The future of busking is here. In a new initiative spearheaded by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan called Busk in London, the UK capital will introduce contactless payments for street performers in ...

Busking has been paused in Trafalgar Square while the Christmas market is on [BBC] Busking in central London is "slowly becoming non-existent", a musician has said, amid a warning that the loss of ...

Vicki Sayers arrives at London's Westminster tube station with her guitar slung over her shoulders like a backpack, pulling her amp on a dolly. She sets up in a corner of the cavernous subway station ...

Footage from around 2005 shows a pre-fame Paramore hitting the street to perform some of their tunes, the Hayley Williams-led pop-rockers doing what many artists do early on in their career — busking ...

London’s street performers — the Brits call them “buskers” — are up in arms over a threat to their livelihoods. Their earnings have already taken a beating this year as the number of foreign visitors ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Following a successful trial, London mayor Sadiq Khan, iZettle ...

LONDON — For generations, street musicians have provided the soundtrack for Leicester Square, a tourist hub in London’s West End, where the likes of Rod Stewart and George Michael busked before ...

Last week Bandstand Busking recorded of Montreal, of course, as you'd expect, busking around London. We've seen Kevin Barnes and cohorts Skeletal Lamping both stripped down and stripped down recently, ...

SW4 headliner Tinie Tempah dropped his latest album Youth last week and has since been hot on the promotional trail. After teaming up with Jake Bugg on new album track 'Find Me', the pair decided to ...

As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. 3 hours ago Just goes to show how you never know who will be strumming ...

Busking in central London is "slowly becoming non-existent", a musician has said, amid a warning that the loss of established performance pitches is forcing some some to give up their careers and is ...