Sticky Jazz

The "Queen of Camp", Josie Cotton is a staple of the New Wave genre and has been just below the mainstream radar on purpose for 40+ years. She kicked off her careear in music in the film "Valley Girl", with songs "Johnny Are you Queer" and "He Could Be The One". Johnny became a celebrated anthem in the LGBTQ community but was also misunderstood by others.  She proudly holds the title for being "Ba...

The Art Collective knows as "The Residents" president Homer Flynn talks about the band, the art, the sound, and the creativity. Having released recently an album of tribute to a blues obscure diety "Dyin Dog", Called "Metal Meat, and Bone", they also are ready to embark on a world tour observing their 50th anniversary.  The residents have created performance art, that goes along with the music, th...

Prog Rock Legend dUg Pinnick is the vocalist and bassist for the prog metal band "King's X". Having ammassed a vast history of being able to play bass that his songs caused musicians to start playing like him 6 months later.  Finally getting away from the "Christian Rock" label after coming out as gay, he was a man on stage with incredible swagger, and his performances were always elightening. Pur...

Daniel Mertzlufft is a classically trained composer, arranger, music director, and songwriter based in New York City. He is most known for his viral sensations The Thanksgiving Musical on The Late Late Show with James Corden featuring Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Josh Gad, Josh Groban, and Kristin Chenoweth, as well as his arrangement of "Remy The Ratatouille" by Emily Jacobson that launched the...

I have been a fan of Chris Connelly since his days in Minstry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, you get the idea. He has spun off his Industrial into a non traditional folk sound. Over 25 albums since he left Ministry, there is plenty to take in  His current album "The Birthday Poems" is a purely Scottish experience from a tiny sliver to time in our history. With the vocal gift from the reclusive Scottis...

Bachelor is the new collaborative project from Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte. The debut album, Doomin' Sun is full of sorded visuals, stimulated by a buffet of great sound. These ladies have a sound from the early 90s, mixed with some new clashes of styles. These two are great friends, and fans of each others' work, they decided to come together, and record an amazing reco...

Daughters of West African Immigrants, these two incredible women have created the sound to bring out the love of every pagan goddess to bless the world. They really are metaphysical in their sound, and sheer beauty screaming forth from the generations of powerful women over the centuries. Nothing could have prepared me for this music, or interview.  Becky, and Esther "Essie" have been friends sinc...

Happy Solstice all you Godless bloodsucking pagans. Let's celebrate with "The Dobermen".  The Dobermen are a clash of GayC/DC (Steve, Chris, Brian) , The Streetwalking Cheetahs (Frank), and Pansy Division (also Chris). Thus, you can guess what they are going to give us. Veteran rock musicians, forming a "Supergroup" to musically take on "The Karen Culture".  Having formed the band off an idea bein...

Raised in Hollywood of the Americana Tinseltown royalty, Phil Crosby Jr had no interest in playing the music of his roots and family legacy. He accidentally stumbled into actually listening to his father, and grandfather's music, and the love of the crooner jazz vocals became part of him.  He is the grandson of Bing Crosby, and son of Phil Crosby, he was raised around the musical royalty of Hollyw...

Aaron Myers is an African American Jazz musician, he has recently released "The Pride Album", on June 10th, celebrating his race, and sexuality. He is bisexual veteran, author, and music director for an all-welcoming church in Washington DC. His music does not pull any punches in his experiences and fears, and outlook on the current threat he feels on so many fronts. For Pride we hope to give him...

Kicking off Pride Month here at Sticky Jazz.  Music in the name of "Good" St. Lenox is the project of Andrew Choi, who's new album "Ten Songs Of Worship And Prais For Our Tumultous Times" has made it into the stratosphere of thought, presented with music. He sounds like a rambling preacher that you just want to keep listening to, and he keeps it coming.  He is a gay first generation American, who...

"PARAAAISE THE LORD", and lots of other religious imagery from the new EP "Substitute Preacher 2" from the guitarist and singer Bhi Bhiman. He has been producing some of the most ecclectic work I have heard in a very long time.  The Substitute Preacher 2 (a follow up to "Substitute Preacher") has a string of covers like you have never heard before, of Black Sabbath, The Cars, and AC/DC. He plays t...

