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Jessica Lea Mayfield Oct 29, 2020

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Jessica Lea Mayfield is an alt-rock/country singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio (with musical roots in Nashville) who resides in an RV in Los Angeles where she is recording and self-producing her next album - which is a pretty familiar setting for her. Jessica grew up on a tour bus (with a family full of musicians) and spent her youth writing music and homeschooling herself. She has collaborated and toured with big names and is a headliner, as well. In part one of this episode, LG and Jessica chat about their mutual, self-described "white trash" upbringing, their shared passion for DIY recording, owning their down-to-earth identities, and more. Thank you to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring this episode! Visit them at www.earthquakerdevices.com! Support this podcast and women in audio at www.patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch at www.society6.com/QOSM

Gwendolyn Forrester Oct 15, 2020

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Gwendolyn Forrester is a boutique guitar designer/builder who lives in a queer commune in Tennessee. She creates and sells incredible custom guitars, some made from reclaimed materials, including using wood from a barn's door where she lived. This episode follows her path to guitar building and her personal journey as well, including the challenges she faces as a transwoman trying to compete in the music gear retail space. (You can check out her work at dismalax.com!) Thank you, EarthQuaker Devices, for sponsoring this episode. Visit them at earthquakerdevices.com! Support this podcast and women in audio at patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch at society6.com/QOSM.

Christine Lilyea Oct 08, 2020

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LG interviews Christine Lilyea, proprietor of Slash Run in Washington, D.C., on the topic of small music venues in the U.S. that are facing closures and financial troubles, the importance of rallying behind the venues we love, and the reasons for saving them. Christine talks about adapting during the pandemic and how her venue has been able to do so without laying off a single employee in the process. This episode features live music and stage banter from Thelma and the Sleaze to remind us all of the value of saving these cultural beacons for a post-corona world. Thank you to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring this episode! Visit them at www.earthquakerdevices.com! Support this podcast and women in audio at patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch at society6.com/QOSM.

Kate the Dancer Oct 01, 2020

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Fun episode alert! This week, host LG talks with her friend Kate, a professional dancer who joined her on stage to perform last year during the first leg of the tour with her rock band Thelma and the Sleaze. If you know LG, you know she has intense admiration and respect for dancers and is an advocate who strongly believes in removing the negative stigma from all sex workers. In this episode, they discuss their tour together (and the viral video they created), the similarities of rockers and dancers, the safety conditions and the physical and emotional labor involved with being a dancer, the new frontier of the online strip club, the social media dancer renaissance (and their videos that got flagged for music licensing issues), and some stories from the stage, including Kate incorporating comedy into her performance. Support this podcast and women in audio at patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch from society6.com/QOSM. Huge thank you to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring this episode! Visit them at earthquakerdevices.com!

Season Two Retrospective Sep 24, 2020

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This week, we pulled some of our favorites clips from QOSM podcast Season Two in this special retrospective episode! Featuring interview snippets and stories from Grammy-winning legends Tanya Tucker and Brittany Howard, beloved icon Kate Pierson (The B-52's), singer-songwriter music geniuses Margo Price, Lilly Hiatt, Lizzie Powell (Land of Talk), Makenzie Green (Bird Cloud), Kam Franklin (The Suffers), Sophie Allison, (Soccer Mommy), drummer extraordinaires Patty Schemel (Hole) and Lori Barbero (Babes in Toyland), and the empowering badass CEO of EarthQuaker Devices Julie Robbins!

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Kam Franklin - Part 2 Sep 17, 2020

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Kam Franklin and LG continue their chat in part two of this episode, discussing the cities that are a "hard nut to crack" for touring musicians, like Atlanta and Kam's hometown of Houston. They analyze Nashville in a similar way - exploring everything from marketing, clubs, audiences/scenes, lessons learned, music history, gentrification, the south, and the music biz overall. Kam talks about growing up in a diverse neighborhood in Houston, reveals that she used to be a promoter, has big picture plans to one day throw a festival, but first, she's focusing on a forthcoming double album from her band The Suffers. Huge thanks to sponsor EarthQuaker Devices! Support this podcast at patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch at society6.com/QOSM.

Kam Franklin - Part 1 Sep 10, 2020

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Kam Franklin of the Houston band The Suffers is an award-winning singer-songwriter, a performance artist, an activist, a writer, and an orator - and as if that's not enough, she was a trade analyst at an investment bank before her band's national debut. After a producer from Late Show with David Letterman booked The Suffers on the show, she quit her day job and the rest is history. Kam and LG discuss racism and sexism within the music industry, Americana and its festivals, the issues with genre-labeling, empathy in modern times, and more, in part one of this episode. Huge thanks to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring! Visit them at www.earthquakerdevices.com. Support this podcast and women in audio at www.patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch from www.society6.com/QOSM.

Soccer Mommy Sep 03, 2020

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Soccer Mommy, a Swiss-born singer-songwriter, musician, and wunderkind who grew up in Nashville, chats with LG about her music journey. They discuss her younger years at rock camp, her experience with home recording, her tour setup, her music career rise (and signing a record deal with label Fat Possum Records), the new era of young women in music owning their process, some fun gear chat, and more. They also play a game LG made up - a 90s lyric quiz! Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/QOSM. Grab some merch at www.society6.com/QOSM. Thank you to podcast sponsor EarthQuaker Devices! www.earthquakerdevices.com

Lizzie Powell - Part 2 Aug 27, 2020

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LG continues her chat with Lizzie Powell of Land of Talk (landoftalkmusic.com) in part two of this episode. Lizzie and LG discuss recording, bandmates, guitars, navigating around the creepy, entitled men of the music industry (and sometimes just crushing them with a guitar), predictions on when musicians will get to tour again, their shared love of croissants, and more in this engaging episode. Support this podcast, and women in audio, at patreon.com/QOSM and grab some merch at society6.com/QOSM! Thank you EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring! earthquakerdevices.com

Lizzie Powell - Part 1 Aug 20, 2020

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This week, LG chats with singer, songwriter, and guitarist Lizzie Powell of the Canadian indie rock band Land of Talk, from Montreal, Quebec, in Queen of S-Mountain's first international episode! In part one, they discuss Canada's current and former arts funding (and the funding delegated to bands), recording a demo, songwriting, mental health, and the ever-persistent question "What's your song about?" Subscribe, leave a comment and a review, and support this podcast at patreon.com/QOSM. Grab some merch from the QOSM store at society6.com/QOSM. Thank you to our sponsor EarthQuaker Devices for being a champion of women in audio. Visit them at www.earthquakerdevices.com!

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