The Face Podcast

For our last podcast of 2024 we reviewed the year in music, debating the dressed musicians, the pop femininomenon, overrated albums, the most exciting newcomer, the secret to Brat's success and how to pronounce 'Mk.gee'.

We’ve got a brand new issue on the shelves and we’re very proud of it. So this week, we chat about some of our favourite features in the mag, including the cover story about LGBT+ soldiers fighting in Ukraine and an off-the-wall profile on the enigmatic rap star Yeat. Any other highlights? There’s the features with rage-pop hearthrob 2Hollis and red hot indie-dance duo Fcukers, as well as an in de...

This week, Eni diverges from her usual fashion reporting to share her thoughts on Wicked and the delirious virality of the witch flick’s press tour. Tiffany and Davy zoom in on the intriguing details of K. Dot’s shock-drop album GNX before recommending Transa, a compilation which celebrates with the trans community with contributions from Sade and André 3000. With Charli in town for the Brat tour,...

Tickets for the world’s biggest music festival sold out within 35 minutes, and now speculation about who’s topping the bill has reached fever pitch. So this week, we comb through the list of bookies’ favourites, including Olivia Rodrigo (too new?) The 1975 (too divisive?) and Rihanna (too rich?), and give our verdict on who we think deserves it the most.  Eni also gives us the run down on the new...

You’ve probably heard all about Timothee Chalament gatecrashing his own lookalike competition. This week, Eni digs deeper to discuss the intriguing details - from the love that may blossom from the event, to the former Mr Beast protégé who masterminded it. We also salute the well-deserved winners of the American Fashion Awards before delving into American politics and the way musicians are influen...

This week, Davy reports back from his adventures in Newcastle, where THE FACE  spotlighted  local talent for the New Noise gig series. Our Branded Content Editor Joe Bobowicz is back on the pod to tell us all about Art Basel Paris, where Shuang Li celebrated her love of My Chemical Romance and Young Boy Dancing Group served snacks and refreshments in a very, erm, unconventional manner. Matthew sha...

New week, new podcast. Eni may have returned from Paris but the fashion world keeps turning with news of the Met’s latest costume exhibition. Jade is here to give you her latest dispatch from London FIlm Festival (***** for Anora ). Joe Bobowicz, our Branded Content Editor, makes his pod debut to discuss Frieze London and who is chicer: fashion people or art people (art people, apparently). Oh, an...

Eni’s back in town which means we get to hear about her highlights of fashion month, including Coperni’s Disneyland extravaganza, Cardi B’s French accent and bumping  (literally) into Queer’s Drew Starkey. We comb through Pitchfork’s best albums and songs of the 2020s, selecting some of our personal faves and speculating why it may be harder for talented musicians to blow up now than it was 10 yea...

Editorial Assistant Tiffany Lai reports back from Mustafa’s live conversation with Dua Lipa, where the Sudanese-Canadian artist discussed the poignant themes on his stunning new LP  Dunya . We also chat about Mustafa’s remarkable back story – from representing his Toronto housing projects with award-winning poetry as a kid, to fundraising for Gaza and Sudan with  star-studded concerts  – as well a...

This week, we caught Eni during her brief stop in London between Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks, so that she could give us her verdict on the hottest shows, celebs and snacks. With SOPHIE’s posthumous album dropping this Friday, we also discussed the visionary musician’s impact on contemporary music and Charli xcx’s career, as well as our initial thoughts on the new record. Jade recommends – with a...

This week, we kick off with a debrief on our Starface-studded London Fashion Week party, before Matthew and Eni run through their LFW highlights, including shows by Aaron Esh, Tolu Coker, Chopova Lowena (featuring a Hellmann’s mayonnaise collab) and S.S. Daley (featuring Harry Styles’s new mullet).  As you’ve probably noticed, we’re really proud of our new Chappell Roan cover story. And so we take...

We’re back after a little break, and there’s loads to chat about. Having just returned from a trip to NYC, Matthew discusses New York Fashion Week highlights with Eni (who also gives us some tips for the forthcoming LFW). Last week happened to be a big one for the downtown music scene, with both Fcukers and The Dare dropping their debut EP and album, respectively. Do they live up to the hype? Why...

