Featured Artist: In Parallel

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Phillip Stoneman introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• The dust has settled and the tents have finally dried: Fresh from their Creamfields debut, a return to Reading plus Boardmasters, Boomtown and this weekend, Bratislava, we catch up with Stafford's speed-garage heroes, In Parallel, whose first single was released barely two years ago.

• In Shropshire, there was another festival to remember at the West Mids Showground. We reflect on the familiar faces and bright new sounds from another successful Shrewsbury Folk Festival, one of the biggest of its kind, where organiser are already looking 51 weeks on!

• In the Music News: Bewdley's Becky Hill notches up a major miletone, how Stoke-on-Trent turned in to Stoke-on-Drenched and the disused local theatre at the heart of bringing our area's music heritage alive.

• In our Festival Guide: I've got your details looking ahead to massive weekends in Worcester, Shrewsbury and Bromyard, starting in seven days' time.

• 'It's the stuff dreams are made of.' Catch up with the Crewe act and BBC Introducing success story, who's swapping Cheshire for the beating heart of country music.

• They say you have to be mad to run a music festival. So how about running a music festival and opening a brand new music venue? Check out the newest addition to the scene in Shrewsbury, brought to you by the people who created Loopfest, who say they've got something unique for the town.

• Behind the brightest MCs of today he's the trusty man on the beats. Having shared stages with members of Wu-Tang Clan and Rag N Bone man, we pick the brains of born in Upton, now Hereford-based, DJ Billy Whizz.

• They’ve gone from Ludlow pubs to supporting Richard Ashcroft at Ludlow Castle. Versaints tell us about their biggest gig yet.

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