Jenessa Williams

Leeds, Palo Alto

Host at [edit] radio - Weekly New Music Podcasts

Music and Pop Culture Journalist at Freelance

✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.) 🎓Media Postdoc (MeToo & Music Fandom @ Stanford University) 🌱Pennycress Editor (POC Zine) ✨(She/Her)

Articles

Missed out on Glasto? Here’s 30 major festivals you can still book now

1 month ago | msn.com | Huw Baines |Michael Cragg |Ammar Kalia |Jenessa Williams

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Missed out on Glasto? Here’s 30 major festivals you can still book now

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Huw Baines |Michael Cragg |Ammar Kalia |Jenessa Williams

The A-list headlinersDownload13 to 15 June; Donington, Leicestershire All eyes will be on masked metallers Sleep Token as they gatecrash the cosy world of veteran rock headliners, joining Green Day and Korn atop a bill studded with barbed delights, from Svalbard’s grandiose hardcore to Loathe’s dreamily atmospheric post-metal.
45s of the week: 5 new songs to hear now

Dec 8, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

Newly independent and heading up the forthcoming Babygirl soundtrack, Sky Ferreira’s first single since 2022 is a doozy, merging 80s synths with something that feels more inherently trapped in 2013; the call-and-response double-layered chorus, the moody countdown, the scuzzy vocoders that all hark back to indie sleaze.
The music industry is broken, but sex work shaming won’t fix it

Dec 3, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

At this point, it’s no secret that if you want to make money as a musician, you have to think outside of the box. Sometimes, you might even need to think outside of your immediate industry. Enter indie-pop stalwart Kate Nash, who had a novel idea as to how she might accommodate the costs of putting on live show.
find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar

Nov 30, 2024 | msn.com | Rachel Aroesti |Catherine Bray |Andrew Clements |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more

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Let it show: find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar

Nov 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti |Andrew Clements |Catherine Bray |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more

1 DecPaul Heaton GlasgowIn support of the release of his 10th studio album The Mighty Several, Paul Heaton hits the arenas of the UK with his new sidekick, Rianne Downey. Alongside new material, the pair promise an array of Housemartins and Beautiful South hits, mapping the territories of British heartland pop with suitably wintery wit. JWOVO Hydro, and touring. 2 DecRuination at the Royal Opera House. Photograph: Camilla GreenwellRuination LondonA five-star show from dance-theatre company Lost Dog.
50 festive gifts for fangirls

Nov 25, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

With Black Friday approaching (and Christmas and Hannukah right behind that), shopping season is well and truly upon us. But what to buy for the big music lover in your life? Concert tickets and standard-issue vinyl are all well and good if you can get them, but sometimes you need to think a little outside of the box to really impress the person who has it all.
How Women Made Music: a new book challenges the canon of ‘list worthy’ albums

Nov 8, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

If you’re working in music journalism (or are even just a fan of it), you’ll know that we’re fast approaching end-of-year list season: the time of year when people attempt to wrangle an array of entirely disparate songs or albums or artists into one neatly-definitive ranking. Its absurdity tends to prompt pretty passionate results, filtering down into stan communities, talent scouters and plenty more sectors of the industry.
How Women Made Music: a new book challenges the canon of ‘list worthy’ albums

Nov 7, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

If you’re working in music journalism (or are even just a fan of it), you’ll know that we’re fast approaching end-of-year list season: the time of year when people attempt to wrangle an array of entirely disparate songs or albums or artists into one neatly-definitive ranking. Its absurdity tends to prompt pretty passionate results, filtering down into stan communities, talent scouters and plenty more sectors of the industry.
45s of the week - Ethel Cain, Babymonster, Luvcat and more!

Nov 2, 2024 | thefortyfive.com | Jenessa Williams

Teased at live shows throughout 2024, Ethel Cain returns with the recorded version of ‘Punish’, the first single from her forthcoming sophomore record, ‘Perverts’. Every inch as haunting as its title suggests, it swells from a plaintive heartbreak ballad into a deliciously cold, industrial knife that manages to summon up Nine Inch Nails, The XX and London Grammar all at once. Album release day cannot come soon enough.