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1. 11. Jimmy Eat World - Pain (Polydor)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 27 September 2004 IT is not very often that you get a band who has shifted 100,000 copies of their last album and sold out Brixton Academy, and yet still slip under the radar of the average contemporary music lover.

2. 12. Jimmy Eat World - Futures (Interscope)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 18 October 2004 I GREW up with Jimmy Eat World, literally. They were always around in Mesa, Arizona when I was growing up. Kicking my way through adolescence, I must have seen them play a few dozen times on their home turf at Mesa's Nile Theatre and Tempe's Nita's Hideaway (both RIP).

3. 13. Michaelangelo Quartet & Ralph Kisbaum @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 November 2004 THEY made an outstanding impression on their first visit to Manchester Chamber Concerts Society's series last year - and the Michelangelo Quartet, superstars of the chamber music world, were amazing value this time, too.

4. 14. Fancy a Danish?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 In the music world, a Scandinavian band hitting the big time in blighty is comparable to a British group finally cracking the States.&  One of the latest to attempt this feat are Danish rockers, Kashmir.

5. 15. The Boxer Rebellion - Code Red (Poptones)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 October 2004 IT seems strange that a record label headed by the world's most famous critic of mild-mannered indie music, Alan McGee, who once famously called Coldplay 'bed wetters', should find anything of substance in The Boxer Rebellion.

6. 16. Airing on the side of Manc music

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 December 2004 A WEEKLY show on the BBC's local radio station, GMR, now serves as the last bastion of Mancunian music. Simon Donohue shakes its hosts firmly by the hand.

7. 17. Norah Jones strikes a blow for music

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 THERE'S a very real sense in which the enormous international success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me album - more than 18m copies sold, five Grammies won - represents a triumph of music over marketing.

8. 18. Lowfive - Emergency Disaster Kit (Music For Nations)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 September 2004 ROCK'N'ROLL has been undergoing a mini-revival thanks to the success of Jet and The Darkness. In an attempt to hop on the gravy train, Lowfive pop in with their debut effort, regurgitating this redundant genre with inoffensive music of worst order.

9. 19. Oldham celebrates its Parklife

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 May 2004 THE music festival Love Music Hate Racism planned for Castlefield may have been moved to Liverpool, but there's still plenty of free music and family entertainment in Greater Manchester this Bank Holiday weekend at Oldham's Parklife festival.

10. 20. Calexico @ Bridgewater Hall

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 April 2004 "ALTHOUGH their music…sounds like the essence of Americana, Calexico are barely known over here" began the preview for Calexico's show in a local Manchester newspaper last Friday.

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