Headliner Radio

Josh Teskey of blues rock band, The Teskey Brothers reflects on the band's early busking days, viral reaction videos, and how people have embraced their timeless soul sound. The band’s lead singer explains how a performance to an empty Hamer Hall with Orchestra Victoria resulted in their brand new album, and how they sprinkled their signature Teskey Brothers sound on the record’s two original Christmas songs.

EERA, aka Anna Lena Bruland, tells Headliner about the making of her new album, Speak, and how she is constantly evolving her creative process.

Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, best known as the multi-Grammy nominated band The Lumineers, have made their long-awaited return to the airwaves with new singles Brightside and Big Shot. We spoke to Wesley about the band nearing two decades together, his thoughts on artistic longevity in this TikTok and Instagram age, and how their experience and recent solo projects helped the swift recording of their new music, as we build up to their upcoming album next year. 

Accomplished FOH engineer, Ken 'Pooch' van Druten – who is currently on the road with ZZ Top – has worked with the likes of Iron Maiden, Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Kiss and many more over the course of his career. Here he discusses how IEMs are allowing for better front of house mixes, and offers some of his top tips and tricks for mixing live shows.

Brazilian-born, multi Grammy Award-winning music engineer, Enrico DePaoli, reflects on his early days in the music industry, working with Ray Charles, starting up his private mixing and mastering room, and his 25-year love affair with Genelec monitors. 

Headliner recently spoke to up-and-coming UK-based soul artist Hatty Keane about discovering her place in the music scene, honing her sound and growing her confidence, and how her funky summer record Coming Out epitomised the freedom of emerging from lockdown.

Musician, producer, DJ and space enthusiast, Maor Levi, chats about his refusal to stop releasing bangers over the last year, nerves about finally going back on tour, the state of trance going into 2022, and how Waves plugins are vital in his musical workflow. 

Jake Miller describes how he co-produced, engineered and mixed a special edition audiobook of Robert Macfarlane’s book, Ness, going to extraordinary lengths to get on-location recordings from the setting of the book, and then processing them almost exclusively using period-correct EMI technology. He also explains how he recently recorded a promo single for TV series, American Gods, at Snap Studios on their ultra rare, 1972 Neve 5316 recording console.

Musician and sound engineer Matt Motto has been performing, writing and teaching guitar since the age of just 14. Here we talk through his creative process in the studio, the ways in which he uses oeksound plugins, and the exciting plans in store for his Chicago-based prog metal band Dissona.

London-based DJ and producer, Luke Solomon has been steadily releasing dance records since the ‘90s, and is behind well-respected house labels, Classic, which he co-founded with Chicago house legend Derrick Carter in 1995, and Music for Freaks, co-run with Justin Harris since 1999. He reflects on the “accidental” mainstream success of production duo, Freaks, why the experience led him to dig himself back underground, and why he’s been a Cubase user from the start.