Zach Sang Show

Joining us on the couch for the first time ever is Zac Brown, the lynchpin of the Zac Brown Band. For over a year he’s been hunkering down, ideating and prepping for the biggest shows of his life: a residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas kicking off December 5. At the same time he’ll be dropping his eighth album Love & Fear. It’s a record that delves into his personal story and his fraught child...

As Artie Abrams in Glee, Kevin McHale graced our screens for six seasons and we’re thrilled to have the much beloved, seriously funny and astute actor on the couch for the first time. We get super nerdy — and bring in head Gleek Kelsey — to dive into the cult of the culture-shaping show, the particular era it existed in, the unique bond of the cast and crew, and the tragedies they experienced too....

Zara joins us on the couch for the who-knows-what-time. The 27-year-old Swedish pop powerhouse has been stopping by to chat for the past nine years and it’s always a joy. This time round she’s in to chat about her newly released fifth record Midnight Sun, her best long player yet. Celebratory, sexy, cheeky, and deliciously honest, we talk about its creation — alongside her longtime collaborator MN...

Former Why Don’t We member Corbyn Besson joins us on the couch again to talk about his forthcoming EP (out early next year), and his brand new era of artistry. He’s been working hard on his choreo! He’s been spending time in Seoul and writing with Twice’s Tzuyu on their banging collab “Blink,” he’s been jumping on Two Friends’ dance track “No One Else” and playing Red Rocks and Lollapalooza! He’s...

Arguably one of the best Aussie exports since Tame Impala, along with artists like Amyl & the Sniffers and Spacey Jane, duo Royel Otis are breathing new life rock music. Having made waves back in 2022 with the Surf Curse-esque bop ‘Oysters in My Pocket,’ their covers of classics like ‘Linger’ by The Cranberries and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s early-Aughts disco devastator ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’...

Back with her first album in eleven years — Better Broken — we’re so thrilled to have Sarah McLachlan on the couch for the first time. A trailblazing, confessional, slice-of-life songwriter whose music goes for the jugular and resonates to this day, McLachlan broke in the 90s, rising up with the likes of Jewel, Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, and Alanis Morrissette, to name a few. As artists they had to w...

Icelandic singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey has carved out a singular space between jazz bossanova and Gen Z pop sensibility, and she’s back on the couch to talk about her new, third solo LP A Matter of Time. It’s the next chapter in her coming of age, still whimsical and heady with love (‘Love Girl’), but more lyrically wry — check ‘Mr. Eclectic’ for her cheeky pillorying of th...

Once upon a time David Archuleta was a cherub-faced boy with a big voice and a bigger dream. As the runner-up of American Idol season 7 back in 2008, he had 40 million people vote for him. Wrap your brain around that. Since then he’s released solo records, guest starred on Hannah Montana, completed his Mormon mission in Chile, toured, got engaged and unengaged (x3), all the while grappling interna...

Former Why Don’t We member Jack Avery joins us solo on the sofa for the first time. It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from him and by all accounts — his own — he’s really been through it. From struggling to find loyal collaborators post-WDW, to suffering debilitating anxiety attacks, to financial struggles, to finding out his life might be in danger, to co-parenting his six-year-old daughter wi...

Mimi Webb is back on the couch for the first time for the first time since 2022 and boy, has a lot changed. At that point, still riding high from the smash that was ‘House on Fire’ and Mimi hadn’t even released her debut album. Now the British 25-year-old returns with her long-awaited sophomore effort, Confessions, a record that sees her collab with the likes of Julia Michaels, Meghan Trainor, and...

Strap in because a conversation with King Princess is an unstoppable stream of top-notch banter, whipsmart quips, real talk, and tea. Brooklyn-born Mikaela Strauss joins on the couch for the first time to discuss her third album, Girl Violence, her hookiest, most vulnerable record to date. Since dropping ‘1950’ back in 2018 when she was still a teenager (it became a viral sensation; Harry Styles t...

With songs like ‘Santeria,’ ‘What I Got,’ and ‘Wrong Way,’ ska-punk band Sublime’s music is a forever slice 90s SoCal, their songs ultimately becoming the soundtrack to pop culture from the era and beyond. Tragically, in 1996 singer Bradley Nowell died from a heroin overdose at 28-years-old before the Long Beach trio made it big. In the subsequent years the remaining members, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wi...

Meet The Runarounds — both the cast of Prime’s new YA series and an actual IRL band comprised of singer/guitarists William Lipton and Axel Ellis, guitarist Jeremy Yun, bassist Jesse Golliher, and drummer Zendé Murdock. We unravel their origin story: who’s known each other since they were kids, who got involved thanks to casting call for a band for the series Outer Banks (another YA series created...

