North East rock outfit Edenthorn return with Year of the Snake, their first release in a few years. The track leans into ...

The North Shields rock outfit take over 3 Tanners Bank for a massive hometown headline show on 19th December ...

Jack Cooper abandons the long-form abstraction of previous album No Fixed Point In Space for something more grounded. Trading drift for direction, Modern Nature’s new four-piece core, newly anchored ...

Nothing ever moves except the wind (a drone broils in the background), the dunes ebb and flow with almost glacial patience (a gentle acoustic guitar loops in), and hardly anything grows (but a pulsing ...

English folk dance fans of the North East, rejoice! The Grace Smith Trio prepare to release their anticipated debut album, Overleaf, and it exceeds expectations. Miss Cole sets the tone with a ...

Jacob Easton enjoys a funny, heartfelt and thoroughly grounded piece of theatre, as Walk Like A Man is performed at Laurels After a brilliantly received debut at Gosforth Civic Theatre, Walk Like a ...

Like mclusky a couple of months back, Prolapse have returned with a new album that makes the years since their last LP evaporate. The guitars on opener The Fall Of Cashline slash and roar, Mick and ...

Slovenian trio Širom flew under the radar for most of us with their first three albums but 2022’s The Liquified Throne Of Simplicity put us on notice that this ‘imaginary folk’ trio were something ...

Whenever a punk or metal band release an acoustic record I am likely to brace myself before hitting play on it or on any singles or promotional material that come before it. It’s because I know from ...

As great as the main hall at The Glasshouse sounds, it’s a very hard space to make feel intimate, which is one of the reasons tonight’s special Unthanks show was such a treat – from the lighting ...

Boutique record label Butterfly Effect are releasing a shed load of albums at the minute. They really are on fire, hotter than Satan’s armpit. And, speaking of fallen angels, Tyneside’s Last Of The ...

Oh, Holly. The Queen of the Medway garage scene, the slinky sultry singer-songwriter equally capable of summoning vengeance or breaking hearts through her songs. It’s been seven years since Do The Get ...