Miss Kittin is back for a live tour which promises beats, sweat and bliss. Together with The Hacker she will play at Europe's best spots for electronic music, presenting her very own definition of contemporary dance music to the crowd. Als...
Virtual NOISE festival is moving into the real world – and they’re putting on full speed. On November 18 and 19, NOISE is hosting a Creative Futures event at the Manchester Town Hall which is open to young artists. If you’re a musician, fashion o...
In line with the party series “Whip It Good” Berlin’s Magnet Club hosts the British electro duo autoKratz on April 3. The Kitsuné-signed band, known for their electrifying live shows, will be supported by Manchester-based Lowline and up and comin...
Manchester dance label Deconstruction is set to resuscitate itself as well as cheesy ‘90s dance music. Formed in 1987 and shuttered in 2001, Deconstruction has released records from Sasha, Way Out West, M-People and Kylie Minogue.Sony’s Senior Vi...
Australian label Modular have signed Manchester three-piece Delphic to their label. The year-old band’s music continues a strong Manchester tradition of big beats and strong melodies, and channels New Order in a major way. Delphic entered into th...
Starchitect Zaha Hadid recently completed the building of a temporary concert hall for the Manchester Art Gallery. This minimalist music space aims to offer the audience - it seats only 192 people - an intimate and sensual concert experience. Ha...
Peter Hook, a founding member of New Order and seminal gloom pop band Joy Division, has finally released a book based on his days as a co-owner of Manchester’s most famous club: FAC 51 The Hacienda. Hook tells the true story of the music, the ma...
Illicit drugs like cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy are on the rise in British clubland. In a recent study outlined in the Times Online, clubbers in Manchester were surveyed about their usage of drugs and the results were astonishing: 98% admitted t...
We recently learnt of some new insidious tactics by Warner Records Entertainment UK in order to stamp out copyright infringement and piracy. The Guardian recently reported that the major record label was actively on the look out for an ‘anti-pira...
Manchester has decades worth of heritage in electronic music and popular culture. From the pop music of the 60s and 70s, through to the early days of punk into the 80s with new wave and acid house, the whole baggy movement and the continuing trad...
In a full-length interview with ITM, Manchester three piece Delphic recently confessed to the unpleasant task of eliminating the Chemical Brothers from production duties.Singer/bassist James Cook explained that the Chemical Brothers were original...
Legendary Mancunian club Sankeys, formerly known as Sankeys Soap, have announced they will be opening a new venue in New York, in the heart of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.Owner Dave Vincent speaks of the Sankeys global mission: “Since announcing w...
Eric and Henning – that already sounds kind of innocent. Together they are TTA. The biggest Indie happening in Sweden this century? I don’t know about that, but they’re fun and they sound rascally and easy-going, kind of devil-may-care. TTA are c...
Kevin Gorman lives and works in Manchester, where he runs his own Tech-House label Mikrowave: 6 releases old, featuring own productions with remixes by Mark Broom, Mark Ashken or Alex Under amongst others. Now Gigolo releases Gorman’s debut album...
A lot has been told about the Hacienda of ‘Madchester’ in its thrills and pills guise – but what of those crucial early years? As a new album reveals, the Hacienda played a crucial role in bringing the black music of New York’s club scene into th...
There is no place in England outside of London that has such a proud and rich musical history as Manchester. Liverpool may have had the Beatles, and Sheffield may have had bleep and the Human League, but it is the ghost of Manchester that haunts...
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