At the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, in the City of Angels, on one of the last nights of summer, unflinching stand-up comedian Margaret Cho delivers a filthy 10-minute warm-up set. Booming laughter melts into melancholic, honeyed hooks and pop-rock...
Dana Foote answers my call from her second-floor apartment in New York, with a backing track of humming traffic and the incessant clank of construction work. Down to earth in a hoodie and a baseball cap, she appears a...
Jay Som
Six years since her last album, Melina Duterte – aka Jay Som – has been everywhere and nowhere: producing for friends, playing with boygenius, quietly reshaping her sound. Now she returns with 'Belong', a record that questions where...
Chloe Slater has never shied away from weighty topics – from class war to mansplaining – but new single ‘Harriet’ proves she can get up close and personal, too. In perhaps her most candid single yet, Slater captures the...
For a man with 10 Grammy Award wins, including a 2020 statue for Producer of the Year that, then-aged just 23, made him the youngest ever recipient of the title, Finneas talks an awful lot about failure. Calling in...
Lucy Dacus is sat on the sofa in a baseball cap, jeans and a tee. It's been a funny ol' morning. It's the week before the release of her fourth album, 'Forever Is A Feeling', a record of songs...
Miso Extra, real name Emily, looks cosy when she answers The Forty-Five’s video call – smiley and a bit sleepy, cradling a cup of something warm and soothing. “My brain is fried. Bear with me. My operating is slower...
It’s not that Sabrina Teitelbaum ever intentionally set out to put a razor-sharp scalpel to the pitfalls and perversions of modern dating on her debut self-titled outing as Blondshell. But, as she reflects, sipping on a mint tea a...
26-year-old Wallice Watanabe has been waiting for this moment for quite some time. First honing her songwriting skills as a kid, releasing a debut album has always been the goal. And now it's finally here: 'The Jester' marks her...
From Wet Leg to The Last Dinner Party, the most successful breakout artists of the last couple of years have been the ones who’ve seemingly arrived fully formed; who’ve done the work behind the scenes, writing and rewriting, plotting...