Sticky Jazz

I got a call one morning to see if I could interview Bronaugh Gallagher and this amazing little spitfire "Susie Blue" on NO NOTICE about a song they recorded celebrating the day same sex marriage was made legal in Ireland. I knew miss Bronaugh but had never heard of Susie Blue til that morning. I did the piece, and within a day had fallen in love with this woman's music.   Susie Blue is one of the...

There are some bands you just get into, and you never fall out of love with them from that first moment. I got into The Dusbowl Faeries on the relase of their album "The Plague Garden" that they wrote all around the pandemic. I took a deep dive into their work, and have it all still feels as current as it did when I first heard it. Their work is timeless, but also, this TIME around, they talk abou...

If there is anyone who can say they have done it all, it's Mark Bingham, the guitarist, producer, engineer, songwriter, and music industry staple. He has been making music since the late 60s, and worked with more musicians than he has ever gotten credit for.  He started in a really great band "The Screaming Gypsy Bandits" and moved on to record and produce with everyone who ever crossed his studio...

So, I have had plenty of time to be annoyed by Christmas Music, I feel that I should share that with all of you. AND who better to do this with than the Broadway performer Gabrielle Ruiz.  She has been known to the world as "Valencia" on the mock musical TV series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend",  she is the vulcan T'Lyn in Star Trek's "Lower Deck" and Spidey and His Amazing Friends"  Having just released h...

Stella Rose is an rising multifaceted artist. She grew up in a VERY musical family, and took on making her own music recently. The has incredible depth into what she is writing and thinking about, so by the time you hear it, it has been through many many layers of the thought process.  THEN there are her videos. Her videos are like several full length feature films compressed into 5 minutes. There...

From the Avant-Garde tribe of New York City, if you ever needed to know if the movement of performance art is still alive, well, Eszter Balint is proof of that.  Born in Hungary, she has lived in New York City for decades, and has been "boots on the ground" making music to inspire you. She considers the violin her "Weapon of choice" as she delivers sometimes dark, but ever inpsiring music, just ma...

Lea Capelli is in one word "INTENSE" I have covered her before, but this is the first exclusive pice for instinct. She is loud and queer. She came out with her previous work "Weird Awakenings" as her identity as a bisexual woman. Now she is owning it, and taking on everything with sheer intensity. She just released her new EP SHOWGIRL, (L'Freak-show girl more like it).  I love her work, but this n...

If you wanted to hear an Ultra Pagan woman's voice sounding out from the Australian Outback, with a breath of Baroque rock, hey, you got Maryen Cairns and her newest album "ANEW" for that.  She is the daughter of a Scottish religious academic, and spent time in Australia, but lives in Guernsey (a tiny island on the English channel). She has a very "Kate Bush" approach to her singing, but you feel...

If I were to just say "Tiffany" you would know I was talking about the late 80's female pop vocalist who conquered the world touring shopping malls.  Now, with the new album "Shadows" and age 50, she has more music to share with us, and can tell some great stories about it all.  I was too cool to like her back then, but it was a guilty pleasure to be honest. I met her once in an airport and she wa...

The greatest band that flew under the radar, and by the time anyone noticed, it was too late. One of my favorite bands of all time "This Picture" released their first album "A Violent Impression" with the single "Naked Rain" in late 1991, then followed up with "City of Sin" 2 years later, then vanished.  They were mistaken as a U2 clone, which was unfortunate because they were a fantastic creative...

If I were to pull magic out of a hat, and say "Who could tell the story from the underbelly of the L.A. Punk scene from it's inception, and tell it from the point of being queer and hispanic?" You would have Kid Congo Powers. He is an accidental guitarist, who became very successful because he did it just for fun. HE was a fashion fan, inspired by David Bowie, and Patti Smith, who just "Lived" the...

Sam "Himself" is an Swiss American musician, who is a crooner like Elvis, mixed with Bruce Springsteen, and a bit of Greg Laswell. He is able to create a nostalgic feeling of moments where you can totally relate to what he was trying to tell you, and feel it as close to what you might have experienced as well. His lyrics are very deep, moving, and introspective, and often times just tell the story...

