EVEN THE STARS

The Lottery Winners played their biggest headline show to date on Thursday night at a sold-out Albert Hall in Manchester that the four-piece...

Nowhere is the debut single by teenage Salford trio The Height. It's a wonderfully laid-back song that has plenty of touchpoints in musi...

2022 was a year that most of our favourite artists didn't release an album after last year's run of them. So our 2022 list...

2022 was a year that many of our favourite artists didn't release an album after last year's run of them. So our 2022 list is ...

Blossoms completed their sold-out four-night residency at Manchester Apollo and their twenty-three date sold out UK and Ireland tour on Sund...

John Bramwell And The Full Harmonic Convergence warmed up a freezing Sunday afternoon in Manchester with an intimate show in the Deaf Instit...

The third night of Blossoms' four gig residency at the Apollo in Manchester always threatened to be overshadowed by the World Cup quarte...

Blossoms' run of four consecutive sold out nights at Manchester Apollo continued on Friday with a hit-laden ninety minute set of crowd f...

I Like Trains opened up a short UK tour with a packed out show at Manchester's Deaf Institute on Wednesday night. Heavily featuring 2020...

Ist Ist have released Mary In The Black And White Room, the second track to be taken from their forthcoming album Protagonists which is du...

Heartless Bastards brought their delayed UK tour in support of their A Beautiful Life album to Manchester's Low Four Studios on Friday n...

Craving is the second single by Manchester's Fondabath. The follow-up to their debut Where's Your Smile Gone? is a powerful guitar-h...

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott brought the third night of their tour in support of their number one album NK-Pop to the resplendent surroundi...

Wet Leg's triumphant year continued on Saturday night with a sold-out-in-seconds show at Manchester's Ritz as part of a triumphant y...

Sundowners concluded their intimate record store tour in support of their Pulling Back The Night album with an afternoon set at Ditto off Al...

HotKid opened their first ever UK tour in Manchester on Friday night with a powerful intense set in the basement of Retro bar supported by e...

The Slow Readers Club return with the first single and title track from their forthcoming sixth studio album Knowledge Freedom Power. Embr...

The Murder Capital have revealed their new single, Ethel, the third track from their forthcoming album Gigi's Recovery. More reminisce...

Sorcha Richardson returned to Manchester after two and a half years away for an intimate show in the basement of Yes on Tuesday night, featu...

Manchester singer-songwriter has released her first single of the year Til I Met You after a summer of live performances. The single is a ...

Mrs Boon's Tea Parties were a Northern Quarter Mancunian institution in the 2000s with bands playing afternoon sets in venues in town ac...

Hey Bulldog made a long-awaited live return in the basement of the Peer Hat in Manchester on Saturday night. Combining old favourites with a...

Canadian band HotKid are about to embark on their first-ever UK tour starting at Retro in Manchester on Friday. We caught up with front wo...

The Short Causeway are the latest band to emerge from the vibrant Calder Valley scene with their debut single Tripping Down The S...

The Murder Capital continued their short semi-secret acoustic tour on Friday night with a three-piece seven-song set at Oporto in Leeds. Pre...

Front man of The Charlatans, head of the listening party and solo artist Tim Burgess brought his Typical Music album tour to Gorilla on Thur...

Harriet Bradshaw's small tour in support of her self-titled debut album that was released last week called in at Manchester's Castle...

Ist Ist played the second of their short three-date November tour in the basement of The Rainbow in Birmingham on Friday night supported by ...

See You See Me is the debut single by Bolton five-piece Clouds And Errors, one of the most impressive young bands we've seen over the pa...

Tallies brought their recently-released second album Patina all the way from Toronto in Canada to the ballroom above Gullivers in Manchester...

Ist Ist return with Stamp You Out, the first track from their third album Protagonists that they have also announced today. Already a live...

Slough five piece and Even The Stars favourites Thousand Yard Stare deliver another album - Earthanasia - their fourth from the s...

Inhaler are celebrating the announcement of their second album Cuts And Bruises with a short run of their biggest UK headline shows to date....

Cold Water Swimmers headlined their latest DIY-Or-Die night at the Lions Den on Deansgate on Friday night playing their debut album Holiday ...

To celebrate the release of their breathtaking third album Tableau, The Orielles performed a special set of tracks taken from the album and ...

Life brought their tour for their third album North East Coastal Town to the Deaf Institute on Thursday night, mixing most of the album with...

Neighbourhood Festival returned to venues situated across the Oxford Road corridor in Manchester on Saturday boasting an impressive line-up ...

Seb Lowe headed to Stockport's new venue Bask for its first ever full-band show on Thursday night as part of his tour of venues in the s...

“Do you like me band?” The third night of the Ian Brown tour rolls into town with the added attraction of a set from former Northside frontm...

A pandemic and a pregnancy pushed back The Big Moon's biggest Manchester headline show by two years but finally, ahead of the release of...

Just Mustard brought their mesmerising new album Heart Under to a fanatical sell out crowd at Glasgow’s Broadcast with stellar support from ...

As part of the opening celebrations for Manchester's newest old venue New Century Hall, The Charlatans performed their second album Betw...

The Murder Capital continue their long-awaited return with a new single A Thousand Lives and the announcement of their second album Gigi...

Wyldest brought their third album Feed The Flowers Nightmares to Gullivers ballroom in Manchester on Wednesday night, performing the album i...

We caught up with The Slow Readers Club last week in Liverpool as they prepared for the second night of their current UK tour to talk...

Ist Ist opened their series of sold-out Dutch dates in Rotterdam on Sunday night in the hull of V11 in the port area of Rotterdam in front o...

Dirty Laces celebrated the release of their new single Midnight Mile on Saturday night at Manchester Academy 3. An hour plus set of old favo...

Ash returned to Manchester on Thursday night for what feels like an annual tradition of a gig at The Ritz. Celebrating the reissue of their ...

2022 has been the year where you can't move around Manchester without seeing Loose Articles somewhere. What's been missin...

Ahead of their debut European tour that starts later this week with sold out shows in Berlin, Amsterdam and two in Rotterdam as well ...