Newcastle rockers Central Arcade recently dropped their new single, I’m No Saint. The track is a vibrant slice of indie rock ...

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

Now in its 10th incarnation A Dark Dark Xmas can stake a claim to be one of Teesside’s best loved festive live music events. With the focus firmly on the line-up it means perennial headliners ...

The last time I walked home from a gig was Radio 1 Big Weekend at nearby Stewart Park in 2019. While St Mary’s Cathedral in the quiet Coulby Newham suburb of Middlesbrough might not be on quite the ...

North East weird‑pop outfit Amateur Ornithologist release their first Christmas single, Winter Sun. Built on choral vocals, jingling rhythms and twinkling keys, the track sketches a wintry scene with ...

America never really got Johnny Rotten (the Sex Pistols were already burned out and bummed out by the time they got there) but they sure loved Billy Idol. There was something less threatening about ...

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 ...

There are occasional rumours that Wild Billy Childish might be quitting the rock and roll game after nearly 50 years and uncountable releases in myriad bands, but his insane work-rate doesn’t seem to ...

Georgia May—singer-songwriter, community musician and proud ‘Nigeordian’—blends soulful, ethereal vocals with honest lyricism shaped by her Geordie-Nigerian heritage. Her latest single Dynamite is a ...

North East pop artist Lottie Willis returns with Rosie, the first in a new run of singles produced in Sunderland with Connor Jobes (noyou). Raised in the city and shaped by its grassroots music scene, ...

There is a proto-New Order sensibility at work in the genes of Optic Sink on their third long form outing, it’s a practiced formula that has served them well. This assembly of tracks is no different, ...

For more than a decade, Florence Welch has served as pop’s high priestess of grandiose feeling – a cathedral-voiced visionary who could make torment sound like deliverance. On her sixth album, ...