Newcastle’s award-winning, artist-led fringe performance venue, Alphabetti Theatre, have unveiled their Spring 2026 season, alongside news of a major shift in focus as they gear up for a full relaunch ...

North‑East music‑maker Corey Bowen shines a light on five understated treasures from the 1970s as he releases his debut single under the moniker, Silver Pony ...

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 ...

Halo On The Inside isn’t the first special record in Chicago experimentalist Haley Fohr’s oeuvre. Nonetheless, this eighth full-length resets the bar on both sonic and emotional fronts; an astonishing ...

The North-Shields music-maker tells us about his favourite acoustic ballads as he releases his own heartfelt song, Stay ...

Linsey Teggert chats to Nikki Bell, founder of the North East Folklore Society about the inspiration behind the Society, how ...

Canadian sound artist/video game soundtracker/ambient composer loscil has released around 20 albums for the wonderful Kranky label, spanning the 21st century thus far and repeatedly taking the ...

Shrug have been going for over 30 years in several forms and, although I’ve only seen the current line-up live, the tales frontman Rob Nichols spins between songs tell enough to stop it all feeling ...

This is a ridiculously lovely track; dreamy, tilted, a little bit creepy and that expressive voice is so full of longing. It really inspired a lot of the production choices we made for Slow Dance on ...

This is Brighton based-band Plantoid’s second long player and it doesn’t let the prog side down and yet it still surprises with its bright alt. poppy edge, with singer Chloe Spence’s lyrics ...

Over a decade since Eels’ last release of consequence, devotees of Mark Oliver Everett may sense the possibility for rejuvenation in his new collaboration with Kate Mattison, of psychedelic soul ...

What power do we have as individuals in the face of the climate crisis? It isn’t the lightest or kindest of plot points for casual fans of joy, nor does it seem the wisest of storylines for an almost ...