Zig At The Gig podcast

Nashville-based husband-and-wife duo Mike T. Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer, known on stage as The Twangtown Paramours, have made a name for themselves defying boundaries with their award-winning catalogue of Americana, folk, and blues anthems. With a slew of accolades for their first two acoustic full-length albums, they’ve earned a loyal following, balancing serious instrumental and vocal chops with w...

's comics and drawings have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker and in every section of The New York Times. His work has also appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, Best American Comics (cover artist), Nickelodeon Magazine and Time Out among many others. His comics and illustrations have been published in the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and Australia. Heatley's graphic memoir My Brain is...

Bullies In The Backyard,” North’s second LP, features 10 songs written under the cloud of a seven-year lawsuit Matt’s family ultimately won against Nashville Public Schools due to violations against his son’s special needs. The Federal Court verdict changed precedents and now benefits families nationwide facing similar challenges. No, it’s not 10 songs about special education, but with no work in...

 Interview with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto !   hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. Alexander Hac...

Zig At The Gig with Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes Josh Caterer is an American, Chicago-area musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of pop-punk band Smoking Popes, which he founded in 1991 with his older brother Matt and younger brother Eli. Josh has also written and recorded Christian and gospel music as a solo artist and with the pop-punk band Duvall. In...

Interview with John Leon of The Royal Arctic Institute 2021 The Royal Arctic Institute’s first full exploratory mission in their current five-piece incarnation. The album was recorded and produced by James McNew (Yo LaTengo) in the historic Neumann Leather Factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. The EP is being released February 4th, 2022 by Already Dead Cassettes and will be available on cassette (duh!),...

Interview with Avery Mandeville of Little Hag. Little Hag, the artist is formerly known as Avery Mandeville, was conceived in a New Jersey basement and born again in quarantine. Under the Mandeville mantle, she released a number of EPs and put many miles on other people’s vans touring the US. What started as a sarcastic Instagram handle (@littlehag) slowly became serious and somehow a small, vulga...

Zig at the gig with Micki Free Micki Free is a Grammy Award Winner & Five-Time Native American Music Award, Winner. Micki was discovered and managed by Gene Simmons of the legendary supergroup KISS. Micki was the guitarist in the R&B sensation Shalamar, boasting "mega-platinum hits" with songs like "Dancing In The Sheets" from the movie soundtrack "Footloose", our friend Eddie Murphy's smash hit m...

SINE is an electronic band created by singer and drummer, Rona Rougeheart. Rona's Info https://sineofficial.bandcamp.com https://sine.band http://www.facebook.com/sinebandofficial  

So it is with giddy relief that we swing open wide our creaky doors to welcome the percussive bass bottoms, deftly lathed drums, and sinisterly insinuated guitar dissonance of Flood Twin to swoop in and rescue us all from this sensory deprivation chamber. And to announce their arrival, frontman and bass player Grant W. Curry reminds us in the album’s opening track, “People,” that: “There’s no in-b...

David and Ben of The Chewy Center join Zig to talk about their new EP L.LC available now on all streaming platforms. The Chewy Center is a jam-infused, space rock band from Cleveland, OH comprised of members, David "D. Flo" DeFlorentis (vocals/guitar), Nate "Vegas" Vagase (bass guitar), Stephen Fabec (keyboards), and Ben Fasciano (drums). Chewy plays with aggressive rhythms, funky bass, inventive...

Harpist Cassie Watson Francillon Talks about her new album e.g,rhapsodic ! Shakespeare & the Blues makes instrumental experimental music drawing on Jazz and Hip Hop influences featuring Cassie Watson Francillon on concert harp, Smith on drums and electronics and Webre (Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers) on bass and electronics. The songs on e.g,rhapsodic are uninhibited explorations o...

Sarah McQuaid is a singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has recorded six solo albums: When Two Lovers Meet (self-released, 1997), I Won't Go Home ’Til Morning (self-released, 2008), The Plum Tree And The Rose (Waterbug Records, 2012), Walking into White (Waterbug Records, 2015), If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2018) and The St Buryan...

