SHEROES

Chilean-American, 4x Latin Grammy nominee Francisca Valenzuela joins Carmel Holt this week to discuss her upcoming seventh album MALDITA, the story behind her feminist Latin music festival and platform, Ruidosa Fest, which she founded in 2016 . As Ruidosa Fest celebrates its 10th anniversary the U.S. iteration returns to Lincoln Center in New York City for the third year in a row on July 12th.

The day between her Carnegie Hall debut, and releasing her critically hailed second album, the color of rain, the poet, lyricist, and activist, aja monet sat down with Carmel Holt to discuss her journey from growing up in New York, becoming a Slam Poet Champion as a teenager, to becoming an award-winning published poet, and Grammy-nominated recording artist.

On the heels of releasing her seventh full length album, Fidelity, the prolific Queens-born songwriter, singer, poet, artist, producer, curator, educator, and activist Yaya Bey joins Carmel Holt this week for a not-to-miss conversation that takes an honest look at the trickle down effect that white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism has on every aspect of the music industry, media, and touring....

This week we welcome five-time Grammy nominated, Golden Globe nominated, Songwriters Hall of Famer, producer, and musician, Linda Perry to SHEROES. Linda's storied three decade career launched in 1992 with her band 4 Non Blondes, followed by two solo albums, and two-plus decades of writing and producing some of the biggest names in music including Dolly Parton, Gwen Stefani, P!nk, Adele, Alicia Ke...

The iconic Tori Amos is back with her 18th studio album, and an upcoming tour. In honor of her return, this week we dip into the SHEROES archives and reboot this amazing 2022 episode from our Webby-nominated sister series SHEROES: Mixtape Memoir. Tori traces her musical journey from childhood to Little Earthquakes, the women who inspired her, and the songs that soundtracked those chapters.

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist, Arlo Parks returns to SHEROES this week to discuss her recently released third album, Ambiguous Desire, which was born of time spent diving into the club scene and learning to DJ, creating space to get out of her head and connect with her body, and the rich histories of club spaces that became sanctuaries for so many.

This week we welcome back Abbey Carbonneau, the founder, creator, and now executive director of Book More Women - who you may know as the Instagram account and site that uses festival posters as a powerful visual aid to show the lack of gender diversity at music festivals, as well as the researched data to go with it. Abbey has been doing this work for eight years now as a passion project, and in...

Today (May 1st), Judy Collins is 87 years old, and after over six decades on the road, and 55 albums, she has just embarked on her final tour. We celebrate this legendary singer, songwriter, and author, with a career-spanning conversation set to her own handpicked soundtrack. (original air date 2022)

We celebrate a milestone birthday for one of our SHEROES, Jenn Wasner aka Flock of Dimes, by sharing an encore episode of her recent interview about her beautiful new album The Life You Save, and invite one of her dearest friends, Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso, to join the party with a birthday message and song pick.

Ambient composer, vocalist, and producer, Julianna Barwick and experimental harpist and composer Mary Lattimore, have been friends for over a decade, have toured together, and even guested on each other's albums, but their duo album Tragic Magic is their first full length collaboration and was brought about by a remarkable set of circumstances and an opportunity to record at the Museum of Musical...

Courtney Barnett returns to SHEROES this week to chat with Carmel about her newest album Creature of Habit, entering a new chapter of her life that includes moving to the U.S., shuttering her longtime label Milk Records, and fulfilling a lifelong wish to learn how to surf, while also entering a phase of learning new ways to ride the waves of life.

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.