1/9/22 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Father John Misty "Funny Girl" Sub Pop
2. Earl Sweatshirt "Titanic" Warner
3. The Smile "You Will Never Work in Television Again" XL
4. Jeremiah Furr "Sweat From a Brow"
5. Eels "Amateur Hour" [PIAS]
6. Animal Collective "Walker" Domino
7. Cheekface "Featured Singer"
8. Quinn Christopherson "Bubblegum" Play It Again Sam
9. LOS DAYS "Tierra De Sombre"
10. Surfbort "Lot Lizard 93" Inner Freak
11. Boris "Reincarnation Rose"
12. Vein.fm "The Killing Womb" Closed Casket Activities
13. Cat Power "Unhate" Domino
14. The Weeknd "Sacrifice" Republic
15. NEIL FRANCES (feat. Benny Sings) "where i become someone"
16. Bonobo (feat. Joji) "From You" Ninja Tune
17. Widowspeak "Everything Is Simple" Captured Tracks

-Hour 2-

18. Beach House "New Romance" Sub Pop
19. Sis "Wooie" Native Cat
20. Burial "NEW LOVE" Hyperdub
21. Let's Eat Grandma "Happy New Year" Transgressive
22. Charlotte Sands "Bad Day"
23. Hayley Mary "Fall In Love"
24. Pinegrove "Respirate" Rough Trade
25. Emmett Mulrooney "Sell My Strings"
26. The Districts "Outlaw Love" Fat Possum
27. Dancing On Tables "Black"
28. Johnny Marr "Sensory Street"
29. SMITH "Scab" Surf Candy
30. Mary Akpa "A Hurum Gi N'anya (I Do)" Ninooo
31. Wet Leg "Too Late Now" Domino

First New Noize of the 2022 season and as always, compared to the rest of the new music specialty shows I stand alone when it comes to diversity. Am I wrong? Send me a new music hour that plays Father John Misty followed by Earl Sweatshirt, I'll wait...

Ultra excited for this year and the onslaught of concerts that should be happening when this pandemic calms down, science willing.

New Noize song of the week was difficult to pick (some things will never change) and as much as I love the new Radiohead side project The Smile's "You Will Never Work in Television Again" the 1st 2022 song to grab the title of Song of the Week is Father John Misty "Funny Girl". Josh is playing next month down in LA with the Philharmonic & I pray to the rock gods I will be at this show.

New Noize Album of the Week is by a band I have never heard of, Sis. Their new EP, Gnani, is a nice mix of laid back lofi with some bright highlights, a ton of jazzy elements and the right amount of weird to set off your 2022 right.

Did anyone else see the latest Attack on Titan? This final season arc is coming to a close and out the gate the action, the drama & the resolve of Mikasa has me locked in.

Book of Boba episode 2 did a better version of Dune than the Dune did.

WE ARE ONLY 2 WEEKS AWAY FROM THE NEW BORIS RECORD! I will have a full review out on that come close to the release. I have been listening to their records in anticipation of their new one and they are one of the few bands that just resonate with and am flirting with doing an entire retrospective of their catalog after I spend more time with their new record.

