Soul Sisters

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 mu...

9 Sep 201652min

"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 wit...

2 Sep 20161h 2min

"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 a...

25 Aug 201654min

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 Septe...

16 Aug 201654min

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 Perfec...

2 Aug 20161h 10min

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 ...

19 Jul 201649min

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 Sou...

28 Jun 201648min

"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 Gr...

21 Jun 20161h 20min