loves music

<p>Gabrielle Caruthers spent 20 years in the cultural arts before launching a podcast to ask the questions the creative community wasn't talking about.</p><p>She's a Detroit-based dancer turned podcast host, educator...

<p>Jon writes entire albums in a month, has a Nigerian band covering his songs, and still calls himself an amateur.</p><p>The Brighton-based singer-songwriter behind The Family Grave built a prolific catalog of indie...

<p>V!ctoria wrote her first hit during COVID at 15, posted it on a whim, and watched it rack up over half a million streams. Now she can barely press play on it.</p><p>The 20-year-old New York artist blends R&B, pop...

<p>Ep.60: Pearl Fontaine dropped out of a lyric writing class in college because she wasn't ready to share herself. Years later, a bonfire in rural North Carolina changed everything.</p><p>The lead singer of Post...

<p>KĪ picked up a ukulele during COVID with no music background, posted a few covers, and a Nashville management team came calling. Now she writes, produces, and releases everything herself.</p><p>The Seattle-based pop...

<p>Kyle Blankenship drove past his childhood home one night and watched it burn to the ground. Ten minutes later, he'd written a song about it.</p><p>The Nashville-area indie folk rock songwriter has been writing and...

<p>Ep.57: Rob Tait wrote a song about someone he loves, and didn't know who it was until he started crying.</p><p>The Philly-based Americana singer-songwriter returns to “loves music” with his sophomore album Dear...

<p>Julian Martinez taught himself to produce, mix, and master music from his bedroom, and now he's finishing a debut album that sounds like it came out of a professional studio.</p><p>The guitarist, songwriter, and...

<p>Dareen came back with a whole album and a completely different energy.</p><p>She was Episode 2 — one of the very first guests on loves music — and back then she was just getting her feet wet again after a decade away...

<p>Ep.54: She was being looked at by Warner Brothers, playing sold-out shows in New York… and then she got pregnant and walked away from all of it.</p><p>LauraLea Taraskus has been a full-time working musician since...

<p>Ep.53: The producer of “loves music” finally takes the hot seat, and she has a story of her own.</p><p>For the past 52 episodes, Angelina Gurrola has been the person behind every edit, every show note, and every...

<p>Ep.52: Kat Yvonne turned pandemic grief and pregnancy loss into one of the most emotionally raw albums you'll hear this year.</p><p>She's an independent singer-songwriter from Toronto who built both of her projects...

<p>Ep.51: Elliot Poston chose his wife over a music career… and years later, music found him anyway.</p><p>Elliot is a country singer out of South Carolina who spent nearly two decades leading worship at church before...

<p>For 50 episodes, Julian's been asking the questions. Now it's his turn to answer them.</p><p>In this special milestone episode, Julian turns the tables on himself” answering the same questions he asks his guests...

<p>Ep.49: Zegovia makes arena-level pop punk in a city that doesn't really have a pop punk scene.</p><p>Seth Mireles and his brother Matt started the band as teenagers covering Nirvana in their parents' house. Now...