Interview with Kate Dedinsky & Adam Grindler of The Baker’s Basement Cleveland alternative folk duo the Baker’s Basement (tBB) features the eclectic musical stylings of vocalist/drummer Kate Dedinsky and vocalist/guitarist Adam Grindler.  At their rhythmic core pulses an orange striped, homemade, bucket-drum concoction, the funky back beat on which Dedinsky performs standing up with both swagger and sway.  The duo’s intimate sound, rooted in a whimsical flavor of Americana music and...

Zig At The Gig with Straight Gone, Silvia Mori, OrangeG, The RedLines, The Plutophonics, Mindful Dynasty. Ziggy D of C-Level embarks on a mini solo tour and wants to share the new friends he made!  Show info 4/1/24 Straight Gone, Ziggy D from C-Level, & Silvia Mori at Dirty Dungarees Laundromat And Bar. Straight Gone, Ziggy D from C-Level, & Silvia Mori at Dirty Dungarees Laundromat And Bar. 4/2/24The Plutophonics, Ziggy D from C-Level, & Mindful Dynasty at Gate Keeper Games  The...

Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here is the sublime second album by singer, songwriter, andperformer Stephen Bluhm. It’ll be available as both a vocal version and a companion all-instrumental set. Recorded, mixed, and produced by Bluhm and featuring a host of gifted guestmusicians, the orchestral opus is an elaborate aural feast of strings, horns, flutes, piano, reedinstruments, and other timelessly evocative musical sounds — ambitious, but intimate andconfiding as well. Out of the Nowhere. Into...

  UK British Blues Award winner and 4 time European Blues Awards nominee Bex Marshall’s unique style of guitar playing is a combined technique of slide, blues rock, ragtime and roots pickin’. Her voice is a powerful melting pot of old black woman’s heartache and rock diva soul. Bex is a writer of distinction and notability, she pushes the boundaries of blues, her songs have been called timeless, touches of genius, and now she tours internationally solo or with a three piece band which...

Interview with New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Lynn Drury. Lynn Drury has been performing, in one arena or another, her entire life. At the ripe old age of five she won a 4-H state competition in Mississippi in pole bending. If you don’t know what pole bending is, it’s alittle like barrel racing, Lynn says. That’s horse talk. In a word, rodeos. Once you know that much about Lynn, you understand her approach. She picked up the guitar at 26, went at it like a pro, and she’s never stopped...

Jim Coleman & Michael Wiener of The Children... join us on the show to talk about their second album, A Sudden Craving.      The Children... is an loose collective initially formed and maintained by Jim Coleman and Michael Wiener. Contributing members include Phil Puleo, Kirsten McCord, John Nowlin and Rock Savage. Their live shows are sprawling, experiential and theatrical, integrating song structure, improv, performance and projections.    The Children...'s...

Interview with Brenda Sauter Of The Feelies & Wild Carnation Part 2! Brenda joins us again to talk about Wild Carnation's re-release of their second album Super Bus! New Jersey-based trio comprising Brenda Sauter (The Feelies) on vocals and bass, guitarist Rich Barnes and Chris O'Donovan (Grey District) on drums and vocals.. Way back in the 1990s, a young Delmore stumbled into now-defunct NYC nightclub Wetlands (during the sadly also now defunct, NYU Independent Music Festival), just as...

Interview with Harvey Gold of Tin Huey, Golems of The Red Planet, Half Cleveland, and The HiFis. Harvey Gold is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter based in Akron, Ohio. Harvey's Info https://golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com https://harveygold.bandcamp.com/album/its-messy-vol-1 https://www.tinhuey.com  

Interview with Gary & Laura Dumm Gary is a life-long Clevelander. Gary’s mom helped teach him to read using comic books as a kid, so they’re kind of in his blood! He attended Cuyahoga Community College in the sixties where he took classes in painting and printmaking. He married Laura in 1971, and they started a life of artistic collaboration as well as creating their own art.In 1974 Gary met author Harvey Pekar through a friend of Laura’s who worked with Harvey, and began a 30+ year...

Interview with internationally-known guitar maker and musician Paul Reed Smith. 2024   Paul Reed Smith - Eightlock is a band of high-level musicians who are friends and have “locked” together recording and performing a new kind of groove with its roots in Baltimore funk, DC go-go and New Orleans swing. The band’s sound is a heady brew of blues, soul, rock, funk and other roots sounds, all stirred-up into a groove-alicious gumbo. The line-up is three drummers, a bass player, a female singer...

Broken is the latest release from ‘Benjamin Jayne,’ a project that issustained by Benjamin Wright out of Brattleboro, Vermont. The album wasrecorded in Wright’s home studio, produced by him and Drew Skinner. It’sbeing released by WhatAboutMusic as a digital download and viastreaming platforms on October 13.Benjamin Jayne’s music has been compared to such acts as The National,Nick Drake, as well as Beck, and his baritone vocals have been comparedto Leonard Cohen. However, his new record...

Interview with Raymond Anderson of Nation of No One https://nationofnoone.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/raynon?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing    

Interview with Ramona Jan of The Comateens  Part 2 The Comateens were one of NYC’s earliest synth-punk bands, along with Suicide and Kraftwerk one of the few live bands to perform with a drum machine. Jan and North formed the band in 1978, bonding over their shared love of merely playing music together and the punk rock scene taking shape in downtown NYC. Singer and synth player Lyn Byrd and drummer Harry Viderci joined shortly afterwards. Both cuts were recorded at Mediasound in 1979 with...

