7/13/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Deftones "my mind is a mountain" Reprise  
Album of the Week: Wet Leg "moisturizer" Domino

BLACKPINK "Jump"
TWICE "THIS IS FOR"
Purity Ring "place of my own"
Nicolas Bougaïeff "Sunday Morning at Panorama Bar When Things Go Sideways"
Fever Ray "Now's The Only Time I Know (Therapy Session)"
Barry Can't Swim "Different""
José Gonazález "Heartbeats (Logic1000 Remix)"
Danny L Harle(ft. PinkPanthress) "Starlight"
Bring Me The Horizon "shadowm0ses.frq"
Gina Birch "Don't Fight Your Friends"
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr (tweaked by Karl Hjalmar Nyberg) "Austin Vibes"
Kassa Overall "REBIRTH OF SLICK (COOL LIKE DAT)"
Jon Batiste "BIG MONEY"
Kokoroko "Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel)"
Spaceface "Everything Is Money"

-hour 2-

Clipse (Feat Tyler, The Creator) "P.O.V."
Wet Leg "pillow talk"
Harmony "Porcelain"
Die Spitz "Throw Yourself To The Sword"
deftones "my mind is a mountain"
Rocket "Wide Awake"
N8NOFACE "The Way Out Of Here"
The Hives "Legalize Living"
BIG SPECIAL "YESBOSS"
Tombstones In Their Eyes "I Am Cold"
shame "Quiet Life"
jay Som (feat Jim Adkins) "Float"
Towa Otowa (feat Clare Uchima) "Atsu's Theme" (Ghost of Yōtei OST)
Neko Case "Wreck"
Mark Stewart "Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime"
Noah Cyrus "Way Of The World"

Do you ever feel like a cheetah in the savannah? Cheetahs are one of the most successful murders on earth and yesterday ya boy's kills rate was flawless.

It definitely helped that Friday was a monster for new releases. I mean, look at this set. It’s art. And as usual, I had to slash a good chunk of heat just to fit it into a two-hour show.

We opened with two K-pop juggernauts—BLACKPINK and TWICE. I didn’t make it to BLACKPINK’s kickoff show in LA this weekend, but I did spin their new single. Meanwhile, TWICE dropped a whole album last week in the middle of swirling controversy, and somehow still delivered a fun, catchy record.

From there we went full electronic, bounced into a lo-fi curveball from Bring Me The Horizon (yes, really), jazzed it up, and even landed on that new Jon Batiste joint—he’s coming to the SB Bowl later this year, by the way.

Hour 2 was so heavy. I shot off the new Clispe featuring tyler with POV. Top to bottom produced by Pharrell, this is one of the best records of 2025 but it's not my album of the week. I wanted it to be but Wet Leg had other plans. Their new record, moisturizer, has been draining my batteries and battering my earholes since its release. Everything about this sophomore record screams "fuck you pay me like jay z". That’s Album of the Week behavior.

 Also in the mix: Die Spitz, the newest act signed to Third Man Records. If you don’t know them, change that. Their new track “Throw Yourself to the Sword” is raw, and I can’t wait for their album to drop later this year.

Speaking of drops, let’s talk about Ghost of Yōtei. PlayStation gave us 20 minutes of preview chaos last week and absolutely broke the internet with the announcement of three modes:

• Kurosawa Mode: black & white, more wind, more drama

• Miike Mode: blood, mud, tighter camera, straight outta 13 Assassins

• Watanabe Mode: lo-fi hip-hop during combat and exploration. I repeat: lo-fi samurai battles.
  

They also dropped two tracks from the OST, so of course I had to spin "Atsu’s Theme."

And after all that heat, what took New Noize Song of the Week? Deftones with "My Mind Is a Mountain.” A new Deftones album is exactly what this country needs.

This upcoming weekend is so stacked.

• Friday: catching The Sandlot at the Sunken Gardens (SB’s “Movies in the Park” series—the theme is dogs).

• Saturday: fingers crossed I get into that Julie / Marais show (Insha’Allah). Big fan of the opener, so get there early—I will

• Sunday? You already know. Another New Noize set.

