Stay ConnectedBlowing Smoke with Twisted Rico, hosted by music industry veteran Steev Riccardo, brings you weekly conversations with the people who make the music world go round — musicians, songwriters, producers, label execs, roadies, publicists, and more. Each episode also serves up fresh new music picks, honest song reviews, and no-shortage-of-stories rock ‘n’ roll road tales
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On this episode of the podcast, Curtis Casella, owner and operator of Taang! Records, joins us to share stories about working with bands like Gang Green, The Lemonheads, Bullet LaVolta, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Slapshot. He even chimes in on The Outlets, a band he wishes he'd signed to his label. Curtis discusses his early days in college radio, starting the label in the Boston area as a "singles label" that grew into much more, and eventually relocating to the West Coast, where Taang! is now based in San Diego, California.
Music
The Charms "So Pretty"
Gang Green "Out On The Couch"
Our pal and hard working positive vibe dude Geoff Palmer (known to the old punkers as Geoff Useless) covers all the bases with us as we start with his early days in The Queers, The Nobodys and the fabulous Guts and work though his cow punk solo stuff and the birth of garage rock sensations The Connection right up to the 2020 release "Your Face Is Weird, a great collaboration with Austrailian Lucy Ellis(The Spazzys). His resume is solid and his attitude is 100% spot on as we find out...
Music(used by permission of the artists)
The Charms "So Pretty"
Geoff Palmer & Lucy Ellis "Crash"
The Guts "Let It Go"
Recorded on March 3, 2021 by Nick Z. at New Alliance East, Somerville MA
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On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Darts guitarist Meliza Jackson, who joined the band in 2019 and soon thereafter found herself making an album, opening The Damned's US tour, and flying to Europe to rock the world in a wild and exciting year. Meliza also talks about her deal with Vox, working with Alternative Tentacles and Jello Biafra, life in Phoenix, meeting her idol Joan Jett, and other fun stuff...
Music(used by permission of the artists)
The Charms "So Pretty" Intro Music
The Darts "Breakup Makeup"
Recorded on February 27 by Nick Z at New Alliance East, Somerville MA
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On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Magnapop guitarist Ruthie Morris as we cover a plethora of topics including the band's long successful career that has seen the release of six studio albums, including records produced by Michael Stipe, Bob Mould, and Geza X, and a bunch of singles and Ep's released both in America and Europe. Morris also talks to us about how the pandemic has affected the band, the positive political change happening in Georgia, and what the future holds for her and long time bandmate, songwriting partner, and singer Linda Hopper.
Music(used with the permission of the bands)
The Charms "So Pretty" INTRO
Magnapop "Open The Door"
Magnapop "Need To Change"
Recorded on February 27, 2021 by Nick Z.at New Alliance East, Somerville MA.
On this episode of the podcast, long Boston area club booker and musician Mickey Bliss shares some fabulous stories from when he started playing shows in the old Combat Zone in Boston in the late seventies, to his 26 years as a club booker for The Kirkland Cafe in Somerville MA and then Club Bohemia downstairs at The Cantab Lounge in Central Square in Cambridge Ma. In one story, which has an hilarious ending, Mickey recalls brawling with another former Boston area booker Martin Doyle. We also play Mickey's still popular single "Cocktails For Two."
Music
The Charms "So Pretty" Intro music
Mickey Bliss "Cocktails For Two"
Recorded on February 24 by Nick Z. at New Alliance East in Somerville MA
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Sex worker, filmmaker, naked yoga queen, and OnlyFans star Collibrina makes her third appearance on the show — and like before, there's never a dull moment.
We dig into her experimental film The Feminist (highly recommended), hear a couple of her favorite songs, and turn her on to "My Body" by 50 Ft Queenie. And of course, plenty of other odds and ends about sex, music, and surviving in 2021. A blast as usual.
Music
That Handsome Devil "A Drink To Death"
Natti Vogel "I don't Want To Find The One"
50 FT Furies "My Body"
The Charms "So Pretty" (Intro music)
Recorded on February 10, 2021 by Nick Z. at NewAlliance East, Somerville MA.
Support the podcast here: patreon.com/twistedrico
Also please visit collabrina.com
Further Inquiries please contact Steev Riccardo: twistedrico@gmail.com
On this episode of the Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico podcast, we have two guests this time around. Riot Grrrl feminist punks Bait Bag call in from North Haven Island off the coast of Maine, where they are one of only 3 bands on the island! The ladies tell us how it all came together and as their buzz grows, what their plans are once things open up again. Then Gina Phillips tells us how the last year has led to her first single and video for the song "Ego" with the Worcester MA based band Peak Fifteen and how excited she is about her early success as a singer. Its a real mixed bag and fun time had by all...
Music
The Charms "So Pretty" Intro Music
Bait Bag "Good Guy"
Peak Fifteen Featuring Gina Phillips "Ego"
Recorded on February 17 by Nick Z at New Alliance East, Somerville MA
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Erich Thaler traces his path from the Spokane, WA music scene to Boston, where Stompbox earned a major label deal with Columbia and became one of the city's most talked-about bands in the early '90s. When things unraveled, Thaler hit some dark times — but he bounced back with D-CON, eventually made his way to California, got straight, and rebuilt his life.
Music
The Charms "So Pretty" Intro Music
Stompbox "No Woods"
Recorded February 3, 2021 by Nick Z.at New Alliance East in Somerville MA
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On this episode of the Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico podcast, we are joined by Boston hardcore legend/artist Dave Tree. Dave, who fronted the outstanding 90's hardcore band TREE and is making waves these days with his band SEE THIS WORLD, lets loose on music, politics, art and life, in a raucous way only he can. This is show is heavy and fast the way Dave plays music and creates some of the best art in Boston.
Music
The Charms "So Pretty" (Intro Music)
See This World "Dead People"
See This World "Reality"
Recorded on January 27 at New Alliance East by Nick Z.
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On this episode of the podcast, sixteen year old Nate Zucker tells us how he made not one but two records since the pandemic started and answers every question we toss at him, including questions from one of his 16 year old fans (Nina) from across the Country. He gets an "A+" from the podcast host.
Also a few words about the passing of New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, who played some memorable solo shows over the years(including The Abbey Lounge in Somerville) and was a bright light when The New York Dolls reunited and toured America a few years back for the first time since the early Seventies.
Music
The Charms "So Pretty"(Intro music)
Nate Zucker "Marigold"
Recorded on January 20, 2021 at New Alliance East by Nick Z.
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