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Welcome to Sticky Jazz, the music show of a Million different opinions on music. I am Jeremy Hinks, a "Gonzo" music journalist in Salt Lake City Utah, I am also the music editor at large for the LGBTQ publication instinct magazine, (nice of them to let a straight guy write for them isn't it?) I will give you the music you might have heard, might not have heard, but definitely should have heard. I'll give you interviews with some big names, some new people, and someone you heard long ago, and ...
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Every kid who ever doubted themself needs to hear this, every gay person trying to hide it, needs to hear this, every fat kid ashamed of their body, needs to hear this. Kate Yeager is all of that and more, with no shame, or filter. So, if she is going live without a filter, I guess, I should put this live without any editing. I had the most delight…
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In my travels, my friend Eli Quintero (Eliquint) another music journalist, lined up an interview with an amazing queer female vocalist in Germany. I got a text saying "We are interviewing her tomorrow, give her a listen". I did once over, and had fallen in love with this woman's music overnight. This whole experience went really fast, and the next …
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"I'm gazing at faces staring blankly at me" or "A Becher's Brook is love, a hurdle at which greater men have fallen", or so many other opening lines to hit you right in the skull and take you on a musical ride through historical literature, and the thoughts of Mark Burgess, the frontman for the Manchester band "The Chameleons". If you like Interpol…
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Danny Saber has been "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" for so many albums and musical projects we have all enjoyed for the last 40 years. He started young, and made some fantastic contributions to rock & roll over the years. This episode (Part 2, go look at last week's and tell me what ya think) Danny tells us about working with David Bowie,…
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If you have listened to any Rock & Roll over the last 35 years, then you have heard the work of Danny Saber. Having played and produced for everyone from The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, U2, and then his own work in the bands "Black Grape" and so many others. This episode is for hardcore music fans. During Michael Hutchence's "Wilderness Years" fro…
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Welcome Back everyone. Picking up from being away for a while, I got to interview "Walt Disco" a band that I saw supporting OMD in Germany. They are a flamboyant incredibly talented act from Glasgow, that I describe as "If David Bowie sang for Sparks, in the Great Gatsby, with a little Tindersticks in the mix". I LOVED their performance, since beca…
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A Finish / Swedish ethereal popstar Lxandra has been described as having an Amy Winehouse spirit in her music, I got into her because of some of the music, and then the visuals in her videos. A rather deep themed EP recently released called "Might Not Want To Wake Up" caught my ear, and the accompanying film with it caught my eye. There was so much…
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Named after a hill in Spain, two incredibly talented collaborating musicians from Glasgow decided to give us a perfect clash of both of their previous bands. James Hackett from the Scottish band "The Orchids" and long time friend and producer Ian Carmichael from the Scottish Electronica band "One Dove" have released new music that seems to be the b…
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We all know Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark, or OMD for the brevity, as one of those New Wave Synth bands that has been around for ever, and indeed they have. Topping 40 plus years of making deeply powerful synth pop, they have been at it again with this work that began during covid, and culminated in the masterpiece "Bauhaus Staircase". This is a…
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Imagine a fantasy film, sci fi geek who also makes horror film videos to her music. Yeah that sets your mind in motion as to Maisy Kay, and what she does. Maisy Kay is an English songwriter who has incredible vision and creativity, and a very morbid sense of humor. Her music might sound fun and bubbly, but under the hood, she is really unloading a …
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Kaelen Ohm is a Canadian born singer, singwriter, filmaker and actor. She has had her finger in many pies, staring in the Isreali TV- Series "Hit and Run" and several other films "Taken" etc, she has made an outstanding career in music. I found AMAARA to be one of those trance inducing acts, that once you push play, you just let the music take you …
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GAYC/DC, yeah, the band name says it all. As a collaborative band of a bunch of friends who are gay musicians that LOVE heavy metal doing AC/DC covers, somehow this had to happen. If only for the fact that the LGBTQ community needs more Punk and Metal in their diet. GayC/DC are exactly that. As the drummer Brian Welch explained it "We wanted to tak…
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We all remember Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 80s with "Come On Eileen" as an epic tune that you always smile when it comes across the airwaves on the nostalgia station. Dexys (the current name) have been making music for 40 years, and if you missed out on it, there was some wonderful music made by these guys. There was a moment when Kevin Ro…
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SWANS is an experimental rock band, who have been making unconventional music since 1982. Their music requires somewhat of an investment to appreciate. SWANS music will often take you to the far reaches of the human condition and the human psyche, always leaving the door open to interpretation, even when the lyrics seem clear about the idea, after …
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IF 1999 was meant to suddenly be "Nostalgic" Bailey Spinn was born for that moment. She is a DIY musician who mucked about on tiktok for a while then she started to record and is now releasing her own music. Her music sound, and her video elements capture the "Zeitgeist" of 1999, with the imagery of Paula Cole, but with a hard indie rock sound. She…
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A quick 20 minute banter with Roddy and Joey of the beaudacious rock band "Man on Man" a gay couple who made a great record during the pandemic, and are back with a sophomore album "Provincetown" that will showcase the talent of these guys. Roddy is the guitarist and keyboardist for Faith No More, and Imperial Teen, so, you know you are starting wi…
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This is the second hour of the conversation we had, I decided to do the entire interview, because we had so much to cover in his 40 years in the business. He tells some more great stories, and we cover more from the new album. I highly recommend you going through the first segment before this one. We covered Fleetwood Mac, The Stranglers, more Bunn…
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In what I would call the better part of my life, I have had the companionship of the music of Ian McNabb, I got into his band "The Icicle Works" at age 13, diving into "New Wave" coming from the UK. Ian McNabb has had incredible longevity with his solo career, producing some of the best work over the last 30+ years since he went solo. Ian McNabb is…
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A German Dream-pop band with some great 60s pop overtones making you wonder if you are in the 60s, while listening to Camera Obscura or a not so dreary version of "Tindersticks". I talked to Nick from his flat in Berlin about his songwriting, the influencing ideas, writing songs in English, and how they do it. Suzie (June) is who I would describe a…
