Rock Talk with Sommer: Conversations with Women in the Music Industry

What happens when you combine two sisters who’ve been through some tough times with aggressive rock n’ roll? You get empowered, feminine, primal rock! New-ish on the national scene The Scars Heal in Time are a female formed band (Tayler on drums, and her sister Kayla on vocals and guitar). In Your Flame is their newest song — you’ll get a peek listen — and is about being with someone who brings out the worse in you. They are releasing a new EP, produced by Justin Rimer (12 Stones, Saving Abel) and their music video was directed by Jon Vulpine (Backstreet Boys, Saliva, Lil Wayne, Drowning Pool). In this episode we also remember some of those musicians we lost in 2017, and talk about the latest going on in the music industry including Taylor Swift and streaming services, Spotify going public, a new David Bowie documentary, the release of another Jimi Hendrix album, 2018 music world predictions (some #MeToo focus), Green Day getting political, Bono being disappointed women have ruined music and Radiohead suing Lana Del Rey.

Imagine a place where females and other underserved individuals dreaming of a career in the music industry had a place where they could get the training, support and resources to do so. The fact is less than 5% of the people working in the field of music production & recording arts are women. Songwriter, composer, recording engineer, and producer Terri Winston founded the Women’s Audio Mission in 2003. And since they’ve been working to change those numbers. Through WAM 400+ women have been placed in paid positions with Google, Pixar, SFJazz, NPR, Comedy Central, Animal Planet, Electronic Arts, and others. 2,000+ classes have been given to 8,000 women/girls over 14 years. The Women’s Audio Mission’s has the only professional recording studio in the world built and run entirely by women. Women’s Audio Mission has produced and recorded albums for over 150 artists from 21 countries, including Grammy award winners.