Perhaps you know KUN from the reality show Idol Producer and the band Nine Percent. Maybe you’re an OG fan from back in his SWIN days thanks to the Chinese reality show Super Producer. Or maybe you’re a latter day convert from his work on season 2 of Youth with You alongside Lisa of Blackpink, Ella Chen, and Jony J. Any which way you slice it — whether on reality shows or part of a group or as a s...

Incredibly — given the breadth and heft of his career — this is the first time Tom Odell has hopped on our couch. The English songwriter’s been soul-searching and plundering his own emotional depths to sett to piano-driven pop since 2013, signing to Lily Allen’s short-lived Sony imprint (more on that in the chat), and releasing instant smash ‘Another Love.’ It’s a song that’s taken on a whole new...

He’s a prolific country star who first emerged in 2017, but has been really hitting his stride in the past couple of years, solidifying the buzz with endless tours, high profile collabs with Ella Langley, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett, and his latest, third album Don’t Mind If I Do (the deluxe just dropped). The Jacksonville, Alabama former football star joins us in the studio for the first time to tal...

Hall & Oates are the biggest selling American duo in music history. Let that just marinate for a second. The iconic pair made waves through the 70s and 80s with songs like ‘She’s Gone,’ ‘Rich Girl,’ ‘Private Eyes,’ ‘Maneater,’ and ‘I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),’ to name a scant few, and while they continued to release albums well into their fourth decade, by 2023 they were locked in an acri...

John Fogerty will go down as an artist who’s written some of the most enduring songs in modern music: ‘Proud Mary,’ ‘Fortunate Son,’ ‘Have You Ever Seen The Rain?,’ ‘Centerfield,’ the list goes on and on. Equally, as the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, he’s part of a quartet who will go down in history as having signed one of the most exploitative record contracts ever inked (Fantasy Recor...

Don’t worry — no spoilers here — but the final season of Amazon Prime’s Upload is upon us. The surreally, funny, tech-prophetic series left us all on a cliffhanger at the close of season 3 with Robbie’s character cloned and one of them bites the dust: BUT WHICH ONE!? And who is Robbie Amell? The Canadian actor is commercially successful, prolific, and widely swooned over. He’s been part of big sho...

Self-described as the funniest dude in his high school, Kyle Gordon hit the viral jackpot back in 2023 with his Euro dance spoof song ‘Planet of the Bass,’ inhabiting the character DJ Crazy Times. He’s collabed with Ed Sheeran, shooting a video with him at Courtney Cox’s house (we talk about this), parlaying his clicks into 2024 comedy album Kyle Gordon Is Great. He returns this year — both to the...

Filipino girl group BINI — made up of Aiah, Colet, Maloi, Gwen, Stacey, Mikha, Jhoanna, and Sheena — join us in the studio for the first time to talk about their early years, how they incorporate Filo culture into their music (OPM = original Filipino music), along with the country’s various dialects. Having initially broken through thanks to 2019’s competition TV show Star Hunt Academy Girls, the...

Meet CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, aka Catriel Guerreiro and Ulises Guerriero, an Argentinian duo who have been buds since finding themselves in the same music school as kids with the same last name. Although the pair first emerged in this iteration back in 2018, it wasn’t until Autumn 2024 when they headed into the NPR offices to reimagine their music for the Tiny Desk Concert format that C&P b...

You might know him from the 2016 viral sensation ‘Dat $tick,’ but Rich Brian is understandably keen to leave that infamy behind. The Indonesian rapper’s been out of the spotlight for six years so we find out what went down (it’s relationship related), his epic new record WHERE IS MY HEAD?, and the meticulous world-building that comes along with it. We also discuss his early years in Indonesia as p...

If you’re of a certain age you grew up with Alyson Stoner — the dancer in the Missy Elliot video for ‘Work It,’ the little girl in Mike’s Super Short Show, Cheaper by the Dozen, Camp Rock, Step Up, and so many more. For a time they were a Disney darling… until they weren’t. Behind the scenes Stoner was struggling to grow up and find their place in an industry that they didn’t even have ambitions f...

Mark Tuan didn’t grow up with dreams of being a singer or K-pop idol — which makes the success he achieved with GOT7 and now as a solo star even more bananas. He joins us in the studio for the first time as a solo artist to talk about everything from his beginnings getting scouted at school in LA to the reality of being a K-pop trainee, juggling school work, vocal and choreo lessons, and learning...