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Slowdive live in Manchester: Pioneering the shoegaze revival

Slowdive live in Manchester: Pioneering the shoegaze revival

A night of psychedelic lighting and reflective euphoria, Slowdive recreate the essence of 90s shoegaze on Halloween
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“Uncompromising and unapologetic”: The Brian Jonestown Massacre take over Manchester’s O2 Ritz

“Uncompromising and unapologetic”: The Brian Jonestown Massacre take over Manchester’s O2 Ritz

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
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Live review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Live review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

And God Said ‘Let there be 7 Australian musical virtuosos’, and there was King Gizzard
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Live Review: The Australian Pink Floyd

A deeply psychedelic experience which did Pink Floyd justice and then some
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New Mancunian music is taking inspiration from the past

Deputy Music Editor Yasmin Duggal runs through the top 5 Manchester bands you SHOULD be listening to, but might not know it yet
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Tracks of the week: 24/10

Bowie’s ghost haunts this week’s crop of new tracks
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Album review: Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye

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

Alex Daniel samples the nectar of young local psych outfit Freakout Honey, or ‘the artists formerly known as The Boris Johnson Massacre’
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Live: Acid Mothers Temple

Kawabata Makoto and co’s daring, unorthodox Japanoise is all the more bewitching in a partly improvised live performance
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Live: Mutoid Man

Daft antics and shredded faces make Mutoid Man’s gig one to remember
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Record Reappraisal: MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

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

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