Despite fairly slim pickings, music reporter Callum Pinder has rounded up the cream of the crop of music events to show your face at this week

Deputy Music Editor Yasmin Duggal runs through the top 5 Manchester bands you SHOULD be listening to, but might not know it yet

Whilst not Music Editor Hannah’s usual cup of tea, R5 managed to surprise her in more ways than one

Elizabeth Gibson looks beyond the hype to the quiet beauty of Indigo Girls’ fifth album

There’s a brief but beautiful moment in the opening track, ‘Four Years and One Day’, where after building for most of the track, the synths break off from the kraut-rock inspired guitar crescendo, only for the guitars to smash back in with a resemblance to Joy Division’s ‘Shadowplay’. Gone are the stripped back and precise […]

The world’s biggest rock band returns with a mixed bag of over-the-top material

A digest of Manchester’s finest student offerings for your diary

Hannah Brierley takes you back to look through some of the music worlds highs and lows of the past in this week in music history

Mallory Knox’s Sam Douglas chats to Katie Shepherd about their latest album and what’s next for the band after their stunning set at Reading Festival

PVRIS have matured their sound

High praise for The Moods’ new album, from Music Editor Hannah Brierley

Katie Shepherd reports back from this year’s empowering (and still thoroughly ‘rock’) Reading festival

On their seventh album, the ever-strong survivors of alternative rock try new things with the same old successes

Did I mention you can bring your own alcohol into the arena?!

Hannah Brierley takes a look at one of the UK’s most promising festivals

Canadian singer-songwriter Christina Martin chats to Rebekah Shaw about her upcoming UK tour, stripped-down shows, and the social responsibility of music artists

Reading and Leeds returns with another headliner-packed line-up, so The Mancunion looks ahead to what will surely be the perfect end to summer

We spoke to the Texan indie greats about Trump, ambience, and how you should never listen to anything they have to say

Alex Giannascoli’s latest offering blends bare-bones alt-country with heady electronica – Rocket is a puzzling, yet consuming record, writes Harry Sherrin

A year on from the release of their debut album Light Upon The Lake, Whitney are still on the road. Joe Casson speaks to singer Julien Ehrlich about tour vans, Elton John, and pole dancing at Islington Mill