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© trabantos/Shutterstock.com By the middle of the 19th century, Manchester had become one of England’s most important centers of manufacturing. It had also developed a notable cultural and intellectual life that it has retained to this day. This list highlights five paintings worth seeing in Manchester (though none of the artists were from that city). Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farth...

Under the Radar selects its top tips for the New Year Dec 19, 2020 By Dom Gourlay Photography by Natalie Kerr Web Exclusive As 2020 draws to a close, it’s time to get our collective crystal balls and look to see whose future shines brightest for the twelve months ahead. It’s been a difficult year for the music industry in general due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped a surge of incredible new music greeting our eardrums throughout the course of this...

Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2020 Its a given that 2020 has been a year unlike any that most of us have ever experienced. Time seemed to fold in on itself (for me at least), and March to December seemed to go by in an instant but also in slow motion. If felt this way for music, too. Albums I thought were last year were this year and vice versa. Looking through the months, though, it was a bit shocking how many records I really liked were released and how many of these groups I wish I had go...

Wigans fancy dress Boxing Day night out is going online on United We Stream There’s no bigger party than the Wigan Boxing Day Party Updated Boxing Day in Wigan in 2018 (Image: Joel Goodman) For the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter hereInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related new...

New documentary celebrating Manchester music scene to premiere tonight Manchester Music Then and Now: Music Worth Fighting For features the likes of Blossoms, New Order and Shaun Ryder A new documentary which celebrates the music scene of Greater Manchester, Manchester Music Then and Now: Music Worth Fighting For, will premiere online tonight (December 18). Set to premiere on the United We Stream site at 8pm this evening, the documentary will be available to watch subsequently on the Visit Ma...

NME how he was “deeply honoured” that the band had made such a fitting new rendition. “When the book was originally going to come out, there was this idea of doing launch parties,” Turner told NME. “I asked James [Dean Bradfield, frontman] to play a couple of acoustic songs for us at The Social, but that’s all gone out of the window this year so I asked him to do an acoustic version of ‘Spectators’ that we could use on the radio or something. “He gave it a go and called back ...

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Daniel Dylan Wray , December 15th, 2020 10:04 The endless stress of COVID-19 and claustrophobia of lockdown has had a huge impact on our personal relationships with music, argues Daniel Dylan Wray Music as a healing power might be a cliché, but its one that also happens to be true. For obsessives and dabblers alike, it is a go-to in times of turmoil, despair and confusion. Having a deep-rooted love of music in the back pocket is to be able to pluck out something capable of soothing broken hear...

2020 has been a year unlike anything else weve ever experienced. The past 12 months have pushed us all to the brink, changing the role music plays in our lives in the process. Its not exactly been a pleasant experience - we can say that with some certainty - but this year has also driven home a number of important factors. Each of us, from freelance writers straight through to the Editor In Chief, are enormously grateful to have a platform with which to express ourselves, and also to support, s...

The band Henge. Probably chamber psych. Credit: Alamy Whatever you say you are, that’s what you’re not. Shoegazer? Emo? Punk? Swedish neo-rasta? Maybe you heard a band or two in those genres, hunted out some more and decided that this was a term you could use to help define your cultural identity for the world. Then you woke up one day and discovered that you weren’t, in fact, any of the things you classed yourself as. Like something out of musical Momento, you never even knew yourself a...