Zig At The Gig podcast

Interview with David Nagler of As For the Future.

As For the Future is a new Brazilian music-inspired group based in NYC. Drawing on avariety of styles – bossa nova, samba, MPB (Música popular brasileira) – andcombining them with rock, jazz, folk, and soul influences, the group mates their distinctive sound with vibrant, original lyrics.

As For the Future’s self-titled / self-produced debut album will be released on Friday,June 14 on their own As For the Future Music imprint. The record will be available ondigital/streaming, LP, and Deluxe Edition CD featuring nine bonus tracks (alternatemixes, dub versions, and edits). Over 90% of the record was recorded entirely remotely at an assortment of home &professional studios. The record was mixed by D. James Goodwin

As For the Future's Info

instagram.com/asforthefuture

soundcloud.com/asforthefuture

facebook.com/asforthefuture

tiktok.com/@asforthefuture

youtube.com/@AsForTheFuture

asforthefuture.bandcamp.com

Interview with Mark Scully of WORLDSUCKS  

The world sucks—but it doesn't have to. WORLDSUCKS is a band born from friendship and fueled by frustration. Our songs and shows deal with the injustices of the world, channeling our own fury and seeking out others who feel a similar sense of rage and exasperation. This is activism rock, just one action of many we're trying to take to stand up for the liberation of all people. We are not hopeless—justice is inevitable. 

WORLDSUCKS is the ongoing evolution of 30 years of friendship and music making between Mark (guitar/vocals) and Nick (drums/vocals). Our music expands and deepens along with our consciousness. As part of that sonic exploration comes Tony Doucet, whose bass playing and creativity is adding new dimensions to the WORLDSUCKS sound.

5/29 Cincinnati OH 5/30 Youngstown OH SHOW INFO IN LINKS

WORLDSUCKS'S info 

worldsucks

worldsucks

https://www.instagram.com/worldsucks66/?img_index=1

https://worldsucks.bandcamp.com/

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 topped with playful vocal layers often volleyed to-and-fro across the stage, offers a humorous yet heart-wrenching sonic signature that’s altogether their own.

A hidden gem of the midwest, tBB’s affectionate and direct spoken word vocal delivery bounces atop their unusual percussive foundation of odds & ends, a drum apparatus that the group calls the “Tempeh Kit”—when matched with Grindler’s acoustic & electric guitar methods, both finger picked and strummed, their playful and oscillating sound is solidified. Between songs, the duo endears themselves to their audience through storytelling and fond recollections of past creative experiments.  All and all, a performance by this dynamic pair is an invitation into an intimate world of creative fancy and captivating chemistry nurtured over years of playing both stages and street corners.

Always active live and in studio, tBB released back to back singles in February & March of 2024: “Love I Can Love” & “Sure Enough Another Swell,” a glimpse into their forthcoming record “Down Down Domino" which is set to release in late 2024.  

TBB performs the midwest and beyond, and has shared bills with artists such as Melvin Seals (of the Jerry Garcia Band) and Keller Williams through multiple festival appearances at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park.  TBB has also appeared at Cleveland’s Brite Winter Festival & Ingenuity Fest in addition to residencies at Cedar Point.  Recently the music video for their song “Wild Wild Sheep”, which the band scripted, filmed, and directed, was nominated at the 2023 Cordillera Film Festival in Reno, Nevada

Show Info:

Johnny Habu & The Baker's Basement, Aqua Cherry, and Ziggy D of C-Level at The Five o'Clock Loung in Lakewood, OH April 7th, 9PM Free show 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1918286711941376

 Baker's Basement Info:

https://thebakersbasement.com/home

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 Plutophonics, Ziggy D from C-Level, & Mindful Dynasty at Gate Keeper Games

4/3/24The Redlines, Ziggy D of C-Level, Clever Medicine, OrangeG at Poetry Lounge

The Bands info: 

The Plutophonics

ThePlutophonics

The RedLines

https://www.facebook.com/theredlines 

Mindful Dynasty 

mindfuldynasty  

OrangeG

orangegmusic

Straight Gone

straightgoneband

Silvia Mori

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087376164409

Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here is the sublime second album by singer, songwriter, and

While Bluhm has been “making songs ever since I can remember,” in his teenage years it was his older siblings’ Lou Reed and David Bowie records that ignited his adolescent musical obsession. While attending Temple University, he took the plunge into live music via campus open-mic nights and from there burst upon the bustling Philadelphia scene, prompting the Philadelphia City Paper to dub him “an old soul, writing Tin Pan Alley-ish fare and singing croon-y folk jazz  in a voice that’d make Morrisey swoon.” Relocating to New York’s Hudson Valley, he further

and elegant. The music, at first blush, appears naïve. But on a close listen, it’s very assured, and

Stephen's Info

https://linktr.ee/stephenbluhm

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephenbluhm/

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 augments her unique style of of virtuoso playing, Born In Plymouth Devon she was the product of two very different family’s, one blue blooded landed gentry (her great grandfather was the Squire of Cornwall) and her mothers side Irish Romany (her great Grandmother was the original fairground fortune teller Madam Olga)

As a child at family gatherings her uncles would always play and stand her on the table to sing, at 11 years old she was given a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird by her Uncle David and started playing, she got hooked on instrumentals and classical guitar standards which stretched her fingers and gave her a great basis for her own music to develop, flamenco, ragtime, country chicken pickin’, rock and on to blues and roots where she is now in her element.

She always had a passion for travelling, its in her blood and trained as a croupier at 18 began her travels around the world working gaming tables on cruise liners to Park Lane even dealing illegal poker games in Amsterdam. She hitch hiked the coast of Australia on cattle trains and always with a guitar on her back living and storing tales.

Bex was asked to be the guest JANIS by ‘Big Brother and the Holding Company’s original guitarist Sam Andrews on their their 2014 European Tour.

Bex's Info

http://www.bexmarshall.com\

http://www.facebook.com/bexmarshallblues

https://www.instagram.com/bexmarshallblues/

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 working. Her inspiration is her environment and since the late nineties, that environment has been New Orleans. The transition for the Yazoo City-born Drury was smooth. She says jasmine smells like honeysuckle, and you believe her. Sultry, sweet songs turn funky, and it’s all in the same neighborhood.

https://www.lynndrury.com/

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 info 

the-https://www.jimcolemanmusic.com/the-children

@thechildren_now

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 Wild Carnation were about to begin their set. Having lived in NYC / Brooklyn / Hoboken the previous decade, where countless mesmerizing gigs by The Feelies, Yung Wu, Trypes and Speed The Plough, all with Brenda Sauter on bass, had been experienced, it was the chance to see her fronting her new group that drew Delmore in. A few songs into their set, it was apparent however that this trio was more than a Feelies offshoot project, despite melodic similarities, and Brenda's cool vocals / presence. Wild Carnation played raw, loud and fast (and occasionally out of control), with Rich Barnes’ distorted, jangly guitar lines perfectly colliding with Brenda's propelling bass notes, while Chris O'Donovan kept it together, pounding the living hell out of his drums. It was a garagey, indierock mess, more reminiscent of Hib-Tone / Chronic Town era REM, and emergent New Zealand bands like The Bats and The Clean, than The Feelies.

Brenda's Info

http://www.wildcarnation.com/home.html

https://wildcarnation1.bandcamp.com

http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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