Jill Schlesinger joins Steph to demystify the current economic situation and will seek to provide some practical advice to help. Join us live on Facebook to watch these lockdown podcasts as they happen, Wednesday nights at 8PM EST on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/Newyorkartistscollective Or join our Inner Circle page for music fans and artists alike! www.facebook.com/groups/619728222098700 Jill Schlesinger, CFP®, is the Emmy-nominated and Gracie Award Winning Business Analyst for CBS News....
Jul 08, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 75
JUNE BOOK CLUB! Our second installment of Book Club featuring Glennon Doyle's runaway best-selling book "Untamed" Join us live on Facebook to watch these lockdown podcasts as they happen, Wednesday nights at 8PM EST on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Newyorkartistscollective Or join our Inner Circle page for music fans and artists alike! https://www.facebook.com/groups/619728222098700 Steph is joined by musicians and songwriters Kaylyn Marie, Erica Swindell and John Gardner (aka Comm...
Jul 01, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 74
This special episode is dedicated to showcasing our POC artist community, Steph will be taking a step back behind the scenes while our guest host, NYAC alum Mishti, takes the hot seat inviting our artist guests to share some songs and their experiences with us for this one-hour special. Our artists include.... MISHTI A singer-songwriter-guitarist with the lyricism of Jeff Buckley and the badassness of Slash demands the ear of any listener with her fresh take on post-pop rock music. While finishi...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Sonia Leigh joins Steph live from Nashville to talk about creating music during lockdown in Music City. Join in the conversation on the live podcast Wednesday nights at 8PM EST on our facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/Newyorkartistscollective Sonia Leigh made her country catapult on Zac Brown's Southern Ground Records in 2011 with “My Name Is Money”. Her more recent independent leaps span genres of country, pop, alt-rock, and hiphop. Her 2018 full length release titled Mad Hatter showcases...
Jun 17, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Our good friend Matt Butler joins us to discuss the mission for his music and how serving others gives both him and his art a purpose through his non-profit the Just One Foundation, and he plays his song 'Just One'. Redemption and hope through song sums it up when I think of Matt Butler” says Kevin Lyman, the founder of the legendary Vans Warped Tour, who hosted Butler as one of the few solo acoustic acts on the Tour’s final cross country run in 2018; Matt was back as a mainstage performer at th...
Jun 10, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Continuing our live podcast series, rising singer-songwriter and global citizen Eli Lev joins us to talk about being a musician-entrepreneur and how he has taken his show on the virtual road with all of the systems he already had in place before lockdown! Whether it’s an in-person performance, or during a livestream show, Eli captivates the audience with a storyteller approach to stage banter through tales of his travel, witty asides, and engaging commentary. His infectious musicality, commitmen...
Jun 03, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Continuing our live podcast series, Heather Mae will join us to talk about how she’s been serving her community during this crisis. The last time we spoke just before the start of lockdown she said “right now, I’ve got to get to work. My community needs me” and Heather has been rolling up her sleeves and connecting with her fans everywhere, she’ll be telling us all about. And who knows, she may even play a few songs... Unfazed by what a typical pop artist today is “supposed” to look or sound lik...
May 26, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Last week, my friend Akie Bermiss joined me for cocktail hour to regale me with songs and stories and plan our next nerd endeavour together! A good time was had by all! Akie Bermiss with his affable disposition, glasses, and healthy do of cascading dreads that drape down to his shoulders, is unabashedly a self-professed nerd to the nth degree. Since early childhood Akie has been an obsessed science fiction aficionado. Yet he does have an artist-friendly façade and has managed to cultivate and l...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 68
"This Next One's About" Lockdown Edition! In honour of Mental Health Awareness Month, I invited Psychotherapist Eve Blatt to talk about how this crisis has been impacting our mental health and we talked about some things we can do to look after ourselves and others to get through this crisis. Eve Blatt is a Psychotherapist currently self-employed in private practice in Manhattan. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from NYU and has completed post graduate training in Feminist Relational Ps...
