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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/
 
 

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, 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 the Here is being released on 12” LP vinyl, CD,digital download, streaming platforms and 2xCD set including both vocal and instrumentalversions on April 19. The instrumental version is being released separately on the same date ondigital download and streaming platforms.
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 furtherhoned his expressive performing style: Belying the serious slants of some of his songs, Bluhm’sshows often find him dancing madly among delighted audience members.“The music (and Stephen) is utterly charming,” raves famed musical theater actor and composerTom Judson, one of Bluhm’s avowed fans, about Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here. “Thehalting, clipped vocals, with a sudden appearance of sumptuous string writing, are unexpected
and elegant. The music, at first blush, appears naïve. But on a close listen, it’s very assured, andcomplex writing. And the arrangements are really just wonderful. Sufjan Stevens meets KurtWeill meets Stephen Foster.”“As I put these songs and arrangements together for the album, I became more and moreconfident in them,” says Bluhm. “I just hope people sense the beauty in them, the genuinenessthat I put into them.”With one listen to Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here, no doubt people will sense exactly that.
Stephen's Info
https://linktr.ee/stephenbluhm
Bandcamp: https://stephenbluhm.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephenbluhm/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066550085802
stephenbluhm.fun
 

 
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/