HIGHLY EXPLICIT CONTENT "MAN ON MAN" is the quarantine project of Joey Holman and his boyfriend Roddy Bottum. Roddy is the keyboardist and guitarist for the legendary crossover Punk/Metal band "Faith No More". This new work is nothing short of extraordinary, musically these guys are at the top of their game, and the content has left no stone un-turned for the message and experience. There are them...

Keanan Duffty has been on the music / fashion scene since the inception of The Sex Pistols, he makes music, and teaches fashion and design all over the world.  His band Slinky Vagabond's newest release "King Boy Vandals" holds the images, sounds, and feelings of so much pop culture history that you have to go through it a few times to just take it all in.  For a musician on his calibre, he has a p...

"I lived on the edge for so long, I still get my mail forward from there." James Dean Boldman is a man who did not quite "quietly" sit by and watch the American dream unravel, he got into the fight, trying to understand what was going on around him, he was catapulted into so many different moments of American History.  His book "An American Feast" tells his story from being a teenager in the DC ar...

January Jane is a recent spawn of the New York City music culture that have taken the world by storm, and the pandemic. A host of talented musicians, who happen to write songs with everyone equally involved.  They have given a sample of great work in their upcomming EP called "Your Drug" along with some wonderful catchy tunes, and guitar riffs that make you remember how fun the 80s were, as they r...

Declan James is a Scottish American Electronica Musician. He was producing his electronic music while in High School and idolizing Jack White of the White Stripes.  He missed a song playing in the Superbowl due to illness, but that won't keep him from climbing to the top. Having played several electronic shows on the EDM circuit, he is waiting til he can go back on the road with his current work,...

Acclaimed electronic musician, producer, and composer Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay, the Mercury Prize-winning co-founder, composer, and producer of UK acid folk band Tunng, have united for a remarkable new album inspired by the life and work of visionary American writer/artist Henry Darger.  This accidental discovery of the "American Vincent Van Gough" Henry Darger had a vision for the lo...

Re introducing herself into the music world with her own music after 10 years hiatus as a ghostwriter, Beverlee has a lot to say.  She has been making music for a long time, some extraordinary, a lot you probably have heard, just not with her name attached to it.  The new album coming out later this year features some varied subjects, and deepening introspection as to the different phases of life,...

A Canadian Dyslexic metaphysical anarchist agrarian songwriter, Ed Roman is an amazing musician, I rate up there as the Canadian Jimmy Buffett.  His album "Red Oman" a play on his own name, being dyslexic, tells a wonderful story of so many lives clashing together it is really a delight to listen to, and pick apart. He just released an album last year, and has more work coming, but his life is lik...

L'FREAQ is coming onto the scene with some new work. Imagine SWANS meets Massive Attack with the Art Direction of Nick Cave and Gavin Friday, just to make it freakier. Bullied as a teenager she has moved on to own it, and fly her Freaq Flag high, celebrating the serious Freaq she has going on under the surface, and she has no problem telling you that. Following up on her recent EP "Weird Awakening...

The "Marlon Brando of Punk" was the title Josie Cotton gave to Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. the West Coast punk band that emerged in the early 80s. T.S.O.L. are a staple in the punk genre, and they dabbled in a bit of "horror film" records that were absolutely fantastic. Covering themes of Anarchism, bullying, and some topics you just need to listen to the music for. T.S.O.L. have a large catalog that...

Salt Lake City's Folk and Punk scens are very lively, and somewhere this bunch of screwball multi instrumentalist gurus decided to come together and make a fantastic sound. Leaving conventional wisdom, logic, and any ability to shave behind, Folk Hogan was born.  They have been making music and living the Salt Lake Art scene long enough to have seen and done it all, and still manage to be sober en...

In the 80s Jay Aston launched into the flamboyant eccelctic glam band "Gene Loves Jezebel" with his twin bother Michael Aston.  They broke into the music world with so many unconventional stories that his whole careear does not really fit any paradigm of an artist.  I have seen him many times over the last 30+ years as Gene Loves Jezebel was actually the first artist I ever saw perform live. Still...

Para Lia, Imagine New Model Army meets Fury In The Slaughterhouse, and Peter Hook's first solo venture from New Order called "Revenge" yeah, that is how this band sounds.  Originally from Falkenberg Germany, Para Lia is an indie rock duo, now based in Cottbus near Berlin. Influenced by the rhythms and tones of '90s alt-rock and the synth density of '80s darkwave, their own sound blends melodic gui...