May 13, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 67
"This Next One's About" Lockdown edition, we bring you our very own Book Club! We were very excited to discuss this book, not a new book by any means, but very topical for the times we're living in. Amanda Palmer. Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audi...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 66
"This Next One's About" is going live to Facebook weekly on Wednesday nights at 8PM EST on our Facebook Page! https://www.facebook.com/Newyorkartistscollective Last week, Michael Walker from Modern Musician talks to us about how to grow your online fanbase in an increasingly saturated market of FacebookLive shows. Michael Walker is leading a revolution in today’s music industry. Having personally reached 17 million views on Youtube, working with Grammy Award-winning producers and touring interna...
Apr 29, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 65
During lockdown we have been taking the podcasts LIVE TO FACEBOOK to talk to artists and people in the industry as we all cope with this pandemic. Sasha McVeigh joins us live to talk about the effect on the music community of the devastating tornado in Nashville just weeks before the pandemic and nationwide lockdown and she plays us her CMT featured hit "Rock Bottom". Sasha McVeigh was born to be on the stage. The British singer/songwriter has been singing from the moment she could talk and perf...
Apr 22, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 64
During the COVID Pandemic musicians everywhere have been taking their shows online as their livelihoods have been obliterated by quarantine. Uncancelled Music Festival brought together venues and artists all over the country to bring music to fans and raise money for artists and MusiCares. NYAC was asked to curate an online concert on StageIt for Rockwood Music Hall and we happily obliged and asked four of our favourite NYAC alums to do a show. This episode is a collection of some of the songs t...
Apr 15, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 62
During Lockdown for the month of April we are taking the podcast live to Facebook to bring you hints and tips about how to survive as an artist during this crisis. We will be hearing from some great artists who are pivoting to reach new fans and try to make a living through music from their homes to yours through the pandemic. Today we hear from Justin Trawick, a Washington D.C. based singer-songwriter and his girlfriend and musician Lauren LeMunyan as he tells us about his lockdown experience d...
Apr 08, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Beauty standards in the music industry, being a fat, femme queer, Heather Mae tells us how her openness has garnered her a loyal fanbase and how she is coping with the Coronavirus crisis that is affecting the livelihoods of musicians everywhere... Unfazed by what a typical pop artist today is “supposed” to look like and how the typical pop artist is “supposed” to sound, Heather Mae, an award-winning songwriter whose evocative vocals and rhythmic piano style call to mind artists like Stevie Nicks...
Apr 01, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Liz has given us access to an exclusive Making Of video of her brand new single 'Get To Know Someone', only for NYAC listener. Click here to access: http://bit.ly/2qOI0Qf Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based in Nashville. Known for her deeply emotional music, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition. L...
Mar 11, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Erica Swindell is a Brooklyn based actor, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. A native Texan, her introduction to the music world began at the age of 3 through classical violin. She joined her first Country band as a fiddle player and vocalist at the age of 12 and began to incorporate different genres to her classical training. After her Texas years, she went on to attend Marymount Manhattan College where she received a BFA in Acting and minor in Musical Theatre. In 2013 she made her Broadway...
Feb 26, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Get this exclusive track from Akie here for podcast listeners only! http://bit.ly/2qOI0Qf Akie Bermiss with his affable disposition, glasses, and healthy do of cascading dreads that drape down to his shoulders, is unabashedly a self-professed nerd to the nth degree. Since early childhood Akie has been an obsessed science fiction aficionado. Yet he does have an artist-friendly façade and has managed to cultivate and live a double-life as a thriving music protégé, pianist, singer/songwriter, co...
Feb 12, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 57
EXCLUSIVE DEMO from Alicia here: https://bit.ly/2qOI0Qf Years before kicking off her career as an indie-pop songwriter, a seven year-old Alicia Witt took her first classical piano lesson. She landed her debut movie role that same year, appearing in David Lynch's sci-fi epic Dune. Decades later, Witt has built both passions into a thriving business, balancing an acclaimed string of movie, television, and stage appearances with solo records like 2018's 15,000 Days. Her fourth release as an indepen...
Jan 22, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 56
One of Finland's greatest exports - singer-songwriter, Janita. Already established as an iconic recording artist and music figure in her native Finland, Janita (pronounced YA-nee-tuh) moved to New York City early in her career, building on those initial successes by launching her American recording career with two Top-40 Billboard hits. "This woman's got the goods" - Billboard. Janita joins me to tell me about the writing process and the incredible hand-made video for "Traces Upon Your Face". ww...