See you then

7/6/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Arcadea "Fuzzy Planet" relapse
Album of the Week: Nilüfer Yanya -Dancing Shoes (EP)- ninja tune

Shouse "Won't Forget You"
ROC "Never Know" (feat. Jan Blomqvist)"
Peyton "Red Flags"
Nilüfer Yanya "Where To Look"
John Glacier "Fly With Me"
Jimi Jules & Black Coffee "Trippy Yeah"
The Lemonheads "In The Margin"
Jeffrey Runnings "Batman Forever"
The Grip Weeds "Promise (Of The Real)"
Mina Tindle "Heaven Thunder (ft. Sufjan Stevens)"
Bon Iver "From"
Bad Suns "Mystery Girl"
Ginton, Richard Bona, Salif Keita "Kalaboncoro"
Ada Lea "something in the wind"
Fruit Bats "Stuck in My Head Again"
Wytch Hazel "Elements"
The London Suede "Trance State"

-hour 2-

Stalefish "1000 Books A Day"
Arcadea "Fuzzy Planet"
DRAIN "Nights Like These"
THE NONE "At Hope"
SUNBENDR "Stick Up"
Ethel Cain "Nettles"
Boo Boos "C'mon Baby"
Dave Hause "Enough Hope"
David Moore "Bleeding, KS"
Eljuri "Karma"
JOEL BECK "THERE'S A CLOUD'S SHADOW IN YOUR EYES"
ONI "Float"
Will Paquin "I Work So Hard"
Guerilla Toss "Red Flag to Angry Bull"
HAIM "Blood on the street"

Not on Spotify:
Eljuri "Karma"

My favorite weekends are long weekends but I hate when my carefully laid plans fall apart right as they start. What didn't fall apart is New Noize, the constant juggernaut that goes against the current of the chaotic mundane existence.

Arcadea’s “Fuzzy Planet” is my Song of the Week because it does that beautiful, messy genre-drift thing where you’re not sure if you're listening to a synth-prog space opera or a fever dream scored by a drum machine with a god complex. Either way, it works.

I love me a good firework. A small compact package that is shot into the atmosphere only to explode and light ap the night sky for the briefest of moments but OH WHAT A MOMENT. That's how I feel about "Dancing Shoes", the newest EP by Nilüfer Yanya. Brief. Beautiful. A little dangerous.

Freedom isn't free, it costs a buck o five. New Noize still free every Sunday...

...fuck yeah

6/29/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Caroline Polachek "On The Beach" (Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Soundtrack)
Album of the Week: Frankie Cosmos "Different Talking" Sub Pop

Durand Jones & The Indications "Lovers' Holiday"
CARRTOONS (feat. Haile Supreme) "Thursday Disco"
Mocky "Wiggle Room"
Gelli Haha "Tiramisu"
Barry Can't Swim "All My Friends"
SPRINTS "Descartes"
Hotline TNT "The Scene"
Frankie Cosmos "One! Grey! Hair!"
Wet Leg "davina McCall"
Trapper "Schoepp Satan is Real (Satan is a Sackler)"
Smut "Waste Me"
White Denim "Time The Avenger (feat. Plantoid) - Pretenders Cover
late night drive home "modern entertainment"
Mac DeMarco "Home"
Tim Barnes "California Quarry South"
Tim Barnes "Cheat Codes"

-hour 2-

Caroline Polachek "On The Beach" (Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Soundtrack)
Black Sites "C4"
Bass Drum Of Death "Do Nothing'
Dana and Alden "Daydrinking in Springfield"
Rujen "Strawberry Moon"
Babygirl "Take Me Back"
Two Dark Birds "Pink Light"
DJ Haram "Fishnets"
St Paul "Colder"
Manslaughter 777 "Silk Barricade"
Deadguy "Knife Sharpener"
Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts "classic love"
The Beths "Metal"
Bonobo "Dark Will Fall" (from LAZARUS Soundtrack)
Matt Maeson "Everlasting"

Not on Spotify:
Manslaughter 777 "Silk Barricade"

If your reality is currently shattering in front of you no worries, New Noize is here to distract you for a hot second.

New Noize was a total vibe. Its like I'm writing a sonic novella giving you a fever dream radio show that leaves you blinking at the ceiling, wondering if that was real. It's one part Soul Train, one part mosh pit, and one part arthouse film scored by a robot with feelings. You’re not building a playlist—you’re building an atmosphere. A sonic novella. A fever dream radio show that leaves you blinking at the ceiling, wondering if that was real. Its one part Soul Train, one part mosh pit, and one part arthouse film scored by an emotional kaiju.