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MIIRRORS (Spelled with two "I"s is a Chicago based band that was formed from veteran musicians, who had been friends for 20 years and decided to make an album. The talent on this album "Motion and Picture" is immeasurable. Shawn Rios, and Brian McSweeney can put so much into each song, that throughout the album, each song sounds often like it is fr…
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Having gone back and forth for over a decade to finish this album "The Moth, the Lizard, and The Secret Machines" we finally get to hear it. I got to speak to Brandon and Josh about this album, and the space and time between starting this effort, and it's release. We covered the headspace they were in, and the issues behind why the started it in th…
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A fabulous collective of musicians from Hoboken New Jersey, "Wild Carnation" got together and made two incredible albums in the early 1990s. Professional musicians, had a great time with this project, the music was outstanding when first released, and they have now remastered the album "Tricycle" for Record Store Day 2023, with some demos, and a li…
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Of all the bad things to say Rock & Roll gives us, Glitter Wizard celebrate all of it. Imagine everything the Christian Right had against Rock & Roll in 1982, and these guys remind us of all that was great, bad, campy, loud, tasteless, and pure genius of GLAM METAL. I got to talk to Doug Graves the keyboardist for this EPIC project (In his week of …
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Hailing from Mancester England, and just as much of the "Manchester Movement" as all the big names at the same time, A Certain Ratio formed in the late 70s. A Certain Ratio has undergone several changes in membership and each album has delivered a new sound, but they are still the great "Jazz/Funk/Punk/New Wave" act who lived on Factory Records wit…
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Jen Cloher is an indigenous Maori living in Australia. She champions the causes of the Aboriginal and native peoples all around the world. She is one amazing musican and songwriter, channeling her anger, hope, guilt, and strength into bringing awareness to queer rights, inigenous peoples rights, treaties, and holding things sacred, and respect. She…
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Breaking into the American Music Scene, French Queer Europop band "Hyphen Hyphen" have a lot to deliver. They were a couple of art school nerds who found themselves making music as friends, then they kept making it. From their first DIY project to thier new album "C'est la vie" with veteran producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morrisette). They have a Fre…
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I got a call one morning to see if I could interview Bronaugh Gallagher and this amazing little spitfire "Susie Blue" on NO NOTICE about a song they recorded celebrating the day same sex marriage was made legal in Ireland. I knew miss Bronaugh but had never heard of Susie Blue til that morning. I did the piece, and within a day had fallen in love w…
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There are some bands you just get into, and you never fall out of love with them from that first moment. I got into The Dusbowl Faeries on the relase of their album "The Plague Garden" that they wrote all around the pandemic. I took a deep dive into their work, and have it all still feels as current as it did when I first heard it. Their work is ti…
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If there is anyone who can say they have done it all, it's Mark Bingham, the guitarist, producer, engineer, songwriter, and music industry staple. He has been making music since the late 60s, and worked with more musicians than he has ever gotten credit for. He started in a really great band "The Screaming Gypsy Bandits" and moved on to record and …
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So, I have had plenty of time to be annoyed by Christmas Music, I feel that I should share that with all of you. AND who better to do this with than the Broadway performer Gabrielle Ruiz. She has been known to the world as "Valencia" on the mock musical TV series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend", she is the vulcan T'Lyn in Star Trek's "Lower Deck" and Spidey …
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Stella Rose is an rising multifaceted artist. She grew up in a VERY musical family, and took on making her own music recently. The has incredible depth into what she is writing and thinking about, so by the time you hear it, it has been through many many layers of the thought process. THEN there are her videos. Her videos are like several full leng…
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From the Avant-Garde tribe of New York City, if you ever needed to know if the movement of performance art is still alive, well, Eszter Balint is proof of that. Born in Hungary, she has lived in New York City for decades, and has been "boots on the ground" making music to inspire you. She considers the violin her "Weapon of choice" as she delivers …
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Lea Capelli is in one word "INTENSE" I have covered her before, but this is the first exclusive pice for instinct. She is loud and queer. She came out with her previous work "Weird Awakenings" as her identity as a bisexual woman. Now she is owning it, and taking on everything with sheer intensity. She just released her new EP SHOWGIRL, (L'Freak-sho…
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If you wanted to hear an Ultra Pagan woman's voice sounding out from the Australian Outback, with a breath of Baroque rock, hey, you got Maryen Cairns and her newest album "ANEW" for that. She is the daughter of a Scottish religious academic, and spent time in Australia, but lives in Guernsey (a tiny island on the English channel). She has a very "…
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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…
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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 u…
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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 …
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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 …
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I'm not sure I need to put much of an intro for this one but Toni Tennille is one the longest living careear pop stars. She was the only "Beach Girl" (they had her as a famale focalist) and she did so much great pop work in the 70s and 80s with her husbad "Captain" Daryl Dragon. Inspiring everyone from Olivia Newton John, to Sheena Easton, and too …
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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 con…
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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 fro…
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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…
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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 writin…
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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 o…
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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 weal…
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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…
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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" whi…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 fr…
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