4/20/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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Song of the Week: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Deadstick"
Album of the Week: Floating Points, Bonobo, Kamasi Washington Lazarus OST

Young Gun Silver Fox "Late Night Last Train"
Theo Bleak "Said Like A Poet"
Kula Shaker "Charge of The Light Brigade"
Yumi Zouma "Bashville on the Sugar"
Folk Bitch Trio "The Actor"
Tunde Adebimpe "Somebody New"
Japanese Breakfast "Picture Window"
Thalia Zedek Band "Naming Names"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Deadstick"
Lionmilk "only one"
Matmos "Changing States"
Floating Points "Ajar"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Bonobo "Dark Will Fall"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Kamasi Washington "Lazarus"(ADULT SWIM ORIGINAL LAZARUS SERIES SOUNDTRACK)
Adrian Younge "O Som do Amor"

hour 2

Red Baraat "Gaadi of Truth (feat. Stewart Copeland)"
SUMAC & Moor Mother(feat. Sovei) "Scene 4"
Melvins "Short Hair With A Wig"
Byzantine "Floating Chrysanthema"
Rivers of Nihil "American Death"
A-Z "Nothing Is Over"
Superheaven "Numb To What Is Real"
Propagandhi "Cat Guy"
Bruce Springsteen "Blind Spot"
Julien Baker & TORRES "No Desert Flower"
Shura "World's Worst Girlfriend"
Wisp "Get back to me"

Good things happened this past Sunday! Happy belated 4/20. I celebrated... hard. Double holiday energy this year with Easter and 4/20 falling on the same day, so if you observed either one, or both, I hope it was a glorious one. Somewhere between lighting candles and lighting joints, I also knocked out another round of New Noize.

This week was back to the usual 2-hour block — no triple marathon set like last time — but still packed with heavy hitters and new gems worth your precious ear-time.

Lets talk singles. Lionmilk “only one.” Pure vibes, pure jam, no notes. But Song of the Week? That crown belongs to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with Deadstick. These dudes release music the way most people change socks. Every time you think they’ve topped themselves, they drop another album and casually rewrite the rules.

Now for the New Noize Album of the Week — a rare and beautiful situation. Instead of one artist, three heavyweights — Floating Points, Bonobo, and Kamasi Washington — each dropped their own separate albums for the same anime soundtrack: Lazarus. Shoutout to Shinichirō Watanabe and Adult Swim for pulling this off. If you know Watanabe’s work (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, etc) you already know — the music’s always more than background, it’s a main character.

And let’s give some flowers to Milan Records too, same squad behind the ASH OST, for making this a reality. I’m praying to the vinyl gods that this soundtrack gets a wax release because the music in this is top notch. For now here are links to the albums via Spotify (click on the image):

Bonus round!! Shoutout to Tunde Adebimpe, whose long-awaited Thee Black Boltz finally dropped and, no surprise, it rules. Melvin’s and Superheaven both delivered new albums that are loud, raw, and everything you want if you like your music heavier than your rent. Oh — and Julien Baker and TORRES teamed up for a country album nobody saw coming... and it turned out great. Go figure.

And on a totally unrelated note, my lawn bowling crew, Lawntourage, made it to the championship. We’re up against some certified scrub-lords who, in true fragile white dude fashion, teach lawn bowling for a living but still dropped themselves into the beginner league just to flex on people. Real inspiring, right? Look, we already hit our goal — making the finals — but if by some glitch in the matrix we actually win? OH, THE LEVEL OF SHIT I WILL TALK. Olympic-tier sun.

If anyone from the league’s actually reading this? Hi.

Catch you next week.