The band that should have been, finally are. ANVIL the all things metal band from almost 40 years ago, have finally happened. Anvil are a Canadian metal act that hit it big with their anthem "METAL ON METAL", and they crashed shortly after.  A gutwrenching film called "The Story Of Anvil" was made 13 years ago, that covered their "Afterlife" and continued attempts to keep making it happen. Well, t...

If you want the Twin Peaks Juliee Cruise Bar Bar band to be Siouxsie & the Banshees, well, look no further than "Unloved" they are the kind of band that defy description (just the way I like it). They are an band you just need to experience, and enjoy.  Unloved are a 3 piece ofJade Vincent.  Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes (David who is also a DJ from Belfast Ireland was not present for this inter...

Fronting his own projects, and having played with the Depeche Mode experience "Strangelov" Julian Shah-Taylor is engaged in some sort of musical endeavor pretty much 24/7. His resume of people he has worked with is astounding, he grew up in a music boarding school in England, and learned of non choral music much later in life. He went full throttle into making music with everyone he found interest...

Shriekbacks' Barry Andrews has been gracious enough to let us use his song title "Sticky Jazz" for this podcast, and since he is on the circuit trying to crowdfund the new album, I wanted to give him a slot of conversation here to talk about the new album.  He is putting out Shriekback's 17th studio album "BOWLAHOOLA", and we talked about the writing and the work behind this album, so far, they ar...

IF you ever wanted to know what happened to those great musicians that touched your life with wonderful music, then vanished, well, this book probably covers it. Nick Duerden has managed to interview countless pop-stars and explain how the "Afterlife" is for them, you know, "After" being your fave musician for that year or so.  He explains so much of their lives and experience, drugs, debt, the at...

Wether he is fronting the Streetwalking Cheetahs, or The Dobermen, playing guitar for Cherie Currie, messing around in Warrior Soul, or just playing in the "Schoolhouse Rock" tour, Frank Meyer is the guy involved in some band playing somewhere in Los Angeles.  Frank is a career musician who can say he has done it all, or will do it all. He is a wealth of knowledge of the Los Angeles music scene, a...

Joe Jack Talcum On their 1990 tour, the Dead Milkmen had on the tourbus in lights "Nobody You Know". Not that it made sense, but it was just fun. That is how you describe the Dead Milkmen, they were a fun, comedic Punk band that started in the 80s, and set out only to entertain people, that was their statement.  I have been a fan since 1987, and met Joe several times over the years. The Dead Milkm...

For fans of Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Violent Femmes, and even David Lynch (He indirectily contributed), "Night Crickets" maintain the talents of Victor DeLorenzo, Darwin Meiners, and David J.  What began as 3 friends being fans of eachother's work and talent, inspired by a quirky statement from David Lynch, we have the project "Night Crickets" which is how you would imagine the sounds of thought...

SHAB is a Persian American singer who does a wonderful job of clashing the music of different cultures.  She is a refugee from the Iran/Iraq war, who came to America at age 14. She managed to work her way through school, get a maketing degree, and turn around and present her work to the world in a wonderful package.  She has a great vocal range, but more interesting is just how she mixes the style...

Rock & Roll is excessive, obnoxious, and over the top. Sometimes something right happens and a band becomes huge and has a great message. Fabulous were out to completely prove that last part WRONG.  Simon Spence was a music journalist who decided with a couple other journalists to see if they could create a "Prank" band, and prove that ANYONE would get lots of money thrown at them for being nothin...

Abby Anderson is a Texas native who moved to Nashville to fire up her music carear, she made the kind of music the music label wanted her to make so they could "Sell her". She has just released her first full album of original work, that is about ending relationships, though it might seem like its a single person, her work is about breaking free from overly controlling forces. Those forces could b...

Scottish American singer, songwriter, actress, and YOGA GODDESS, there isn't much she isn't able to talk about. She has an incredible voice, delivering powerful enlightenment all around whatever she was experiencing in that moment of the space time continuoum.  She has been making music since the early 90s, when she was accidentally discovered while studying theater at the royal academy. She has a...

Evvan is a nonbinary folk singer from New York. Celebrating Non Binary Awareness this week, Evvan (they/them/theirs)releases the video for "Craving" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkr8HXTajM]this week, a powerful poppy song about dysphoria.  I learned a great deal about the process and emotional struggle that people with gender dysphoria suffer. I am indeed grateful for what Evvan was able to t...