Babes Behind the Beats

This week we chat with Xie! Xie is a producer, DJ and vocalist who chats with us about her asian background, learning to produce on garage band, coming from a serious classical music background, DJing Coachella, figuring out the agent world, the importance of personal relationships in the industry, incorporating art into her artist vision, the importance of never stopping, creating edits for live performance, the festival scene and more!

Carly McClellan AKA CARR is a singer-songwriter that crafts fun, relatable, and witty tracks. Raised on artists like Avril Lavigne and The All-American Reject, CARR’s sound distills the best aspects of alt-pop, indie-rock and pop-punk, whilst lyrically she traverses the perils of modern dating and growing up. Carr chats about getting signed and going on tour opening for Fall Out Boy!

Well we absolutely loved hearing about Miss Dre’s musical journey! She talks about the importance of having a mentor with producing, learning Logic only to move over to Ableton, getting a great management team around you, the glamour of traveling as a DJ (haha) and incorporating her own vocals into her tracks. Any budding producers will love this episode!

After coming on the professional music scene in 2005 with the world-acclaimed, all-women metal band Kittie, guitarist Tara McLeod has garnered a reputation in the music world as one of the best at her craft. She chats with us about crossing genres, how she got in the business, how she met her band members and being a touring musician!

This week we chat with Nigerian singer songwriter, Kah-Lo! She chats about moving to New York and the culture shock with that, being in so much demand for her vocal but having a year of saying “No” so she could focus on her own music, her huge tracks Fasta & Fake ID, living off massive syncs with FIFA and Old Navy, getting signed to Epic during COVID and the importance of a good entertainment lawyer!

This week we got to chat with the lovely Audra Miller from First to Eleven and Concrete Castles! Audra talked all about her band’s huge youtube success posting weekly covers and leading to 1.5 million followers, to working on original music and her experiences in the music industry!

This week Jess and Bowie chat about Bowie’s trip to EDC Vegas to DJ at EDC Vegas Hotels at Resorts World, as well as interviewing for Insomniac in the artist area! All the behind the scenes info on the wonderful world that is EDC and its HUGE spectacular stages, how the stages are run to gear run downs! 

This week we had an amazing chat with Demi Lovato’s touring drummer, Britt Bowman! Britt chats about how she got into drumming, what it’s like doing arena tours, being on the road, the importance of social media and more!

These girls are entrepreneurs!! Not only are they awesome DJs, producers, songwriters and dancers, but they have created their own huge eyewear line which has been worn by everyone from Rihanna to Lady Gaga to Prince! They talk about their vision for Coco & Breezy, incorporating their past professional dancing background into their music, working with Janelle Monae, getting advice from Beyonce, touring and more! 

This week we chat with bassist and songwriter, Aubrey Harris! She began playing electric bass at age 13 and sitting in on gigs with her father, a jazz drummer. When Aubrey was 16, she was awarded a full scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music where she graduated in 2017. She chats with us about doing her 10,000 hours performing at Disney World Orlando to performing with artists such as FLETCHER, Keith Urban, and Jacob Collier! 

Oh we had a good old chat with Tomi this week! She chats with us about uploading songs to soundcloud and then getting signed to a major, finding her sound, being on the LWord, touring with KT Tunstall and more!! 

This week Jess and Bowie tried to resolve the Uber mystery that is silent Ubers! Jess also chats about her upcoming tour with Jax with Big Time Rush, the Summer Set UK tour and venue holds…and Bowie of course needs to know all the usual details about the tour bus (because she’s obsessed with buses). Hear all the touring “behind the scenes” in this week’s episode!