Episodes
What an interesting chat this was! Karla Ortiz, former VP of Marketing and Label Services for Vydia and Digital Marketing executive at Universal Music Group, founded Monark Entertainment in 2020 during the pandemic. Karla talks about how she got her breaks working in music marketing which started with her first internship with Ryan Seacrest, to moving into a new media internship at Universal and eventually converted into full time employment working in the latin department and working with...
Published 11/16/23
Emm is a singer songwriter producer and multi instrumentalist who has come up the hard way through the industry but learnt some amazing lessons along the way! From growing up in a prestigious music camp, moving to LA, getting ripped off by multiple managers, hustling working 3 jobs and creating a social media business to fund her music career!
Published 11/02/23
This week we chat with music manager Polina Bogomolova! Polina moved from Russia to study entertainment business at Full Sail University and managed to get an internship at L’Affaire Musicale in Los Angeles. She talks about how L’Affaire Musicale took her under their wing, tour managing, her day to day role as a manager, being on the road with J Worra on the Swedish House Mafia tour, EDC Vegas and what she's got coming up this year!
Published 10/26/23
It was so cool to hear about the world of Artist Relations from Allison Sorrell! She chats about how she moved around in the industry to landing her amazing job at Veeps. Veeps is the world’s leading streaming platform for live music and entertainment, where fans can watch and connect with their favorite artists through premium live and on-demand concerts, so Allison chats all about her role there. If you are wanting to work in the world of Artist Relations, make sure you listen to this episode!
Published 10/12/23
This week Jess and Bowie have a good old chinwag about Jess recent experience drumming for Jax at the iHeart Music Awards in LA. It was so cool to hear all about the things that go on behind the scenes to make such a big awards show work!
Published 09/21/23
Carly McClellan AKA CARR is a singer-songwriter that crafts fun, relatable, and witty tracks. Raised on artists like Avril Lavigne and The All-American Reject, CARR’s sound distills the best aspects of alt-pop, indie-rock and pop-punk, whilst lyrically she traverses the perils of modern dating and growing up. Carr chats about getting signed and going on tour opening for Fall Out Boy!
Published 09/07/23
After coming on the professional music scene in 2005 with the world-acclaimed, all-women metal band Kittie, guitarist Tara McLeod has garnered a reputation in the music world as one of the best at her craft. She chats with us about crossing genres, how she got in the business, how she met her band members and being a touring musician!
Published 08/24/23
This week we chat with Nigerian singer songwriter, Kah-Lo! She chats about moving to New York and the culture shock with that, being in so much demand for her vocal but having a year of saying "No" so she could focus on her own music, her huge tracks Fasta & Fake ID, living off massive syncs with FIFA and Old Navy, getting signed to Epic during COVID and the importance of a good entertainment lawyer!
Published 08/17/23
This week we got to chat with the lovely Audra Miller from First to Eleven and Concrete Castles! Audra talked all about her band's huge youtube success posting weekly covers and leading to 1.5 million followers, to working on original music and her experiences in the music industry!
Published 08/10/23
This week Jess and Bowie chat about Bowie's trip to EDC Vegas to DJ at EDC Vegas Hotels at Resorts World, as well as interviewing for Insomniac in the artist area! All the behind the scenes info on the wonderful world that is EDC and its HUGE spectacular stages, how the stages are run to gear run downs! 
Published 08/03/23
This week we had an amazing chat with Demi Lovato's touring drummer, Britt Bowman! Britt chats about how she got into drumming, what it's like doing arena tours, being on the road, the importance of social media and more!
Published 07/27/23
These girls are entrepreneurs!! Not only are they awesome DJs, producers, songwriters and dancers, but they have created their own huge eyewear line which has been worn by everyone from Rihanna to Lady Gaga to Prince! They talk about their vision for Coco & Breezy, incorporating their past professional dancing background into their music, working with Janelle Monae, getting advice from Beyonce, touring and more! 
Published 07/19/23
This week we chat with bassist and songwriter, Aubrey Harris! She began playing electric bass at age 13 and sitting in on gigs with her father, a jazz drummer. When Aubrey was 16, she was awarded a full scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music where she graduated in 2017. She chats with us about doing her 10,000 hours performing at Disney World Orlando to performing with artists such as FLETCHER, Keith Urban, and Jacob Collier! 
Published 07/13/23
Oh we had a good old chat with Tomi this week! She chats with us about uploading songs to soundcloud and then getting signed to a major, finding her sound, being on the LWord, touring with KT Tunstall and more!! 
Published 07/06/23
This week Jess and Bowie tried to resolve the Uber mystery that is silent Ubers! Jess also chats about her upcoming tour with Jax with Big Time Rush, the Summer Set UK tour and venue holds...and Bowie of course needs to know all the usual details about the tour bus (because she's obsessed with buses). Hear all the touring "behind the scenes" in this week's episode!
Published 06/29/23
This week we chat with Lauren Sanderson! Lauren spills the tea on her experience in the music industry, her first label experience with Epic Records, being signed vs releasing as an independent artist, how she landed a tour opening for Finneas, future touring plans, and much more!!
Published 06/08/23
Top music and entertainment attorney Dina LaPolt chats with us about how she got into the law from performing, hanging out at the Playboy mansion, setting up her own law firm, representing Steven Tyler against Donald Trump, working heavily in Copyright reform, SONA, representing Fifth Harmony on their last album and tour with Camila Cabello, the importance of a good manager and SO MUCH MORE! She is a wealth of knowledge, super entertaining and we just know you are going to enjoy this...
Published 06/01/23
This week Jess Bowen & Bowie Jane have a good old chinwag about Jess' recent Summer Set Tour and all that went along with it!
Published 05/25/23
Boy has Nakkia had an UNBELIEVABLE life… from being a professional gymnast, then dancer, then rupturing her archilles, being the carer for her extremely I’ll Mom, dealing with grief then homelessness to turning to songwriting and getting signed!
Published 05/18/23
What a fabulous chat we had with singer songwriter Cece Frey! Cece talks us through how she got into music, studying music, moving into the pop music scene, slogging it out on the road, X Factor, meeting her manager and releasing her new music! Cece has such an awesome perspective and it's fabulous to hear all about her journey! Don't miss this one!
Published 05/11/23
Jess and Bowie have a good old chinwag about Jess' family trip to the Philippines and also her Blossom Tour with the Summer Set! Literally from the backseat of the Summer Set Tour Bus!
Published 05/04/23
This week we had a fascinating chat with one of Billboard’s top business managers in music, Kristin Lee! Kristin is a celebrity money manager who has clients with a net worth of up to $50 million!
Published 04/20/23
This week we chat with Ruby Dacy from the Australian brother sister band "Dacy"! Ruby chats with us about being signed to EMI, getting a publishing deal, writing music for TV shows, getting gig ready by doing thousands of cover gigs, how they utilize the loop pedal live and working with Matt Beckley and Jack Joseph Puig in Los Angeles!
Published 04/13/23
What an amazing career Mona Tavakoli has had! Do not miss this episode!
Published 04/06/23
This week we chat with the amazing Laura Whitmore who has had such an amazing history in the world of music PR! She chats with us about her extensive work doing AR at Korg, Guitar World, the Women's International Music Network and the She Rocks Awards!
Published 03/30/23