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Live: James

Summer in the City brought music lovers of all ages together

Festival: Glastonbury

5 days was not nearly enough to explore all the hundreds of hidden gems the festival has to offer

Live: Kanye West @ Wireless

West confidently exhibits all the star qualities that make him one of hip hop’s biggest names

Live: Pangaea – The Summer Of Love

Everywhere you stood at Pangaea the party atmosphere remained bubbling

Live: Selective Hearing presents Ben Klock / Rødhåd / Vakula / John Roberts

Sankeys stopped a good night becoming a legendary one

Album: The Black Keys – Turn Blue

The Black Keys attempt evolution

Live: Swans

There is something genuinely awe-inspiring about Swans’s ability to completely transform a space through sound

Club: Project 13 Secret Sessions Part II

2 labels, 4 headliners

Album: Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once

There are no words strong or grotesque enough to describe the jaded horror of this monstrous album

Club: Lo-Fi presents Cosmin TRG / Floating Points

Lo-Fi pull in the big guns

Club: Selective Hearing x Hi Ku presents Dense & Pika / Jay Daniel / Alex Coulton / Palms Trax

The teaming up of Selective Hearing and Hi Ku was highly successful

Album: Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is

Happiness Is sounds somewhat like a homecoming

Club: Moodymann & Levon Vincent

A night of rousing funk and mind-bending techno

Club: Now Wave & Triangular presents Jacques Greene & SOPHIE

Two good sets are compromised by a lack of atmosphere

Festival: Bugged Out! Weekender

The experience they have in throwing parties was telling and all aspects of the festival from production to pricing were first-rate

Album: Real Estate – Atlas

The real beauty lies in how effortless the whole thing sounds

Live: Cage The Elephant

Cage The Elephant certainly put on a good show

From the Vault: The O.C.

California, here we come! Rebecca Williams sings the praises of one of the Noughties’ best TV shows

Review: Robocop

According to Tom Bruce, the 1987 ‘Robocop’ was in no need of a re-boot

Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: The Invisible Woman

George Bellamy reviews Ralph Fiennes’ second directing venture