Xmas Wish List: Christopher Shannon’s dreaming of cherry blossoms and erotic tablecloths

Christopher Shannon returns with a homewear collection of “abundant lunacy”

Liverpool band Piss Kitti have two main aims: to make you dance and make you think

Merseyside musicians are coming together to save the NHS

Exploring the north of England’s vast impact on fashion and culture

Yves Klein, the young Frenchman who pre-dated the pop art youthquake

Jackson Pollock takes over the Tate Liverpool with the sinister paintings that shook up the art world

Blind faith: Liverpool’s kings of dream pop on why Argos made them start a band

MiNNETONKA: Next up in our Liverpool bands folio, the hypnotic Merseyside vocalist hits the beach

Sunstack Jones: Glimmering, breezy soundscapes from the Liverpool band putting their music first

“There’s no pressure to be The Beatles here” – Liverpool’s Hooton Tennis Club talk DIY lo-fi and Mersey’s exploding music scene

Mersey Rising: Get to know The Levons in of our new issue Liverpool bands folio – they’re dosing the scene with rebel energy

Zero border, England’s California: Bill Ryder-Jones reflects on a booming Liverpool music scene and the bands at its helm

Darkness Falls Playlist: The Levons – a bluesy mix from the Merseyside musos

Watch Us Wreck The Mic: Psych’s new rising

Darkness Falls Playlist: Sunstack Jones – making magic with a mix from the Liverpool four

We were seeing the future and we knew it for sure: Transmitting Andy Warhol at the Tate Liverpool

Darkness Falls Playlist: Hooton Tennis Club – wake up to now with a mix from some Liverpool’s brightest (and one from Bill Ryder-Jones)

Darkness Falls Playlist: By The Sea – the Liverpool band kickstarts our new mix series with a twisted soundtrip