Reports

Shindig Festival stands firm on Bob Vylan booking despite licencing pressure

Could antisemitism row spell the end for much-loved festival?

Sisterhood of sound: 10 years of Saffron

Moyah: Sound of survival

Music

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

Sound system culture arrived with the Windrush Generation and took root in St Paul's and Easton, where speaker stacks became monuments to belonging, resistance, and Black identity.

A group of people dancing together in a nightclub with pink walls

Features

Joy as resistance: Inside the club night changing Bristol’s queer scene

Image at the The House of Savalon, Bristol (credit: Charley Williams)

Features

Meet the new queer collectives pushing the boundaries of Bristol’s nightlife

Photoessay: Lakota at 30

The Bristol institution, which has hosted internationally-renowned DJs, celebrated its 30th birthday in June with a night headlined by Bristol's own drum and bass legend Roni Size.

Taking back control in a male-dominated industry

Bristol’s Saffron Records continues to break barriers for women in the music industry.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on if Drill music is driving knife crime with youth worker Darren Alexander

In the wake of the tragic death of 18-year-old Dontae Davis in Lawrence Hill, what’s behind youth violence? And as Avon and Somerset Police have said recently, is drill music a concern?

Music learning is fading out from schools. We’ll lose more than the screech of recorders.

Music lessons were some of my fondest moments of school. But in a city renowned for live music and across the country, music learning is under threat.

She Makes War is a Bristol musician who wants her country back

Laura Kidd aka She Makes War on her journey from putting on her own nights to crowdfunding entire albums.

Idles: the Bristol band making it big talk music, masculinity and mental health

Men talking about their feelings shouldn't be groundbreaking, but it is.