Sun sets on a scorching year

BEATS: SILVERSUN Pickups will round off an altogether impressive year by filling the support slot for androgynous rockers Placebo at Manchester Central on Saturday.

The trio’s current album “Swoon” hit the Billboard Chart Top Ten while single “Panic Switch” became the first single by an artist on an independently distributed label to top the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Songs chart since 1998 and only the third ever in history.