3/12/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Zzzahara "idk how to luv" Lex
Album of the Week: Fever Ray "Radical Romantics"
 
1. Zzzahara "idk how to luv" Lex
2. Moreish Idols "Between These Ears" [PIAS]
3. PACKS "Brown Eyes" Fire Talk
4. Fever Ray "New Utensils" mute
5. Indigo De Souza "Smog" Saddle Creek
6. Sego "Tandang"
7. Protomartyr "Make Way" Domino
8. Acid Tongue "Consumerism"
9. And Actually "somehow"
10. Eddie Chacon "Sundown" Stones Throw
11. Baxter Dury "Aylesbury Boy" [PIAS]
12. Benny Sings(feat. Remi Wolf) "Pyjamas" Stones Throw
13. Róisín Murphy "CooCool" Ninja Tune
14. SWIMM "Talk To Me" BLORR
15. Manchester Orchestra "The Way" Loma Vista
16. Beach Fossils Don't Fade Away" Bayonet

-hour 2-

17. Christine and the Queens "To be honest" Because Music
18. Akira Galaxy "Virtual Eyes"  Bright Antenna
19. Mo Lowda & the Humble "Coast is Waiting" Workaround
20. Krooked Kings "Sick Of Being Young"
21. Mediocre "Pop Song Baby" Dangerbird
22. Angel Olsen "Nothing's Free" Jagjaguwar
23. not dvr "prettynames" XL
24. Sleaford Mods "So Trendy"
25. Lonnie Holley (feat Moor Mother) "I Am A Part Of The Wonder"
26. The Blaze "CLASH"
27. Silver Moth "The Eternal"  Bella Union
28. A Foreign Affair (feat. Aaron Gillespie) "Day By Day" SBG
29. Kamelot "My Pantheon (Forevermore)" Napalm

Not on the Spotify Playlist:
Kamelot "My Pantheon (Forevermore)" Napalm

It's officially official, another New Noize and another year in life. Thanks for all the messages and to those that actually came out. Saw Flaming Lips on Thursday at the Arlington Theater in SB and as always they completely took over the venue. What a spectacular scene. Saturday we did a small get together with all my friends with kids cause apparently bringing your kids to a rock concert in the middle of the week is a big no go...

Regardless of this past weekend's shenanigans I managed to do another set on New Noize. This past Sunday's set is a bit laid back, maybe my aggressiveness is calming down in my elder age

New Noize Album of the Week goes to Fever Ray with "Radical Romantics". This album begs you to see this live and trust me when I say you have NEVER seen a live concert like this one.  "Radical Romantics" is very self aware of itself and that may not make any sense before you hear it but after it most certainly will.

I kicked off the show with the New Noize Song of the Week, Zzzahara's "idk how to luv" I do love her records and have been a fan of her's for a while. So much so that her last record was ranked in the top 10 during the Best of New Noize 2022. IDK what the future has instore for Zzzahara but what I do know is if puts out a follow up to this single I will play it.

Getting old is weird. See you next week. 

3/5/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Water From Your Eyes "Barley"
Album of the Week: Tanukichan "GIZMO"
 
1. Water From Your Eyes "Barley" Matador
2. Tanukichan "Been Here Before" Company
3. koleżanka "Koszmary"  Bar None
4. Mandy, Indiana "Pinking Shears" Fire Talk
5. Kxllswxtch "WASTE"
6. Death Valley Girls "What Are The Odds" Suicide Squeeze
7. Yves Tumor "Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood" Warp
8. TEKE::TEKE "Garakuta" Kill Rock Stars
9. Humazapas "Chichu Burru"  AYA
10. Lomelda (feat. More Eaze) "Scaredy's World" Double Yolk Record House
11. Dry Cleaning "Swampy" 4AD
12. Slow Pulp "Cramps" Anti
13. The Church "C'EST LA VIE" Communicating Vessels
14. Momma "Bang Bang" Polyvinyl
15. Youth Lagoon "Idaho Alien" Fat Possum
16. Bonnie Trash "Shades Of You" Hand Drawn Dracula
17. Kara Jackson "Pawnshop"

-hour 2-

18. REBENN "Maybe I'm Psycho"
19. Arlo Parks "Impurities" Transgressive
20. Gorillaz(ft Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) "New Gold"
21. M83 "Earth to Sea" mute
22. The Allergies "Mash Up the Sound" Jalapeno
23. Sir Chloe "Hooves" Atlantic
24. Metallica "If Darkness Had a Son" Blackened
25. Dååth "No Rest No End"  Metal Blade
26. Tanlines "Outer Banks" Merge
27. Ruen Brothers "Don't Know Whats Come Over You"
28. Ty Segall Emmett Kelly "Blue" Drag City Inc.
29. Annie DiRusso "Nauseous"
30. The Now "Devil Inside Me" Trew

As I near my anniversary event horizon I reflect on forgotten previous versions who have become the biggest strangers I've known. Through the power of forward motion I got to drop another New Noize and here are some highlights off the playlist.

