Headliner Radio

Laura Kidd, aka Penfriend, tells Headliner about her brand new record, Exotic Monsters, and talks us through her creative process.

He's written with Selena Gomez and he's fronted a Channel 4 comedy, all after accidentally taking the Internet by storm by musically poking fun at the Kesha hit, TiK ToK. Stefan Abingdon continues to leave his mark on the worlds of music, production and comedy with his totally unique approach. We discuss what he's been up to, for example ordering a Domino's Pizza and turning it into a song. 

As a sound designer at iZotope, Rachel Alix is directly responsible for creating and honing some of the most widely-used audio tools in the industry. Here she discusses her passion for vocal production, and teases some of the cool new products and features that we can expect from the company in the near future.

Indie-pop band The White Lakes were set for massive things in 2020 before the pandemic hit and put all their plans on hold. Here, the band’s singer Matt tells us how they made the decision to move into a shared house to continue writing and performing together no matter what the restrictions, a decision that produced their latest single, This Generation.

UK artist, Esmae wrote her first song aged 16, and although music was her true passion, career success elsewhere meant it took a backseat. She explains how she found her way back to music by posting demos on Soundcloud, which led to her releasing her debut single, Oughta Know, with a five-track EP titled Do Better, due to be released later this year...

Eurovision 2021 saw James Newman provide the UK's entry with his song Embers. Headliner caught up with him to discuss what went down on the night and the immense platform the content provides artists

Having worked with all the big movie studios, as well as mixing the music for a number of smash-hit video games, producer, engineer and score mixer Jason LaRocca has been on a roll of late, most recently mixing the music for Marvel’s upcoming Morbius and HBO Original series The Nevers. Here he talks us through the impressive setup in his La-Rocc-A-Fella Center recording and mix facility, and reveals why he finds oeksound’s soothe and spiff invaluable when it comes to his process.

Record producer and mix engineer, Dave Eringa, reflects on his start at Powerplant studios and on keeping things fresh in the studio with Manic Street Preachers after 30 years of working together. He shares what is key when it comes to the role of music producer, and how a calibrated Genelec monitoring setup has been a total game-changer in his home studio. 

A Belgian composer in the midst of his Hollywood breakthrough, Peter Baert has diligently worked his way up scoring Belgian indie flicks, until the opportunity to compose for The Water Man (executive produced by Oprah Winfrey) arose. He opens up about the polarity of euro cinema versus big budget American productions, creating tailor-made synths for films, and why he's been a Cubase user for as long as he can remember.

Melbourne singer-songwriter Gretta Ray’s first release of 2021 introduced an innovative concept in new music sharing: Duologies – two songs joined in theme but creatively distinct, issued as a pair. She dives into her songwriting process and explains the concept behind Bigger Than Me and Readymade – which are both songs about her relationship with creativity, which she admits is something that she can become obsessive about.