Sticky Jazz

"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...

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...