Soul Sisters

Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell of Overcoats spill about their meet-cute at Wesleyan College and how they transitioned from a cappella buddies to being on the verge of a huge break-through with their debut album Young, out April 21.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Singer Gavin Turek joined Soul Sisters just before dropping her new EP Good Look For You to explain how she's managed to make her disco-inflected pop sound as current as ever.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of Soul Sisters' personal choices for best new artist of the past year, Kelly Zutrau of Wet, joined us to dissect the Adele vs. Beyonce controversy, the challenges of being a high school drop out, and the cornerstone of so many of the songs that Zutrau (and Adele and Beyonce) writes: heartbreak.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Israeli icon Ninet Tayeb tells Soul Sisters about the long path she's traveled from being an "Israeli Idol" pop star to an L.A. rock n' roll queen.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Darah and Jessie reveal their New Year's resolutions and prepare to head to DC for the Women's March; Clementine Creevy of the rock band Cherry Glazerr (who also has a role on Amazon's "Transparent") joins the show to talk about peeing in cars, passing on makeup and the band's new LP, out on Inauguration day.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"What’s interesting about me is who I am, not how I look," says Rickie Lee Jones, aka "The Duchess of Coolsville," on this episode of Soul Sisters. "And if I can start from there, that in itself is a healthy and interesting way to see a woman in music."  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"It was like, 'What is going on in my little body right now?!'" Chrysta Bell remembers thinking the first time she heard the theme music to David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Little did she know back in the '80s that she would eventually become a major collaborator of Lynch's, both musically (he co-wrote and produced her latest EP Somewhere in the Nowhere) and, as fate would have it, as a cast member in his Twin Peaks reboot for Showtime, due to hit the small screen in 2017.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On her 23rd birthday this past September, Kelsea Ballerini saw her latest single "Peter Pan" go to the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts simultaneously, making her the first solo female artist to top both in the same week. It's the third single Ballerini dropped from her debut album The First Time and also the third to go No. 1 on the charts - a fact she was still trying to make sense of when she joined Soul Sisters to take stock of this crazy moment she's having.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christine Ebersole is not only a two-time Tony-winning actor, but also starred in some of our favorite movies of the '90s (Richie Rich anyone?) and even Saturday Night Live back in the Eddie Murphy heyday. She joined Soul Sisters at NYC's Chord Club in advance of her upcoming residency at the Café Carlyle to chat about her astounding body of work, which has only accelerated since an agent in L.A. once told her she was too old to get good roles anymore (this was before she won those two Tony's, by the way.)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Billboard office was awash in alt '90s nostalgia when Tori Amos stopped by last week to talk about her latest single "Flicker," which she wrote for the new Netflix documentary Audrie & Daisy. But that topic was just the tip of the iceberg.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Soul Sisters was lucky to steal some time with Grouplove frontwoman Hannah Hooper a day before the band's new album Big Mess was released earlier this month, just hours after their early morning performance on The Today Show, which itself came just hours after their appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Needless to say, Hooper was a bit tired - especially considering that she and bandmate Christian Zucconi also have a baby in tow.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Yeah, it’s heavily skewed towards the penis-having side of the musical world," Jenn Wasner says of the tradition of naming a guitar after a (typically male) artist, an honor recently bestowed upon her when Reverend Guitars created the JW-1. Wasner, well-known as one half of the band Wye Oak and now the sole writer, instrumentalist and singer of the solo project Flock of Dimes, stopped by Soul Sisters to talk about her stellar new LP If You See Me, Say Yes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Natalie Closner was a young musician trying to make it as a solo act, performing in bars and restaurants (whoever would take her) across the country, when a friend called her out for trying to sell music she herself didn't believe in. She almost immediately thought of her two twin sisters back home in Oregon, Meegan and Allie, whom she knew could sing, mostly from their occasional serenading of Rascal Flatts around the kitchen.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Garbage was the first time I went to a concert, so that was the adorable back story," says Kristin Kontrol about her recent tour opening for the iconic '90s alternative rock band. But her history with that band, and its lead singer Shirley Manson, gets even more cosmic than that.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Ain’t nobody putting out no good music," Chicago rapper Dreezy says flat out on this episode of Soul Sisters. "Everybody’s putting out bubblegum rap." The same cannot be said of Dreezy herself, who at only 22 years old is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new talents in the game.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been ten years since El Perro del Mar unleashed their Phil Spector-esque '60s-inflected pop on the indie music scene with their self-titled debut album; with a new album, KoKoro, due out in September, frontwoman Sarah Assbring stopped by Soul Sisters during a brief stint in New York away from her native Sweden to look back at the crazy decade behind her.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Though the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Becca Stevens switches seamlessly between folk, pop and even the odd Usher cover (her deconstructed version of "You Make Me Wanna" from 2015's Perfect Animal is not easily forgettable), Stevens insists she's not intentionally trying to check off any boxes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are synonymous with the kind of soul revival music that has helped make Brooklyn the new capital of cool and put vinyl back into rotation. Jones joined the Soul Sisters podcast at the Chord Club in New York to promote an upcoming documentary of which she is the subject, called Miss Sharon Jones! The film chronicles the roller coaster year of 2013 when Jones was preparing to release her new album Give The People What They Want but was hit with a cancer diagnosis that put her career - and her life - in serious peril.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The '80s teen icon, whose debut album ruled the charts with songs like "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been," has a new album out and tracks her long and historic career on this episode of Soul Sisters.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"It’s very Forrest Gump-y," Kendra Foster says about the ways in which all the pieces of her life have fit together, from her place in mentor George Clinton's legendary Parliament Funkadelic to her Grammy-winning collaboration with D'Angelo on his acclaimed Black Messiah album, and now her new self-titled LP of songs that embody and build upon everything that came before.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.