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Charlotte Gunn

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Charlotte Gunn is the Founder and Editorial Director of The Forty-Five. Former NME Editor and journalist for the likes of Rolling Stone, DIY, The Face, Music Week, Red and Marie Claire, Charlotte founded The Forty-Five after experiencing the boys' club that is the music industry and recognising a need to champion female artists and storytellers. With over fifteen years experience as a writer and editor, her mission is to unite the world's best music journalists under one roof and to help create a diverse and representative music industry. She's a big fan of Mitski and Phoebe Bridgers and believes boygenius are going to become the biggest band on the planet.
Nilufer Yanya

45s of the week: Nilufer Yanya, Lime Garden, Griff X Sigrid and more!

Grae – 'Room In the Desert' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEYQ3WNLDM Toronto artist, Grae, has drawn inspiration from Cocteau Twins' 'Cherry-coloured Funk' on new single, 'Room In The Desert'. The...
Coachella 2018

Coachella Festival 2022: Line-up, headliners and everything we know so far

Every spring, music lovers, pop stars and a gaggle of influencers flock to the Californian desert for one of the most famous music festivals...
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Watch The 1975’s Matty Healy duet with Phoebe Bridgers (and play two unreleased songs)

Phoebe Bridgers loves to tease her fans and last night, ahead of her show at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre, a cryptic tweet suggested something...
Wet Leg interview

Wet Leg: Do Believe The Hype

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Little Simz

Little Simz – ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ review: Britain’s best wordsmith delivers a...

Little Simz might just be Britain's most affecting wordsmith, as she proves on second album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert'. The record opens with...
End of the Road Festival 2021

End of the Road Festival review: a magical swansong to a peculiar summer

"I don't get out much", says Damon Albarn, atop End of the Road festival's Woods stage on its first day proper. "But when I...
Lorde Stoned at the Nail Salon

Lorde – ‘Solar Power’ review: teen millionaire turned homebody reflects on the push and...

What released you from the malaise of the pandemic? For Lorde, it was the vibrancy of summer days, of dancing on the sand and...
Wet Leg

Four bands to check out if you like post-punk and deadpan female vocalists

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Latitude Festival 2021

Latitude Festival 2021: Wolf Alice triumph and Wet Leg are the ones to watch

Fun, in its most hedonistic form, has been banned since early March 2020. A necessary evil, to combat one much bigger, but boy, has...
Wolf Alice Glastonbury

Live At Worthy Farm: Glastonbury’s magical livestream in pictures

We miss Glastonbury. More than sweaty mosh-pits or nightclubs or karaoke, we long for five days spent in a field, surrounded by happy people...