 You're listening to the independent 89 9 HD 4 and we're live on the Jamie soundstage inside WJCT public media with bad Madonna Hey, y'all hi a New five-song EP iron fist drop today. We want to hear about that They're also playing Jackrabbit's in San Marco tonight But right now the band is soundchecked and ready to rip so they're gonna play a song then we're gonna talk about new music and Relatively old music and much more. Are y'all ready? Let's do it. Take it away Bad Madonna performing the song Jaded from the new EP iron fist out today. Congrats on the release you guys. Thank you Alexis roadie singer and main songwriter of these bad Madonna songs Alexis I want to start by asking a little bit about your background in music Because the first time I heard about you. I think you were a featured artist on the songwriter spotlight at Rain dogs a local venue and bar here. When did you start writing songs? And and then how and when did you put this ripping band together? I started writing songs probably when I was like 13 12 13 I was like picking up instruments at the time and it was kind of just a natural Fun thing that I started doing and I would play Just by myself at places like Murray Hill Theater stuff like that You know like little cafes and Just slowly over the years of kind of You know wanted to play in bands as I was getting a little bit older, but I was always so shy when I was really young So it's been kind of like a natural progression. I'd say I stopped playing music for like four years probably when I was like 17 and Moved away from Jacksonville came back a couple times and I'd say like the last three years is when bad Madonna was really taking off as like a Project that included the full band and everything. I kind of had this idea of What I was going for and thankfully like was friends with a lot of great musicians that could help make it happen Probably when I had moved back to Jacksonville from New York in 2020 is when like the seeds of all this were starting to be sown and then in the past year we've really just kind of Said let's just do it, you know and started recording and I'm excited to see where it goes from now because these are all songs I've written that we've just played together, but I'm excited to see what we can write as a band and Kind of get away from the me being the only person writing and sure Yeah, and I was gonna ask you about that So that's a good segue because you've got a busy 2022 as far as releases go earlier this year You put out the EP Velvet Glove which featured the single high resolution Which I want to shout out because there's a wonderfully interesting music video for that tune With paper mache heads and some very lynchian kind of visuals in there But now you've released iron fist the first single which was Mystic seer Can you talk about the different approaches maybe to the content on Velvet Glove? To the new songs because to me there's like this discernible grit and kind of heavier edge To these kind of full band songs on iron fist and what can you say about where your songwriting maybe was and where it's Go where it is now and where it's going which you kind of touched on earlier sure So all of Velvet Glove Those were well, I both of the EPs were written just on guitar for me It's like sitting at home acoustic guitar, and then there was these past five from iron fists that were just translated to a full band that kind of had like more of that Just like heavier energetic feel to it But for Velvet Glove those are all like really country inspired songs I was going through a phase at that time where like I wanted to just write something like that You know listening to a lot of country music, which we love. I think I was like a whole band. We're like very into country music so I Wanted to write something like that, but for the longest time I was really Worried about being perceived as like only doing that and I wanted to Showcase with these two EPs that you can Do a lot of different things and that's okay. I feel like Sometimes we can get kind of like pigeonholed into one genre or you know Maybe writing like something a bunch of country songs isn't as cool to people who might listen to the iron fist but I think it's important to kind of see the The full picture, you know, like these two albums are like me as a person, you know It's like you have the softer side with the country influences and then you have like the side that is a little bit more like Confident and you know doesn't really care about what people might think and a lot more energy So I'm glad to finally have both of the EPs out and like Hopefully that message comes across it. You don't have to be just one thing. Yeah. Well said I mean, I think they both sound very natural like the songwriting seems to fit on both, you know And I like how you said that it's like, you know, both of these are parts of you, you know And together you get kind of a full picture of you as an artist Well, bad Madonna's two EPs velvet glove and the new one iron fist are available on all streaming platforms Lots of new music for your ear holes You can also listen to tracks from bad Madonna and other Jacksonville artists on the independent 89 9 HD 4 Bad Madonna plays jackrabbits tonight with sweet Lizzie project and everything to me check out jacks music org and peep our live music Calendar for details bad Madonna. Thank you so much for being here. It was lovely to have you. Thank you This is awesome. Will you please do another song for us? Absolutely Take it away