Johnny James

Greg Freeman mines local history for character-driven tales of violence, loss and epiphany on his second album, Burnover.

For fans of early Black Country New Road, Champion Trees render stalled lives and small defeats in exacting, wry and self-deprecating detail.

British-French singer-songwriter Lauren Auder brings her second, post-industrial love album to YES Basement.

Gothic country ballads, psych-folk drones and pedal steel drawn long and slow. Ora Cogan brings her witchy country to Now Wave’s new (old) pub.

Sarah Frankcom returns to the Royal Exchange with a Tony Award-winning musical about queer lives and the costs of keeping family secrets.

One of Manchester’s essential indie bookshops launches its new gallery with an emerging painter working in the shadow of the Beat Generation.

Paintings, installations and 500 years of Sikh wisdom are brought together in the service of personal and collective healing.

Ground Control to Manchester: A landmark immersive film reminds us that beneath all the mythology, Bowie was gloriously human.

Now Wave’s newly revived Hulme pub opens its doors with an ‘art pop picnic’ from London’s 1000 Rabbits.

Victory lapping the best album of their career so far, there hasn’t been a better moment yet to catch these North Carolina rockers.

Heavy music stripped to its essence, SUNN O))) arrive in Leeds with doom metal drones, monk robes and overwhelming physical force.

RNCM students perform new music inspired by Manchester’s protest history, after hours at the national museum of democracy.