The Artistree: MusicRecords, artists, the industry and the live circuit.https://www.theartistree.fm/en-gbFri, 18 Sep 2026 06:30:52 GMTeditor@theartistree.fm (The Artistree)editor@theartistree.fm (The Artistree)Copyright 2026 The Artistree60Beck on lonesome v funky, and the one song category he's never crackedhttps://www.theartistree.fm/beck-on-lonesome-v-funky-and-the-one-song-category-he-s-never-cracked/https://www.theartistree.fm/beck-on-lonesome-v-funky-and-the-one-song-category-he-s-never-cracked/A rare reader Q&A doubles as album promotion for Ride Lonesome, genial, guarded, and light on the numbers that actually keep a 35-year career afloat.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:30:52 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicPulp's hologram envy: how Abba Voyage helped birth a concert filmhttps://www.theartistree.fm/pulp-s-hologram-envy-how-abba-voyage-helped-birth-a-concert-film/https://www.theartistree.fm/pulp-s-hologram-envy-how-abba-voyage-helped-birth-a-concert-film/Jarvis Cocker and director Garth Jennings on turning a chart-topping comeback gig into a documentary hybrid - and why nobody's getting rich off nostalgia alone.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:30:26 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicArt Garfunkel goes back on the road at 83 - but the reconciliation story is thinner than the headlinehttps://www.theartistree.fm/art-garfunkel-goes-back-on-the-road-at-83-but-the-reconciliation/https://www.theartistree.fm/art-garfunkel-goes-back-on-the-road-at-83-but-the-reconciliation/The Sound of Silence singer describes a five-year absence from touring and a late-life reckoning with mortality, though the promised Paul Simon rapprochement gets little airtime.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:30:31 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicMary Austin opens Freddie Mercury's lost lyric archive - but to what end?https://www.theartistree.fm/mary-austin-opens-freddie-mercury-s-lost-lyric-archive-but-to-what-end/https://www.theartistree.fm/mary-austin-opens-freddie-mercury-s-lost-lyric-archive-but-to-what-end/Thirty-five years after Mercury's death, his closest confidante reveals she has finally unsealed trunks of handwritten lyrics - though what happens to them next remains unclear.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:30:54 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicGreen Man survives the flames it couldn't lighthttps://www.theartistree.fm/green-man-survives-the-flames-it-couldn-t-light/https://www.theartistree.fm/green-man-survives-the-flames-it-couldn-t-light/Wildfires forced organisers to cancel the festival's signature burning ceremony, but the Welsh institution's economics look sturdier than its bonfire this year.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:31:25 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicTupac Shakur murder trial opens in Las Vegas after nearly three decadeshttps://www.theartistree.fm/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-opens-in-las-vegas-after-nearly-three/https://www.theartistree.fm/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-opens-in-las-vegas-after-nearly-three/Prosecutors say Duane 'Keffe D' Davis directed the 1996 drive-by killing as payback for an attack on his nephew, but the case rests on one man, decades on.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:31:04 GMTThe ArtistreeMusicThe arena ticket levy has made its first payment, and £500,000 does not go very farhttps://www.theartistree.fm/grassroots-music-ticket-levy-first-500k/https://www.theartistree.fm/grassroots-music-ticket-levy-first-500k/The LIVE Trust has handed out the first money raised by the voluntary £1 levy on big shows. The interesting part is not the total, but how thinly it has to spread and who is holding the collection tin.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMTThe ArtistreeMusic