90s acid house king DJ Pierre on doing business in Chicago pet shops, playing clarinet in a marching band, and his other influences.

Cinecity’s gem for 2013 was this tender portrait of a Brighton one-off by former SOURCE photographer Toby Amies.

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.

The White Stripes meets The Flight Of The Conchords – what’s not to like? The best mock’n'roll band at Brighton Fringe.

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

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.

Cassetteboy have escaped YouTube and are coming to the real world – live at The Spiegeltent for nonsense and madness.

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

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.