Headliner Radio

Mastering engineer Gavin Lurssen's Grammy Award-winning work includes Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? He brings an artful Zen to his mastering work and a thoughtful balance to his life. In today’s podcast Will Hawkins chats to Gavin about his career and ideology of giving back to the music community. 

Discovered at the age of just 12, Birdy has gone on to amass over 1.6 billion audio streams worldwide, 1 billion YouTube views, 7.1 million monthly Spotify listeners and 4.7 million album sales to date. April 30 2021 will see her release her highly anticipated upcoming album,Young Heart, which as we discover, is quite the departure from her previous material. Birdy reflects on her early success, her spellbinding cover songs, and dives into the inspiration behind her upcoming record.

London-based duo Glass Peaks recently released their first single for 2021 - By My Side - an ‘80s synth fueled alt-indie track. Here we speak to the band’s Alfie Jefferies about writing as a two piece for the first time, heading down a slightly darker electronic route, and how they’ve always kept their listeners on their toes when it comes to their genre. 

Recording and mix engineer and producer Jake Jackson has worked on a huge variety of soundtracks for film, TV, computer games, and more recently, albums. Jackson reveals the projects he’s been working on during lockdown, his route into the industry, the challenges of working on computer game scores, and the Genelec monitors that he relies upon.

London-based singer Jessica Wilde has started 2021 in a big way, recently dropping a double A-side with two fresh new singles. We chat about some of her favourite collaborations, the inspiration behind her raw, honest lyrics, and how she’s been pushing her own boundaries creatively during lockdown.

We speak to renowned German DJ, musician and producer ATB and platinum-selling producer Topic about their new single Your Love (9pm), a faithful remake of the original ‘90s trance anthem featuring the vocals of Swedish songwriter A7S.

Up-and coming Trinbagonian artist Kalpee has just released a stunning acoustic version of his latest project Feel Good Playlist Vol.1, which really does sound as the name suggests. Here he talks about partnering with this year’s virtual SXSW on The Island Stage, focusing on West Indian artists and reviving the acknowledgement of island pop globally.

Having spent the last two years touring with the likes of Brett Eldredge, Jon Pardi, Randy Houser and Lee Kernaghan, when Covid-19 hit, Brad Cox found solitude driving a tractor for up to 17 hours a day. Cox gets candid about the inspiration behind some of his biggest hits, why he only puts out the music he wants to, and talks about his new album, My Mind's Projection.

A Grammy Award-winner and trained at the most prestigious school of Julliard, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum has been carefully establishing herself within the world of film music, especially with her unique work on the Quibi series, Don’t Look Deeper. Headliner dives into her stunning work on the series, as well as the locked-down composer life and her work on the board of The Alliance for Women Film Composers. 

Can Tom Ashbrook put Liverpool on the neoclassical map to rival Berlin? With the quality of his stirring piano music, anything is possible. Having found its way into some of the biggest piano playlists on Spotify, we speak to Ashbrook about the next steps to take his music worldwide.