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Charlotte Gunn

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 twenty 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 stans boygenius, Mitski, Charli XCX, blur and The Cure in equal measure.
Kathleen Hanna 2019

Apocalypstick

From The Slits through to Riot Grrrl and on to the bands of the 00s and today, female feminist punks have been doing their...
Underscores

The best new songs we heard in March

Robyn – 'Blow My Mind' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbz2dgwtXE We called it early, but Robyn’s already won 2026. There’s something especially cool about writing a dance anthem that masquerades...
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Olivia Rodrigo announces third album

Olivia Rodrigo is back, with her much-anticipated third album 'You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So In Love'. Partnering for a third time with...
Bibi Club

Bibi Club’s guide to Montreal

Bibi Club – aka Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque — are the blissfully off-kilter duo who’ve been turning DIY beginnings into one of Quebec’s...
Cate Le Bon

Cate Le Bon shares new single ‘Always The Same’ featuring St. Vincent

Cate Le Bon has unveiled a new single, ‘Always The Same’, featuring vocals from St. Vincent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSdWSCznhD4 Sculpted from Le Bon’s distinctive art-pop palette ‘Always...
Doechii

These are the songs and artists that dominated TikTok in 2025

TikTok has released its annual round-up of the tracks, artists and trends that defined its sprawling music ecosystem in 2025 – a year in...
best songs of 2025

The 45 best tracks of 2025

This year was one of comebacks (Robyn, Lily), dancefloors (Rose Gray, FKA Twigs) and one epic stroke of experimental pop brilliance (Rosalía). There were...
AOTY 2025

The 45 best albums of 2025

It's Listmas, once again folks. As ever, we’ve polled our formidable cohort of music writers to crown the albums that defined 2025. Taste will...
Gift Guide music lovers 2025

All Killer, No Filler – It’s The Forty-Five Gift Guide

Looking for Christmas gift inspo – for yourself, or your pals – we've got you covered. We've done the hard work and scoured the...
Charli XCX

Charli XCX releases ominous John Cale-featuring single ‘House’

Stop what you're doing, Charli XCX just dropped a new song. ‘House’ is a cinematic new single featuring John Cale of The Velvet Underground...