Sounding Out with Izzy: A Grrrl's Two Sound Cents Podcast

Today you will hear my conversation with Kelsea Feder of the art pop fantasia Blums. Kelsea joins me to discuss her debut solo album 'Sunk Cost Fantasy,' shedding imposter syndrome, and the Warholian concept of art being whatever you can get away with. ✨ MORE ABOUT BLUMS ✨ Blums is a veteran of the Brooklyn indie pop scene known for her work in Shallowhalo, fantasy of a broken heart, and...

Today you will hear my conversation with the band Vivian, who join me over dinner to discuss their quintessential "shoegays" sound, balancing community, performance and identity as a queer/trans-fronted band, and using your platform to draw attention to the most pressing issues that queer people face today. ✨ MORE ABOUT VIVIAN ✨ Vivian is queer/trans-led alternative rock and self-procl...

Today you will hear my conversation with Emma Gerson to discuss her solo indie rock project, lucky break. We discuss her brand new album, ' made it!', and how lucky break has been a DIY creative character rooted in her personality since childhood. ✨ MORE ABOUT LUCKY BREAK ✨ lucky break is a musical project that captures the vast range of emotions–joy, fear, sadness, hope and everything i...

Today you will hear my conversation with Nara Avakian of Brooklyn-based indie quartet Nara's Room. We discuss their latest album 'Tearless, thoughtless,' navigating displacement as a fourth-generation Armenian, queer survival, and turning to bubblegum pop music as a form of escape. ✨ MORE ABOUT NARA'S ROOM ✨ Nara's Room is an indie quartet from Brooklyn helmed by Nara Avakian...

Today you will hear my conversation with the buzzy LA indie rock trio Kid Sistr, who join me to discuss their brand new EP 'American Teenage Prophecy,' writing odes to sapphic love, and filming "the first pregnancy by strap" for the title track's music video. It was, as you can imagine, a very unserious convo, and the most fun I've had talking to a band, probably ever. ✨...

Today you will hear my conversation with Caroline Carter, who joins me to discuss their brand new EP Fetch! , reconciling queerness with a religious upbringing, their background as a theatre kid, and the connection between grief, fear, and love. ✨ MORE ABOUT CAROLINE CARTER ✨ Caroline Carter is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Fort Worth, Texas. Currently based in Nashv...

Today you will hear my conversation with musician, writer, and founder of Loud Women Cassie Fox. Cassie joins me to discuss the rapid growth of Loud Women Fest, the organization's global festival in the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, and Tokyo, and the importance of putting more women on more stages. ✨ KEEP UP TO DATE WITH LOUD WOMEN ✨ Web: https://loudwomen.org/ Instagram: instagram.com/lo...

Today you will hear my conversation with NYC indie pop singer/songwriter Sabrina Song. We discuss her brand new EP, 'Big Trick,' inner conflicts that rarely resolve on their own, womanhood, and complex relationship dynamics. ✨ MORE SABRINA SONG ✨ Sabrina Song is a an indie pop singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for her captivating lyrical prose and inventive melodies. As a...

Today you will hear my conversation with songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alt pop extraordinaire, tiLLie. We talk about her beloved cats, shapeshifting throughout eras, the politics of stanning, and being an internalizer vs. an externalizer.  ✨KEEP UP TO DATE WITH tiLLie ✨ Web: https://www.whoistillie.com/home-1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoistillie YouTube: https://www.youtube....

Today you will hear my conversation with Devin Davis, a program coordinator at Amplify Arts Project (formerly Girls Rock) and Zealyn, the founder of Push-Up Bra LA. Both songwriters themselves, their organizations are joining forces to host a summer camp for teenage girls who will get to access professional writing rooms and mentorship from established women in the music industry. We discuss the o...

Today you will hear my conversation with New York City riot grrrls Bad Static, who join me to discuss their brand new album 'Miss Dirty Fingers,' playing a showcase with members of Bratmobile and Tiger Trap, and the importance of artists using their platforms to combat bigotry and oppression. ✨ MORE ABOUT BAD STATIC ✨ Bad Static is a New York City riot grrrl band. Formed in 2021, their h...

Today you will hear my conversation with singer/songwriter Sofia D’Angelo, who you may know as a former member of the New York-based indie pop collective MICHELLE. We discuss the exciting next steps in her budding solo career, MICHELLE days, playing in PinkPantheres’s Tiny Desk band, and, of course, our respective life sentences in the prison of the Heated Rivalry fandom.  ✨ MORE ABOUT SOFIA D’AN...

