If Haim’s music videos for the past few years have had an off-kilter, cinematic quality to them, it’s only fitting. When the band released the visuals for 'Man from the Magazine' in October 2020, it marked the band’s ninth...
When 2021 began, we were all hopeful. 2020 had been a shitshow and as we grimly cheersed each other via zoom on New Year’s Eve, there was a sense that surely – surely – a new calendar would bring...
Ah 2021, another rollercoaster of a year for us all. While we limboed in and out of lockdowns and other COVID restrictions, our fave musicians certainly kept us preoccupied with new music, Twitter-dominating performances and world-shaking cultural events. Here...
It’s San Francisco freak folkers Vetiver that we have to thank for the re-discovery of entrancing country crooner and mysterious session singer Kathy Heideman. It was in 2007 that the band’s frontman Andy Cabic was rummaging around in the...
How's that, kids! Another year down the pan. After the horrors of 2020, it wasn't hard for 2021 to be a step up but regardless, there was definitely plenty to celebrate. The return of live music caused the music...
There’s a conflicting air of gratitude and uncertainty on the last night of Chvrches’ North American tour at the Hollywood Palladium. “Let’s be honest, it’s been pretty fucking crap. It’s been bad, and it might be bad again,” singer...
To remain at the sharp edge of experimental art for well over 40 years takes guts and a constantly inquiring mind – the woman who started her sonic journey under the name Annie Anxiety has both. Born Annie Bandez...
That the elegiac sounds of 1970s singer-songwriter Judee Sill are echoing around Koreatown’s imposing First Congregational Church of Los Angeles ahead of tonight’s show is no mistake. Both Sill and this evening’s headliner – Big Thief’s quietly majestic Adrianne...
As a child, Willow Smith would watch her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, perform with her band Wicked Wisdom to racist, sexist crowds, each night fighting to prove her place in the rock scene. Rock – and its many sub-genres...
Let The Forty-Five present to you, the best songs of 2021. It was tough to call but with the help of our army of contributors, the votes are in and we can reveal the only playlist you'll need to...