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Album: Micachu & the Shapes – Good Bad Happy Sad

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

Azeem Ward – the man behind the meme

The Mancunion met Azeem Ward as he continues on his sell-out UK university tour, and found out what life is like as an internet sensation, humble student, and Greatest Living Flautist on the Planet

Live: Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Madness in method, method in madness. UMO are at once a professional and eccentric live act

Singles Selection

This week’s selection of singles includes Jack White in ferocious form with The Dead Weather

Festival: Beat-Herder 2015

Beat-Herder is a true treasure and triumph of the North

Live: Anaal Nathrakh

A brilliant crowd gathered round for one of the weirdest and most bizarre bands in metal

Preview: Dimensions Boat Parties

Dimensions festival announces a new wave of boat parties…

Interview: Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

Matthew Staite chats to Kitty Durham of sibling trio Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

Album: Paul Weller – Saturns Pattern

Weller’s twelfth solo effort continues his creative renaissance

Live: Young Guns

Young Guns returned with a performance that showed that, old material or new, their music still has an eager audience

Opinion: The Sex Pistols Have Deserted the Punk Ideals, But They Haven’t Sold Out

Never mind the Sex Pistols, here’s another opinion piece from Stephen Miller himself

Album: Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect

The Killers star’s second solo venture is a masterclass in slick 80s pop

Live: Fozzy

WWE star Chris Jericho brought his accomplished heavy metal act to the Ruby Lounge

Album: Best Youth – Highway Moon

Best Youth’s full-length debut is a an elegant, brooding and thoroughly modern pop record full of ruminations on love – be it past, present or imaginary

Album: Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts – Blaster

The former Stone Temple Pilots man returns with an album that, despite its name, fails to hit as hard as it should

Album: While She Sleeps – Brainwashed

Brainwashed will go down as a career defining effort for the Sheffield five-piece

Live: Yellowcard

Yellowcard seem to settled into their groove a little too much, writes Callum Lunn

Album: Inventions – Maze of Woods

Inventions’ sophomore record improves on their debut, leaving us eager for what’s to follow

Live: Sam Smith

The Grammy winning star’s show mixes his own hits with pop classics, with spine-tingling results

Live: The Vaccines

Their raucous, sold-out Albert Hall show was exactly what we expected from The Vaccines