Baek Hwong answers my Zoom call with his camera turned off. He has a warning for me.
“I’ve just got a very questionable haircut.”
There is some vague shuffling before he appears on screen, with said haircut obscured beneath a bandana...
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 and 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...