It’s about time you get to know US-based rock duo Girl Tones. Made up of sisters Kenzie and Laila Crowe, the high-energy rockers are letting the world in on their sonic secret with their brand-spanking-new album, Precious. To celebrate the collection of tunes hitting our earholes, we caught up with Kenzie for a chinwag about touring.

What’s on your rider? Honestly, we are super-simple. We don’t like wasting food so we usually just ask for water and some kind of electrolytes.

What’s your favourite venue to play at and why? The 9:30 Club in DC! They give the artists delicious cupcakes.

If you could tour with any musician – dead or alive – who would it be and why? Michael Jackson. That is completely selfishly just so I could see him perform every night. I know we could no way do justice as an opener for him, but who could?

Do you prefer playing at festivals or headline gigs? We’ve only ever played a handful of headline gigs, and this November we are doing our first ever headline tour that has almost completely sold out (!!!) so I guess we will find out which ones we prefer to play later this month. But I would probably go ahead and bet we would choose headline shows.

What’s the most precious thing about touring? The slideshow that my phone puts together of pictures of my cat, Cherry, that I watch when I miss her. I usually bust that out about two days in.

What’s the first thing you do when you get home from a tour? Spend time with my husband and couch rot with my cats. Best feeling ever after being so busy!

What do you do to get hyped up before you step on stage? Play some hype-up music if I’m feeling it and jump up and down to get my blood pumping.

Best thing about going on tour with your sister? That you get to be with family. Touring is extremely lonely and can often be depressing so it’s really nice to have a sibling with you that you know you can count on to watch your favourite shows or eat somewhere you both like.

For more ace music chats, have a squiz at our chinwag with rad rocker Maia Toakley or take a gander at Babyccino’s perfect playlist. Plus, sign up to our newsletter to stay in the music loop.