Sticky Jazz

Named after a hill in Spain, two incredibly talented collaborating musicians from Glasgow decided to give us a perfect clash of both of their previous bands.  James Hackett from the Scottish band "The Orchids" and long time friend and producer Ian Carmichael  from the Scottish Electronica band "One Dove" have released new music that seems to be the best of both worlds.  The just released single "Y...

Imagine a fantasy film, sci fi geek who also makes horror film videos to her music. Yeah that sets your mind in motion as to Maisy Kay, and what she does.  Maisy Kay is an English songwriter who has incredible vision and creativity, and a very morbid sense of humor. Her music might sound fun and bubbly, but under the hood, she is really unloading a lot of thought, deep in dark spaces of the univer...

Kaelen Ohm is a Canadian born singer, singwriter, filmaker and actor.  She has had her finger in many pies, staring in the Isreali TV- Series "Hit and Run" and several other films "Taken" etc, she has made an outstanding career in music.   I found AMAARA to be one of those trance inducing acts, that once you push play, you just let the music take you on an adventure.  The most recent album "Child...

GAYC/DC, yeah, the band name says it all. As a collaborative band of a bunch of friends who are gay musicians that LOVE heavy metal doing AC/DC covers, somehow this had to happen. If only for the fact that the LGBTQ community needs more Punk and Metal in their diet. GayC/DC are exactly that. As the drummer Brian Welch explained it "We wanted to take the most "hetero-normal " band and turn it on it...

SWANS is an experimental rock band, who have been making unconventional music since 1982. Their music requires somewhat of an investment to appreciate.  SWANS music will often take you to the far reaches of the human condition and the human psyche, always leaving the door open to interpretation, even when the lyrics seem clear about the idea, after listening to it enough the music can often change...

IF 1999 was meant to suddenly be "Nostalgic" Bailey Spinn was born for that moment. She is a DIY musician who mucked about on tiktok for a while then she started to record and is now releasing her own music.  Her music sound, and her video elements capture the "Zeitgeist" of 1999, with the imagery of Paula Cole, but with a hard indie rock sound.  She grew up in country, and hip hip, and caught on...

A quick 20 minute banter with Roddy and Joey of the beaudacious rock band "Man on Man" a gay couple who made a great record during the pandemic, and are back with a sophomore album "Provincetown" that will showcase the talent of these guys. Roddy is the guitarist and keyboardist for Faith No More, and Imperial Teen, so, you know you are starting with some top notch talent here.  For Pride month 20...

This is the second hour of the conversation we had, I decided to do the entire interview, because we had so much to cover in his 40 years in the business. He tells some more great stories, and we cover more from the new album. I highly recommend you going through the first segment before this one.  We covered Fleetwood Mac, The Stranglers, more Bunnymen stories, and even Bounty Hunting. No stone u...

In what I would call the better part of my life, I have had the companionship of the music of Ian McNabb, I got into his band "The Icicle Works" at age 13, diving into "New Wave" coming from the UK. Ian McNabb has had incredible longevity with his solo career, producing some of the best work over the last 30+ years since he went solo.  Ian McNabb is from Liverpool England, and we talked at length...

A German Dream-pop band with some great 60s pop overtones making you wonder if you are in the 60s, while listening to Camera Obscura or a not so dreary version of "Tindersticks".  I talked to Nick from his flat in Berlin about his songwriting, the influencing ideas, writing songs in English, and how they do it. Suzie (June) is who I would describe as "The New NICO" (Yes I did say that) who has a v...

MIIRRORS (Spelled with two "I"s is a Chicago based band that was formed from veteran musicians, who had been friends for 20 years and decided to make an album. The talent on this album "Motion and Picture" is immeasurable.  Shawn Rios, and Brian McSweeney can put so much into each song, that throughout the album, each song sounds often like it is from a totally different band.  Some of their stuff...

Having gone back and forth for over a decade to finish this album "The Moth, the Lizard, and The Secret Machines" we finally get to hear it.  I got to speak to Brandon and Josh about this album, and the space and time between starting this effort, and it's release. We covered the headspace they were in, and the issues behind why the started it in the first place. (And how they came about finishing...

A fabulous collective of musicians from Hoboken New Jersey, "Wild Carnation" got together and made two incredible albums in the early 1990s. Professional musicians, had a great time with this project, the music was outstanding when first released, and they have now remastered the album "Tricycle" for Record Store Day 2023, with some demos, and a live set.  We talked about the music as it happened,...

Of all the bad things to say Rock & Roll gives us, Glitter Wizard celebrate all of it. Imagine everything the Christian Right had against Rock & Roll in 1982, and these guys remind us of all that was great, bad, campy, loud, tasteless, and pure genius of GLAM METAL.  I got to talk to Doug Graves the keyboardist for this EPIC project (In his week of jury duty ) where we covered every topic known to...

Hailing from Mancester England, and just as much of the "Manchester Movement" as all the big names at the same time, A Certain Ratio formed in the late 70s. A Certain Ratio has undergone several changes in membership and each album has delivered a new sound, but they are still the great "Jazz/Funk/Punk/New Wave" act who lived on Factory Records with so many other greats.  This new Album 1982 is an...

Jen Cloher is an indigenous Maori living in Australia. She champions the causes of the Aboriginal and native peoples all around the world.  She is one amazing musican and songwriter, channeling her anger, hope, guilt, and strength into bringing awareness to queer rights, inigenous peoples rights, treaties, and holding things sacred, and respect. She is one of the most wonderful people I have ever...

Breaking into the American Music Scene, French Queer Europop band "Hyphen Hyphen" have a lot to deliver.  They were a couple of art school nerds who found themselves making music as friends, then they kept making it. From their first DIY project to thier new album "C'est la vie" with veteran producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morrisette).  They have a French passion behind a sound mixed with London Gra...

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...