LCD Soundsystem’s legacy might yet extend beyond their music.

A bigger kinda beauty, people!

X-Factor has returned, as predictably as the annual bout of the common cold, turning sensible people (me) into snivelling addicts.

Detroit may have Motown, L.A. may have Dr. Dre, New Orleans may have Fats Domino, but we’ve got Shaun Ryder.

Tom Ingham chats to Brendan Brown, Wheatus frontman, about what life is like having such a hit song.

As the Beach Boys celebrate their 50th anniversary tour, trawling the length and breadth of America and Europe off the back of their 30th studio album, one must hark back to pop music’s golden age. The Beach Boys were once part of one of pop music’s most notorious duels, in constant competition with four mop-haired […]

New albums just don’t have the same impact anymore because the music is all too easy to come by.

Its creation gave the house movement a home in Manchester, and its legacy remains to this day.

Scroobius Pip chats to Elisha Mansuroglu about Beach Break, Celebrity Big Brother and the possibility of shaving his beard off.

The Manchester University Music Society is one of the largest and most active music societies in the country.

A tale of blossoming electronic romance between Skrillex and Ellie Goulding.

I’ll always have infinitely more respect for Lou Reed collaborating with Metallica than any indie clone band.

Dan Jones provides us with his 4 favourite songs in the much overlooked genre of funk.

As physical music sales plummet, independent record stores are becoming all the more vital to a sustainable future for the record industry.

Davy Jones will forever be remembered as one of the first true popstars, a charismatic performer and an incredible human being.

The Vaccines are no cure to the musical stagnation in the indie scene.

Should we really be lining the pockets of opportunistic industry types?

“Fuck standing around posing like a dickhead” reads the Murkage Club Facebook group. How ironic.

It’s that time of year again.

As a movement, Northern Soul effectively flicked a middle finger towards the charts.