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.

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.

Most musicians who develop tinnitus treat it as an occupational hazard. Lola de la Mata treats it as raw material.

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

O2 Apollo becomes Pysch Fest’s main stage for the first time, with Billy Nomates and bdrmm heading the final wave.

All killer no filler. The Hallé presents three centuries of choral heavyweights performed by full orchestra, choir and children’s choir together.

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

Nine centuries of music, one incredible local story, and a Wagner opera that the composer feared would drive people mad.

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

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

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.