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Club: Warehouse Project presents Welcome to the Warehouse

The Warehouse Project returns home

Live: The Moons

The Moons provided exactly what their audience were looking for

Club: Selective Hearing presents Tessela b2b Pariah b2b Kowton

The trio instigate a frenzy in the sweatbox of Joshua Brooks

Festival: Bestival

Bestival is like a four day sanctuary from reality

Album: Motionless In White – Reincarnate

Reincarnate is an hour of industrial barminess and Wednesday 13-esque disarray

Album: U2 – Songs Of Innocence

Songs of Innocence is the album U2 have been trying to make for over a decade

Live: Rae Morris

Rae Morris has charming qualities, but her songs are two dimensional

Are you afraid of the dark? Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby – a night at the theatre of Samuel Beckett

Caution: this is not for the faint-hearted. It’s not gruesome or terrifying, but Samuel Beckett’s trilogy of short plays on offer at The Lowry plunge you into the heart of Absurdism.

Live: Luke Sital-Singh

Parallels could be drawn to Jeff Buckley in Sital-Singh’s performance

Album: Alt-J – This Is All Yours

This Is All Yours does enough to silence the doubters, says Alex Daniel

Review: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

Album: Jungle – Jungle

Dinesh Mattu reviews the self-titled album by mysterious experimental disco duo Jungle

Festival: Garden

Garden Festival strikes the perfect balance of holiday tranquillity and festival excitement

They might not be young, they might not be pretty!

But they offer the full package at Manchester Opera House, Nicole Tamer takes a glimpse at The Full Monty.

From the Vault: Daniel Johnston – 1990

Daniel Johnston’s 1990 is full of profound moments of imperfection.

Festival: Dekmantel

In only its second year, the festival was remarkably assured in its organisation and execution

Festival: Y Not

Y Not delivers with a staggeringly diverse bill

Festival: Beacons

The festival hosted an impressive cross-section of musical genres, as well as a varied selection of arts

Album: Handguns – Life Lessons

Life Lessons is not a departure from 2012’s deeply treasured debut Angst, but is a fitting sequel that has continued its momentum

Album: Real Friends – Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing

Real Friends’ debut full length falls just short of the mark