Soul Sisters

Allison Pierce joins this episode of Soul Sisters to explain how initially her "heart was broken by the music business just countless times" when she and her sister Cat recorded together as The Pierces a decade ago. Now with her first solo album, Year of the Rabbit, she is ready to have another go at it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Paula Cole joins Darah and Jessie to talk about the 20th anniversary of Lilith Fair and the album that propelled her to pop stardom with hits like "I Don't Want to Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone," plus her new album Ballads out August 11.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Domino Kirke returns to music with her new album Beyond Waves after leaving the spotlight, which later found her sisters Jemima and Lola, but which she is now happily - if not hesitantly - ready to reclaim.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Lila Downs joined Soul Sisters to tell us why she felt compelled to make her new album, Salón, Lágrimas y Deseo, as a response to the election of Donald Trump.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The voice behind such hits as "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" and "As I Lay Me Down" joined Soul Sisters to tell us how those early hits led to a very unconventional career - and life.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ani DiFranco joins this episode of Soul Sisters on release day for her new album Binary to look back at the culture-defining career that led to this, her 20th studio album. With special guest host Lane Moore (@hellolanemoore)!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The iconic Lisa Loeb joins Soul Sisters to tell us how "Stay (I Miss You)" became one of the defining songs of the "slacker generation" and how she's managed to keep up with the evolving industry despite all the massive changes it's seen since then.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Though MisterWives is about as fun a live act as one can find these days, singer/songwriter Mandy Lee is quick to admit there's a lot of serious messaging behind the silliness.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Genre-bending violinist and YouTube star Lindsey Stirling joins Soul Sisters to tell us how her improbable stardom came about and to open up about her raw new documentary, Lindsey Stirling: Brave Enough.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"It’s really important that we always write from the perspective of a strong female character,” Samantha Gongol of electronic duo Marian Hill tells Soul Sisters, gratefully noting that band mate Jeremy Lloyd is "a champion of everything feminism."  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kelly Rowland joins Soul Sisters to take us back to her early days hanging with the Knowles family, forming Destiny's Child, having too many No. 1's to remember, and writing her new book on the joys (ie pains) of motherhood, "Whoa, Baby!: A Guide for New Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed and Freaked Out (and Wonder What the #*$& Just Happened)."  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sylvan Esso's new album What Now, out April 28, could hardly be better titled for this moment we find ourselves in, as we discuss with the band's Amelia Meath on this episode of Soul Sisters.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On her very first trip to New York City, British soul singer Jo Harman joined the Soul Sisters podcast to talk about the themes that course through her latest album People We Become ("a lot of loss, a lot of heartbreak, fear, sadness...but hope, joy as well, empowerment") and to explain how a young girl who grew up dancing around the Maypole in her small Devon, England village became a vocal powerhouse sensation seemingly right out of the gate.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Cranberries are back! And Soul Sisters was graced with a special guest to tell all about it: Dolores O'Riordan, the singing prodigy of Limerick, Ireland whose iconic voice and evocative songwriting led The Cranberries to international superstardom in the '90s with such hits as "Linger," "Zombie" and "Dreams."  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"I really hope it's weird," Arthur Moon, aka Lora-Faye Ashuvud, tells us about her new EP Our Head, an electro-rock experience that can feel as trippy as Ashuvud's bouts with migraine-induced aphasia.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tennis' Alaina Moore explains why the title of the band's outstanding new album, Yours Conditionally, is as much about her relationship with husband and collaborator Patrick Riley as it is her feelings towards the music business overall.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"I’m not nostalgic, I’m not trying to keep people there," Vanessa Carlton says on this episode of Soul Sisters when explaining why she prefers to start her shows with the song many fans are there to hear - her massive 2001 hit "A Thousand Miles."  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Soul Sisters is officially anointed by the ULTIMATE soul sister - the best-selling female gospel singer of all time, CeCe Winans, who chats with us about her new album and looks back at her close friendship with the late Whitney Houston.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Suzanne Vega joined Soul Sisters one day before her Cafe Carlyle debut and two weeks before the 30th anniversary of her album Solitude Standing, which cemented Vega's place in the canon of singer-songwriter fame with hits like Luka and perhaps one of the most ubiquitous songs of all time, Tom's Diner.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As she tells it in this episode of Soul Sisters, K.Flay was once complaining to a friend in college about the state of rap at the time when her friend offered this response that changed her life forever: "Why don't you write a song?" he said.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.