Sticky Jazz

If you find a favorite sound, you want nothing more than an endless supply of that sound. I discovered Ashen Ringlets on youtube just grooving on Cocteau Twins, they did some covers, and I was hooked. I have followed them for years, and talked to them intermittently about projects in the hopper. Having released an EP Of original material titled "Waltzing Days in Maidenhead" last year, an...

Imagine the dreamy vocals of the original Twin Peaks bar band with a harp as the main backing instrument. Yep, it is something I wouldn't have imagined without the music of Stephanie Babirak. Stephanie Babirak is one of those strange musicians that you never knew you had a place for in your life until you heard her, and then can't imagine a universe without her music. An unconventional har...

Barry Andrews and Carl Marsh are back in the studio putting together their 19th studio album "Things With Heads" on full throttle and this is the last week to contribute to make it happen. This album has some darker Shriekback material, and I even got to hear a great Carl Marsh spoken word to music "Plutonium Days". This is an intense opus from what I have already listened to,...

The Wonderful ever puzzling no filter included Madeline Rhodes, aka "MuMu" has just released a musical tell all memoire called "The Brothel". MuMu is a New York based queer feminist artist who was raised in one of the most feminine centric environments in Harlem that they called "The Brothel", with in your face songs like "Free The Nip" and some antics not m...

I got a text from my friend Ty Herndon about a new release he and some friends have just hit the world with. Michael Passons is the former vocalist for the top selling Christian chart topping band "Avalon". He was forced out of the band by refusing to go through conversion therapy. He came out of retirement from singing to re record this one with the true message of the lyrics with Ty He...

Having completely missed the boat when these guys happened, Cinnamon Brown and the Eskimos , a Utah based band, who became the band on Halloween 1997, for a gig in Idaho. They managed to take Utah, and the rest of the area by storm. Cinnamon Brown and The Eskimos are a jam band, mixing everything they could think of into their music, and learning to play it out on how it "Feels" leading...

I don't interview Jazz musicians very often, this time around I got some all stars, Paul Litteral and Angie O'Niell. I interviewed Paul about the Outrageous 8 during the pandemic, and The Paul Litteral Band recently released an album "The Litteral Truth", a Jazz album doing a lot of great covers of old Rock Classics. They covered Steely Dan to The Specials just doing their magic...

My second interview with acclaimed singer-songwriter Chris Garneau, marking four years since our first conversation. In this wide-ranging and deeply philosophical discussion, explore creativity, change, and artistic evolution—delving into territory that left many prepared questions behind in favor of organic, thought-provoking dialogue. These are the best kind of interviews, when the conversation...

Lynn Breedlove (He/They) is a longtime legend in the Bay Area Punk Scene, having played the same stage the same night with Pansy Division (Oh the story there) and so much else. Pulling long time collaborators Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson for this current project "Trust Me" for some really beyond personal experiences of grief, growing up queer, lost in America's sham...

If there was a mix of George Harrison style Beatles, into the Cochella inspired "Desert Rock", only better, you have the music of Imaad Wasif, a Canadian singer / songwriter who now lives in the Los Angeles area. He has been making music for years, and played in other bands, and now has his own label releasing his own music on his terms. With that, we got to discuss his new release &quot...

Dominique Fils-Aime has a commanding presence, just photos show how amazing her visuals are. But once you hear her voice, you feel like you have met the flipside of Florence Welsh and Adele. Her voice is so powerful, playful, soothing, and "other worldly" that her videos almost do it justice. Dominique is a French Canadian Jazz singer from Montreal, and she has a great vibe all her own,...

If there is ever an artist you gotta know the backstory to get a clearer idea of what the music is about, Grace Inspace hands it all to you. I really dove into the video "Helium Balloon" and loved the aesthetics and it brought me back to a childhood fave French film "The Red Balloon" which had apparently been creeping around her subconscious. As I was discovering things in her...

I interviewed Magic Wands previously, and I got to see them opening for Birthday Massacre, and they are back at it. This time in the interim of this interview and posting, they released as single with John Ashton of The Psychedelic Furs (in my interview with him, he stated what a huge fan he is of theirs, and, well, Magic Wands grew up listening to John). I included that final product in this inte...