Lilli Lewis is an American folk and Americana singer, songwriter, and pianist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is sometimes known as the "Folk-Rock Diva Americana, her third full album for Louisiana Red Hot Records. The album was co-produced by Lewis and iconic indie producer Mark Bingham (Peter Stampfel, Hal Wilner, Allen Ginsberg…). Notable guest artists include cellist Rick Nelson (Afghan W...

Weasel Walter is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records. Walter's work has been informed by techniques and traditions of music including no wave, free jazz, extreme metal, punk, noise, new music, and free improvisation. Weasel's Info http://nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter/ https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com https://twitter.com/ugexplode?lan...

Zig At The Gig With Marky Ray A native of Cleveland, Marky emerged from its fertile punk seen in the early Eighties, back when the Cleveland Heights/Coventry neighborhood served as ground zero for local rocker misfits. As Marky knows better than anyone, the business of rock isn’t for sissies. He’s seen it from every conceivable angle – guitarist, bassist, keyboard player, singer, roadie, show prod...

John San Juan Singer songwriter/ guitarist of The Hushdrops Hushdrops are a three-piece rock band from Chicago featuring current and former members of Veruca Salt, Liam Haye, Plush, The Waco Brothers, The Webb Brothers, Josh Caterer Of Smoking Popes, Kevin Tihista, and NRBQ, The band's 2004 debut album Volume One was followed in 2014 by the double album Tomorrow. Drummer Joe Camarillo died unexpec...

Kira Roessler  is an American musician,  Bass player, singer songwriter, and two-time Emmy Award -winning dialogue editor  She is perhaps best known as the bassist for the influential Hardcore band  Black Flag, Dos, AwkWard. Kira just released her first solo album KIRA on Kitten Robot records.   Kira's info  https://kittenrobot.com/artist/kira-roessler Get Kira's latest release here ! https://punk...

Zander Schloss is an American musician, actor and composer. He is known as bass player for the Circle Jerks, and the Weirdos, his many collaborations with Joe Strummer .   Schloss has rolled up an impressive résumé that includes his featured acting performance alongside Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez in Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic feature Repo Man; work on the soundtracks for Cox’s later f...

Zig At The Gig With Matthew Scheuermann of lowercase roses Interview with singer-songwriter Matthew Scheuermann of No Target audience, Americain War, The Sidekicks, and most recent lowercase roses. On Titanic planet, Philly’s Matthew Scheuermann got his start in the midwestern indie-rock outfit The Sidekicks and has been making beautiful, home-recorded projects under the name lowercase roses for t...

Zig At The Gig with Sam Regas and Matt Mcdonald The Cleveland, Ohio cousin-duo, Regas-McDonald. Our releasing their sophomore record, Hall of Fame Cities, on Nov. 10th with the Brooklyn-based Voltage Control Records. https://twitter.com/regasmcdonald https://www.facebook.com/RegasMcDonald https://www.voltagecontrolrecords.com/releases/vcr-1009b-regasmc-single/vcr1009b-regasmc-single? fbclid=IwAR0K...

Austin Stambaugh is a guitarist, poet, and songwriter from northeast Ohio. Enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen, he has supported national touring acts such as Malcolm Holcombe and Kinky Friedman. He lives in Nashville, TN. Austin's Info austinstambaugh.com Instagram   Spring Fish Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSoxmv6R44&t=10s  Knitting for the NICU Amy Baker Benefit...

Zig At The Gig With King Yellowman 2021 Interview with Raggae Legend Yellowman !!! King Yellowman has an incredible history in Reggae music. His upbringing at the Maxfield Home orphanage in Kingston and being albino in Jamaica were two obstacles he overcame and went on to be (at one time) the biggest reggae artist since Bob Marley. After winning a talent contest at Tastee Patties in Kingston, Yell...

Kevin Eastman Returns!!! Kevin Eastman is an American Comic book artist and writer best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles with Peter Laird. Eastman was also the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal! Kevin started his own publishing company Tundra Publishing, and so much more!   More from Kevin Eastman https://fan.kevineastmanstudios.com/ Check it out!! Kevin has turtle...

Zig At The Gig interview with Victor Wooten Victor Wooten, now a five-time Grammy winner, hit the worldwide scene in 1990 as a founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Continuing to blaze a musical trail with the band, Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy nominated solo recordings and tours. Among other things, he is a loving husband and father of four, a...