I kicked off the set with the New Noize Song of the Week from a band called Water From Your Eyes with their latest single "Barley" . It's dramatic in all the right places.

Tanukichan snatched up Song of the Week earlier this year so needless to say I was waiting for this to hit my inbox and as soon as it did it hit that permanent rotation. You know the album is good when you listen to it cover to cover, then immediately run it back. This album is kinda sad but not in a sad way if that makes sense. It has that dream pop texture with some serious fuzzy garage rock dankness that transports you into this emotional state far away from your present self. Tanukichan is not a new artist by any means but GIZMO is the record that people will listen to and then dive into the back catalog as soon as the album finishes. Also anyone that knows me knows how hard it was for me not to make Cracker Island the Album of the Week cause I am a fan of the Gorillaz and there are some BANGERS!

Talking about bangers Mando and Grogu are back and the bar for episode 1 of Seasons 3 of the Mandolorian is set to ULTRA HIGH. By the time the episode was over we had been to 3 worlds, met some classic friends, made some new enemies and set up to pick up key quest items for the final boss.

I KNOW I HAVE NOT BEEN TALKING ABOUT LAST OF US. Why, though? People are constantly asking me what I think of the HBO adaptation of one of the greatest narratives ever told in video games. Obviously I think it's a masterpiece of TV but I have been saying for decades that video games are a superior form of expressing narrative OVER film and TV every time. Never have I said the movie was better than the video game. There is one exception.

ANIME!!!!! Let's look at cyberpunk 2077, the game was an overall disaster mostly because of how broken it was on rollout. Then the anime came out which was one of the bigger surprises of last year and people returned to the video game, which was all patched up and was a different experience compared to when it was initially released.

Anime and animation are better mediums as their only constraints are the imagination and the almighty budget. But when anime does get an upper tier budget you get things like Attack on Titan. DID YOU SEE THE NEW EPISODE?!?!?!?! If you know, you know and if you don't you never will.

I'll be back Sunday after completing 15,695 days give or take a few...

2/26/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Cuco "Best Disaster" Interscope
Album of the Week: shame "Food for Worms"
 
1. Algiers (feat. Zack de la Rocha) "Irreversible Damage" Matador
2. shame "Yankees" Dead Oceans
3. FIDLAR "Centipede"
4. Hannah Jadagu "What You Did"  Sub Pop
5. Durand Jones "Lord Have Mercy"  Dead Oceans
6. Hammerhedd "Tunnel"
7. Black Belt Eagle Scout "My Blood Runs Through This Land" Saddle Creek
8. Only A Visitor "All You've Held Since"  Mint
9. Gemma Ray "Howling"
10. strongboi "ugi"
11. Franklin Jonas "Cocaine"
12. Fenne Lily "Dawncolored Horse"  Dead Oceans
13. Bria "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" Sub Pop
14. Miss Grit "The End" Mute

-hour 2-

15. ALASKALASKA "TV Dinners" Marathon
16. Babygirl "Sore Eyes"
17. Murray A. Lightburn "Once Upon A Time In Montréal" Dangerbird
18. Rahill "I Smile For E" Big Dada
19. Cuco "Best Disaster" Interscope
20. US Girls "Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)" 4AD
21. Yaeji "Done (Let s Get It)" XL Recordings
22. Madame Gandhi "Crystals and Congas"
23. CHVRCHES "Over"
24. The Aces "Always Get This Way"
25. The Darcys "Trouble Found Me"
26. Hippo Campus "Kick In The Teeth"
27. RVG "Nothing Really Changes"
28. almost monday "only wanna dance"
29. VOLORES "Nothing New (In The Unknown)"

This is the kinda New Noize set I love to do, mainly because there were a ton of full length releases that need your attention. Like Esben the Witch? Check out the new album by Black Belt Eagle Scout "The Land, The Water, The Sky'' Feeling kinda trashy, give the new Hammerhedd record "Nonetheless" a listen. If cover songs of the Country or should I say Cuntry is your thing Sub Pop got you covered with Bria latest EP "Cunrty Covers Vol. 2". Do you like anime the way I like anime? Then check out Miss Grit's "Follow the Cyborg". Aggressiveness you style? "SHOOK" the new LP by Algiers is your jam. Want something just plain old fantastic, fun and free? US Girls' "Bless This Mess" will make you cry in all the right ways. This week's New Noize Album of the Week belongs to shame. "Food for Worms" is a record that is on constant repeat, every song is dramatically different from the next and every listen has revealed something new. Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's ugly but it's there and so are you so take it.

