Teesside songsmith Glad Town Ghost releases his new single, England’s Hurricane Season. Complete with tenderly sung lyrics, ...

Other commitments mean I missed the second day of this Steve Reich weekender – his actual birthday – and that meant missing ...

Following her acclaimed 2025 debut Delicate Flower, Prickly Thorns, Jade Mia Broadhead (Dinky Bossetti, Transtock) returns ...

Desert Music was Reich confronting the horror of the nuclear age and it’s as unsettling and anxious as that suggests, recalling nothing so much as the score for Beneath The Planet of The Apes in its ...

Rare works from France arrive in Barnard Castle for a landmark exhibition exploring light, landscape and place.

Steve Reich – who turns 90 years old on 3rd October – is almost unique in the world of composition and experimental music, ...

Half a century ago a bunch of suburban school mates from Solihull banded together to form one of the most DIY and lo-fi of groups ever in Swell Maps. With crazy names like Biggles Books and Phones B ...

Olivier Stockman, Managing Director of Sands Films, tells us about his top five political films their grassroots political ...

Beyond The Moor returns to celebrate the North East's vibrant folk scene for a fourth consecutive year on Saturday 10th October ...

Twenty years in, and The Wombats, Murph, Tord and Dan, show absolutely no signs of slowing down. Their sixth album Oh! The Ocean, released in February 2025 via AWAL, has already clocked over 35 ...

Tender, tranquil and emotionally tumultuous: that’s how I’d describe Kathryn Williams’ new album Mystery Park, which, impressively, is her 15 th studio offering. Over her 27 year career so far, ...

Joanna Long catches up with the Newcastle alt-indie five-piece who recently released their second EP, Where This Ends Newcastle alt-indie five-piece Polyvinyl are a band who do nothing by halves.