Showstoppers! create an entire musical production before your very eyes; a show that is improvised based entirely on audiences’ suggestions

It’s not often that a band gets a second chance at a self-titled album, but Preoccupations use the opportunity to develop their dark sound

Bridget Jones’s Baby makes for fun viewing but just falls short of the high standards set by the previous Bridget Jones films

Robert Parris offers his thoughts on Destiny’s newest expansion

Roma Havers previews Tiphaine Rivière’s Notes on a Thesis, as translated by Francesca Barrie

Taika Waititi’s latest film layers the beauty of New Zealand’s landscape with both comedy and sentimentality

Stranger Things signals a change in the way television is viewed and received

”It was yakitori, a long open flame grill, the soaring fire reflected in the beads of sweat that adorned the grillmans forehead like a crown. Fred said he looked like Charles Bronson”

Explosions in the Sky prove they are still good for more than soundtracks

30 years into their career, Pet Shop Boys remain one of the most influential pop groups of all time and Super holds up a mirror to today’s pop scene to show it

Swim Deep Manchester Academy 1 Thursday 10th March 2016 7/10 As a seasoned Swim Deep gig-goer, you’d think I know the drill by now. Five gigs in and it’d all be pretty predictable. Not this time. Swim Deep were my sixth-form band, they were my first proper gig, and they were the first band that […]

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise release consolidates the scat-like techniques we loved on TPAB, and then some

The 1975 deliver a gluttonously self-indulgent new album

The connection between the twins translates beautifully into their music

With subscription snackboxes becoming an ever-more lucrative industry, Elizabeth Gibson checks out two major players.

With Manchester’s most popular artisan bread stockist left unreviewed, Food Editor Ellie Gibbs rises to the opportunity

‘The sun in Manchester is very slowly rising in the east’, says our reviewer of new Asian eatery, Cottonopolis

The South London boys didn’t disappoint and proved they are worthy of the hype surrounding them

Flesh & Together Pangea give a lesson in tedium

90’s electronica titans Leftfield took the easy way out with a greatest hits CD soundalike