Sticky Jazz

Dagger Polyester (they / them) is a non binary performance artist from Los Angeles, that covers subject matter to make you think. Having just finished an album "Perversion for Profit" we covered the subjects of shooting on film, the aesthetic of it, and how so much DIY can make the video something spectacular, then the subject is even much darker, it will make you think. We covered the b...

How do you manage and co ordinate a breakup? Well, maybe while dancing on top of a vintage car, or setting up a moment to drop the news. Either way Ariana DeLorenzo has you covered with the plan. Contained in her new album called "The Breakup Variety Hour". A veteran performer from Brooklyn has performed an interactive cabaret at "The House of Yes", and after a hiatus, she is b...

Imagine someone who sings crossover blues with Sci Fi themes, writes books, is prepping to start a fashion line, and acted in a science fiction psychological thriller on Amazon that even SHE has no idea what is happening on the show. All of that and more are given to us, by Bibi Lucille. I got an email playing a really great song called "Addicted", and then covering religious trauma with...

A band that I fell in love with while trading tapes in 1987, sounded less "Punk" but had a great folk vibe and a fierce anxiety to them. New Model Army became one band I had to search for over the years, before the internet that was a task. I got tapes, or CDs of theirs over the years, watching their tour schedules and never getting to see them live. Once I had the chance, but they chang...

Having the opportunity to speak to one of your all time fave musicians does not come often. Shriekback has just released their 18th studio album "Monument" and I got to do a deep dive with Barry Andrews the principal songwriter in Shriekback. We talked about collaborations with Fluke, and some chatter about Gang of Four and the recently passed David Allen (Who was in Shriekback and Gang of Four)....

There is a facebook group "The Bolshoi , the greatest band you never heard of". If you haven't heard of them yet, this will get you chest deep into their work. They began as "The Bolshoi" in the 80s, releasing an EP "Bigger Giants", the "Friends" then "Lindy's Party". A lost album "Country Life" was released in 2015. Giving songs...

Playing with, and for EVERY band you can imagine, guitarist Knox Chandler was also the makeshift cellist in The Psychedelic Furs, and guitarist for so many other musicians. He has worked with Siouxsie & The Banshees, REM, Natalie Merchant, and so many others, his resume shines like few other people could even dream of. Knox has just released an album of experimental music, that borders into th...

If you don't know David J Haskins, or just "David J", then you have missed out on some of the most influential music in the punk, post punk, new wave, goth, psychedelic rock world. Starting off playing bass, and occasional vocals in Bauhaus, then moving on to a solo career, then reforming with Bauhaus bandmates as "Love & Rockets", (that's where I come into the stor...

Holly Cole is one of the greatest female jazz vocalists, hailing from The Great White North (Canada), she has constantly delivered the music that wraps my soul up in the emotions of the moment. Holly has done a whole album of Tom Waits covers (Temptation), or some dark vibes jazz getting through heartbreak and longing (Dark Dear Heart), and various collections between then and now. Now she has rel...

I'm not sure I need to put much of an intro for this one but Toni Tennille [http://www.tonitennille.net/] is one the longest living careear pop stars. She was the only "Beach Girl" (they had her as a famale focalist) and she did so much great pop work in the 70s and 80s with her husbad "Captain" Daryl Dragon. Inspiring everyone from Olivia Newton John, to Sheena Easton, and...

Charles (Chuck) Panozzo is one of founding members of the historical rock band "STYX" with his twin brother John. STYX has been maing music for 50 years, and created some of the most legendary ballads and anthems in rock since the 70s.  Chuck is a phenomenal bassist that managed to keep this band straddling the fine line with metal guitar, and synthesisers. With multi platinum albums &qu...

There are "Legends" in rock & roll,  great guitarists leaving massive legacies, then you have Marco Pirroni, beginning his career by getting booted from Siouxsie & The Banshees TWICE, and then getting roped into playing guitar for Adam Ant, then going on to play with Sinead O'connor for most of her career,  you see a guy like Marco having done it all. His guitar work is monum...

