Indie-pop-rockers The Big Moon are one of the UK’s finest, and they’ll be airing their finery (i.e. playing some songs) when they play Newcastle in May. I thought The Big Moon’s debut album was good. ‘Love in the 4th Dimension’ was released in 2017 and it…

If you’re looking for the heart and soul of roots of reggae then The Abyssinians will be able to hit you up with everything you need. The album that is often held up as the crowning achievement of the roots reggae movement is The Abyssinians’ classic 1976…

Are Spiers & Boden the finest duo on the traditional folk scene. Many think so. They’re in Sunderland in early June. What an extraordinary career Spiers & Boden have had. They burst onto the scene back in 2001 and were soon hoovering up awards like no one…

The second album from this Teesside collective is out in May and it’s fucking amazing. And that’s swearing. When I first heard that Nel Unlit’s album was called ‘Ephemera; or, Tosh and the girl’ I thought, “Hmm…” And then when I read it was a concept albu…

This Durham singer/songwriter is starting to make big waves well beyond our region, particularly in country and western circles. We’ve waxed lyrical about Hayley Mckay in the past, but now it seems that plenty of other publications are getting on board wi…