Quick Milestone everyone, Sticky Jazz was the 2nd most listened to music podcast out of Utah for 2025. VIVE FOR US... Thanks everyone. So, because we are called Sticky Jazz, we are happy to have on the show this week the fantastic female jazz vocalist Andy James. She is an Australian born Jazz singer, and flamenco dancer, who migrated to the US via Madrid Spain. She just released an album "Ar...

Everyone remembers "Unbelievable" by EMF in the early 90s, they were at the forefront of the electro hip hop rock shift that just "happened" out of nowhere, with funky hats, hairstyles and synth pushing rock into new genres. Bands like EMF were getting play everywhere, along with Jesus Jones, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Farm, this was a new take on alternative music that captured...

The FIRST all format episode on Spotify, Youtube, etc. The Psychedelic Furs have been a staple in my musical diet for close to 40 years. I first met the guitarist John Ashton in 1992, then over the years at more gigs than I can count (*Really, it was all a blur). John is one of those guitar gods, who has written some of the best musical compositions in the New Wave genre, so many of them have gone...

Translated from the Fremen language in the Dune books "She Is Eternal" , "Inama Nushif" was the song I first heard and fell in love with the voice and music of Azam Ali. Azam Ali is a Persian (Iranian) born singer who migrated to the United States, bringing with her an amazing voice, and an "Other worldly" spirt to her singing. She has had projects "Niyaz" a...

Hailing from Milwaukee Wisconsin, Mark Waldoch of The Hallelujah Ward have this ability to release music that takes so many pieces of what we all grew up listening to. I mentioned one of his songs had "a great deal of "The Wedding Present " in it, " and Mark's response was "Yeah, but Dave Gedge isn't coming to me for any money." We talked about the songwriting...

A very deep, and enigmatic singer, Lily DeTaeye has been carving out her piece of the music industry with some very distinctive folkish sound songs, then turned "Dream Pop" as of late. A transplant from Des Moines Iowa to New York City, she is still an ambassador for the music scene in the midwest. She has just released a few singles prepping for the live album at Iowa PBS studio 3. (Lin...

P.I.N.E.S. is the new project of Josh Hight, a motorcity born musician, who conducted this interview late night from his home near Brighton England. He was previously in the early 2000's post punk band "The Detachment Project", which showcased his musical prowess, just impressive there. They have just released a very moving ethereal EP called "In His Wake", just 4 songs tha...

Jah Wobble is the original bassist for P.I.L. and has played in so many projects since then, you have probably heard him on some album on bass, not knowing it was him. He was given his name by Sid Vicious, and it stuck. One of the longest lasting punk artists who has gone into the world music genre, he has such trademark bass lines you can tell any of his band's "Deep Space" or &quot...

Alice Cooper, Slash, Gene Simmons, Rob Halford, Sammy Hagar, Anne Wilson, Stephen Tyler, Roger Daltrey, .... Imagine being in a band with any of them, now that is actually a reality. David Fishof is the mastermind of making these dreams come true. "Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp" , or just "Rock Camp" is the opportunity for people to go and engage in a learning workshop with the in...

I have been a sucker for weird "World Music" the clashing of cultural sounds, and finding ways to weave the spirited folk music of people into completely different culture's music. When it is done right, there is something absolutely wonderful that comes from it, where the music takes you where it want's to go. I got to interview Charlie and John of Tian Qyiy, and that is exactly...

Veteran rock journalist, and biopic author Marc Shaprio has written 90+ books about musicans, actors, and even a couple sci fi comic books with Julie Newmar. I have read plenty about The Beatles, I know people who were there, and told me stories I had never heard from any other source. Well, this time Marc Shapiro lays out with incredible detail a chronological story of the lives of The Beatles, b...

Ty Herndon is the first openly gay country music singer. I met him at Loveloud in 2019, and we have been friends ever since. He just sunsetted his passion project "Love and Acceptance" which was a music festival in Nashville celebrating the LGBTQ community in a city that is not as friendly to the cause as others. He explains why in this interview, and I had to edit out the "Top Secr...