“When the band leaves, everyone is in disarray. As their new album proudly states, when The Bronx shoot to kill, they don’t fuck around.”

The local boys done good spoke to Joe Goggins on breaking through, working with Elbow and their own Bohemian Rhapsody

The Oxford quintet are set to bring Holy Fire to Manchester

The stateside sensations do things the old-fashioned way at the Academy

Ben Glover gives us the low down on the latest instalment of Recentes

James Ross checks out Deftones at Manchester Academy

The Courteeners are back with a new record – and continue to personify everything wrong with present-day Manchester music

Books editor talks to first-time author, and Manchester student, Alexander J. Allison

Although it isn’t a book, and it is not permanent, outdoor writing is a valuable and communal literature

Ben Marshall previews the Bolton Octagon’s upcoming youth production ‘Whole’ and speaks to Julia Samuels, co-artistic director of 20 Stories High

Thirty years on, Metallica’s incendiary debut continues to occupy a crucial place in metal history

The anniversary of Plath’s death is a chance to reflect again on the reciprocity of these two factions

Five bass-driven classics, plucked straight from some of the greatest rhythm sections in history

The new ‘chick-lit’ image undermines the novel’s integrity, but can all be forgiven if it reaches a wider readership?

What’s on this week in local theatre

The Nottingham chart-topper brings his debut record to a sold-out Academy

Rosie Panter tells us the best and the worst performance that she’s ever seen on stage

Guitarist Jake Pitts talks to Joe Goggins on headlining the Kerrang! tour, concept records and embracing chaos

Frontman Scott Hutchison spoke to Joe Goggins on major labels, breaking America and his real thoughts on Mumford & Sons

The NME Awards tour bill-toppers met Joe Goggins to talk Tarantino, Mercury nods and being the world’s unlikeliest headliners