Zach Sang Show

Simon Cowell — label exec, talent reality TV judge OG, “bad guy,” perma-aviator sporting, tight top-and-high pant wearer etc. and so on — fancies a challenge. He wants to create a new boy band, one that will challenge the omnipotence of K-pop, a band that will put his name back in the cultural conversation. A lot is on the line.

He scours Dublin, Liverpool, and London for plucky teen hopefuls. The initial response to his call for auditions is a little meh, but then the judges uncover some gems, albeit ones with strikingly similar haircuts.

A thousand is whittled down to under ten hopefuls who battle it out for five spaces in the as-of-yet unnamed boy band and across the six episodes viewers start to really care about the journey of these wannabe stars. Cowell is torn! He ultimately plumps for seven members (in true KPop style) and so we have Cruz Lee-Ojo, Danny Bretherton, Hendrik Christoffersen, John Fadare, Josh Olliver, Nicolas Alves, and Seán Hayden. And know they’re on our couch.

We find out a bit more about the septet: where they’re from, previous talent show accolades, what instruments they play, who loves school, who used to be a semi-pro soccer player, who almost pursued rugby full time. And of course we ask about Cowell, working with storied songwriters like Poo Bear and Savan Kotecha (Bieber, 1D, respectively), why Brits are so obsessed with breaking America, One Direction comparisons, squaring up to BTS, and so much more.

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A man who needs no intro, Louis Tomlinson joins us on the couch to discuss his new solo album ‘How Did I Get Here?’ — a record he wrote alongside British artists like Hurts’ Theo Hutchcraft, The Music’s Robert Harvey, David Sneddon and others. Recorded in Costa Rica, it’s an album where the former One Direction star embraces his love of pop, vulnerability, and honesty in a new way.

We also talk about being a dad to Freddie — and how he keeps him young — love, his newfound confidence with being a solo artist, and lurking, occasional imposter syndrome). Plus they dissect Zach’s DJ set at the 34-year-old’’ recent Away From Home Festival in upstage NY. And just what did Louis say when Plain White T’s — who were on the bill too — asked him to join them onstage for “Hey There Delilah”?

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Remy Bond Crashing the golden globes party at chateau marmont - went on her own Remy Bond is a riddle. What’s true? What’s exaggerated? What myth is she making? What we do know is that her debut EP, Backstage at The Tropicana, is a transportive, bewitching collection. It samples Genesis, it recalls dreamy 60s girl groups, and ABBA. It’s Wall of Sound, it’s omnichord accented, it’s brass blasted. It features her breakout viral hit ‘Summer Song’ produced by the elusive Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of legendary French duo Air. How did she bag him? Slid into his DMs.

This interview is a re-record. We had some audio issues with the first interview so she came back in and we uncovered that the gap in her two front teeth that she professed she had done in England recently, was actually a Sharpie-ruse. We find out about her childhood being raised in New York’s West Village, living next to Sean Lennon, and crashing the Golden Globes recent afterparty at Chateau Marmont where she met someone from Duran Duran who had quite a lot to say about The Weeknd.

Plus we talk shrooms and creativity, her creative partnership with her sister Olivia and their time on Master Chef Junior, a stint in a psych ward after an encounter with Mel Gibson, the Japanese sex hotel featured in the ‘Skintight Jeans’ video, her film and music inspirations, those Lana comparisons, that Lana shoutout, and so much more.

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Ella Anderson has been acting for almost the entirety of her existence on earth. Still just 20 years old, the Michigan born actor and singer started off at Disney and then made the leap to Nickelodeon, playing Piper for five seasons before reprising her role in the movie last year.

But in between the sitcom goodness, Anderson has been making a lot of interesting and challenging choices in film acting with legends such as Woody Harrelson (Sun Coast) and Brie Larson (The Glass Castle), not to mention the forthcoming drama Jesus Land opposite Juliette Lewis. Most recently she played Kate Hudson daughter in Song Sung Blue, a film based on a documentary about a Neil Diamond tribute duo — completed by Hugh Jackman who plays her stepfather. We talk about all this, plus acting with King Princess on the film as her stepsister, the nuance of building a character, particularly one based on a real person, how Disney was like boot camp, her parents morphing from classically trained musicians to Detroit techno scene makers, and so much more.

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The Wolff brothers (also once upon a time known as The Naked Brothers) return to the couch to discuss their long awaited self-titled album. Wild to think that Zach and Nat and Alex first met a whopping 18 years ago, so the rapport is set and a healthy roasting is delivered (largely from Alex) throughout.

But they also dig into this new collection, which is both a vulnerable look back and a point of reflection. Additionally they discuss how playing Leonard Cohen (Alex) and Spiral Stairs, the drummer of 90s slacker heroes Pavement (Nat), in the films So Long Marianne and Pavements, respectively, influenced their songwriting, the stories behind “Backup Plan,” “Candyspeak,” and working with Billie Eilish on “Soft Kissing Hour.”

Plus, the toxicity of child stardom, banana smoothies, fedoras, the genius of Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Cameron Winter, The Rock, Jumanji, cold plunging, the importance of living life unselfconsciously and out of the public eye, and so much more.

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