Indie-art-pop heroes Tune-Yards have released one of THE best album of 2025, and they’ll be airing songs from it when they visit Sunderland this November. And that album is the very brilliant ‘Better Days’, a release that sees the band confronting the …

Steeleye Span has been at the forefront of the folk rock scene for 50+ years and with a new album out this year, they’re showing no signs of slowing. See them in Barnard Castle and Blyth this November. Steeleye Span’s enduring presence on the British m…

Alternative folk band Bear’s Den and singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery have teamed up on this new EP, and the result is stunning. The accompaniment is relatively stripped back, sticking to gentle piano and guitar melodies with an emotive fiddle solo here an…