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Live: The Chief Of Seattle

The Chief of Seattle are surprisingly, bafflingly good

Live: Years & Years

Years & Years certainly have a long way to go before reaching superstardom

Live: Pond

Pond rattled through their set rather sloppily without really adding anything to their material

Live: Hookworms

These Leeds boys know how to get people going

Review: Spec-TAKK-ular

Hester Lonergan reports on her favourite Northern Quarter coffee joint

Club: Selective Hearing presents Tama Sumo, Virginia, Prosumer & Murat Tepeli

Another Selective Hearing, another ridiculous line-up

Club: Transmission presents Hessle Audio

Proof that you need more than great music to make a great club night was evident on the night

Live: Enter Shikari

On the back of their thus-far strongest album, Enter Shikari confidently deliver a show providing fans with all that they would expect – plus more

Live: Philip Selway

Philip Selway holds the audience’s attention even as the general mood puts the audience into an ethereal, contemplative haze

Live: ALA.NI

ALA.NI’s performance was relaxed yet stylised, showing her disciplined approach to music

Album: Dutch Uncles – O Shudder

Cordelia Milward reviews Dutch Uncles’ latest offering, following them through their prolonged pursuit of the unconventional

Live: The War On Drugs

Adam Granduciel deliberately sticks pins in the map of American musical history and draws a contorted line to his own music

Club: Sanction @ Sankeys

Zinc, Kane Law and Yasmin bring bass to Sankeys

Album: Rae Morris – Unguarded

Unguarded is a pleasant listen, but not without its flaws

Live: You Me At Six/All Time Low

You Me At Six and All Time Low provided some truly amazing moments at the Manchester Arena

Live: Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest shows pure passion and desire

Review: Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair, by Scott Laudati

Intensely readable and relatable, Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair reaches out to the disengaged and apathetic—with a trace of hope

Ziferblat

Marcus Johns and Charlie Spargo explore the Northern Quarter’s newest concept café where you only pay for the time you spend

Review: INSIDE

On the 9th of February, Elise Gallagher visited the Bolton Octagon to see the acclaimed psychological thriller INSIDE, presented by Strawberry Blonde Curls Theatre Company

Album: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear

I Love You, Honeybear is a non-chronological discovery of love, strewn with copious amounts of sex and scathing satire