The kiwi synth-popper played tracks from her sophomore LP at Academy 2

Alabama’s finest exports shook the Academy to its foundations at their biggest Manchester show to date

American chart sensations Imagine Dragons made their debut Manchester appearance at the Ruby Lounge

The Swedish sister act brought their hugely successful Lion’s Roar LP back to Manchester at a packed Ritz

Brooklyn’s noisiest purveyors of post-punk deliver a riotous performance

Columbia Records; 1992

One Direction’s ‘extremist’ fans, medieval tweets and Taylor Swift’s boyfriends

Dan J gives a penny for Daniel Bortz’s thoughts on sampling, Sankeys and music of all sorts

As it turns twenty, we look back at the incendiary debut from the Californian funk-metallers

Dan Jones weighs up the pros and cons of free downloading

DIIV mark their first visit to Manchester with a spellbinding set at the Deaf Institute

Tom Ingham takes a sensual approach to this week’s feature

O2 Apollo Manchester Saturday 10th November 2012 34/10

The post-punk outfit continued their reign of terror at Manchester’s newest venue

Australia’s finest psych-revivalists had th HMV Ritz entranced

Frank Carter’s new outfit open for Lostprophets and steal the show

The enigmatic Canadians continue to evolve on their third studio effort

This week’s blast from the past

Sam Bartram channels his inner pyromaniac for this week’s five song feature

The Sheffield quintet couldn’t have made their Manchester return at a more appropriately-named venue