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Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2025
Reading and Leeds returns for a 2025 edition promising a variety of exciting musical performances spanning genres and stages

Album Review: Viagra Boys look inward with near self-titled viagr aboys
The latest album from punk rock titans Viagra Boys doesn’t fail to impress despite the presence of lyrical missteps

Over and Out: Jeff Lynne’s ELO at Co-Op Live
Jeff Lynne’s ELO play what turned out to be their final show at Manchester’s Co-Op Live as part of the Over and Out farewell tour

Album Review: ‘Addison’ by Addison Rae
Addison Rae stuns with her self-titled debut album, Addison

‘It’s All Too Much’: The Beatles’ forgotten masterpiece
A deep-dive into The Beatles’ often disregarded track ‘It’s All Too Much’ reveals a variety of influences and illuminates its previously concealed impact

Festival Preview: Manchester Psych Fest
Manchester Psych Fest returns on Saturday August 30th to take over the city with a mix of sounds and settings

‘Let God Sort Em Out’: Eclipsing the industry
Clipse and Pharrell Williams return with a new album that has been a decade and a half in the making

The Ballers’ ‘A Day Late and a Dollar Short’: A forgotten fusion of Southern hip-hop and G-funk
After lost classic A Day Late And A Dollar Short has resurfaced, a retrospective glance at the shifting landscape of hip-hop in the late nineties helps understand its timelessness

Oasis Live ’25 – “All I know is you can take me there”
Sixteen years after they parted ways, the Oasis reunion tour comes home to Manchester’s Heaton Park; a triumphant spectacle cementing the group as genuine landmarks of British culture and music

“Being in a band is never straightforward”: hard life’s Murray Matravers on music, lawsuits, and ‘onion’
hard life’s Murray Matravers returns with a new album and opens up on the troubles and triumphs of the past two years
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Queens of the Stone Age preview: Rock giants at Rock N Roll Circus
Queens of the Stone Age are due to make their return to Sheffield later this summer and here’s everything you need to know ahead of the event

Live review: Lucy Dacus proves ‘Forever is a Feeling’
Lucy Dacus delivers an engaging performance at Manchester Academy in support of her recent album Forever is a Feeling

Japanese Breakfast live: For melancholy Mancunians
Michelle Zauner’s Japanese Breakfast stun a Manchester crowd on the first night of a UK tour in support of new album For Melancholy Women

Latitude Festival preview: A weekend of great music in Suffolk
The Mancunion takes a look at Latitude Festival’s 2025 lineup ahead of the event due to take place at Suffolk’s Henham Parl in July

Live review: Ichiko Aoba’s ‘Luminescent Creatures’ tour stuns Manchester’s Albert Hall
Ichiko Aoba transformed Manchester’s Albert Hall into a serene dreamscape with a spellbinding, minimalist performance on her Luminescent Creatures tour

Live review: A breath of fresh Eire as Inhaler take on O2 Apollo Manchester
In a much-anticipated return, Dublin quartet Inhaler kick off night two of their Open Wide tour

Live review: Parklife Festival 2025 proves BRAT summer isn’t over
Parklife Festival returns to Manchester for its fifteenth edition with a stellar lineup featuring the world’s best electronic-adjacent acts

bôa live at New Century Hall: Far from their twilight years
Nineties alt-rock outfit and social media darlings charm Manchester in support of their first album in almost two decades

Kesha live at Albert Hall: Seventeen years in and just getting started
Kesha makes her highly anticipated return to a Manchester stage after an eleven year vacancy and brings her array of hits with her

Djo live in Manchester: Taking Trafford to ‘The Crux’
Joe Keery, known on stage as Djo, makes his Manchester debut with a sold-out stop on his ‘Back on You’ tour