New Noize Song of the Week wasn't any easier to lock down. I rarely pick songs from album drops and I am not going to start now BUT if I did I would have selected US Girls' "Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)". It is a song from the perspective of a hyper neglected Tux and yes it's even more amazing than it sounds. The New Noize Song of the Week belongs to SoCal's heartthrob Cuco with "Best Disaster". It's like silk and honey fused inside both your ear holes.

So I am taking suggestions on what video game I should play before May's madness. I finally finished Final Fantasy Crisis Core Reunion and I DID NOT CRY at the end. I don't know if I am going to platinum trophy the game BUT I do plan on beating Minerva at some point this week. I have yet to platinum trophy FFVII Remake and haven't even touched the interGRATE DLC as I want to replay all this before FFVII Rebirth drops this winter. I am a HUGE Metroid Prime fan but don't know if I can play remakes back to back. I have never played Dead Space. OctoPath Traveler II is also out. I was thinking about getting back into Destiny with Lightfall about to drop. HELP ME DECIDE.

I have been hitting that retro anime pretty hard. I have never watched Hajime no Ippo and it's SO GOOD. How did this fly under my radar? I also found out that Memories is streaming on Amazon (Magnetic Rose is AMAZING) along with Robot Carnival is streaming on Crunchyroll and with the recent cold snap it makes sense to stay in and rewatch these classics. If you have never seen either of these, let's call them films, you really REALLY should. Even if you are not a fan of anime this is something else.

BUT THE ONE I AM WAITING FOR IS FINALLY RELEASING THIS WEEK. ATTACK ON MOTHERFUCKING TITAN FINAL SEASON PART 3 EPISODE 1 IS OUT THIS SATURDAY. This 1st episode is actually 3 episodes long so an hour of AoT which I am excited about. What I am not excited about is how they are rolling this out, which is annoying AF and I am being nice about it. Apparently there will be 24 episodes in the final season (4th season) third and hopefully final part. The “Final Season” will be split into two sections of 12.

Episode 1: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Episode 2: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Episode 3: Saturday, March 18, 2023
Episode 4: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Episode 5: Saturday, April 1, 2023
Episode 6: Saturday, April 8, 2023
Episode 7: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Episode 8: Saturday, April 22, 2023
Episode 9: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Episode 10: Saturday, May 6, 2023
Episode 11: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Episode 12: Saturday, May 20, 2023

Good news is MAPPA claims that part four will continue in 2023. Let's hope they don’t pull some "final movie" nonsense at the end and give this Attack On Titan the proper finale it deserves. For now check out this trailer:

2/19/23 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Beck "Thinking About You"
Album of the Week: Pile  "All Fiction"
 
1. Squid "Swing (In A Dream)" Warp
2. Iguana Death Cult "Sensory Overload"  Innovative Leisure
3. Dommengang "Society Blues" Thrill Jockey Records
4. Quasi "Riots and Jokes"  Sub Pop Records
5. DEBBY FRIDAY "SO HARD TO TELL" Sub Pop Records
6. Desire Marea "Be Free" Mute
7. the GOLDEN DREGS "Sundown Lake" 4AD Ltd
8. The Noise Who Runs "Beautiful Perhaps" Rogue Noise Recordings
9. Beck "Thinking About You"
10. Dry Cleaning "Swampy" 4AD Ltd
11. Pile "Gardening Hours"  Exploding In Sound Records
12. Yo La Tengo "Aselestine" Matador
13. Léa Sen "Dragonfly" Partisan Records
14. Barrie "Races"  Winspear

-hour 2-

15. M83 "Amnesia" Mute
16. Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again" Columbia Records
17. Elijah Kessler(ft. Toro y Moi) "ZEISS"  Company Records
18. A Certain Ratio "Samo" Mute
19. Wesley Joesph feat. DEAN "SUGAR DIVE"
20. Oval "Touha" Thrill Jockey Records
21. Kelela "Missed Call" Warp
22. Bjork(feat. Shygirl) "Ovule"
23. Marisa Anderson "La Llorona"
24. Siege of Power "Oblivion" Metal Blade Records
25. Thrice "Silhouette"
26. Narrow Head "Sunday"  Run For Cover Records
27. Eyelids "Everything That I See You See Better"
28. modernlove. "Only Ever Only You" Akira
29. 100 Gecs "Hollywood Baby" Dog Show Records/
30. Lisa O'Neill "If I Was A Painter"

A Sunday off last week because of the Super Bowl and a Monday off yesterday plus Wind storms and power outages yesterday means the New Noize Update comes in today.

By the way if you gave me 10 opportunities to pick what RiRi would have opened her return to performing live i would have not have guessed "Bitch Better Have My Money".

This past Sunday I packed 2 weeks worth of new music into the set but to be honest there is so much new music to sort through it feels like every week I have to cut out a decent chunk to squeeze into a 2 hour set. 

The Song of the Week belongs to Beck with "Thinking About You". The New Noize album of the week is  "All Fiction" by Pile.