adulthood is hard for anyone, especially if you’re a superhero in NYC who saved the universe and your reward is everyone forgetting about you. They really struck a chord with me, and my face was covered in this weird moisture dripping out of my eyes.
