Two nights of doom folk, industrial punk and world premiere commissions are in store at Liverpool’s most adventurous festival.

It’s The White Hotel in a single night. Three experimentally-minded electronic duos eschewing pristine laptop sets in favour of something more raw and performative.

An electronic auteur, a veteran of the world’s major clubs, and the man who named electroclash – playing a pub in Todmorden.

Manchester Collective bring titans of contemporary music together with world premieres in a bold, body-driven programme at Aviva Studios.

Jenny Hval’s latest record, which began life with rice cookers and an easel (yep), is heading to Salford. Trust the process.

Rival Consoles, who’s spent the best part of two decades making synthesisers sound human, presents a new audio-visual show centred around his ninth studio album Landscape from Memory.

A key name in a local music scene increasingly coming to national attention, SILVERWINGKILLER bring their maximalist electronic punk to The White Hotel.

Two songs in, Manchester’s MLEKO are already building a cult following, blending beauty and abrasion to devastating effect.

Sir Stephen Hough returns to The Bridgewater Hall with a recital built around a deceptively simple idea: the piano miniature.

Manchester jazz festival is back for 10 days this May, with a line-up that moves from major international names to some of the most exciting artists.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning opera brings a dark contemporary parable about exploitation, coercion and the abuse of power, underpinned by a score that pits chamber music and medieval polyphony against cabaret electronica and punk.

The UK’s biggest celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this summer with a line-up including Malian singer and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara.

A new live staging of Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent revisits a landmark queer pop album through contemporary voices.

Pixies bring two nights of feral alternative rock to Aviva Studios this May, marking 40 years of the band.

In a world premiere at Aviva Studios, Sinéad O’Connor’s musical power and moral defiance is translated into dance by the Tony Award-winning Sonya Tayeh.

This summer, foundational British synth-pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark return to Rochdale, the town where they recorded ‘Electricity’, the breakthrough single that helped set their trajectory.

Celebrating 10 years as one of the UK’s best underground clubs, The White Hotel is retooling some of the Blackpool’s most recognisable sites for one-off, site-specific performances.