We asked Artefact‘s music writers to list their alternative Mercury Prize nominees.

Lipin Luo explores how the popularity and demand for Chinese food in the UK has grown over the years and how our taste buds have changed.

Artefact catches up with the dwindling force that is the English Defence League on their latest march through Aylesbury.

The Japanese House brings vast sounds and emotional lyricism to the Camden Barfly in her London debut.