1/12/24 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: Japanese Breakfast "Orlando in Love"
Album of the Week: zzzahara "Spiral Your Way Out"

Jangus Kangus "Janakita Kirakita"
IDLES  (feat. Danny Brown) "POP POP POP"
zzzahara "Head in a Wheel"
SPELLLING "Portrait of My Heart"
Destroyer "Bologna (feat. Fiver)"
Japanese Breakfast "Orlando in Love"
Squid "Building 650"
Lambrini Girls "Love"
PUP "Paranoid"
Ecce Shnak "Prayer on Love"
The Burning Hell "Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board"
Blondshell "T&A"
Local the Neighbour "Noose"
Tobacco City "Autumn"
Party Nails "First Responder"
girlpuppy "Windows"
Deep Sea Diver "Shovel"

--hour 2--

DARKSIDE "S.N.C"
Franz Ferdinand "Hooked"
Eddie Chacon "Let The Devil In"
Panda Bear "Ferry Lady"
Polo & Pan(ft. Metronomy) "Disco Nap"
BAYNK "Grin"
Venamoris "Animal Magnetism"
Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke "Scale AA"
Xixa "Xolo de Galaxia"
Great Grandpa "Junior"
Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, s t a r g a z e "Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One"
Qing Madi "Akanchawa"
Bob Mould "Here We Go Crazy"
Σtella "Adagio"

The first New Noize of 2025 is officially in the books, and it feels amazing to be back. There’s something undeniably exciting about January. Sure, it’s freezing out, but it’s also the season of fresh projects, bold announcements, and me getting to shine a light on what deserves to be heard.  I am highly aware how big my spotlight is and hopefully this is the year it widens. Or not all I can do is what I do.

New Noize Song of the Week was a tough call (as always), but I went with a little bias: "Orlando in Love" by Japanese Breakfast. I’m beyond hyped for the new album, and she’s hitting the Santa Barbara Bowl in August. Will she invite me backstage for drinks and high fives before her set? DOMAIN EXPANSION -manifestation-  

New Noize Album of the Week is something I’ve been eagerly waiting for, and it absolutely delivers. zzzahara dropped "Spiral Your Way Out" this past Friday, and it’s been on blast everywhere I can find speakers.  The record has this fun finish to it, it has its melancholy  moments but has the hopeful feeling topped with so much LA style. Highly recommend to that friend that it is too cool to admit you put them onto something.  

Funny enough, both my picks this week are from LA-based artists. Total coincidence, but before I sign off, I need to address what's happening in LA right now.  

SoCal is hurting from the wildfires—devastation that’s spreading in more ways than one. If you want to help, please donate directly to verified GoFundMe campaigns. You can spend your money however you want, but be wary of big nonprofits or organizations.

And if you’re not from here? Don’t say shit. The amount of ignorant nonsense I’ve heard is incredible. My personal favorite gem: “Why aren’t they using the ocean to put out the fires?” First off, they are using seawater in some cases, but here’s the kicker: many fire zones aren’t near places where that’s even possible. Add in wind conditions that make any flight a nightmare, and oh, let’s not forget—you want to dump saltwater on mountains? You ever hear of “salting the earth”?  People are wild.

See you next week.