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The long awaited return of Manchester’s finest loved rock starlet Liam Gallagher is finally upon us. Yep. Finally. His debut solo album ‘As You Were’ hit the shops (or the internet, rather) on the 6 th October, with a 12-set track listing, accompanied by three bonus songs for the deluxe edition. The ongoing rift between Liam and his brother Noel, who is set to release his own third-generation solo material next month to go head to head with his younger, has often split fans and risen the age-old debate of which Gallagher is best. Liam, being his own humble self (that’s not a joke, by the way), has said in recent interviews that he knows he’ll never be a good a songwriter as Noel. The fact that the pair have always been at each others throats and of course, came from the same mother, at least gives us a cause to choose our favourite – but as some scepticals say, in many ways, they’re both as bad (and good) as each other. Noel’s next effort with the High Flying Birds ...

By Joseph Connolly After months upon painless months of waiting, Minnesota’s finest rock outfit Hippo Campus have finally released new material – containing the highly anticipated track ‘Baseball’. From left to right: Nathan Stocker (guitar, backing vocals), Jake Luppen (guitar, lead vocals), Whistler Allen (drums, backing vocals), Zach Sutton (bass, backing vocals) The song, if you don’t know what all the fuss is about, has been heard in snippets through video-taped live performances uploaded to the internet, but a recorded version had never been released to the public until Friday, when the eager wait was finally rendered over. The Warm Glow EP contains three songs, but the title track is the third on the list, and the longest. The first track is ‘ Baseball ’, undoubtedly the bounciest and most dance-friendly of the three. The most committed of fans also heard a thirty-second teaser of Baseball on the MN Original-released Youtube video ‘ Making of Landmark ’, which...