12/26/21 BEST OF New Noize 2021 -YEAR OF THE SAVAGE- 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Japanese Breakfast "Be Sweet" Dead Oceans
2. Tyler The Creator "MASSA" Columbia
3. Dry Cleaning "Unsmart Lady" 4AD
4. Jazmine Sullivan "Put It Down" RCA
5. Madlib "Loose Goose"
6. Eyedress "Brain Dead" Lex
7. SILK SONIC (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) "Smokin Out The Window" Aftermath
8. Arca "Electra Rex" XL
9. Modeselektor "Mean" Monkeytown
10. LSDXOXO "Mutant Exotic" XL
11. Flying Lotus "Pain and Blood" Warp
12. TURNSTILE "HOLIDAY" Roadrunner
13. Amyl and The Sniffers "Laughing" ATO
14. Deafheaven "In Blur" Sargent House
15. IDLES "Stockholm Syndrome" Partisan
16. tUnE-yArDs "be not afraid." 4AD
17. Chad VanGaalen "Inner Fire" Sub Pop
18. BADBADNOTGOOD "Beside April" XL
19. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE "I SUCK THE DEVIL’S COCK" Saddle Creek
20. Lingua Ignota "MANY HANDS" Sargent House
21. CHAI "PING PONG" Sub Pop
22. Dj Muggs the Black Goat "The Chosen One" Sacred Bones
23. Crumb "Retreat"
24. Little Simz "Two Worlds Apart" AWAL
25. NO NO NO "no control" KiliKiliVilla
26. MONO "Riptide" Temporary Residence
27. Mogwai "Ritchie Sacramento" Temporary Residence
28. Failure "Headstand"
29. Quicksand "Katakana" Epitaph
30. Kanye West (with Andre 3000) "Life of the party" Def Jam
31. Cartel Madras "Dream Girl Concept" Sub Pop
32. St. Vincent "Down" Loma Vista
33 Squid (ft. Martha Skye Murphy) "Narrator" Warp
34. Megan Thee Stallion "Eat It"
35. Pom Pom Squad "Head Cheerleader" City Slang
36. Zack Fox "FAFO"
37. KUNZITE "FROSTY" Lowly / Wilder
38. Ora The Molecule "Creator" Mute
39. Alice Longyu Gao "Kanpai"
40. Bummer "JFK Speedwagon" Thrill Jockey
41. DARKSIDE "Liberty Bell" Matador
42. Arlo Parks "Too Good" Transgressive
43. Mndsgn "Slowdance" Stones Throw
44. Kero Kero Bonito "When The Fires Come" Polyvinyl
45. Koreless "Black Rainbow" Young
46. ??? Park Hye Jin "Let’s Sing Let’s Dance" Ninja Tune
47. Sundur "Time Is Now" Needle to the Groove
48. Amon Tobin "Rise To Ashes" Nomark
49. TEKE::TEKE "Barbara" Kill Rock Stars
50. Hiatus Kaiyote "Chivalry Is Not Dead" Brainfeeder
51. Lala Lala "DIVER" Hardly Art
52. Gojira "Amazonia" Roadrunner
53. The Linda Lindas "Racist, Sexist Boy" Epitaph
54. Daisuke Ishiwatari "Smell of the Game" Guilty Gear Strive ARC SYSTEM WORKS
55. Joel Corelitz "Heretic Frypan" Eastward original soundtrack
56. Goat Girl "Badibaba" Rough Trade
57. JADAKISS "Verzuz Freestyle (Who Shot Ya) LIVE" Def Jam
58. HEALTH & Nine Inch Nails "ISN’T EVERYONE" Loma Vista Recordings
59. Hikaru Utada "One Last Kiss" Theme Song for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Sony
60. TWICE "The Feels" JYP Entertainment Company

WE DID IT. If you are reading this we survived 2021. SO MUCH noise about how this year was not that great but that's impossible, I mean do you see this best of NEW NOIZE 2021? It was truly the year of the savage and so many amazing things came out and did happen.

Let us start with the obvious. Japanese Breakfast took the #1 spot on the Best of New Noize 2021 with their album Jubilee. Japanese Breakfast also did all the music to Sable, a fantastic video game with an even better soundtrack. Michelle Zauner also also (I did the "also also" on purpose so relax) released my favorite book of 2021, Crying in H Mart. This book made me miss mom so much that the frequency of me calling here went up dramatically. My mom says thanks Michelle. 4thly I got see Japanese Breakfast at the Madonna in and it was RAD.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time finally came out & I didn't get to see it in Japan like I wanted to but it was still a magical time in my apt.

Metroid Prime 4 has didn't come out BUT we did get the 5th Metroid game in the 2D series aka Metroid Dread. It was my favorite game of 2021 (although I still have not played Death's Door) and I just beat the game on Christmas Day.

My favorite sneaker drop was that I made custom sneakers and it's a hobbie that I enjoy plus my footware is fly as fuck now.

TV shows were great 2021. My pick as #1 was Loki, how is Marvel making me like everything Thor related is beyond me but holy Galactus this series was glorious in every aspect down to Loki falling in love with umm Loki.

2021 was a monster year for anime, so many standout shows that I could have done a top 10 easy BUT MY FAVORITE was Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. It's mature, the story touched the cold void where my heart used to be, the animation style is unique and the world building happens at the perfect pace. The Isekai sub genre has saturated the anime landscape for a decade now and this show takes one of the best approaches to this concept. Plus you can stream this on Hulu.

My favorite concert was hard because I didn't see a lot, but I did see more shows than most and all of them stood out in their own unique way. As much as I loved watching Japanese Breakfast at the Madonna Inn there was another gig that did take my #1 spot (Sorry Michelle, you and your band are still my #1 album of the year) My pick hands down is St Vincent at the Vina Robles Amphitheater. The Daddy's Home tour left a lasting impression on ya boy and Anne shredded my face off whilst melting the cold void where my heart used to be. (Yes I know I used this turn of phrase twice, I am dramatic at times)

And the best thing about 2021 is you! Yes you! You made it.

On a personal note I love doing this show and want to thank everyone who has to deal with my madness.