Interview with Nicholas West ( Nic North) & Ramona Jan of The Comateens. The Comateens were one of NYC’s earliest synth-punk bands, along with Suicide and Kraftwerk one of the few live bands to perform with a drum machine. Jan and North formed the band in 1978, bonding over their shared love of merely playing music together and the punk rock scene taking shape in downtown NYC. Singer and synth player Lyn Byrd and drummer Harry Viderci joined shortly afterwards. Both cuts were recorded at...

Interview with Catbells on their full-length debut Partly Cloudy.  All the meticulously crafted material on Partly Cloudy was composed by Catbells, and featuresher soft, hypnotic vocals, dreamy melodies and, haunting lyrics. These are blended withelectronic elements and other instrumental seasoning provided by Billy Mohler to produce asonic landscape that is both nostalgic and forward-thinking. With influences ranging from 60’sicons like Nico and Donovan to seminal 90’s Dream-pop artists ala...

 Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Paul Chastain co-founded Velvet Crush rock group. Signed by Alan McGee to his mythic British indie label Creation Records who gave the band’s first and second albums, the latter, the seminal “Teenage Symphonies To God”, worldwide release. Paul’s musical arc also includes path crossings with a handful of top-notch talent. He has been playing and singing alongside pal Matthew Sweet from the pre-”Girlfriend” days onward. Run-ins along the way with such...

Interview with J. Wilms. J. Wilms is a multi-instrumentalist and singer /songwriter. Who has a new album out called The Fighter. Jeremy “J” Wilms has had a long and varied career. He received his Bachelor of Music fromGeorgia State University and his Master of Music from CUNY Queens College, NYC.Jeremy’s jammed with Ornette Coleman at his loft and played Broadway revues at retirementcommunities in New Jersey (sometimes over the same weekend!) He was briefly in ChicoHamilton’s band playing...

Aaron Lange Co-founder of Stone Church Press, author of Ain't It Fun and Peppermint Werewolf.   n the 1970s, Peter Laughner was a founding figure in a primordial ooze of what would come to be called punk rock, in the somewhat unlikely, somewhat necessary place of Cleveland, Ohio. Bands like Pere Ubu, the electric eels, Rocket From the Tombs, the Dead Boys, Devo, and the Pagans all intermingled in this psychosphere; Laughner touched them all. In 1977 at the age of 24 he became punk rock’s...

Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard, based in Hampshire in the UK, is an English musician, songwriter, and music producer at his own studio, Sunshine Corner Studios.  He’s best known for being a drummer, having toured and played livefor ROBBIE WILLIAMS, JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS, GLENN GREGORY with TONY VISCONTI (HOLY HOLY), THE ALARM, GENE LOVES JEZEBEL, ARCHIVE, and many more.  In the studio, he’s played drums for, among others, the following artists; THE MOCK TURTLES, HARD-FI, NEWTON FAULKNER,...

Interview with Bill Million of The Feelies Formed in Haledon NJ in the 1970’s, The Feelies have now released six albums including their critically acclaimed and influential debut Crazy Rhythms, which was voted 49 in the top 100 albums of the 1980s by Rolling Stone magazine and chosen by Spin Magazine as #49 of the best alternative records of all time. Their music has left an indelible mark on the landscape of rock and roll. Supporting the release of their first four albums the band appeared...

Interview with Corey Ledet Zydeco accordion player singer-songwriter Corey Ledet's Zydeco Médikamen is his first zydeco album he’s written and performed completely in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) in recognition of the journey to reclaim his family’s language; it’s his 15 th album overall. The album was recorded at Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana, engineered and mixed by Justin Tocket, produced by Corey Ledet and Louis Michot. Special guests include Germaine Jack, Anders Osborne,...

Interview with Louis Michot, fiddler, songwriter, and lead vocalist for Grammy winners Lost Bayou Ramblers on his debut solo album Rêve du Troubadour. Rêve du Troubadour came from long months during the first years of the pandemic of Michot documenting musical ideas in his backyard a dry-docked houseboat named “Sister Ray, given to Louis by Korey Richey of LCD Soundsystem. Sometimes, waking up at 4AM, he’d have his parts nailed down before daylight. While recording, MIchot kept a pair of...

Robin Hyperius Blake of Hyperius Blake and The Sound Experiment  Talk about Creation 4.5      Event description  Creation 4.5 is coming to YOU on November 11th, 2023! We’ve been teasing and previewing for long enough! Get your pre sales via Cashapp/Venmo! We also accept cash at the door. The anticipation is REAL! Creation is a festival about celebrating the beauty of life, desegregating the creative “scenes”, and providing a safe space for marginalized individuals to gather and express...

Interview with Tim Lee & Susan Bauer Lee of Bark Bark is a drum set, a Fender 6-string bass, two voices and more hooks than Bill Dance keeps in his tackle box. Loud is their new album. Bark comprises the collaborative duo of Susan Bauer Lee (drums and vocals) and Tim Lee (Fender VI bass and vocals) based in Water Valley, Mississippi. Susan has played and toured with Tim the past two decades with Bark and Tim Lee 3. Tim got his start in Missisippi’s The Windbreakers before going on to tour...

Interview with Ted Bowne Of Passafire Passafire was founded in 2003 by Savannah, Georgia natives Ted Bowne on vocals/guitar and Nick Kubley on drums who at the time were students attending Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).[2] Adding Tom Heet on bass and Adam Willis on keyboard, Passafire became a quartet. Their debut self-produced, self-titled album Passafire was released on August 29, 2006. Ted's Info http://passafire.com Tickets for Passafire at Grog Shop Cleveland OH...