Up and comers from Salford and Dublin brought their national jaunt to the Ruby Lounge

The Canadian duo bring their now-more-sedate live show to the Academy

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

The indie-rockers meteoric rise continues as they deliver a storming set to a sold-out Apollo

AlunaGeorge demonstrate that 2013 might well be their year with an assured performance at the Deaf Institute

The veteran 90s rockers return to Manchester in support of latest release ‘Generation Freakshow’

The Canadian punks bring their legendarily chaotic live show to the intimate confines of the Deaf Institute

Gotye set out to prove he’s no one-hit wonder with his biggest Manchester show to date

Three years on from ‘Don’t Upset the Rhythm’, Noisettes returned to Manchester with new material and a point to prove

The pop-folkster’s sold-out UK tour reached Manchester at a packed Apollo

Chart-topper Jake Bugg visits Club Academy as part of his final lap of basement venues

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

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