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Albums of the year 2022

Albums of the year 2022

We’ve whittled it down to our 10 top albums of the year; from Yard Act to Loyle Carner, these are The Mancunion Music Section’s favourites of 2022!
Live review: Kendrick Lamar at AO Arena, Manchester

Live review: Kendrick Lamar at AO Arena, Manchester

The inimitable Kendrick Lamar performed to a sold out Mancunian crowd
Kendrick Lamar : Mr Morale & The Big Steppers – Track by track

Kendrick Lamar : Mr Morale & The Big Steppers – Track by track

Will Waterhouse breaks down each track on Kendrick Lamar’s latest masterpiece.
Hip-hop and the Pulitzer

Hip-hop and the Pulitzer

Kendrick Lamar’s win in the Pulitzer Prize music category is a watershed moment for the perception of hip-hop as an art form.
Why you should be going to SZIGET Festival 2018

Why you should be going to SZIGET Festival 2018

SZIGET festival has all bases covered this year, if there’s only one festival you go to to in 2018, make sure it’s this one.

Album: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Kendrick Lamar raises the bar and lays down the gauntlet, writes Ben Lomax

First thoughts: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Ben Lomax takes a preliminary dip into the mindset and ideas of Kendrick Lamar’s latest project, which may hold the key to as yet unknown depths

Album: Thundercat — Drunk

Christian Hurry talks through Thundercat’s latest album Drunk, his first since working with Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp A Butterfly

Album: A Tribe Called Quest – We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service

Eighteen years after their last studio album, ATCQ return with tributes to the old and the up-and-coming, writes Will Whiting

Top 10 Albums of 2015

The best albums of the year, as voted by those who’ve written for us all semester. Complete with loving praise and custom illustrations

Top 10 Songs of 2015

As the curtains close on a rambunctious year of music, our writers cast their votes on the 10 greatest songs of the past 12 months

Albums of the year: Top 10

A countdown of the best of 2012.

Column: Kendrick Lamar – the Saviour of Hip Hop?

The Compton rapper’s latest record proves that there’s still more to hip hop than controversy and materialism