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The successful marketing of BRAT: How one album dominated an entire summer
17th March 2025

Charli xcx’s BRAT instantly changed popular culture upon its release in June 2024 and continues to do so through its accessibility and unmatched marketing campaign

Live review: Laura Marling stuns crowds at Manchester’s Albert Hall
12th March 2025

Hampshire’s folk songstress Laura Marling delights a seated audience with a gorgeous lamp-lit performance

Northern Music Awards 2025 preview: Nordoff & Robbins’ celebration returns for its second edition
12th March 2025

Nordoff & Robbins’ second annual Northern Music Awards look set to provide a brilliant night of celebrating the best musicians, venues and industry experts in the region

The Prodigy live: the Disrupta tour takes Warehouse Project ‘Out of Space’
11th March 2025

The Prodigy attract audiences old and new as they honour late frontman Keith Flint at Manchester’s Warehouse Project

Looking back on Live at Leeds in the City 2024: Concluding festival season in style
11th March 2025

Always promising a day of discovery, Live at Leeds in the City returns, bringing local and international acts to venues across the city centre

10th March 2025

A preview of The Wombats’ AO Arena appearance on the 22nd of March

“A space to unite”: An evening with Manchester’s new anti-fascist event series, Multi
8th March 2025

As a direct response to far-right attacks last summer, the student-led event group Multi bring people and music together to fight discrimination

“Music is quite puzzling”: Peter Hook on Joy Division, New Order and getting ready to tour with The Light
5th March 2025

Peter Hook discusses his varied experiences in the Manchester music scene ahead of his April tour

“I started realising there was life outside of South London”: Club Berlin, Manchester’s forgotten tastemaker
4th March 2025

Manchester’s own Yes bar invited in a new, illusive and fascinating dance-music event: Club Berlin

Remi Wolf live at Albert Hall: Whimsical star creates solace in her song
4th March 2025

Remi Wolf Live at The Albert Hall, every crevice of The Albert’s Hall unusually small stage fabricated a level of intimacy that left every single one of the 2000 attendees feeling within her reach

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So Many Roads: Grateful Dead at Soldier Field 9/7/95
4th March 2025

The Grateful Dead’s final concert: a brief, beautiful moment of unity among the Deadheads, poignant while knowing how fractured the fanbase had become

‘It’s Valentine’s Day and I love you’: Brian Jonestown Massacre at Albert Hall
3rd March 2025

San Francisco rockers Brian Jonestown Massacre arrived at the Albert Hall with a Valentine’s present for Mancunian gig-goers: a two hour set of hypnotic, winding musicality

“I’ll always love good rhythmic pop”: In conversation with Joe Leath
24th February 2025

Local 21 year old artist Joe Leath sits down to discuss everything in his artistic life: from running the Haus open mic night, to his own musical output

Sam Fender – ‘People Watching’: Geordie hero proves himself the voice of a generation
24th February 2025

Sam Fender returns with a highly impressive third album and proves his generational talent after a long wait of almost four years

Access All Areas: FLO delivers stellar debut album
23rd February 2025

The R&B trio showcase nothing short of excellence in their debut album. With heavenly harmonies, confident lyricism and a timeless charm, FLO creates a project that is as refreshing as it is remarkable

Coasting by on Good Vibes: a Review of Daily J’s Scatterbrains
21st February 2025

On their upcoming album Scatterbrains, Daily J mixes the vibes of the southern hemisphere with a cocktail of indie sounds springing from far closer to home. However the album misses a bit of magic, and it is hard to pinpoint exactly where

Album review: The Murder Capital – ‘Blindness’
21st February 2025

The Murder Capital return with a third album which combines their signature post-punk intensity with a lighter and mellower approach

I Am Music: Playboi Carti’s forever-delayed album
19th February 2025

Playboi Carti’s third album ‘I Am Music’ is being touched by the same controversary as much of his recent work

Sam Fender stuns Co-op Live in a night of Geordie magic in Manchester.
19th February 2025

On a cold Saturday night in the height of Storm Darragh, Sam Fender completed his run of two dates at Manchester’s Co-op live in an electric and emotional display. A short tram ride from the centre, climbing the stairs and moving over the bridge towards the venue, the Co-op live glistens in the cold air. […]

The party for everyone: A night spent dancing to Elody’s beautiful melodies
19th February 2025

Elody is the new night run by Manchester University alumni that will get the hips swaying and the feet moving: a new dawn for dancing