Danny Saber has been "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" for so many albums and musical projects we have all enjoyed  for the last 40 years. He started young, and made some fantastic contributions to rock & roll over the years. This episode (Part 2, go look at last week's and tell me what ya think) Danny tells us about working with David Bowie, Alice Cooper (and golf) and ev...

Cam Cole was a world famous "Busker" (Street Performer) but from his nomadic lifestyle, he had no idea  of his millions of followers, as he was performing on the streets in England.  While performing his own guitar blues and pedal drumkit "One Man Band" his music reached people in the strangest places. He decided to document his first tour of America, and is deep south blues pi...

We all know Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark, or OMD for the brevity, as one of those New Wave Synth bands that has been around for ever, and indeed they have. Topping 40 plus years of making deeply powerful synth pop, they have been at it again with this work that began during covid, and culminated in the masterpiece "Bauhaus Staircase".  This is a great piece, that is full of all the p...

We all remember Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 80s with "Come On Eileen" as an epic tune that you always smile when it comes across the airwaves on the nostalgia station. Dexys (the current name) have been making music for 40 years, and if you missed out on it, there was some wonderful music made by these guys. There was a moment when Kevin Rowland was trying to make some changes in...

A well established pop vocalist Ladyhawke "Pip" releashed her 4th album "Time Flies" in November 2021, it is full of wonderful tunes, fun poppy riffs, and enough lyrical content to hook you on it for several times through. She has been making music since 2008, has millions of streams, and when you get into her groove, you will know why. Charming, she has some great stories behi...

John Grant is "A Boy From Michigan" that started making a name for himself in music with his first band "The Czars" (Not "The Cars" though we did talk about them too). He went solo, and his life has become as bizzaire as the most recent album he released "Love is Magic". His music could have been written by a psychologist with a "Mad Magazine" sens...

A true renaissance man Paul Mazzolini, known to the world by his stage name "Gazebo". He came to prominence everywhere else in the world, except the US. His music was never release here, and it is an absolute travesty that the Americans never got to hear him. I got into his work in 1985, and it was a 7 year journey to even know his name, after I loved his epic "I Like Chopin",...

A New Wave icon in the 80s with his band Kajagoogoo, Limahl also sang the theme to "The Neverending Story", and went on doing solo work for years. His latest work is some great "Jazz Crooner" material, up there with Bing Crosby, Holly Johnson, Martin Fry, and Andy Williams. This new work he decided to spring on us was a cover of America's classic "Horse With No Name&qu...

Cali Tucker hit the screens of the US on "The Voice", she did a lot of cover songs even an album of covers. Now she is playing her own work, that is fun, campy, and delivers a great experience. You just need to watch her videos to get what I am talking about. Her recent release "Urban Cowboy" covers the expanse of none existent creatures, Santa, Bigfoot, Easter Bunny, all of wh...

Having kicked off her career in Britains' Got Talent, Janet Devlin is still delivering great music. She just released a new album "Emotional Rodeo" filling the niche of Country Music in Ireland, (Yeah I didn't even know there was one) and spreading the love thick across all these new song. We talk about the back story for the songs, one of which was written in the aftermath an em...

Sometime you hear someone that hooks ya, then spins you around like when your canoe capsizes and you end up face down in some rapids tossed around completely out of control. That is musically and emotionally what I experienced first time through with "Miss Velvet". Miss Velvet is one of those "andro" artists, like Grace Jones, Prince, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Pink. She has...

What do you do when a veteran guitar player, with punk rock sensibilities, who loves playing sleaze rock, heavy metal, punk, and country rock finally decides to release his own album? We got to ask Frank Meyer at last. Having interviewed him with a project "The Dobermen", and "The Streetwalking Cheetas", and his work with Eddie Spaghetti, you develop a history with one of Rock...

In a world of mixing entire musical genres, I think we have a winner with Nona Invie, I would describe her music as Dream Pop meets folk electronica. Nona Invie is releasing today "An EXCLUSIVE YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST" kind of thing a new album called "Self Sooting" and that is very much what it is. Imagine Peter Murphy's "Love Hysteria" mixed so beautifully into...