Headliner Radio

Oscar and Golden Globe winner, recording artist, author and activist, Jon Batiste joins the podcast to talk about his new album, We Are. The bandleader and musical director of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert opens up about his new sonic chapter, writing and planning the project in about one week from his dressing room at The Late Show, and recording it in between sessions for Disney/Pixar’s film Soul, which saw his music – and hands – incorporated into the animation. 

Returning with her second album The Woman You Want, Eliza Shaddad discusses her creative process and using minimalism to maximum effect in the studio.

After very nearly disappearing into music academia, Trevor Gureckis landed himself an internship with a certain Philip Glass, inspiring him to pursue film composition. That decision has led to him collaborating with beloved director M. Night Shyamalan on his Apple TV series Servant, and his latest movie Old. He opens up about the amazing journey of his music, and how he created the Servant series two score within the huge limitations of lockdown isolation.

Having played piano on two of the best selling albums of all time, Adele's 19 and 21, Neil Cowley's piano is one of the most widely heard instruments out there. But being a musician-for-hire is something he has put fully behind him, as he releases his stunning album of neoclassical instrumentals, Hall Of Mirrors. We talk about his classical child prodigy days, playing for Gabrielle and Zero 7, and rebelling against it all after a musical epiphany in Berlin that brought him back to his beloved piano.

Independent London-based songstress NAGYEDi talks about becoming the first Hungarian to release a single as an NFT (non-fungible token) for her new release, Out of This World, and discusses some of her upcoming material. 

Undoubtedly one of the greatest movie scoring mixes of the modern era, Alan Meyerson joins Headliner on a call from the 5.1 mix room that he’s built in his home to talk about some of his favourite projects, his philosophy when it comes to crafting film scores, and his love of Leapwing Audio plugins.

With his upcoming project, Pages, Taylor Gang singer SK8 marks his transition into punk rock while remaining true to his “hip-hop head” days, and shares that it’s his best work yet.

Chris Alderton, guitarist from four-piece British rock band, The Amazons, reflects on the band’s formation, how their biggest hit to date, Black Magic, blew up; and explains how his brand new Genelec monitors are helping shape their third album.

Legendary Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey engineer Steve Albini discusses his route into the industry, the major label politics that plagued In Utero, and why his economical approach to recording is now more popular than ever.

The Hoosiers’ frontman, Irwin Sparkes, explains how the band teamed up with social media sensations Woody & Kleiny to release the new Euro 2020 England anthem Route 66, and why proceeds from the track will aid the charity CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.