L.A-based composer and BAFTA Breakthrough Artist Stephanie Economou reflects on her Grammy win for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök . She delves into the inspiration behind the score, why video game music deserves its own time in the limelight, and why she’s relied on Steinberg’s Cubase all along.
Award-winning South Korean Squid Game and Parasite composer Jung Jaeil talks about what inspired him to create his new intimate piano-based album, Listen . He also reflects on scoring Netflix's most watched TV series ever, Squid Game , winging the main theme on the recorder, his favourite scenes and cues, and how a hangover resulted in the perfect main theme for four-time Oscar-winning film, Parasite .
Slovakian alt-pop artist Karin Ann – also referred to as Eastern Europe’s answer to Billie Eilish – is fast becoming a Gen-Z icon. She talks about becoming the first ever Slovak artist to feature on a giant billboard in New York’s Times Square, why she’s an outspoken advocate of the LGBTQ+ community and minority rights, and delves into the meaning behind her brand new single, for a moment.
Headliner meets the Gatwick Production Studios team to talk all things immersive mixing inside the facility’s Treehouse studio – a certified Gold Class Genelec mix and mastering facility that Dolby called the highest spec room built in the UK to date.
Self-taught up-and-coming hip-hop artist and producer Dici chats exclusively to Headliner about moving in a different musical direction, and how his recently released pop-rap single, Champagne Showers came together.
Imperial Leisure make their much-anticipated comeback with an important single about men’s mental health and male suicide. Denis, Imperial Leisure frontman, chats about creating the song and its new album, why he and bandmate Scott would only get together to write and record around the time of the full moon each month, and more about their return in 2023.
Dean Morris, aka The Gleeman, and award winning engineer Ash Howes, discuss the making of The Gleeman's upcoming debut album and embracing Dolby Atmos mixing to create a truly immersive listening experience.
Up-and-coming New York-based indie pop singer and songwriter Cade Hoppe – who kicked off the new year with his new single Labels – joins Headline r for a chat about songwriting, music production, and everything in between.
Swedish-born artist Hanna Ögonsten delves into the meaning behind her latest single, Lost It , which is taken from her upcoming EP, have you seen my mind cause' I've lost it .
Nashville-based guitarist, singer and songwriter JD Simo reflects on taking on the role of Elvis’ guitarist in Baz Luhrmann’s newest film, and shares how his new album, Songs From The House Of Grease came together.
Film composer Daniel Pemberton – whose past work includes composing for major film and TV shows including Steve Jobs , Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Enola Holmes – talks about working on recent projects See How They Run and the star-studded, Amsterdam .
Award winning composer, musician and music producer Ego Plum – aka the Cartoon Composer – explains how he scored season 3 of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy-nominated Netflix series, The Cuphead Show .
Headliner heads to Helsinki to visit Sonic Pump Studios, where we find out about the heritage of the facility, its immersive audio capabilities, and the city's music scene.
Producer, mixing engineer and songwriter Miles Comaskey reflects on working for mixing legend Tony Maserati fresh out of college – including nearly being fired for wearing cut off jeans on his first day. He also shares stories about working with Pussy Riot, Carly Rae Jepsen and Jay Sean, and explains how Waves plugins fit into the equation.
Rick Maguire, frontman and creative driving force behind US alt rock outfit, Pile, takes us inside the making of the band's new album All Fiction .
BAFTA-winning video game composer Garry Schyman – who’s behind the award-winning scores in the Bioshock game series, Destroy All Humans! , Resistance: Retribution , Dante’s Inferno and Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor – explains how he scored the brand new action role-playing game, Forspoken with co-composer Bear McCreary.
Legendary bass player Tina Weymouth discusses her life in music and her upcoming Remain In Love tour with husband and fellow Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club co-founder, Chris Frantz.
Composer Colin Stetson explains how he scored The Menu , the brilliant foodie black comedy which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes.
NYC funk band Dakota Jones talk about the evolution of their sound, the success of their debut album, Blacklight , and how their brand new single, Sugar Pie , came together.
Multi instrumentalist and indie pop rock artist Jake Huffman chats to Headliner about discovering his musicality as a solo artist, his impressive songwriting credits, and his new single Martyr , which he wrote, recorded and produced at the famous PowerStation New England Studio and is a nod to his upcoming EP.
6 Music presenter and broadcasting legend Steve Lamacq talks Independent Venue Week and why 2023 is make or break for the grassroots circuit.
Headliner joins Holoplot CEO Roman Sick in Berlin for a chat about his plans to shake up the market as well as the company's ambitions to change the industry as we know it.
Headliner drops in on Genelec MD Siamäk Naghian and R&D director Aki Mäkivirta at their Finland HQ to talk about the studio monitoring business, market trends, and the past, present, and future of the company.
Bristol-based emerging electronic artist Ruth Royall talks to Headliner about her musical origins, the current state of the drum and bass scene in her hometown, and reveals how her brand new single, Walk Through Fire , came together from a creative perspective.
UK-based singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist Bertie – the 2023 ambassador for Yamaha Music London’s flagship UK store – reveals how he played Glastonbury two days after finishing his A-Levels, why he left his stable job in finance to pursue music, and the inspiration behind his songs What We Feel , Not Easy and Nobody New .
Headliner visits Helsinki's Kalevala Studios to speak with the facility's Sami Sarhamaa and engineer Pietu Korhonen to find out about the city's post production market and the trends shaping the industry.
Rome-born, Berlin-based electronic music composer and producer, NOCUI talks about his new single Pasión , which features guitar and Middle Eastern elements. He explains why he doesn’t make his dance music with nightclubs in mind, why he loves using analogue instruments, and teases his upcoming EP.
Italian multi-platinum audio engineer IRKO reflects on going from a garage studio just outside of Venice to working on Jay-Z's Kingdom Come album in New York, and more recently mixing and mastering Kanye West’s highly anticipated Donda . He explains how his current StudioBeat3 studio build is going, and breaks down why he uses Focusrite kit across his studio complex.
Non-binary singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Grace Gaustad visits the JBL L.A. Experience Center to talk about the meaning behind their brand new single nothing to me, taken from the PILLBX: whts ur fantasy? album, viral internet stardom, bringing the BLKBX concept to life and being a voice for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Composer Chanda Dancy explains how she scored the new Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody , how the films’s two main sonic themes highlight the contrast between the iconic vocalist’s onstage glamour and her private life, and why she’s used Waves plugins since graduating from film scoring school.
