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Boris Pelekh

Boris Pelekh (Boris Peleh′; born Boris Fridrikhovich Pelekh, Russian: Борис Фридрихович Пелех, 17 November 1981) is a singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, most notable as the guitarist of the Gypsy Punk band Golgol Bordello. He moved to New York City in 1991, at 9, and joined Gogol Bordello in 2015. Aside from his work in Gogol Bordello, he also worked with the Nickoldoenon duo Nat and Alex Wolf from 2008 to 2011.

Pelekh is the frontman, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Hey Guy and now Boris and The Joy.

July 24th Catch Boris live at Negative Space Cleveland OH. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1UHhwnUGeviWpBxE

Boris's info

https://borisandthejoy.com

Charlie Musselwhite

Interview with Charlie Musselwhite.

Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised, Grammy Award-winning music legend Charlie Musselwhite doesn’t just sing and play the blues; he is, in every sense of the word, a bluesman. Growing up, he not only learned the music first-hand from many of the genre’s most influential artists, he also absorbed the lifestyle. “It’s an attitude,” Musselwhite says of playing the blues. “A way of living life.” Over the course of his six-decade career, Musselwhite has released nearly 40 albums. He is renowned worldwide as a master harmonica player, a seasoned, truth-telling vocalist and an original songwriter rooted deep within the blues tradition. As many of his fans know, he’s also a country blues guitarist of great depth, warmth and subtlety.

Charlie's info https://www.charliemusselwhite.com

Shows https://www.charliemusselwhite.com/shows

 

Don Rauf of Life In A Blender Part 2

Interview with Don Rauf of Life In A Blender

Don returns to talk about Life In A Blender's new album Bent By The Weather.

 

DON RAUF loves W.C. Fields, Preston Sturges, and Nikola Tesla. He lives with his lovely beekeeping wife, Monique, and his cartooning, surrealistic son, Leo. He is a writer whose books include Killer Lipstick and Other Spy Gadgets. He is the proud founder of The Blowhole Theater, an annual Brooklyn variety show featuring the Blowhole Theater Players and their characters Puckerballs the Garbage Can Elf, Scottish Jesus, and Abraham Lincoln. Life In a Blender A SHORT HISTORY For over 25 years, Life in a Blender has been the canvas for singer and songwriter Don Rauf's blackly comic landscapes. The group has released albums ranging from screaming punk to orchestrated chamber pop, and has brought the high theatrics of its live act to stages from Berlin to Austin to Toronto to Brooklyn and Seattle. Don Rauf formed the band with high school friend Dave Moody (then bassist, now cellist), and within a couple of years had acquired the drumming services of Ken Meyer. Guitarist Al Houghton and bassist Mark Lerner joined in 1992, and violinist Rebecca Weiner Tompkins signed on in 1993. While the band's core lineup has remained remarkably constant for the past 18 years, the list of former members, guest artists, and collaborators includes Chris Butler (The Waitresses, Tin Huey), Chris Rael (Church of Betty), Jonathan Gregg, John Linnell (They Might Be Giants), Gavin Smith (Les Sans Culottes), Susan Hwang (Debutante Hour), Brian Dewan, and Olivier Conan (Chicha Libre, Las Rubias Del Norte). Life in a Blender's "Friend from Quebec" was featured in Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon, and "Mobile Wash Unit" appeared in Sara Lamm's documentary, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox. The band's most recent album, SATSUMA, is being released on November 20, 2020.

Don's Info http://www.lifeinablender.net/index.html 

 

lifeinablender

 

Steve Dawson

Interview with Steve Dawson 2024.

Ghosts is the sixth solo album from Chicago-based musician and songwriter Steve Dawson. It’s
being released June 7 on venerable Chicago label Pravda Records on CD, 12” LP vinyl, digital
download and on streaming platforms.

Steve's info 

http://www.stevedawsonmusic.com

http://www.instagram.com/stevdawso

https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveDawsonMusic

https://www.facebook.com/steve.dawson1

https://twitter.com/stevejdawson

 

Chelsea Nenni of Late Slip

Interview with Chelsea Nenni of Late Slip.

Late Slip’s ringleader, Chelsea Nenni, was born on the East Coast but grew up in California. Elvis Presley was her first love and Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” her first favorite song. She studied opera in college, but Gwen Stefani gave her the guts to be in a band. Nenni moved to New York City in her mid-20’s to pursue a life onstage.

There she weaved through singing Sondheim, 1920’s jazz, and then, during an especially fierce winter, taught herself how to play guitar. What started as a means to stave off seasonal depression turned into a vessel for big feelings. Now armed with a handful of chords, pangs of unrequited love and homesickness turned into the first Late Slip songs.

I Love You is the first full-length album from Brooklyn-based retro-pop outfit, Late Slip. Thealbum was produced at the hands of Lewis Pesacov (Best Coast, FIDLAR, Nikki Lane, Poolside)and is being released on 12” LP vinyl, CD, as a digital download, and via streaming platforms, June 7 th on Party Mermaid Records. Pesacov’s transportive production delivers a nostalgic soundscape with a little bit of twang, alittle bit of surf, and a whole lotta heart. Nenni’s sun-soaked, tear-stained gems tap into the tenderness we tend to lock away.

I Love You offers the invitation to cozy up close, let your feelings flow, and dance it all away.

 

Late Slip's Info

Website: https://lateslipmusic.com/ 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7e5N34OVNyOB26btN8p9Ly 

Bandcamp: https://lateslip.bandcamp.com

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

/  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lateslip

 

Angelo Moore

Interview with Angelo Moore, aka Dr. Madd Vibe!

 

Angelo Moore is an American musician best known for his work as lead singer and saxophonist for the Los Angeles ska and funk metal band Fishbone. Moore also performs and records under the stage name Dr. Madd Vibe.

 

Angelo's info

https://www.drmadvibe.com/shows

drmaddvibe

 

May 19th Cleveland OH, Angelo Moore and C-Level Show Info 

https://thewinchestermusictavern.com/tm-event/angelo-moore-of-fishbone/

David Nagler of As For the Future

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

WORLDSUCKS

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.

Now it's 2024 and we are armed with a new single, "NO!/GO!", that showcases our progression and our way forward, ferocious and frustrated as ever at the world around us. Eight new sonic onslaughts will be recorded this year, with a new album due out in 2025. 

WORLDSUCKS is heavy music for heavy times. Power to the people.

 

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/

 

 

The Baker’s Basement

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

 

Straight Gone, Silvia Mori, OrangeG,The RedLines, The Plutophonics, Mindful Dynasty

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