2013 has seen the rise of the resident DJ. Charles Green, Neal Schtumm and Pablo Contraband have helped Audio define house music this year.

Dylan Nyoukis is chief “talent sniffer” for Colour Out Of Space, Brighton’s festival of experimental sound.

Even for Brighton’s most successful comedian, Seann Walsh is having a spectacular time of it lately.

Most rom-coms want to make you kill everyone in love, but here’s six that you’d take home to meet your mum.

Brighton musicians are broke. So rather than taking to the street begging, many people take to the streets to entertain.

Caroline Lucas knows all about getting your voice heard. “Yes, you can make a difference,” promises our MP.

Here are six lesser-known tracks from Bangalter and Guy-Man from their early, arguably best, years.

Andy Rossiter promotes gigs with the Love Thy Neighbour collective, whose label has released music by Abi Wade and Us Baby Bear Bones.

Before the Mercury nominated ‘The English Riveria’, playing at the Dome and more, Metronomy were SOURCE cover stars. Here’s Joe’s feisty interview from 2007.

Are they a pop group? A dance duo? An indie band? Yes, IYES are pretty much all these, and more.

Huge music lovers, who better to kick of our new self-explanatory series, All Time Top Ten than Jordan and Harvey?

Jim Mitchell runs Over The Moon festival, which pops up every September in the Sussex countryside.

Post-garage krautrock trio will lock you in the groove until you grin from ear to ear. They’re seriously good.

Electronic indie trio’s creativity starts with beautiful songs and goes much, much further.

Fair shop owner Siobhan Wilson unpicks the international clothing industry and explains how to dress ethically.

With four labels, a weekly club night and a record shop, Donga And Richta are bringing the most interesting dance music to Brighton. On Vinyl.

It’s been a great year for local music. Here’s our writers to guide you through the best Brighton tracks of 2013.

It’s easy to think that computer games are made ‘over there’ somewhere but actually Brighton has got a really strong industry.

The Wytches are nowhere near as dark as their music and press suggest. They’re actually a lot of fun.

Brighton’s not without its pitfalls but damn we love this place, so here’s our annual look at the city.

We go to the opera so you don’t have to. Actually, that’s unfair, we rather liked it, even though it was pretty odd.

The walrus guy Gumtree ad – who was responsible for that? We can reveal it was Chris, just one of his hoaxes.

The musically multi-talented Jonny Reggae, DJ, label owner, record shop-runner (the list goes on) talks about doing it DIY.

When fashion meets the movies, things get a bit messed up – here are our favourite cloth-based films.

The highly acclaimed, Brighton-based Kill List and Sightseers’ director takes a trip back to the Civil War in A Field In England.