Alone this February 14th? Cheer yourself up with these anti-Valentine anthems

Milton Keynes metallers, Tesseract stole the show from their American counterparts, The Contortionist

Despite spending time in the medical tent, our Deputy Editor-in-Chief managed to enjoy the atmosphere, decoration, and costumes at Pangaea’s tenth birthday

Fat White Family are fed up with the music of their peers, so they’re revelling in the debauched loonery of their own making

Pangaea: Level 10 could be enjoyed on multiple (perhaps even 10) levels, from the headline-grabbing Katy B to the back-beaten disco dens on the Students’ Union top floor

Massive Attack hit the musical standard they’ve set for themselves, but leave the crowd uneasy with their heavy-handed activism

Ten years ago, J Dilla left behind his nostalgic, life-affirming swansong, the 31-track masterpiece Donuts: a sprawling and inspired distillation of 70s black music that cemented his status as a musical genius

MONEY, one of Manchester’s finest current bands, have created a powerful second album that affirms life and confronts death

Heads up! Field Music are playing at Fopp Record Store on Saturday at 3pm to premier their new album Commontime

Field Music take simple pop songs and create something occasionally genuinely transcending, brilliant and life affirming in a way that’s hard to describe

This week’s selection includes PJ Harvey’s triumphant return to the airwaves

Lo-fi legend Jeffrey Lewis took some time out of his UK tour to discuss his thoughts on what it means to be a musician in the modern age. Luckily, we caught him in a ranting mood…

Not long before he died, we reviewed Blackstar in the context of the time. Now the dust has settled on Bowie’s death, his parting gift deserves a new perspective in the context of his passing

On top of transforming his own career multiple times, David Bowie transformed a few others too

In celebration of David Bowie’s life and career, we look back on his legendary Berlin Trilogy and the city that spawned it

The Hallé Orchestra’s penultimate concert of the year shatters the tradition of festive concerts with their homage to the silver screen

A packed Club Academy arrived early to indulge three veterans of rock, prog and metal in their anything goes creative outlet

Dedicated to the memory of the gender-transcending and timeless rock star, we reappraise Bowie’s most confessional album, Low

Jay Plent muses on what Britain’s most influential band will do next

David Bowie doesn’t like looking back down memory lane in heritage rock docs. Instead, he delivers strange, serpentine albums like Blackstar with both eyes set firmly on the future