Jan 15, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Continuing with our Minisode series that is artist-focused, today we chat with independent artist Rebecca Loebe about how to go about crowdfunding an album via Patreon! Rebecca Loebe is an independent singer-songwriter who you may remember from the Voice in 2011. Since then she has opened for Shawn Colvin, the Civil Wars, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Ellis Paul amongst others. Her single, Growing Up was featured in Rolling Stone magazine listed as the Top 10 Best Country and A...
Jan 08, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Dubbed by the New York Times as "one America's best songwriters" Dar Williams is certainly part of the fabric of the American songbook. Exclusive recording from Dar available here: http://bit.ly/2qOI0Qf Dar has always followed her muse. When she was up in Somerville, Massachusetts in the early nineties, knowing that she wanted to pursue music or theater, she worked backstage at the Opera Company of Boston and wrote plays on the side. But she was in Boston, and the muse led her into the myriad op...
Dec 18, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Nashville duo Striking Matches (comprising of Sarah Zimmerman and Justin Davis) talks to the New York Artists Collective ahead of their New York show at Knitting Factory Dec 6th about their brand new single 'Monster', from their new EP 'Noon'. Striking Matches got their first big break writing songs for the hit ABC TV show Nashville. They went on to release their debut album 'Anything But The Silence' produced by T-Bone Burnett, and have since released 3 more EPs, many singles, and have had thei...
Dec 04, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame member, Gretchen Peters talk to the New York Artists Collective ahead of her New York show at Rockwood Music Hall Dec 8th about one of her songs, "The Boy From Rye" and how it's the heart of her latest album, Dancing With The Beast. Gretchen also kindly gave the NYAC an exclusive unreleased track for your ears only which you can find here: https://bit.ly/2qOI0Qf For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. "I...
Nov 27, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Samuel Lee is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist based in Nashville, TN. From an exuberant, arts-centered childhood to an adolescence marked by drugs, difficulty and relocation, singing was one of very few threads of stability in Samuel’s early days. A multi-instrumentalist and popular music enthusiast nearly all his life, he credits his love for rock and roll with having both saved, and shaped his life. Samuel Lee talks to the New York Artists Collective about his ...
Nov 13, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Born and raised in Upstate New York, Stephen Babcock is a songwriter all his own. After eight years of writing, touring and perfecting his craft, Stephen began recording what would become his first album, “Said & Done”. The album became a mixture of youth and promise that helped begin Stephen’s career as a singer-songwriter. Stephen’s unique blend of Americana, southern rock, and indie folk helped establish him as a PASTe Magazine favorite in 2018. Stephen comes in to talk about his latest s...
Oct 30, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 50
For Americana singer-songwriter Kevin Daniel, it was his move to New York City and a sudden and unexpected tragedy which finally pushed him to take on music full time. In the winter of 2013, during a dinner party in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Kevin received a phone call from his sister that would change everything. His mother and stepfather, adventure-seekers and amateur pilots, had been flying back from their mountain house in western North Carolina when their plane crashed, killing them both. Daniel’...
Oct 23, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Martina San Diego is a Filipina-American singer-songwriter best known for her delicate melodies and her knack for raw and heartfelt songwriting. Her soft, breathy vocals enchant listeners and captivate audiences in mesmerizing euphony. Currently based in New York City, Martina was named NY Singer-songwriter Sessions Artist of the Month (June 2014) and a Breedlove Guitars Artist (July 2014), all while attending New York University. In December 2016 she completed her B.A. in Songwriting and Record...
Oct 16, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Carli & The Dark is the project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Carli Naff. Born in Phoenix, AZ, Carli studied acting before moving to New York. While auditioning for theatre and television, she learned how to play guitar and wrote her first few songs. No Depression Music Journal says: “(She) stopped us dead in our tracks. One of the best vocalists we’ve heard this year.” Carli is a Sofar favourite and drops in to talk about her song "The Acrobat" www.carlinaffmusic.com...
Oct 09, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this new Minisode, NYAC co-producer and singer-songwriter Angela Elia joins me again to talk about how to be a great fan in today's music world. The topic this week: Social Media! We discuss what the 'Instagram Algorithm' actually is, and how you can help your favorite artists get more likes, comments, and visibility just by doing a few super easy things. These ideas cost you $0 to use, but could mean the WORLD to any indie or rising artist whose music you love. Do you have questions about wh...
Oct 02, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 46
