Ikenna Offor tells all about South Shields’ songwriters’ collaborative performance with the Gateshead‑based orchestra for the ...

Ten Eighty Trees are a Newcastle alt‑rock trio dealing in big riffs and grungey energy, returning with Bittersweet Coming of ...

Revolver is probably the Beatles record we come back to most. She Said She Said has everything we love: chiming guitars, ...

Stockton photographer Adam Parkin marks two decades of documenting Stockton International Riverside Festival with a new ...

Arts Centre Washington debuts the Washington Folk Festival from 2nd–4th April, offering a packed Easter‑weekend lineup of folk heavyweights and rising talent for Sunderland’s Year of Music. Arts ...

The Newcastle indie‑pop outfit try to sum up the sounds of their new single Free From This using three other tracks ...

I’ve been fortunate enough to see Hector Gannet in pubs, clubs, festivals, stadiums and even a launderette, but it was in the ...

Joanna Long speaks to Middlesbrough writer Louise Powell about her debut novel ‘Underdogs’, a love letter to a vanished world ...

ORTON ’s debut EP Gan Canny is a North East‑built rap project created entirely with local producers and collaborators, rooted ...

The Teesside troubadour tells us about his perfect gig on the back of the release of his sea-soaked single, Exam Papers ...

What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards the Lubber Fiend to be born? Lee Fisher talks to Bong II to find out. For all that their music largely dealt with standard stoner-doom ...

Between 29th July and 2nd August, Durham Fringe Festival takes over 11 city‑centre venues with more than 130 shows and nearly ...