Here’s the story behind the artwork for the album! When I was first coming up in New Orleans just prior to finishing high school (I wasn’t allowed to graduate when someone’s dad outed me), I started a little band (RZA) with some of my classmates from NOCCA (New Orleans Center of the Creative Arts) We […]

  SATURDAY MAY 19TH – 2PM-6PM AFTERNOON MATINEE!! Sometimes the stars align and you get to play with good friends and some of your favorite bands! This Saturday is one of those days! The Footlight Bar is a unique gem in Ridgewood near Bushwick. Steps from the L train, it’s a surprising space with a […]

  Tonight, at 9pm Irene Trudel (who often featured Cryptic Soup live) will dedicate her entire show in memory of Eddie. https://wfmu.org/ When Jenifer Convertible’s drummer Andy Moore moved to Maine with his family, we recruited Eddie Siino to play drums with the group. We had already released two 7” singles (six songs) and had […]

press darlings… Jenifer Convertible review–written by and copyright Aaron Poehler Wanna Drag? (CD)–Yum/Beloved Entertainment Group Jenifer Convertible is a traditional-lineup rock band that purveys punky pop music (or poppy punk music, your choice) that looks back with fondness at more innocent times, both of personal childhood and once-mainstream, now-camp antique values. Nothing on Wanna Drag? […]

More, more, more Lenny AUGUST 25, 1980 SECT. 2, PAGE 2l “I don’t know – I just want, I want people to love me – I want a lot of acceptance – I want everybody to go “God, it’s Lenny Zenith and RZA!!”   By BUNNY MATTHEWS & JON NEWLIN In Part One of the Lenny […]

The Lenny Zenith Interview – Part 1 – Figaro Just Another Zenophobic Android – Figaro  August 18, 1980 By BUNNY Matthews & JON NEWLIN One evening a long time ago, we were in the lobby of the Prytania buying a bag of popcorn and the person behind the counter — in between handing out Almond […]

Jenifer Convertible – Lenny Zenith Jenifer Convertible review–Aaron Poehler Wanna Drag? (CD)–Yum/Beloved Entertainment Group Jenifer Convertible is a traditional-lineup rock band that purveys punky pop music (or poppy punk music, your choice) that looks back with fondness at more innocent times, both of personal childhood and once-mainstream, now-camp antique values.  Nothing on Wanna Drag? is exactly breaking […]

  Jenifer Convertible – Pirate A&R – L.A. Rock   New York City is hot, humid and musty this July 1 night. Hot, humid, musty and inspired. The city is like a dragon’s throat, swallowing and spitting. and creating humans of a naked new species unseen anywhere also in the universe. The Lower East Side […]

Lenny Zenith and Pop Combo – Wavelength Armed with his songs and a new band that COOKS, Lenny is ready to take on the pop charts. Lenny Zenith first gained a small measure of notoriety as a singer/songwriter in a local band called RZA. Projecting a naive but confident sincerity, he’d bound up onto a […]