Best Youth’s full-length debut is a an elegant, brooding and thoroughly modern pop record full of ruminations on love – be it past, present or imaginary

Kwabs’s support slot is rather too mysterious for impatient fans

Brainwashed will go down as a career defining effort for the Sheffield five-piece

Inventions’ sophomore record improves on their debut, leaving us eager for what’s to follow

The Grammy winning star’s show mixes his own hits with pop classics, with spine-tingling results

Yellowcard seem to settled into their groove a little too much, writes Callum Lunn

Nubiyan Twist shone in Manchester

Someday the Hare Krishna will get around to forming their own psychedelic supergroup. Until then, there’s Flamingods

Architects stand out from a homogenous metalcore scene but ultimately fail to outperform Every Time I Die

Mvson celebrate their second birthday at their true spiritual home: Sankeys

Guide to European festivals of 2015

Their raucous, sold-out Albert Hall show was exactly what we expected from The Vaccines

Carl Cox smashed it at the Albert Hall

With such a likeable sound and energy, you can’t imagine The Preatures will be playing small venues forever

Ariel’s sarcastic lo-fi take on pop culture didn’t seem to fit with the relatively grandiose setting

Modestep return to the spotlight, and they’re not coming quietly

The Staves build on their folk-rock formula on their second album

The Veronicas’ long-awaited second album could have done without the dodgy rapping

The Mancunion’s guide to UK festivals of 2015

Warpaint’s magical live show is a bubbling cauldron of 2 parts Joy Division, 1 part Foals and a sprinkling of chemical XX…