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
While all eyes are on Grand Theft Auto VI for this fall season, that doesn't mean there aren't interesting titles releasing alongside it. These are our most anticipated games for the remainder of the year
A night of psychedelic lighting and reflective euphoria, Slowdive recreate the essence of 90s shoegaze on Halloween
To promote their 20th studio album The Future is Your Past, The Brian Jonestown Massacre bring their unique brand of chaos to the O2 Ritz
And God Said ‘Let there be 7 Australian musical virtuosos’, and there was King Gizzard
A deeply psychedelic experience which did Pink Floyd justice and then some
Deputy Music Editor Yasmin Duggal runs through the top 5 Manchester bands you SHOULD be listening to, but might not know it yet
Bowie’s ghost haunts this week’s crop of new tracks
No closer to the kind of success their peers have enjoyed, Yeasayer’s latest sees confusion stand in for cohesion
Alex Daniel samples the nectar of young local psych outfit Freakout Honey, or ‘the artists formerly known as The Boris Johnson Massacre’
Kawabata Makoto and co’s daring, unorthodox Japanoise is all the more bewitching in a partly improvised live performance
Daft antics and shredded faces make Mutoid Man’s gig one to remember
Jacob Bernard-Banton looks back on MGMT’s indie smash-hit debut and reflects that it’s all just tie-dye headbands and glitter
Madness in method, method in madness. UMO are at once a professional and eccentric live act
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