Claire Dupree gives the low down on this year's brilliant GIFT Festival, which is celebrating it's 15th anniversary ...

Impassioned. Intriguing. Impeccable. Newcastle-based Cheap Lunch ’s second EP Leap Chunk is a three-track blend of psych and ...

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 ...

Mick Johnson from Durham music project The Heartland Collective tells us what inspired their latest track Lil' Bit Lost ...

Kai Palmer talks to South Shields playwright Emilie Robson about her award-winning play which aims to put young people’s ...

Simon Lunt discovers a triumphant post-modern release where spiritual malaise, academic absurdity and youthful yearning ...

This is a very different Wretch from the one which first hit the public consciousness. He’s come a long way from those early ...

Mountains is a love letter to precious wild places told through folk pop wonderment. Painted ...

Jenny Hval ’s writing has always had a very sensory quality to it, and this is perhaps exemplified in her debut novel ...

Every year to celebrate our birthday, we curate a free compilation album which showcases some of our favourite artists from ...

In the latest episode of our writing podcast My Writing Life, Fran Harvey chats with horror/crime author Matt Wesolowski, the ...