On this episode, THE FACE’s Senior Fashion Features Editor Eni Subair gets us hyped for Copenhagen Fashion Week – which is slowly but surely gaining credibility and respect in the industry – as well as the potential highlights at Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris next month. Our Assistant Editor Jade Wickes sifts through the most intriguing movies premiering at Venice film festiva...

For all our UK listeners who have been looking out the window and seeing ominous grey clouds, it might not feel like we’ve had much of a summer. Nevertheless, we’ve been blessed with a bunch of sun-soaked anthems to soundtrack spontaneous house parties, aimless drives through the city with the windows down and guzzling cans of Whiteclaw in muddy fields. So this week, we’re joined by our good frien...

This week, our Senior Fashion Features Editor Eni Subair fills us in on Peter Hawkings leaving Tom Ford, the whispers about turbulence in the industry and the potency of New York’s nutcracker cocktails. We also speculate on the intentions behind  Charli xcx  endorsing Kamala Harris, the controversy around Charli’s song Mean Girls and the risk of Brat summer being claimed by right-wingers. With the...

This week, we report on  Mustafa’s star-studded Gaza and Sudan fundraiser concert  in London as well as Jeremy O’Harris’ Slave Play, which is currently causing a stir over here following condemnation from the UK’s ex-prime minister, Rishi Sunak. Speaking of which, we’re less than a week into having a new prime minister and there’s already loads to discuss – from Labour’s green policies, to their p...

This week, our team is sounding a bit hoarse having just returned from Worthy Farm, so apologies in advance. However, we do manage to string together some coherent sentences about this year’s festival. We report on our best celeb spots, Charli XCX’s debauched Party Girl show, Kneecap’s political provocations, the unwarranted negativity around SZA’s set and the adorable trend of bringing kids out o...

This week, we’re still buzzing after THE FACE’s  epic joint birthday party  with The Standard. We’re currently less buzzing about the Euros, although our editor Matthew might catch the football fever after his trip to Frankfurt to watch England play Denmark. We also chat about Glastonbury’s controversial line-up clashes and the remarkable trajectories of Mustafa, Tommy Richman and the 17-year-old...

This week’s episode feels a bit special. Firstly, because THE FACE’s new editorial team member Eni Subair makes her podcast debut. Eni tells us all about London Fashion Week June, where she enjoyed triumphant shows by Craig Green and Charles Jeffrey as well as the delicious spread at the British Fashion Council’s pub quiz. Our good friend Shaad D’Souza (who profiled Charli for THE FACE’s Spring co...

There’s a brand  new issue  of THE FACE on sale. And so this week, we kick off with a chat about NewJeans, who’ve been shot by Petra Collins and declared “the most important girl group on the planet” in our  new cover story . We also discuss Jamie xx’s  10 night marathon residency  in a small London club, industry bores on the dance floor, the festival season’s messy start and predictions for the...

This week, we discuss a visit to No 10 Downing Street to witness Rishi Sunak’s big announcement (and check out his footwear). Cannes Film Festival gets underway with Francis Ford Coppola’s critically-panned epic Megalopolis, while A24 drops the trendy soundtrack for the teen horror flick I Saw the TV Glow. We also chat about the buzz around Billie’s queer anthem Lunch, the obvious highlight from h...

The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in film, fashion and music.   This week Matthew reports from Gucci’s cruise 2025 show, Jade takes a trip to Horst Arts and Music Festival in Belgium and Davy enters "the grid" at the Miami Grand Prix. We also discuss Harmony Korine’s genre-defying new movie (filmed with heat sensors) and...

The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in film, fashion and music. This week, we had no choice but to kick off with the film that everyone's obsessed with right now. And so we discuss the pristine fashion, the hard-hitting music and the simmering sexual tension in Luca Guadagnino's red-hot Tennis flick Challengers. Has Zendaya c...

This week, we kick off with the show everyone’s talking about right now: Richard Gaad’s Baby Reindeer. The dark Netflix drama is being praised for its nuanced characters, also attracting criticism for causing speculation about the real life people who inspired them. We also take on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Taylor’s 31 track odyssey sparks debate about the merits and the cringe...

Well, that went quick, didn’t it? THE FACE relaunched digitally in April 2019, which makes us five years old this month. To celebrate, we revisit some of our favourite stories from the last half decade, reminiscing about the highs, lows and Tyler the Creator’s missing wig (which almost scuppered our first cover shoot). We’re proud to be here and grateful to our listeners for their continuing suppo...