Music
The loudest room in the city lives underground
The small, sweaty clubs were supposed to be finished. They just moved downstairs — and they only let you in if you promise to pay attention.
Nia Brooks
6 min read
Writer · London · 3 stories
Nia Brooks
Music editor. Has been thrown out of better clubs than you. Writes about rooms, records and the people who keep them going.
Music
Synths, sweat and the analogue comeback
Analogue synthesisers were meant to be obsolete by 2005. Twenty years on, they are the most wanted instruments in electronic music.
Nia Brooks
5 min read
Music
Rewiring the record store
Vinyl was written off twice. Now teenagers are the fastest-growing group of buyers, and the shops that survived look nothing like the old ones.
Nia Brooks
4 min read