While the grassroots scene is now vulnerable, Sofar Sounds concept of live music celebrates 15 years of activity. The format taking place in other people’s gardens and revealing the headline a few hours before the show is still running strong.
What better way to celebrate the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department than in a bookstore with Swifties?
As you disembark from Hackney Wick’s station platform, the colourful graffiti on the building’s walls welcomes you to a world of sound and freedom.
After the release of his first album SANKOFA, Cobbson talks to Artefact about his life and journey in the industry.
How personal is your music to you?
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We meet three musicians who reveal the events and people that inspired their work.
“It’s about preserving something while making something new.”
Beyoncé is competing with nobody but herself
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How Beyoncé’s Renaissance era transformed the living legend into the self-proclaimed Alien Superstar.
Does London need another giant superclub?
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As a huge new club opens in north London, DJs and clubbers worry that the city’s music scene is losing its diversity.
The re-opening of the O2 Brixton.
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Artefact reports on the closing of the O2 Brixton venue before the hall reopens again.
London’s music promotion HotVox teamed up with the charity for a new series in Camden’s historical venue, The Camden Assembly.