Festival pass holders can expect a wide-ranging programme, from panels on maternal healthcare, race tensions and community ...

A film about iron willed women who maintained the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike, followed by a Q&A with contributor Heather Wood and activist Joanie Crump, comes to Tyneside Cinema on Thursday 16th October ...

Smith discovers an album of plaintive but articulate album of synths, woodwinds and strings from the Jordanian composer ...

Sunderland/Newcastle alt-rock four-piece TALES share Reset Switch, a reflective new single first written in 2018 and revived ...

Newcastle alt-rock trio Cane Rouge return with Lights Out, a bold and emotionally charged second EP recorded with producer ...

Mack Sproates chats with Graham Crabb and Adam Mole of Pop Will Eat Itself about their upcoming new album, silly song stories, an action packed tour, and saving the entire planet (one seed at a time) ...

Sunderland-based artist Jenny Dean celebrates the release of her debut EP In The Ruins (out Friday 10th October) with a ...

Amy Mitchell steps into an evening with a dizzying array of all things folk and folk adjacent with The Unthanks ...

This year has seen another slew of weird, worthy and wonderful events fight the odds and jostle for our attention – and few ...

The third and definitely most far-out out there long player from The Utopia Strong, the experimental, psychedelic, prog, ...

Steve Spithray discovers a juxtaposition of lyrical and musical themes from one of the North East’s most creative singers ...

This, friends, is ‘the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal’. Agriculture look like they met at a San Francisco bus stop, ...