SHEROES

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.