Babes Behind the Beats

This week Jess & Bowie chat all about Sad Summer Fest and being back on tour. Jess gives us the run down on life on tour with the Summer Set, the bumpy tour life that is being on the road in a bandwagon (because there are no tour buses available!), technical issues on stage,  gear melting in the heat, the Summer Set’s Sad Summer Fest crew set up and what a day in the life of a touring band is really like! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

  This week we chat with live show designer Laura Escudé who has programmed and designed shows for artists including Kanye West, Jay Z, Cirque Du Soleil, as well as composed and performed string arrangements for Kanye West and Jay Z. She talks all things gear, how she got into the industry and what her big breaks were!   Podcast: Play in new window | Download

  This week Bowie chats with our superstar drummer Jess Bowen about all things tour life. Jess lets us in on a few of her tour bus hacks, the differences between buses on each of her tours, making sure she has back up sticks on stage with her (cause she whacks it so damn hard that she breaks them) and also little tricks to things that work on a rider (believe it or not, string cheese is a must!) If you have always wondered what living on a tour bus is like or if you are a musician who needs… Read more »

We had an awesome chat with independent artist Marieme. She has been so creative in the way she releases music and gains traction! It’s a fascinating listen! Marieme explains how she got signed to Universal publishing, getting an Apple placement, going viral in Brazil thanks to some clever marketing, being 3D scanned so she can perform in the metaverse as well as growing up in a household in Africa whereby she was banned from music! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Today we chat with Nashville music publicist, Jules Wortman! Wortman is a veteran public relations and marketing strategist who has developed a number of national and international campaigns for record labels, brands, commercial developments, authors, music, sports entertainment, special events and many others. Her clients include or have included Country Music Television (CMT), Warner Bros. Records, Universal Music, Sony Music, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Blake Shelton, and so many more. She currently manages The SteelDrivers, a GRAMMY® winning super group on Rounder Records.   Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This week Jess interviews our very own DJ Bowie Jane! Gigs are back and Bowie is back on the road performing all over the country so Jess asks all the juicy questions about prepping for travel with DJ gear, the feeling of being back on stage after COVID, what technology Bowie travels with and how she preps for potential technology issues on stage. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This week we interview artist, activist and choreographer, Kat Cunning (they/them)! They debuted on Broadway in Liaison Dangereuses (Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber) and in Cirque du Soleil in addition to acting alongside James Franco in HBO’s The Deuce, and most recently, JLo in Marry Me (Universal). Kat is also thrilled to be contributing to authentic LGBTQAI+ representation as a non-binary role in Netflix’s upcoming Purple Hearts and making another anticipated appearance in Issa Rae’s Rap Shit on HBO Max.   Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This week we chat with singer songwriter Noah Vonne! Noah was raised in the musical heartland of Texas, where she forged an original sound that blends elements of rock, soul, blues, and pop. She chats about growing up performing in Mega Churches, studying music business at Belmont University and how that has translated into working in the music industry, writing music and doing co writes! Podcast: Play in new window | Download

We were so lucky this week to have the chance to chat with one of the world’s best Techno DJs, Nastia from the Ukraine. Nastia explains how she got into DJing having first been a top touring Gogo dancer, starting her own record label, her first DJ break after managing a main stage at a major festival as well as telling us all about how she escaped from Kyiv with her daughter after hearing explosions, driving for many hours to the border and finally relocating to Amsterdam. Nastia was one of the first Ukrainian DJs to go straight out to… Read more »

We were so thrilled to have Little Luna randomly drop into the studio and have a chat with us about her upcoming opening slot performing for 5 Seconds of Summer (with none other than our very own Jess Bowen on drums!)! You may remember her from our interview during covid where she was prepping her music and forming her Little Luna concept! Now it’s all coming to fruition so we chat with her about how her amazing gig has come about, her strategy with her image and music, meditation , being independent and so much more!   Podcast: Play in… Read more »

This week we have an awesome chat with Broadway star, N’Kenge! She’s had a fascinating career and has worked in both Opera, Broadway and now in her role as producer with an incredible show coming up at Carnegie Hall telling the amazing story of Dorothy Dandridge. N’Kenge chats with us about her role as producer and what that entails, getting the show together from concept to organizing actors to the music, studying at Julliard and Manhattan School of Music and what was involved, moving from pop to opera to musical theater, as well as her routine before performing on stage!… Read more »

What a treat it was to chat with music producer Esjay Jones. She talks about her frustration with the music industry initially which led her to teach herself music production and Logic and then move into the producing side. She had her first major cut in the U.S. alongside co-writer Justin Tranter in 2013 with the single “I Choose U” by TimeFlies on Def Jam Records. Since then, she has worked with Grey Daze (Chester Bennington), Sean Kingston, Jeffree Star, Olivia Holt, Escape The Fate, Mystery Skulls with Nile Rodgers and Brandy, Alien Ant Farm, and many more. Podcast: Play in… Read more »