Sticky Jazz

Marley Munroe is almost a chameleon, appearing as a dystopian re incarnation of "Auntie" from Thunderdome, singing the national anthem at a Lakers game, or scaring the hell out of you while singing on stage with her hair doing whatever it wants. She has just released an album called "Black Acid Soul" that began as a small project that created this current larger than life persona "Lady Blackbird"....

Lizzie Edwards, and her band "Lizzie & The Makers" is releasing this incredible album "Dear onda Wahl", which happens to be it's own story worth listening to.  The album is the 2nd effort from an intense act, a country blues rock act from Brooklyn, they sound like a grittier country pop act, with the blues to take you places you never thought of. This album is really something, and comes from a wo...

Live from Across the internet, Cherish Alexander a songwriter and musician who has been on the scene for a very long time, and a "RISEN" star over at Kitten Robot Records. She is a graphic designer, musican, and vintage fashion officianado. A mix of the Great Gatsby and Joni Mitchell, meets Alanis Morriset and Anna Nalick for good measure.  We had her perform some of her new music live, so that wa...

A Marine corps veteran with a love of classic cars, and EDM music. Amadeo began a DIY career in music going all with nothing but a console.  His music spans the EDM spectrum, and in many ways clashes them in the same songs. He is a master at re interpreting random samples of voices, and pushing them to some limits beyond what his normal gear was meant to.  This guy is one of those breakin in artis...

If you have heard a trumpet piece, solo, background, or just jamming jazz vibe for the last 40 years on the radio, you have probably heard "Hollywood Paul" more than a dosen times.  Paul Litteral is "The Trumpet Player To The Stars", having played with everyone fromo Robert Plant's Jazz work "The Honeydrippers", to James Brown's "Living In America", touring with The Rolling Stones, and anyone else...

"Baby's Got An Atom Bomb" is a pretty popular line known in the electronica world, Wipeout games, and you have heard them in "The Matrix", "Sin City"plenty of other films. FLUKE created a sound in the synth world in the early 90s that just kept evolving until they had silently conquered the world. Mysterious and quiet, they let their music speak for itself, until now. John Folger, and Mike Tournie...

Metaphysical neuroscientist philosophers "Purple Witch of Culver" are a band that fired up a stream of consciousness laid down with some really unusual experimental jazz music.  They wrote and recorded in the pandemic some wonderful works that make you just smile, and wander through the rest of the universe on different planes of existence. Yeah, they are that AWESOME.  Sarah Safaie and Evan Taylo...

George Mitchel and Steve Doherty were pioneers in the beats and house world in the mid 90s, and have continued making music together. They have remixed everyone from Marc Almond to Kylie Minogue and countless others. (Not to name drop, but they have actually done it all).  They are now releasing their catalog digitally, much of which has never been released digitally. It is quite impressive, and w...

The "Queen of Camp", Josie Cotton is a staple of the New Wave genre and has been just below the mainstream radar on purpose for 40+ years. She kicked off her careear in music in the film "Valley Girl", with songs "Johnny Are you Queer" and "He Could Be The One". Johnny became a celebrated anthem in the LGBTQ community but was also misunderstood by others.  She proudly holds the title for being "Ba...

The Art Collective knows as "The Residents" president Homer Flynn talks about the band, the art, the sound, and the creativity. Having released recently an album of tribute to a blues obscure diety "Dyin Dog", Called "Metal Meat, and Bone", they also are ready to embark on a world tour observing their 50th anniversary.  The residents have created performance art, that goes along with the music, th...

Prog Rock Legend dUg Pinnick is the vocalist and bassist for the prog metal band "King's X". Having ammassed a vast history of being able to play bass that his songs caused musicians to start playing like him 6 months later.  Finally getting away from the "Christian Rock" label after coming out as gay, he was a man on stage with incredible swagger, and his performances were always elightening. Pur...

Daniel Mertzlufft is a classically trained composer, arranger, music director, and songwriter based in New York City. He is most known for his viral sensations The Thanksgiving Musical on The Late Late Show with James Corden featuring Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Josh Gad, Josh Groban, and Kristin Chenoweth, as well as his arrangement of "Remy The Ratatouille" by Emily Jacobson that launched the...

