From pub crawls to Freshers' events, drinking can feel unavoidable, and sobriety can feel isolating. Here's how to miss out on the hangovers, not the fun
Alica MacDonald's 'Finding Emily' provides an inventive spin on the rom-com for a modern audience thanks to a strong sense of place – and UoM's campus
Joscha Bongard's Babystar is a frightfully realistic satire on social media family channels that bites off more than it can chew
This week’s selection of singles includes Jack White in ferocious form with The Dead Weather
Beat-Herder is a true treasure and triumph of the North
A brilliant crowd gathered round for one of the weirdest and most bizarre bands in metal
Matthew Staite chats to Kitty Durham of sibling trio Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
Weller’s twelfth solo effort continues his creative renaissance
Young Guns returned with a performance that showed that, old material or new, their music still has an eager audience
Never mind the Sex Pistols, here’s another opinion piece from Stephen Miller himself
Dimensions festival announces a new wave of boat parties…
The Killers star’s second solo venture is a masterclass in slick 80s pop
WWE star Chris Jericho brought his accomplished heavy metal act to the Ruby Lounge
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
The former Stone Temple Pilots man returns with an album that, despite its name, fails to hit as hard as it should
Brainwashed will go down as a career defining effort for the Sheffield five-piece
Inventions’ sophomore record improves on their debut, leaving us eager for what’s to follow
The Grammy winning star’s show mixes his own hits with pop classics, with spine-tingling results
Yellowcard seem to settled into their groove a little too much, writes Callum Lunn
Their raucous, sold-out Albert Hall show was exactly what we expected from The Vaccines
With such a likeable sound and energy, you can’t imagine The Preatures will be playing small venues forever
Modestep return to the spotlight, and they’re not coming quietly
The Veronicas’ long-awaited second album could have done without the dodgy rapping
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