Sticky Jazz

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...

Roses & Revolutions have been called "Musical Alchemists", they are one of those bands that collected so many familiar sounds and then handed it over in a wonderful package to listen to.  They were discovered by accident on a Canadian radio station, and how are near superstars making the kind of music you would want in a musical soundtrack of your life. Alyssa Coco has a voice that mixes Sarah McL...

Closing out PRIDE 2022 Chris Garneau is a New York Based multi instrumental vocalist. His work is anything outside of that cookie cutter sound. I found his music really deep, reflective, and crossing so many genres.   Imagine Brian Eno conducting the bar band from Twin Peaks, with Leonard Cohen on vocals, and you are in the general idea of Chris Garneau's music. I was unable to pin it down, and ju...

Hercules & Love Affair [https://www.herculesandloveaffair.net/]is one of the most ecclectic acts ever. They are loosley veiled and pretend to be an electronica dance group, but, that's only if you heard their hits. Sure they do that kind of thing, but they have managed to avoid any sort of responsibility to any genre.  I got to talk to Andy Butler at from his home in Ghent Belgium, and we covered...

For years James Maas has been writing music for other people. With plenty of wins under his belt, he now launched his own project of dance music called "RIP YOUTH".  He is Australian, living in Los Angeles, and is working with different people continually. For his over the top hit performed with "Range [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFZZcF9PQV9VN1lIRn...

Jessica Boudreaux kicks off (and Kicks ass) Gay Pride month for us. She is the Portland based queer punk vocalist for the band "Summer Cannibals", and she is releasing an EP this month "I Think My Heart Likes To Break". She is recently a victor against a bout of Breast Cancer, and is still able to make music. She made this EP during the pandemic, and so much that has changed since her last album,...

website [https://www.mortalprophets.com/] The world needs to hear from The Mortal Prophets, with a horror film like underbelly feel of the Americanist Religions. John Beckmann is the guy who can pull everything from the Unrepentant fallen preacher, still revieving visions and able to scare you in the delivery.  He did some great work with Gary Lucas the guitar god, and covered some pre war blues,...

MuMu is a Harlem NYC Queer feminist singer and composer. She writes really biting pop songs with a wonderful delivery of subject matter you were forbidden to speak of in elementary school.  She wrote the music for the musical "Best Summer Ever" and starred in it alongside Maggie Gyllenhal.  She is one to take even ME off on tangents and has more wit than anyone I have ever interviewed. She has no...

The AM BOYS are a collaboration of Chris Moore (Light Vortex) and John Blonde from House of Blondes. They are an electronica group playing a high speed ambient trance sound, with old school analog keyboards. They managed to take the early synth world, and keep it all modern.  We geeked out about the music they make, how they write it, and who influenced them.  We joked about Kraftwerk, ELO, New Or...