Jenny Charlesworth

Jenny Charlesworth is an arts and culture journalist and online editor at Today's Parent. She regularly contributes to The Straight, Concrete Skateboarding and The Grid. A music and pop culture enthusiast, Jenny has written for The Wire, The Globe and Mail, Spinner, Paste Magazine, Montecristo Magazine, The Block, HUCK Magazine and The Tyee. She lends her expertise to CTV National News. In 2010, Jenny was a member of the Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury.

Cults Plan Hip-Hop Mixtape, Talk Jim Jones Influence — Exclusive Video

My interview and co-direction credit

They may offer a nod to fearsome Jonestown icon Jim Jones on their record and have a slightly creepy name, but there’s nothing off-putting or diabolical about New York duo Cults. Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion — partners both musically and romantically — have quickly won the favour of just about anyone who has a penchant for dreamy, retro-flavoured indie-pop (including Lily Allen, whose label is behind the group’s self-titled debut).

Spinner recently sat down with Cults during AOL’s NXNE party at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto to talk about their foray into hip-hop, creepy cult leaders, and why they’re just a couple of “control freaks.” Oh, and we also got the lowdown on Follin’s guest gig with iconic Canadian punks F—-ed Up.

—Published July 5 on Spinner 

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