SHEROES

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.

Multi-hyphenate Artist with a capital "A" Lido Pimienta returns to SHEROES this week to talk with Carmel Holt about her latest album, La Belleza - an emotionally resonant and triumphant orchestral album that sees Lido going wide with her sonic palette while she continues to build the canon of music rooted in her Afro-Indigenous Caribbean background.

Say it with us: ICON. Shirley Manson returns to SHEROES this week to chat with host Carmel Holt about the new Garbage album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, their eighth studio release, and what she describes as the "good twin" to their last album No Gods No Masters. As always, Shirley comes with the wisdom, the wit, and the no-fucks-given feminist empowerment that we ALL need now, more than ever.

Get to know Uwade on this week's episode of SHEROES. The Nigerian American indie folk artist (and PhD student) joins Carmel Holt to share her story and what went into the crafting of her beautiful debut album, Florilegium.

Kim Deal Live in Greenwich Village is brought to you by 4AD and Beggars Group. You'll hear clips of live performances of songs from Kim's solo debut Nobody Loves You More, and Kim herself talking about the making of the album and stories behind the songs.

This week we celebrate the return of UK's Billie Marten with her brilliant fifth full length studio album, Dog Eared, and welcome Billie for an in depth conversation with Carmel Holt about avoiding making a "singer-songwriter" album, how following her instincts about bringing led to joyfully unexpected results in the studio, embodying both masculine and feminine stage personas, and her musical SHEROES.

This week it's a special edition of SHEROES with Meg Remy aka U.S. Girls in Nashville, the place that her newest album, Scratch It, was made. Our episode includes an interview with Meg Remy recorded from Nashville public radio station WNXP and a few songs recorded that same day at East Nashville event space Soft Junk, with thanks to label 4AD and Beggars Group.

Alex Sauser-Monnig who records and performs as Daughter of Swords recently released their second album, Alex, and they join Carmel Holt this week to talk about why acoustic music was initially a more comfortable sonic world to live in for them - both in their trio Mountain Man, and on their 2019 debut Dawnbreaker - and breaking free of those limits while simultaneously investigating and expanding the definition of how they live and support themself as an independent artist.

Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jensen McRae is an artist whose star is rising fast. At 27 she has already been releasing music for a decade, and the last two years saw her tour with MUNA, and Noah Kahan. Her impeccably crafted second album I Don't Know How But They Found Me! is her first for indie stalwart label Dead Oceans, and she joins Carmel Holt to talk about her nearly lifelong sense of self-confidence despite feeling the outsider in school, her love of working with - and listening to - other women songwriters, and learning to live in our appearance-obsessed culture.

As our annual Pride Month celebration continues on SHEROES, Carmel Holt welcomes musician Katie Gavin for a fantastic conversation about her recent debut solo outing What A Relief, as well as Katie's musical journey from her roots as a singer-songwriter growing up in Chicago, to forming the now massively successful pop band MUNA over a decade ago with two of her best friends in college.

Our annual Pride Month series continues with musician Ezra Furman in the SHEROES Spotlight. Carmel Holt talks with Ezra about her amazing tenth album Goodbye Small Head, the recognition that no feeling is final, and how being trans has made her life better despite the painful challenges that comes with it.

This year during Pride month, trans rights are especially top of mind, as trans-phobia, discrimination, and anti-trans violence is at an all time high, as well as a growing wave of anti-transgender legislation. So we wanted to kick off our celebration of Pride with an encore presentation of our recent conversation with UK trans-femme artist jasmine.4.t, who put out one of our very favorite albums of the year thus far, called You Are the Morning. The album was produced by all three members of boygenius - Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, and Julien Baker, and released on Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory Records. Carmel Holt sat down with Jasmine before she opened for Lucy Dacus at Radio City Music Hall back in April for a super moving and inspiring conversation, which, like her album, has also become one of our favorites of the year. Jasmine's story of trauma, bravery, and transformation thankfully, has an uplifting and heartwarming new chapter, brought about through support from community, PTSD therapy, and music. PLEASE NOTE: if topics of suicide and gender-based violence are triggering for you, please listen with care.

Carmel Holt sits down with all four members of Lucius - Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig, Dan Molad, and Pete Lalish - at Public Records in Brooklyn, NY to discuss their brand new self-titled album, the love and loss that informed their new songs, and getting back to their roots as a band while simultaneously settling down with their growing families.

Merrill Garbus returns to SHEROES this week to chat with Carmel about the brand new Tune-Yards album Better Dreaming, motherhood, and stepping into her power as an artist with nearly two decades and six albums under her belt.

Maren Morris returns to SHEROES this week to discuss her amazing new album Dreamsicle, a new era of musical liberation, embracing her queerness, and discovering the calm that has found her after the storm of several big life changes over the last three years.

As The Head and The Heart returns today with their highly anticipated sixth album, Aperture, Charity Rose-Thielen joins Carmel Holt to talk about the band's return to their roots as a collective, communal project, the freedom of working without external industry pressure, becoming a mother, and so much more.

UK trans-femme artist jasmine.4.t sits down with Carmel Holt for a deeply moving and inspiring conversation ahead of her second night at Radio City Music Hall opening for Lucy Dacus, who co-produced her full length debut, You Are The Morning, with Lucy's boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Please note: if topics of suicide and gender-based violence are triggering for you, listen with care.

The 18x Latin Grammy and 4x Grammy Award winning Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Natalia Lafourcade returns to SHEROES to talk about her newest chapter: her twelfth studio album called Cancionera.