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BEATS: JACK of all trades Bryce Avary demands full control of every aspect of his career.

Avery will bring his rock project The Rocket Summer to Manchester’s Academy 2 on Monday.

The Texan’s music is often labelled as power pop and has developed a solid reputation for its positively infused sentiments, optimistic lyrics and upbeat rhythms.


BRUTAL Brooklyn metal crew A Place To Bury Strangers freely admit to opting for volume over quality when it comes to performing live.

The trio will release their new EP “Ego Death” next week following a gig at Manchester’s Deaf Institute on Sunday. Music critics hail them as one of the loudest bands around so take your ear plugs along.


PROG rockers Transatlantic have put an end to their seven-year break with new CD “The Whirlwind”.

The band claims the new release is the “war and peace” of prog rock and will hit the road to celebrate.

“The Whirlwind” is just one 77-minute track broken down into 12 chapters. See the finished results for yourself when the quartet hit the Manchester Academy on Saturday.


FROM the ashes of The Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, psychedelic rockers Jaguar Love were born.
Lead singer Johnny Whitney’s vocals have been described as “Robert Plant on steroids”.

The band are influenced by Weezer, Botch, Antioch Arrow and The Smiths. If you like your nights out to be anything but ordinary, catch them live at Night and Day on Sunday.


AUSSIE rockers Grinspoon returned to their homeland to record new album “Six To Midnight” but the quartet are now back in the UK for their first tour in two years.

The lads named the band after Dr Lester Grinspoon, a professor at Harvard Medical School who supports marijuana for medical use.

Head to Manchester’s Academy 2 on Saturday to see them live.