Sass Jordan's high on something.

During a recent phone interview from her home in "the wilds of rural Ontario," the singer frequently howled with laughter, switched accents like a Berlitz course gone mad, bantered with her band members in the background (including her husband) and at one point just lost it: "Aren't you bored of talking to artists about their boring records and they're telling you all the same crap?! 'We're really excited about this new record and we're going to go all the way, eh?' Like SNORE! I'm trying to make your life a little more interesting in these few minutes that you're stuck on the phone with me."

That she did. And no, in this case, there's nothing boring about Sass Jordan or her new record. She performs in the Thunderdome tonight.

It turns out that she's high on at least three things, not including the spicy pasta that she claims made her so giddy.

MOTHERHOOD: Jordan is the proud and somewhat disbelieving mom to a baby girl, Stella Charlotte. "I look at this creature and can't believe I had anything to do with it. How did this happen? As far as I'm concerned, it's almost like the stork just dropped it off ... I never gave a s--- about it before and now I'm like, oooo, look at the leeettle baby!"

HER NEW RECORD: It's called Present and believe it or not, the latest single, Desire, is getting airplay on Easy Rock 104.9, one of our local "adult contemporary" stations. And we thought Sass was a rock chick. "I love that!" she says. "I was hoping it would be an AC kind of thing. I reach more people that way. The whole point of the exercise for me is definitely to reach as many people as I possibly can. I find when you're labelled a rock chick, there's only so far you can go. And after a while it's like 'you're a rock chick and HOW old are you?' Come onnnnn."

BEING A GROWNUP: She says it's "way more fun" than being a kid. Bad business deals and shacking up with heroin addicts are things of the past. "I'm way happier now than I used to be. And ya know why? I'll tell ya. Because I'm way more in control of everything than I've ever been, personally and professionally." But what about the inner torment that made Jordan such a passionate and powerful artist to begin with?

"(In Brooklyn accent): Not a problem! I can dig that crap up in the splink of an eye. I just don't wanna live like that any more. Ya want bleak misery? (In Newfoundland accent): I'll be there for ya, boy."

Tickets to Sass Jordan are $15 at the door.