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Gucci cruises the Tate, adventures in Horst festival and Central Cee's grime freestyle May 16, 2024

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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 celebrate Central Cee’s homage to grime.

Challengers, Corteiz x Simon Wheatley and the rise of Sabrina Carpenter May 03, 2024

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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 cemented herself as an era-defining actor? Later in the show, Davy and Jade weigh up new tunes by Nilüfer Yanya, Sabrina Carpenter and maybe the first contender for song of the summer, Love Me JeJe by Tems. Last but not least, we explore the backstory behind Corteiz's new jacket featuring a photograph by legendary grime photographer Simon Wheatley.

Taylor Swift, Baby Reindeer and the Rap Royal Rumble Apr 26, 2024

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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-factor of her lyricism, Antonoff vs Dessner and how corporate greed is depriving the 2020s of classic albums. So does Taylor’s chart-domination make her the biggest gangster in music right now? Drake thinks so. For anyone who’s not up-to-date with the whole Drake vs Kendrick, Cole, Rocky, Ross, Future, Metro and Ye situation, we conveniently break that down for your water cooler conversations.

Oh, and for the all the Ewan Mitchell fans out there who follow us – we share a little insight into how the House of the Dragon star was on set for his photo shoot with THE FACE.

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5 years of THE FACE Apr 17, 2024

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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 support. If you have a message you want to share with us, maybe even an album, film or artist you’d like us to review, drop us an email on podcast@theface.com and we’ll get back to you on the programme.

Kinds of Kindness, Addison Rae’s scream and the power of Drain Gang Mar 29, 2024

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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 tuck into the film trailers and teasers that everyone’s taking about, including Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to Poor Things – as well as the Sydney Sweeney horror Immaculate, Dune 2 and Luca Guadagnino’s Zendaya-starring Tennis drama Challengers.

We also comb through our Tracks of the Week, sparking chat about Tyla’s commercially-palatable amapiano-R&B fusion, the lore of Two Shell, the enduring influence of Yung Lean and Drain Gang and the viral moment sparked by the gleefully obnoxious Von Duch remix.

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The best (and worst) music of 2024 so far Mar 21, 2024

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On this week’s special music episode, we comb through the key releases of Q1. Face contributor Shaad D’Souza joins us to discuss Lil Nas X’s unsatisfying stunts, Ice Spice’s scatalogical single, Charli XCX in Brat mode and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter era. We also reluctantly acknowledge the merits of Vultures 1, praise Kim Gordon’s eternal cool and weigh up Dua Lipa’s prospects as a Glasto headliner. To show the underground some love, we recommend records by Evil Giane, Astrid Sonne, Amen Dunes and Fantasy of a Broken Heart.

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Bands boycott SXSW, Ariana Grande leans into the gossip and Pamela Anderson embraces her authentic self Mar 14, 2024

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The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in fashion, film and music.

This week, we start by reviewing the killer Oscars looks worn by the likes of Billie Eilish, Carey Mulligan, Hunter Schafer and – despite the wardrobe malfunction – Emma Stone. We talk about the misquoting of Jonathan Glazer’s speech on the Israel-Gaza war and how political Belfast rap group Kneecap started a domino effect of artists dropping out of SXSW due to its sponsorship from the US Military. Having profiled Pamela Anderson on The Face’s site this week, we praise her new era of self-love, and we assess how Ariana Grande’s relationship drama affects the listening experience of her new album Eternal Sunshine.If you like what you hear, please feel free to like and subscribe.

Paris Fashion Week’s best party, Euphoria’s uncertain future and the meteoric rise of Eddie Abbew Mar 07, 2024

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The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in fashion, film and music.

This week, we comb through the highlights of PFW, including shows from Vivienne Westwood and Louis Vuitton as well as Arca’s wild clubnight at Bourse de Commerce. We also discuss the hype around the indie-trance duo Snow Strippers and how the controversial bodybuilder Eddie Abbew has started a health revolution among the UK’s youth. For TV and film stories, we dig into the discourse around Euphoria’s potential cancellation and explain how Harry Styles fan fiction has enhanced the lore of the forthcoming rom-com The Idea of You. The journalist Kemi Alemoru also calls in to talk about why so many Black Brits want to leave the UK.

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Charli XCX goes raving, Vaquera kicks off PFW and Jeremy O. Harris brings Slave Play to London Feb 28, 2024

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The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in film, fashion and music.

On this week’s episode, we review the madness of Charli XCX’s record-breaking, sweat-soaked, Julia Fox-featuring rave in Brooklyn and discuss her club-ready comeback single Von Dutch. We report back from Milan Fashion Week – where Prada brought the romance and Diesel dialled in 700 spectators via Zoom – as well as Paris, which kicked off with a currency-themed show from one of our favourite fashion brands, Vacquera. Jeremy O’Harris calls in to talk about his much-discussed show Slave Play, taking inspiration from Kelela and improving the diversity of theatre audiences. If you like what you hear, feel free to hit subscribe or leave us a review (make it nice).

Behind the scenes of the new issue of THE FACE Feb 22, 2024

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We’ve got a new magazine on the shelves! So on this week’s episode, the team talks about our revealing Charli XCX cover story shot by Richard Kern, as well as the issue’s big music moments with new-gen junglist Nia Archives and the X-rated rap duo D-Block Europe. We also chat about profiling the hottest stars of Hollywood, including the fast-rising film star Dominic Sessa, as well as our flagship fashion feature with the legendary model Kristen McMenamy. Fancy a copy? You get one from theface.com, or a good shop near you.

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