North Shields duo Valentine Charlie drop their latest EP Barking at the Moon EP, which compiles three songs that confront the turbulent times we’re living through — from war and environmental collapse ...

Josef Waller is a Newcastle‑based singer‑songwriter crafting honest, heartfelt songs shaped by the people, places and moments ...

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

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

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

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

If there is an archetypal Opus Kink sound three albums in, then it’s on I’m A Pretty Showboy with its driving desert rhythm (with just a hint of the motorik) and urgent, raunchy but anxiety inducing, ...

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

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

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

I’ve been fortunate enough to see Hector Gannet in pubs, clubs, festivals, stadiums and even a launderette, but it was in the inspired location of Redhills, accompanied by Durham Miners’ Association ...

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