Today you will hear my conversation with Indonesian punk trio Grrrl Gang, who were kind enough to meet up with me during their downtime at SXSW! We discuss their personal most memorable showcases in Austin, touring, and using your platform to combat harassment and hate in local music scenes. ✨ MORE ABOUT GRRRL GANG ✨ Hailing from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Grrrl Gang is an indie power trio known for...

Today you will hear my conversation with Austin-based power pop band Parker Woodland, who joined me for a chat outside ACL during SXSW. We discuss their most anticipated showcases, activism and justice work, and incorporating cinematic visuals and lighting design in their live shows. ✨ MORE ABOUT PARKER WOODLAND ✨ Parker Woodland is a power pop trio based in Austin, Texas drawing from punk, psyc...

Amy Klein (of AK and The Hallucinations and former guitarist of Titus Andronicus) joins me for an emotionally cathartic conversation about Season 1 of Heated Rivalry and our personal soundtrack wishlists for Season 2. Topics include love letters to fanfiction, the inherent grief and woundedness of desire, Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow self, and engaging with the erotic as a deeply female and sp...

Last week, Sounding Out with Izzy made the rounds at the fifth annual New Colossus Festival, a showcase where over 170 emerging and independent artists from all over the world put on showcases across multiple stages on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. ✨ STREAM THE FEATURED ARTISTS ✨ ✨ THE DUTCH KILLS ✨ Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-dutch-kills/1704385217 Spotify: https://...

Today you will hear my conversation with Noor and Livvy from Mamalarky, who join me to discuss their latest and most self-assured record yet 'Hex Key,' and the luxury of getting to record an entire project uninterrupted. We also discuss the most foundational records in their lives growing up in Austin and Atlanta respectively, and Noor's love of A-Teens, the teenage ABBA cover band. ✨...

Today you will hear my conversation with Irish singer/songwriter Ailbhe Reddy, who joins me for a chat about her brand new album 'Kiss Big,' an ode to heartbreak, letting go, and the messy in-between of trying to figure out who you are on your own. We also geek out about our favorite rom-coms, traveling, and Leonard Cohen. ✨ MORE ABOUT AILBHE REDDY ✨ Ailbhe Reddy is a London-based singer...

Today you will hear my conversation with CARR, who joins me to discuss her latest string of singles "Hardcore!" and "Mud," and her slowburn romance with music as an artist who originally moved to LA to pursue acting. ✨ MORE ABOUT CARR ✨ CARR is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles known for her brutally honest and razor-sharp pop punk anthems.  She has shared the stage on US tours with the likes...

Today you will hear my conversation with Angela Autumn, who joins me to discuss her Appalachian roots, singing in church as a kid, and uncovering the buried stories of her childhood in folk songs. She also gives me a crash course in the key differences between the Scruggs and Clawhammer banjo techniques. ✨ MORE ABOUT ANGELA AUTUMN ✨ Angela Autumn is a Nashville singer-songwriter whose dark count...

Today you will hear my conversation with Kat Marcella, who joins me to discuss the hyperreal dream pop world of her latest EP 'Love Makes Me Cry.' We discuss the lifelong struggle of sapphic yearning captured in her song "Girls," skills she's acquired through observing her peers in the art world, and processing grief in her next batch of songs. ✨ MORE ABOUT KAT MARCELLA ✨ K...

Today you will hear my conversation with Hannah Cohen, who joins me to discuss her earth-shattering 2025 album Earthstar Mountain (which also happens to be one of my favorites of the year). We discuss the very intentional practice of being rooted in silence, shapeshifting into newer, more evolved versions of yourself, and how Hannah's hyperfixation on mushrooms informed the predominant themes...

Today you will hear my conversation with 21-year-old songwriting prodigy dacelynn, who joins me to discuss her latest EP 'nine lives,' playing the bassoon as a child, and why writing about the ordinary can often breed the most inspiring works. ✨ MORE ABOUT DACELYNN ✨ dacelynn is a 21-year-old singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose songs encompass big changes and even bigger...

Season 10 commences with a turning of the tables. Friend of the pod Grace Robins-Somerville returns to present listener-submitted questions that I answer on the spot. We also discuss our favorite records of 2025, Grammy® predictions, the astronomical rise of Geese, and niche internet music topics like the infamous Pitchfork Kid A review. ✨ MORE ABOUT GRACE ROBINS-SOMERVILLE ✨ Grace Robins-Somerv...

For the Season 9 finale of Sounding Out with Izzy, you will hear my conversation with runo plum, who joins me to talk her Winspear debut 'patching,' a collection of delicate sweeping melodies that create beautiful expansions out of endings. ✨ MORE ABOUT RUNO PLUM ✨ runo plum is a prolific DIY indie musician based in the musical Mecca of Minneapolis. Known for her intricate DIY folk pop a...