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| July 11, 2004 Jeznick.net is in the process of re-designed, so please excuse our "dust" so to speak. If you have any comments on any of the changes (good, bad or otherwise), please let us know. We would really appreciate your feedback Webmaster Z October 13, 2003 Jeznick is recording a new album with the working title "Hardcore Gone Pussy". We'd like our fans to determine the songs that will be included on the album, so come out to our upcoming shows and let us know which new songs you'd like us to include.
August 20, 2002 IMPORTANT UPDATE: Jeznick's website is back up! Our new URL is www.jeznick.net. We apologize for being away for so long, but hope you enjoy some of the new additions to the site. Check out the "Photos" page for a new link to our photo album...more pictures from our most recent live shows will be added soon.
December 14, 2001 We are the featured artist on stationMP3.com. Click Here to check it out, download our stuff if you haven't already December 2001 Mention in the LizBiz section of Usung Hero (in the print version they included our photo) "Jeznick may start doing a once-a-month guest night at the 13th
Floor on the first Thursday of each month. The idea is to invite guest
musicians to hang and sit in with them. You can find out more about
this by e-mailing Mike Walrath, wallzmd@aol.com." Also in the Same issue of Unsung in the Article on Wrightway Studio's, Jeznick is mentioned by Mike McAree (the coproducer/engineer of Letter's To You). "“It’s not about the money. It’s all about
the art,” adds McAree, whose work includes Jimmie’s
Chicken Shack, SR-71, Jeznick, Gingham Schmooz,
Jah Works and Laughing Colors." August 2001 Article in Unsung Hero 10 Minutes w/ Shana JEZNICK by Shana Baker Jeznick’s first full-length CD, Letters to You, probably isn’t
the kind of letter most of us like to get, but we’ve all received
our share. In this case, the letters come from Jeznick lyricist, singer,
and front woman Nicky Stacy, who reports on the psychic fallout from
the mistakes we make, how they affect those close to us, and the mental
scars they leave: "She caught you in lies. You disappointed her. You are lame.
But you haven’t broken her. She’ll get over you. She’s
already beginning to forget your name. No, she’s not going
to die without you. But you’ll have to live with yourself."
Last year’s release of Letters prompted Music Monthly to ask
why Jeznick aren’t signed, and the question is a good one.
The textured production is the aural counterpart to Nicky’s
exposed-nerve lyrics and sweet voice, which she uses to offer kind
words to her friends and spit venom at those who have hurt her. The
album opens with the full-band acoustic "Yourself," and
through the next ten songs Jeznick’s sound steadily expands,
adding soft horns and tense electric guitars as Nicky bares her toughened
soul, and the final letter is a long techno remix of "Ashtray,"
one of the disc’s many emotional highpoints. Unsung Hero’s
Shana Baker sat down with Jeznick’s Nicky Stacy, bassist Mark
Butler and guitarist Billy Greenwaldt to talk about their gripping
band that’s simultaneously personal, confessional, accusatory,
angry, and fragile. Shana: First and foremost, I must say ‘thanks’ to each
of you for giving the Baltimore music scene the gift of your music.
The raw emotion placed into your songs reaches into that core place
each of us knows. Nicky, when I read about how you sleep with your
guitar, it is no wonder these songs breathe with such ease. What is
it that influences each of you to create? Mark Butler: I am influenced by all kinds of music, day-to-day life…
Inspiration in Jeznick? My inspiration comes from Nicky. I relate
a lot to her lyrics. She will write a song, she will have some meaning,
and I will get a totally different meaning out of it. And I’ll
tell her about it; she’s like, ‘Oh, cool, I guess it
could mean that too; I never thought about that.’ And that’s
how I get inspiration—I think just like a fan would. I take what
I get out of her lyrics and I make it for me. Then the way I add to
the music is I get to express my emotions through my playing, based
on her words. Shana: How about you, Billy? Billy Greenwaldt: I was sitting at home all summer long, learning
how to play the banjo. Mark asked me if I’d like to play guitar,
since their guitar player was leaving… I was like ‘Yeah,
that would be great.’ I hadn’t heard them in a long
time, and he gave me a CD. What got to me was the complete contrast
from what my old band used to do. This was kind of surreal. The way
the music flows, it kind of takes me into a mood, ya know? My biggest
thing is instrumental music, more than words. I guess because they
come back so fast I can’t hear what they are saying most of
the time; it’s loud as hell. But I can hear the music come
through straight all the time: I can hear the rhythm; I can hear the
groove. And the music she writes, it all flows together, and with
the rhythm of the words… it all just hit me and made me want
to play with the band. Shana: Billy, since you are the newest and youngest member of the
band, what is one of your first recollections of Jeznick? Billy: Nicky playing open mic with just her and a keyboard player.
