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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...

"Clay" is one of the deepest people I have ever spoken to in the music industry. She is relasing her EP "Breathing Into Bloom" this week. She sings a nice soul vocal, on top of whatever she wants to do, but the subject matter is beyond soul searching. She covers multiple angles of mental health you really can get an idea where she has been.  In my conversation with her, I found that what I thought...

Celina Graves does everything on her own terms. She took the stage at America's Got Talent and was instantly loved. She has a powerful voice that you can feel the strength in her performances, at the same time she could hypniotize you with a soothing calm when she talks.  She has put so much into her singing, but no one got to hear it til she was 30. With more music coming, writing about a life of...

A band who is very misunderstood, who's history you could spend a lifetime reasearching, Christian Death is one of those bands that Frank Zappa would have spoken about against censorship in front of congress. I have listened to them since I was 14, and seen their music as very deep, and thought provoking.  Most people would be put off by their fans befor ever listening to the music, but if you lik...

In the world of Mock & Roll, you have few that have achieved as awesome a history written before, during and even before after the fact, as "Space Potatoes", matched only by "The Ruttles" and "Spinal Tap", even "Bad News" could not have attained what thes guys have done.  Having reformed and united after the before their greatest hits album was even released, they had to create some, and they real...

If you could imagine Gang of Four, with a psychedelic hippie female vocalist, you would have The New Up. (Only sounding still cooler than that). They are a psychedelic electro rock band out of San Francisco, who work as medical researchers in the day, and create metaphysically inspiring music at night. In short, they are REALLY SMART PEOPLE.  The hope to inspire people to think about change, and w...

Nathan Gray has released his latest album with his band "The Iron Roses" in with the personality of a preacher, and the heart of a revoultionary, not so much Che, or even George Washington, but more, Joe Strummer, yeah, that's it... He gives us this great "East Coast" indie rock feel with the hope to change the world, by looking back at what we have tried to do for so long, and what has, and has n...

Life's like Sanskrit read to a pony...  Lou Reed is the God of Rock & Roll, and his earth-shattering epic album "Magic and Loss" addresses mortality, pain, suffering, death, cancer, morphine, circumcision, and so much more, all in one effort. It is my favorite Lou Reed album, and it also happens to be the fave of Chris Connelly. Chris Connelly is no stranger to most people, he has played in Minist...

Ali Angel is breaking into the soul scene with her self titled EP, so far the songs "Play Pretend" and now just released cover of Al Green's "I Am A Ram" are taking spotify by storm. This episode timed right for her cover to be ready for the Superbowl Tailgate parties.  She is inspired by Prince, James Brown, and all the good stuff from the 1970s, and she is bringing it back with style.  We talked...

NYC based psychedelic Funkmaster falsetto vocalist, Nick Vivid has oh so much to make you smile about.  Having released recently an album "No More Secrets" written during the pandemic to follow up from previous works like "Nicksploitation", his new work covers a lot of the introspective thinking many of us went through during the pandemic. (And probably still are, let's face it, it's still going.)...

Irish female vocalist and songwriter took the UK by storm on X-Factor UK, she was "In" the music industry instantly, and has been making her own music for 10 years.  She recently released "It's Not That Deep" an EP called of a few covers that fans have been waiting on for, well, those last 10 years. In our conversation she explains why she waited til now to release these songs. ("A Place Called Ho...

To claim the title "BITCH" she went through a lot of work, and it paid off. However, the artist who goes by "BITCH" is anything but. She is an absolute sweetheart, comedic, witty geniues. She has no boundaries, and NO limits to her creativity. She is warm hearted, friendly, and her musical talent starts with classical violin, and somehow merges David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and Cyndi Lauper.  A st...

I have been writing a book called "As It Is, When It Was. Or Wasn't" I'ts a collection of the shows I have gone to over the last almost 40 years.  I have been asked to tell some stories from the gigs I have been writing about, so, this episiode I tried to go pretty wide in who I talked about.  The Go Betweens, and A-House March 22 1989, Salt Lake City UT.  Bob Geldof, Sept 22, 2002, Boston MA.  Pe...

Katie Daryl is a "Music Journalist" personality. She started hosting a radio show as a teenager, and worked her way up through several shows like "True Music" and "Deadline" to hosting shows on AXS TV.  Her most recent show "The Top Ten Revealed" is something every Music Junkie and Historian would gladly get involved in, if anything, just to argue about the content of any list that comes up.  We s...

Dunstan Bruce is one of the vocalists for the Anarchist Collective known as "Chumbawamba". He is a also a film maker (and his birthday is Dec 31, so Happy Birthday this week Dunstan).  Having been incredibly successful holding to his anarchist ideals, and a long careear of making great music, he now has made a film about it penned from the biggest hit "I Get Knocked Down" (From the Chumbawamba son...

Beautiful Blasphemy  One of the finest and underrated, underexposed and almost unknown, "The Nails" are in fact one of the bands you should have heard so much of, but they never got the radio play.   New York City's finest "New Wave" act from the 80s, known for their hit "88 Lines About 44 Women", and "Things you left behind", they created a wonderful catalog of incredible music, twisted lyrics, d...

For a piece of counterculture, life as an artifact, and gathering someone elses' stories, Linda Kelly bridged a generation to make sure that the "Deadhead" culture and cultural phenomenon remain in tact.  Linda Kelly wrote a book called "Deadheads" and was hailed by Rolling Stone Magazine as "The most comprehensive book about The Grateful Dead", the thing is, it's not really about the band directl...

Kicking off the Christmas season, because you all know I HATE Christmas music, I got Louis Prima jr and The Witnesses just releasing their new single "Hey Skinny Santa" to do it for us. Louis Prima jr was rasied in the music business by virtue of his father Louis Prima. You all know his father's work from Disney films "The Jungle Book" and "Just a Gigalo" and the Vegas Lounge Scene. Louis formed h...