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Every genre of music has made its mark on Manchester, including dialect ballads, classical, TV theme tunes and all the strands of post-punk. Welcome to the north-west sound

A new rock music and pop culture website. Editorial independent music website offering news, reviews, features, interviews, videos and pictures

Jarvis Cocker’s aggressive, alienating album was a musical ‘suicide note to the listener’ which killed the Cool Britannia dream dead

A new rock music and pop culture website. Editorial independent music website offering news, reviews, features, interviews, videos and pictures

There are never enough spots on the playlist or on year-end lists. Some albums just get lost amongst the sheer volume of releases.

Punk rock icons The Stranglers are celebrating an unlikely joint birthday party – with Caldicot town.

His inventive guitar playing was the soundtrack to the post-punk generation’s lives; jangling melodies and addictive riffs that left them…

The punk pioneers have made a huge impact on the music industry since forming in 1976.

Let's turn back the clock to the year of Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Bruce Springsteen, Kraftwerk and War Of The Worlds...

Looking to start a collection of the finest music to hail from Greater Manchester? Here’s where to begin.