Vicci Martinez Is Stoked!
"At this point I have made a commitment to this career and my music. I want it to be the best that it can be. I don’t want to get into the mindset where I am just going to be the suffering artist who never gets done, what I want to have done, plays the same thing, and then a year later never want to play that song again. There is a business in this, and I think I am realizing that I am in the business of making good music, not to be a poet, and get what I feel out there. What I want to have out there is a positive message for people,” says rock musician and songwriter Vicci Martinez, in her typical laid-back fashion.
Left Hand Smoke Rocks! Can I Get A Witness?
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Just like rock band Left Hand Smoke’s fabulous tune, “The LA Song,” “I’m going to go where it’s really real, and not black and white,” you need to dial into the real music, of this terrific and talented Seattle based group. On a rock scene where there appears to be a dearth of genuine innovators, Left Hand Smoke’s music is far from black and white. It is colorful, creative, and inspires listeners to tap their feet, move their hips, and sing along.
Left Hand Smoke’s lead singer, keyboardist and primary lyricist Ben Mish, took time to speak with me a couple of times over the past month, providing insight into the band’s music, answer questions about their albums, and to talk about their gigs.
Twenty-two year old rock / new wave singer Tasha-Ray Evin and her twenty-four year old sister Lacey-Lee defied the odds in 2003 when their band Lillix sold in excess of a half million copies of their debut CD Falling Uphill. Equally impressive is the fact that they also battled through the odds of being an all girl band (at that time) from a small and somewhat isolated Canadian town in the Rocky Mountains, Cranbrook, British Columbia with a population of 20,000. Originally signed to Maverick Records in 2001, when Tasha was only sixteen years old, Tasha and Lacey burst onto the music scene with startling success at a time when the music industry was reeling from declining CD sales. 
