The Manchester conference and showcase returns to MediaCity from 6–9 October with new stage partners and a lineup spanning rap, rock, electronic and metal. This year’s programming also brings an AI summit and the launch of Billboard UK’s 40 Under 40 list.
The Tennessee festival will take a year off after consecutive storm-affected editions, including this year’s rain-shortened weekend.
The Manchester quartet reflect on their Later… with Jools Holland debut and the tight, unvarnished approach carried into their first full-length.
Four years after its post-COVID revival, Outbreak remains the most heralded event in European hardcore. But this year’s Manchester edition suggested the festival is straining against its own chaotic rituals.
The Manchester band’s brooding new cut previews their upcoming debut LP ‘Something Real’, cutting into a tangled subject without sloganeering.
Stage & Radio hosts a free party exploring football’s resonance beyond the pitch, with sets from Dr Dubplate, Mixtress, and local selectors.
The Manchester alt-rock band release a four-track EP recorded in a two-week underground session, showcasing a sound shaped by The Black Keys, Dr Feelgood, and The Killers.
The Manchester project returns to the circular source of its sound, where soft drones and shifting harmonies replace narrative and every timbral shift holds the weight of a change in climate.
The Manchester band confirm a new EP for June via Heist or Hit and share the lead single “Oh Boy,” a track about fractured communication.
The ’90s trip-hop duo publicly clarified they are not reuniting after recent tour announcements and social media posts mistakenly linked them to the career of a younger artist using the same name.
