Elsa Scott

Co-Founder

Boston University

I’m a Northern Virginia native with a taste that ranges from funky jazz to prog rock to manic pixie dream girl theme songs. Growing up, my dad indoctrinated me into the world of classic rock and southern rock, blasting the Eagles, Allman Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, and others in the car, volume maxed out. My mom was a 70’s music nut, playing Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Tracy Chapman, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin, in addition to jazz and soul classics. 

This expansive music-education had an angle: my parents had a vision of a family band and sought to make that a reality. In my family of singers, I hold down the melody while my younger sister and mom add in various harmonies. I started taking piano lessons at nine years old, but not even a year had passed before my dad put a guitar in my hands and I fell in love. 

Now, 10 years after that first guitar lesson, I’m an accomplished musician and performer, with four additional instruments in my repertoire (bass, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo). My appreciation for indie, grunge, pop-punk, metal, math rock, and neo-soul was cultivated throughout high school and college, as a result of a voracious appetite for anything new and interesting. 

I love talking about music, arguing about music, discussing artists and songwriting techniques, tearing apart the music industry, spouting off random music history facts, and railing on the topics of originality, artistic integrity, and the changing landscape of music consumption in the digital age. 

Let’s get meta with it. 

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