For Ashley Lambe, the blues isn’t nostalgia—it’s a living language. Fronting the 32-20’s, his sound is raw, reverent, and defiantly alive. In this interview, he talks tone, truth, and wild nights—including a surprise set for Bill Murray—and makes a compelling case for why the blues still matters now.

Alana S. Portero’s transgender coming-of-age novel Bad Habit recently celebrated its second anniversary after runaway success. Praised by director Pedro Almodóvar and recently featured on Dua Lipa’s ‘Service95’ book club, Portero’s book speaks to a vulnerable life lived at a dangerous time. Bad Habit follows the narrator’s life in 1980s post-Franco Spain and the influential people in her life, almost all marred as abject in some way or another. We met with Alana during a live event organised by Romancero Books.

With raw blues, punk fury, and unapologetic truth, Jeanie’s shows blur the line between ritual and rebellion. As her band Jeanie and The White Boys rise, she talks to us about power, pain, identity, and the beautiful chaos that fuels it all.

Winona Oak’s music moves like a storm—tender, raw, and powerful. Raised on the Swedish island of Sollerön, she brings poetic intimacy to everything she touches, whether it’s dance-floor euphoria or quiet grief. In this candid conversation, the singer-songwriter opens up about growing up in isolation, the healing power of poetry, creating her alter ego OAKS, and how art became her lifeline after loss.