Pop Combo releases album!! BLUE VELVET TRACES  New release by Lenny Zenith & Pop Combo 2020 1970s In the mid- to late 70s, when new wave and post punk were night-crawling through the New Orleans music scene, Lenny Zenith transformed his popular punk band RZA into the power-pop and new wave influenced Pop Combo with […]

A WARNING ON COVID-19 FROM ITALY – A post by Cristina Higgins “I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the […]

BOO! Today I’m reminded NOT to be fearful. Don’t allow media, politicians (or even movie directors) to exploit the primitive areas of our brains to scare us senseless. Sometimes fear can be good, (lion, run!), sometimes a scary movie can make you heave a sigh of relief when you walk out of a dark theater […]

  As artists, we don’t always invest wisely in ourselves or our craft. One of the best things I ever did was to hire a publicist for this latest record (and will for the next). If you’re putting out a record (or even a single) that you’ve labored over, that you want other people to […]

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 […]