The Mansion’s alternative offering to Pangea

V is an ambitious, adventurous, and positive new album from The Horrors, whose partnership with producer Paul Epworth is proving to be a formidable one

Their long-awaited LP breathes the confidence of a promising group

The strength of The National’s seventh album establishes themselves as a truly prominent American band

This was definitely worth the wait

“No one can rap like this band” — Joel Ansbro talks to Pleasure Barge, discussing the student band experience, the city’s best venues, and advice to students looking to get into music while at university

The season has started and Manchester is ready, so what’s in Store for WHP17?

Brighton produces yet another phenomenal musical talent, The Magic Gang encompass early guitar rock with a modern twist

Despite fairly slim pickings, music reporter Callum Pinder has rounded up the cream of the crop of music events to show your face at this week

There’s a brief but beautiful moment in the opening track, ‘Four Years and One Day’, where after building for most of the track, the synths break off from the kraut-rock inspired guitar crescendo, only for the guitars to smash back in with a resemblance to Joy Division’s ‘Shadowplay’. Gone are the stripped back and precise […]

The world’s biggest rock band returns with a mixed bag of over-the-top material

Deputy Music Editor Yasmin Duggal runs through the top 5 Manchester bands you SHOULD be listening to, but might not know it yet

Whilst not Music Editor Hannah’s usual cup of tea, R5 managed to surprise her in more ways than one

Elizabeth Gibson looks beyond the hype to the quiet beauty of Indigo Girls’ fifth album

A digest of Manchester’s finest student offerings for your diary

Hannah Brierley takes you back to look through some of the music worlds highs and lows of the past in this week in music history

Mallory Knox’s Sam Douglas chats to Katie Shepherd about their latest album and what’s next for the band after their stunning set at Reading Festival

PVRIS have matured their sound

High praise for The Moods’ new album, from Music Editor Hannah Brierley

Katie Shepherd reports back from this year’s empowering (and still thoroughly ‘rock’) Reading festival