SHEROES

Singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and visual artist Hannah Hooper co-founded the band Grouplove with her husband Christian Zucconi fourteen years ago, and rarely does interviews alone. But on the heels of releasing the band's sixth album, I Want It All Right Now, Hannah sits down with Carmel Holt for an in-depth conversation about the journey from solitary visual artist to a catsuit-wearing band le...

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, Indigo De Souza returns to SHEROES to talk with Carmel Holt about her new album All Of This Will End, and the necessary changes she made in her personal and professional life over the last couple years, resulting in her most confident work to date.

Our Pride Month series SHEROES & QUEEROES comes to a close with an in-depth conversation and look back at ani difranco's iconic and most commercially successful eighth studio album, 1998's Little Plastic Castle. The 25th anniversary reissue has arrived, and with it, many reflections on that chapter of ani's career. Ani holds nothing back in openly discussing the complexities of that time, as many...

As part of SHEROES Pride Month series, SHEROES & QUEEROES, Carmel Holt sits down with acclaimed singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and eleven-time Grammy nominee, Meshell Ndegeocello, who has just released her 13th album, The Omnichord Real Book.

Romy Madley Croft of The xx has just announced her solo debut album, Mid Air (out September 8), and Carmel Holt invited Romy to take part in her month-long celebration of Pride by joining her for a special SHEROES & QUEEROES Pride Hour, that features a playlist curated by Romy, a peek at the new album, and in depth conversation about the journey that led her here.

Arlo Parks was raised in West London, and while still a teenager, released her first single in 2018 and caught the attention of the BBC. Soon a pair of EP’s arrived in 2019 - Super Sad Generation, followed by the EP Sophie. The accolades and press was nearly immediate. Arlo Parks was longlisted as a Breakthrough Act of 2020, and before the end of that year, she was gracing the cover of NME, and wo...

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Julia Bailen is one third of the NYC power pop trio BAILEN with her elder twin brothers, David and Daniel. On the heels of releasing the second full length BAILEN album, Tired Hearts, Julia sits down with Carmel Holt to discuss her journey to discovering the empowering stability that her instrument and"owning it" brings her, the democratic process of making records...

This week, we bring you a very special edition of the show, featuring a SHERO of SHEROES. Also known as the Duchess of Coolsville, she is an unparalleled, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, musician, interpreter of songs, and author. She is the one and only Rickie Lee Jones, and she’s just put out her 15th studio album, Pieces of Treasure. The album is her first devoted entirely to the Great Ameri...

The Icelandic band Of Monsters & Men exploded onto the scene in 2010, instantly becoming an internationally known band with their multi-platinum-selling debut, My Head Is An Animal, but the seeds of this band were planted during their front woman's teen years. Nanna got her first guitar at 13 and immediately began writing songs. Within a few years she was performing as a solo act under the moniker...

A small village in Armenia might be an unlikely place for a future Eurovision contestant and global TikTok star to be discovered but that is exactly what happened for this week's guest, singer-songwriter-producer, Rosa Linn. With a series of massively successful singles already out, and a major record deal with Columbia Records, Rosa Linn's star is rising fast. She joins Carmel Holt in conversatio...

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader Shana Cleveland cut her teeth in Chicago before heading to the Pacific Northwest which is where she would form the psychedelic surf-rock band La Luz in Seattle a decade ago as their lead guitarist and songwriter. Meanwhile Shana also was fronting a folkier band called The Sandcastles as a vehicle for her other passion - aco...

Cellist/multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer/singer/songwriter Lucinda Chua sits down with host Carmel Holt to talk about the themes of returning to her self and her cultural identity on her beautiful self-produced and engineered full length debut, Yian.

On the heels of releasing what is already a critically hailed debut album, Sabrina Teitelbaum aka Blondshell sits down for an in-depth conversation with Carmel Holt about freeing herself from trying to fit the mold of a female pop star, internalized misogyny, and how she imagines herself 40 to 50 years into her career.

While Katie Melua came up through the BRIT School in London, famously attended by fellow pop icons Adele and Amy Winehouse, she was born far away across the Black Sea in Georgia, and spent her early childhood in the former Soviet Union. In the aftermath of the Georgian civil war she moved with her family to Belfast, Ireland, before settling in London, and as you will hear her tell us, her family a...

In today's conversation, you’ll hear about what happened when singer, songwriter, producer, and musician Caroline Rose wrote songs as if no one would hear them, which would call to mind memories of writing their first songs as a teenager. Simultaneously grappling with the recent memories of lost love, and a family member losing their memory, during the isolating times of the pandemic, Caroline Ros...

Not only is this week's guest a fantastic songwriter and performer, she is a genuine outlaw country SHERO, a rebellious tough girl with a tender heart, and, as she dubbed herself on her last record in 2017, a Highway Queen who has logged countless miles as a touring musician, while running several businesses at once. She is a woman who suffers no fools, but with a smile. On this new episode of SHE...

Singer Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive, and the duo Rachael & Vilray, joins Carmel Holt to talk about the new Rachael & Vilray album I Love A Love Song!, what pregancy and planning for new motherhood as a musician has been like, and changes she would like to see for women and nonbinary people in the music industry.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, and author, Valerie June sits down with Carmel Holt live in conversation at the annual podcast festival, On Air Fest: Brooklyn. They discuss Valerie's hard-won success, the spiritual practices that have carried her through, and the many questions that she has when it comes to equality in the music industry. Two decades into her already illustrious career,...

Polymath Margaret Sohn sits down with Carmel Holt to discuss their visionary full length debut as Miss Grit, Follow The Cyborg, the importance of making technology cute, and the ongoing challenges of communicating and collaborating in male dominated spaces. 

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Katherine Paul (KP) sits down with Carmel Holt to discuss her third album as Black Belt Eagle Scout called The Land, The Water, The Sky, moving back home to ancestral lands, and the need to lean into the things that ground her.

This episode takes a detour from the usual SHEROES artist interview to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the O.G. feminist lifestyle and culture publication, BUST Magazine. Founded in 1993 by three women in New York City, BUST started as a ‘zine, made of stapled pages and a passion for their cause: to make feminism cool again. Now a quarterly magazine, BUST has kept going despite financial challen...

Southern singer-songwriter H.C. McEntire joins Carmel Holt to discuss her newest solo album, Every Acre, and how her exploration into the deeper meanings and complexities of home and land ownership connected with her own journey with grief, loss, love and relationships. 

Our new episode drops the same day as our guest's anticipated sophomore album, Honey. Singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist Samia joins Carmel Holt to talk about how the new album connects with her first (the critically-hailed debut, The Baby), how spending time in Sylvan Esso's universe has inspired her, and learning quickly how to avoid toxic people and sexism in music spaces, instead focusi...

On the heels of releasing their sophomore album, and Kill Rock Stars debut, Back Home, UK black feminist punk trio Big Joanie join Carmel Holt for a thought-provoking conversation about their journey as musicians pushing back against the lack of intersectionality in punk and the music industry for the past decade, and the ongoing double bind of an industry that is simultaneously trying to diversif...

The Brooklyn-based trio Say She She joins Carmel Holt in conversation to discuss their debut album Prism, the importance of using their voices for positive change, and how uplifting women (and each other) has impacted their creativity for the better.