Hour 1 was all silk sheets and sharp corners. Staring off with a warm, analog hug—Durand Jones, CARRTOONS, and Mocky get us groovin’ in candlelight, wrapped in velvet and honey. Then things start getting weird in the best way—SPRINTS and Hotline TNT crash the dinner party with guitars and uninvited feelings.

By the time White Denim and Mac DeMarco show up, we have swerved into nostalgic psych-pop detour, like a house party you didn’t mean to stay at 'til 4 a.m.—but now you’re talking to a stranger about time travel and your childhood pet.
Then Tim Barnes takes us fully into liminal dreamstate: you're on a forgotten highway, everything looks familiar, but you’re not sure if you’re awake (which is my normal state tbt)

Heading into hour 2 which felt like neon anxiety & afterworld ballads. We emerge in a haunted beachfront future, with Caroline Polachek giving us DS2 lullabies for people with emotional baggage and nice shoes. "On The Beach" id your New Noize song of the week (and is on my best of 2025 list) From there, we’re flipping between punk chaos, alt-sentimentality, and electronic ritualism—Deadguy and Babygirl shouldn't exist in the same set, but this is New Noize.

It’s like you opened your diary, and DJ Haram found it, scratched it onto vinyl, and played it at an underground rave while St. Paul cried in the green room. By the end, Bonobo and Matt Maeson gently escort us into the abyss—tender, but totally unsure if we’re coming back.

Oh and the New Noize Album of the Week?Too many heaters dropped to play gatekeeper, so we’re going personal on this one. Frankie Cosmos’ Different Talking feels like she somehow got read/write access to my brain. It’s less like an album and more like your inner Jiminy Cricket decided to start singing instead of just narrating your life—softly chaotic, painfully honest, and weirdly comforting.

You can now resume your 2025 meltdown.

6/22/25 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

Song of the Week: Sorry "JIVE" Domino
Album of the Week: Yaya Bey "do it afraid" drink sum wtr

Queens Of The Stone Age "Running Joke Paper Machete (Alive in the Catacombs)"
Unknown Mortal Orchestra "ONE HUNDRED BATS"
bar italia "Cowbella"
Pavement "Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent (Live at Cirkus  Stockholm)"
Sorry "JIVE" Domino
Portugal. The Man "Big Baby Bogota"
U.S. Girls "Walking Song"
BALTHVS "Year of the Snake"
Ami Taf Ra(feat. Kamasi Washington) "How I Became a Madman"
Joey Waronker & Pete Min "King King"
mark william lewis "Still Above"
Erykah Badu, The Alchemist "Next To You"
Clipse "So Be It"
Yaya Bey "cindy rella"
Kokoroko "Just Can't Wait"

-hour 2-

Dana and Alden Childhood "Crush (feat. Cinya Khan)"
Moon Panda "Lost World"
Felsmann + Tiley "Warum"
Four Tet "Into Dust (Still Falling)"
L’Eclair "ODESSOS (feat. Phoebe Coco & A Ghost Column)"
PinkPantheress "Close to you"
Buscabulla "Te Fuiste"
BAMBII "Mirror (feat. Jessy Lanza, Yaeji)"
Say She She "Cut & Rewind"
Gore. "Sepsis"
Genwunner HITMONLEE"
Automatic Is It Now"
Bikini Trill "Cool Riff"
The Technicolors Gold Fang"
The Hives Paint A Picture"
Muse Unravelling"
La Dispute "Man with Hands and Ankles Bound'

Holy pagan holidays — the summer solstice here in Santa Barbara was one for the books. The equinox hit hard — pretty sure my skin’s still radiating heat from that sun (I retain heat). So much fun was had...

…and speaking of fun — New Noize didn’t miss a beat.

This week’s New Noize Song of the Week is Sorry with “JIVE.”
The New Noize Album of the Week is Yaya Bey’s do it afraid.

Also: I’ll be covering the Reggae Soundclash this Sunday, right before New Noize. If you’re in SB, come see what I can do when it comes to spinning deep reggae cuts. Tune in starting at 6pm PST.