It was like five or six years ago: I was sitting there, and the keyboards
come in with this really low bass sound, and she is singing over it.
I remember thinking all beautiful; she was angelic. So I sat there
in front of the speaker, zoned out, no drugs, no drinking—I was
just zoned. And ever since then I have been attracted to the music.
In this band, everyone is doing their part and pushing you. So I noticed
that about them too, and they have good players involved, so if I
can become a part of this it will make me better and maybe them too.
I remember her singing; I was just thrown into this place of enlightenment.
It was really cool. Shana: And last but not least, Nicky, what about you? Nicky Stacy: Relationships. I’m not a very good ‘happy
writer.’ I have a hard time writing from happy situations,
not that I don’t have any; I do. Ani DiFranco is a really big
influence to me; I got turned on to her about six years ago. The way
she connects vocally and with her guitar, it’s like one instrument.
I want it to be like that. I had a lot of people say that to me when
I get off stage. Just writing about how you feel is number one, it’s
what you have to do in order to really get through to people. A lot
of people just get up there and sing. If it is not coming from their
heart, you can tell. For me, I always love to hear from people that
are really singing from somewhere down here (pointing to her heart).
"You could be singing about trees—I don’t give a
shit—as long as you are passionate, that’s what matters.
(—Nicky Stacy, Jeznick). Shana: Do you ever find it difficult to put down what is going on
inside? Nicky: No. It is the easiest way to approach things for me. When
something’s hard, it is really easy for me to write. A lot
of times, they (the band) are praying that I get in a fight or something
bad happens to me so I have a really good channel of writing. When
bad things happen to me, I can write forever; when things are good,
I keep singing the same songs. But that’s been my therapy:
anything I need to say, I can always sing it through my music. I never
really had the guts to say it to the people I need to say it to, but
I can always say it through a song. So, instead of paying a psychologist
a hundred bucks an hour, I decided to buy a guitar and do it that
way. Summer 2001 In May, Jeznick signed with a mangement/entertainment agency based
in Philadelphia, PA called Benchmark Sports and Entertainment Group.
Tracy Hunt became their exclusive agent and in June they leased a
rehearsal studio and started work on a new album. They have continued
to write songs, some of which they have been playing, others which
will debut later this year. Look for a funky version of the Pink Floyd
song, Brick In The Wall. The group has two monthly gigs, one at the 13th floor in Baltimore,
the other at the Sarah Street Grill in Stroudsburg, PA. They are also
hitting the DC, Virginia, Boston, Buffalo, Central PA, and Philly
music circuits. In the spring 2002 they plan on perfoming at local
and regional colleges and universities. October 4, 2000 **UPDATE** Some of you may be wondering what's going on with the interest from Columbia Records. Well the answer. Not a whole lot but we'll keep ya posted!!!!
September 2000 ****Jeznick's CD release party for their new disc, "Letters
To You," was a blast. Held at Palomas (Baltimore, MD), the band
had guests like DJ Who spinning after the live show. Nicky has a uniquely
soulful and tasty Sarah Mclaughlin-esque voice. Yum. I found myself
listening to "Ash Tray" and its remix "Stay Away"
over and over. That's why B-more/DC is the shiz-nit- live bands all
over the place and so many of them are so damn good.**** August 17, 2000
JULY 21, 2000 thanks to localmusic.com,
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