Polica are coming to Manchester and are bringing their inventive electronic, indie sound with them. Christian Hurry tells you why you should be there too

White Lies have delivered an 80’s pop inspired record that is commendable, yet unremarkable, says Jacob Hopkins

Sundara Karma are more than teenage icons – their fizzy pop is a perfect escape from the encroaching Mancunian autumn, writes Meg Roberts

Tariq Salarbux revisits Razorlight’s sophomore album, the 2000s, and the birth of landfill indie

Angel Olsen’s new album arrives as a fully-formed classic, writes Cassie Hyde

Run-of-the-mill guitar bands are the order of the day at this year’s Dot to Dot, but minor indie gems and slap-bass soul provide some much-needed respite

We’ve come to expect strong punk-pop songwriting from the Thermals, but their seventh record’s cumbersome 90s emo revival is lacklustre and very forgettable

No closer to the kind of success their peers have enjoyed, Yeasayer’s latest sees confusion stand in for cohesion

Should ‘Where’s My Mommy?’ be placed on a pedestal or should it get flushed away with the rest of the unmentionables. Read on to find out

Hinds’ charming, rip-roaring garage-rock revivalism had the audience in Gorilla right in the palms of their hands

Fun, feisty and downright funky. Student band NUDE are making ripples in Manchester’s Northern Quarter

What’s the solution to the new and “improved” NME? Dump it—that’s what

Now a free music publication dished out on the streets, Dominic Bennett looks back at NME’s history of landfill indie to Justin Bieber and feels no mourning

Pressure on Viet Cong to change their name has been successful. Less successful has been attempts to debate censorship in art, says Jacob Bernard-Banton

Is this apathy or ecstasy? Who can tell. Either way, it’s pure melody. Henry Scanlan reports on Alex G, live at Night & Day

Jacob Bernard-Banton looks back on MGMT’s indie smash-hit debut and reflects that it’s all just tie-dye headbands and glitter

Hey Rosetta!’s massive sound can’t and shouldn’t be held within the confines of Sound Control

This band are destined to be bombarded with comparisons, but no one in the room seemed to be taking this as a negative

Quite in-keeping with the album’s title, Jacob Bernard-Banton has mixed feelings about Good Bad Happy Sad

What did Connor McBride think of Cuphead when he played it at this year’s Gamescom? Find out in our hands-on preview with the Xbox One exclusive