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

This Lankum offshoot treats Irish mythology not as inspiration but as raw material for drone and industrial noise.

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

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

Music leads We Invented the Weekend, with ENO’s mass Nessun Dorma and Afriquoi’s kora-fuelled electronic sound.

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.

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

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.

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.