I have been a fan of Chris Connelly since his days in Minstry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, you get the idea. He has spun off his Industrial into a non traditional folk sound. Over 25 albums since he left Ministry, there is plenty to take in  His current album "The Birthday Poems" is a purely Scottish experience from a tiny sliver to time in our history. With the vocal gift from the reclusive Scottis...

Bachelor is the new collaborative project from Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte. The debut album, Doomin' Sun is full of sorded visuals, stimulated by a buffet of great sound. These ladies have a sound from the early 90s, mixed with some new clashes of styles. These two are great friends, and fans of each others' work, they decided to come together, and record an amazing reco...

Daughters of West African Immigrants, these two incredible women have created the sound to bring out the love of every pagan goddess to bless the world. They really are metaphysical in their sound, and sheer beauty screaming forth from the generations of powerful women over the centuries. Nothing could have prepared me for this music, or interview.  Becky, and Esther "Essie" have been friends sinc...

Happy Solstice all you Godless bloodsucking pagans. Let's celebrate with "The Dobermen".  The Dobermen are a clash of GayC/DC (Steve, Chris, Brian) , The Streetwalking Cheetahs (Frank), and Pansy Division (also Chris). Thus, you can guess what they are going to give us. Veteran rock musicians, forming a "Supergroup" to musically take on "The Karen Culture".  Having formed the band off an idea bein...

Raised in Hollywood of the Americana Tinseltown royalty, Phil Crosby Jr had no interest in playing the music of his roots and family legacy. He accidentally stumbled into actually listening to his father, and grandfather's music, and the love of the crooner jazz vocals became part of him.  He is the grandson of Bing Crosby, and son of Phil Crosby, he was raised around the musical royalty of Hollyw...

Aaron Myers is an African American Jazz musician, he has recently released "The Pride Album", on June 10th, celebrating his race, and sexuality. He is bisexual veteran, author, and music director for an all-welcoming church in Washington DC. His music does not pull any punches in his experiences and fears, and outlook on the current threat he feels on so many fronts. For Pride we hope to give him...

Kicking off Pride Month here at Sticky Jazz.  Music in the name of "Good" St. Lenox is the project of Andrew Choi, who's new album "Ten Songs Of Worship And Prais For Our Tumultous Times" has made it into the stratosphere of thought, presented with music. He sounds like a rambling preacher that you just want to keep listening to, and he keeps it coming.  He is a gay first generation American, who...

"PARAAAISE THE LORD", and lots of other religious imagery from the new EP "Substitute Preacher 2" from the guitarist and singer Bhi Bhiman. He has been producing some of the most ecclectic work I have heard in a very long time.  The Substitute Preacher 2 (a follow up to "Substitute Preacher") has a string of covers like you have never heard before, of Black Sabbath, The Cars, and AC/DC. He plays t...

HIGHLY EXPLICIT CONTENT "MAN ON MAN" is the quarantine project of Joey Holman and his boyfriend Roddy Bottum. Roddy is the keyboardist and guitarist for the legendary crossover Punk/Metal band "Faith No More". This new work is nothing short of extraordinary, musically these guys are at the top of their game, and the content has left no stone un-turned for the message and experience. There are them...

Keanan Duffty has been on the music / fashion scene since the inception of The Sex Pistols, he makes music, and teaches fashion and design all over the world.  His band Slinky Vagabond's newest release "King Boy Vandals" holds the images, sounds, and feelings of so much pop culture history that you have to go through it a few times to just take it all in.  For a musician on his calibre, he has a p...

"I lived on the edge for so long, I still get my mail forward from there." James Dean Boldman is a man who did not quite "quietly" sit by and watch the American dream unravel, he got into the fight, trying to understand what was going on around him, he was catapulted into so many different moments of American History.  His book "An American Feast" tells his story from being a teenager in the DC ar...

January Jane is a recent spawn of the New York City music culture that have taken the world by storm, and the pandemic. A host of talented musicians, who happen to write songs with everyone equally involved.  They have given a sample of great work in their upcomming EP called "Your Drug" along with some wonderful catchy tunes, and guitar riffs that make you remember how fun the 80s were, as they r...

Declan James is a Scottish American Electronica Musician. He was producing his electronic music while in High School and idolizing Jack White of the White Stripes.  He missed a song playing in the Superbowl due to illness, but that won't keep him from climbing to the top. Having played several electronic shows on the EDM circuit, he is waiting til he can go back on the road with his current work,...