Stay ConnectedInspiring women in music, from Grammy-winners to exciting up-and-comers to actors in music-centric projects, join Billboard to get real about what inspired THEM to follow their passions and become the powerhouses they are today. Soul Sisters is hosted by Billboard’s writer/content creator Jessie Katz (@therealjkatz) and Darah Golub (@tnyls) of the indie-pop band Parlour Tricks.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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