See you in 2022 & until then, peace out my peoples.

12/19/21 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. BORIS "Last Christmas (Wham Cover)"
2. The Mighty One "Christmas In The North"
3. King Diamond "Christmas"
4. The Aquadolls feat Angelo from Fishbone & El Hefe from NoFX "Xmas Wrapping"
5. Best Coast "Little Saint Nick"
6. St. Vincent "...At The Holiday Party"
7. Norah Jones "Run Rudolph Run"
8. Leilani & The Distractions "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
9. Joey Ramone "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)"
10. Cold Weather Company "Warmth in Winter"
11. Manchester Orchestra "White Christmas"
12. Neon Trees "Holiday Rock"

-Hour 2-

13. Aqua Teen Hunger Force "Feliz Navidad"
14. Flyjack "Santa's Got a Bag Of Soul"
15. Snoop Doggy "Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto"
16. Shinyribs "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag"
17. Carthy "Hello Christmas!"
18. Simple Plan "My Christmas List"
19. Bob's Burgers "Do You Hear What I Hear"
20. Joel Jerome "HAPPY XMAS (Covid Is Over)"
21. Play MPE Collective "Christmas Crazy"
22. THE IMAGINARIES "Christmas Town"
23. She & Him "Sleigh Ride"
24. Modesty Blaise "I'll Be Home For Xmass"
25. Beat Happening "Christmas"
26. David Browning "Merry Christmas"
27. Sufjan Stevens "Christmas Unicorn"

NOT ON PLAYLIST:
1. BORIS "Last Christmas (Wham Cover)"
17. Carthy "Hello Christmas!"

The New Noize Holiday Special went down last night, did you hear it? NO? Well then this heathen of the holidays gots you! Check the Spotify Playlist and blast it at your next xmas party, bump it in your car as you run around or just sip some nog at put your feet up and enjoy the magic.

Again next Sunday we do a 4 hour "Best of New Noize 2021" aka the year of the Savage. Starts at 8PM PST.

12/12/21 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Bully "Just For Love" Sub Pop
2. Superchunk "Endless Summer" Merge
3. Aeon Station "Fade" Sub Pop
4. Broken Social Scene "This House Is On Fire" Arts & Crafts
5. Squirrel Flower "unravel" Polyvinyl
6. Babe Rainbow "Smash the Machine" Eureka
7. Girlpool "Faultline" Anti
8. Imarhan "Tamiditin" City Slang
9. Nell & The Flaming Lips "The Ship Song" Bella Union
10. Little Dragon "Drifting Out (alt.take)" Ninja Tune
11. Alex Lahey "Spike the Punch" Liberation
12. Arguing With Hurricanes "Feels Like Love'
13. Fleet Foxes "Blue Spotted Tail" Sub Pop
14. White Lies "I Don't Want To Go To Mars" [PIAS]
15. AVIV "Black Coffee" Gari

-Hour 2-

16. Sylph "Chain of Love" Mute
17. Barrie "Frankie"
18. Jockstrap "50/50" Rough Trade
19. Rebecca Taylor "Moody"
20. BORIS (Rework by Lauren Auder & Dviance) "Pardon"
21. Cult of Luna "Cold Burn" Metal Blade
22. ATLAS "VERI" Long Branch
23. MoogStar "Sold Your Soul Blues" Joyful Noise
24. LAPêCHE "2000 Miles"
25. Grace Cummings "Storm Queen" ATO
26. CIVIC "Tell The Papers" Flightless
27. Kulick "Time To Go" Enci
28. Robert DeLong (ft.Ashe) "Rest of My Life" Glassnote

NOT ON PLAYLIST:
12. Arguing With Hurricanes "Feels Like Love'
19. Rebecca Taylor "Moody"
20. BORIS (Rework by Lauren Auder & Dviance) "Pardon"

That's it! We did it, the last New Noize is in the books for 2021! This past Sunday's Show was dedicated to Dave Hanacek. He is the whole reason I get to do New Noize, back in 2007 he took a chance on this guy and here we are. He has been a great mentor, friend and show bro. There are no words that can truly express how metal he is so let us just Iron Maiden on...

This past Sunday's Song of the Week was pop friendly AVIV with "Black Coffee". It's a delightful little tune that you should melt over.

Sunday's "Album of the Week" (which again is an EP) belongs to the new EP by Sylph, "Ancient Hole" on Mute records. The last 2 tracks especially bang hard.

This Sunday we do the New Noize Holiday Special.

Next Sunday we do a 4 hour "Best of New Noize 2021" aka the year of the Savage.

And I started Metroid Dread, there goes the rest of my December.