SHEROES

In this super special edition of SHEROES, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and bass legend, Gail Ann Dorsey sits down with Carmel Holt for a career-spanning conversation featuring the music that shaped her, and spotlighting some fellow SHEROES of the bass who Gail encountered along the way. For those unfamiliar with Gail Ann Dorsey’s resume, not only has she put out albums of her own sta...

On March 20th, Hurray For The Riff Raff will release Live Forever: a new live record on the exact two-year anniversary of their last studio effort, The Past Is Still Alive. To celebrate the new live album as well as the announcement of an upcoming tour in June followed by a limited run of dates with Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Mavis Staples - not to mention lighting some belated bi...

Margo Price returns to SHEROES to talk with Carmel Holt about her newest album, the Grammy-nominated Hard Headed Woman, which sees Margo reconnecting to her musical roots. This month also marks the 10th anniversary of her debut Midwest Farmer's Daughter, and Margo reflects on the "wild ride" of the last decade, aging as a woman in music, and the importance of being a hard headed woman in times lik...

The musician, producer, director, and performance artist Peaches is widely hailed as a queer and feminist icon, a trailblazer, and an unapologetically body positive, sex positive, boundary pushing writer and performer, and symbol of empowerment. Peaches recently returned with her sixth album and first in 10+ years called No Lube, So Rude, and joins Carmel Holt for a conversation about growing more...

This week the iconic singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan joins us to talk in depth about her first new album of original material in eleven years, Better Broken, the new documentary about Lilith Fair, the 30th anniversary of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, and finding herself more fiercely committed than ever to using her platform to speak out.

Julia Steiner joins Carmel Holt this week on SHEROES to discuss the recently released sixth Ratboys album, Singin' To An Empty Chair, growing up a tomboy, and the sixteen year journey from hushed dorm room performances to a headlining international touring band, and critically hailed indie rock darlings.

This week in honor of Black History Month coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the iconic self-titled debut album by six time Grammy nominee Corinne Bailey Rae, we bring you an encore presentation of our December 2023 interview discussing her fourth album Black Rainbows, now the subject of a forthcoming feature-length 2026 documentary. Corinne is also set to release her first children's book th...

Alithea Tuttle is the frontwoman, bassist, and songwriter for L.A. band Rocket, and always thought that dance would be her focus, until a serious injury at sixteen. In this episode we'll hear how everything changed when a childhood friend convinced an at-first reluctant Alithea to try her hand at singing, and she found her musical path in her mother's closet during the pandemic. The journey to gro...

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, and painter Courtney Marie Andrews returns to SHEROES this week to talk with Carmel Holt about her brand new, tenth studio album, Valentine. We learn that this album is a piece of a greater whole that includes Courtney's latest book of poetry, Love Is A Dog That Bites When It's Scared, and she reads one of those poems during this in-depth conversation.

Chicago musician Lili Trifilio started Beach Bunny as a solo project a decade ago, expanded to a four-piece in 2017 while she was in college, and has been steadily releasing EP's and albums annually from 2015 until 2022. During those seven prolific years, there were two songs that went viral on TikTok resulting in external and internal pressure to keep pace with their success, even when the world...

The extraordinary singer, songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Madison Cunningham returns to SHEROES this week to discuss her third album, Ace, what she has learned about expressing anger, and stepping into a new era of creative liberation, as she is caring less than ever about industry recognition and more about writing music she adores.

A star of the bluegrass and Americana scene, award-winning guitar prodigy Molly Tuttle joins Carmel Holt to discuss her newest album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which sees Molly exploring some new sonic paths in her songwriting and production, with an all new band. Molly also shares her origin story, and not only witnessing but taking part in growing the visibility of women as instrumentalists...

Deerhoof's vocalist, songwriter, and bassist, Satomi Matsuzaki joins us this week to talk about Deerhoof's twentieth album, Noble and Godlike In Ruin, their three decades as a band, and carrying the message of what they believe in.

Singer, songwriter, and producer, Annahstasia Enuke joins us this week to share her inspiring decade-long journey from landing a major label record deal in her late teens, followed by a period of disillusionment and walking away from a music career, to returning to music on her own terms, rebuilding, and then recording and releasing her full length debut album, Tether.

This week singer-songwriter Hannah Cohen sits down with Carmel Holt to discuss her fourth album, Earthstar Mountain, the lessons that she learned from the slower pace of living surrounded by nature in the Catskill Mountains, and honoring the time it has taken to find her voice.

At just 23 years old, Hannah Jadagu is already five years into her music career and just released her second full length album on Sub Pop Records called Describe - an apt title for an indie alternative artist who has been drawing from a deep well of her musical knowledge and experience that includes singing in choirs as a kid, studying classical percussion, and picking up the guitar and starting t...

The seven-time Juno Award nominated, two-time Polaris Prize Award-nominated Canadian singer and songwriter Kathleen Edwards returns to SHEROES this week to discuss her sixth album of original material and seventh overall called Billionaire. In this deep conversation, Kathleen shares her journey and wisdom gained over her nearly 25 year career, quitting music and then choosing to return, and overco...

The multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer, Jenn Wasner returns to SHEROES this week to talk about her new album The Life You Save, her self-produced third release under the moniker Flock of Dimes. Now newly settled in Los Angeles, Jenn reflects on the journey of making the album, choosing to lean into acoustic instrumentation for the first time, and what that represents.

Bay Area singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixing engineer Melina Duterte is back with her first album under her moniker Jay Som in six years called Belong and joins Carmel Holt to talk about the new album, her thoughts on why more women and queer folx are needed in studios, and imposter syndrome.

Los Angeles based and Florida-born singer, songwriter, and producer Gatlin joins Carmel Holt this week to talk about her full length debut The Eldest Daughter - a collection of songs that tell her coming-of-age story of being raised in a conservative religious environment, embracing her queer identity, and finding healing and self confidence in the process.

A self-described ferocious person, the ever-wild and perpetually awe-inspiring Grammy-nominated artist, producer, author, and visual artist Neko Case returns to SHEROES this week as we celebrate the release of her first album in seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, her ninth overall. Neko and Carmel catch up on the myriad projects that have kept her extremely busy during the years between record...

Raquel Berrios of Buscabulla joins Carmel Holt this week to chat about the new Buscabulla album Se Amaba Así - the Puerto Rican duo's sophomore album. The culmination of five emotional years that included some career highs (a Bad Bunny collab), and personal lows (the death of Raquel's father), is centered around the romantic partnership of Raquel and bandmate Luis Alfredo “Luifre” Del Valle, and r...

This week legendary, award winning singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter sits down with Carmel Holt for a heartfelt and moving conversation, while discussing her 17th studio album Personal History, which was produced by Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman).

Australian band Folk Bitch Trio join Carmel Holt this week to talk about the journey to making and releasing their full length debut Now Would Be A Good Time, their lifelong obsessions with music and singing, and how they have been navigating the sexism and misogyny they encounter along the way.

She is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and engineer, and has been called a savant of the modular synthesizer. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith sits down with Carmel Holt this week to talk about her brand new album GUSH and her journey to sharing the most unguarded version of herself to date in these songs.