Part prayer, part protest, part dancefloor séance – Lyra Pramuk brings her otherworldly live show to The White Hotel.

The North West’s most fun new band rolls into The Jacaranda in Liverpool, fresh off the back of their debut EP No and a place on the NME 100 list.

Summer Sounds is setting up shop in Keighley’s beautiful Cliffe Castle Park this August, bringing a bold, borderless celebration of music and culture as part of Bradford 2025.

Smart, eccentric, and gleefully out of step with trends – Bristol quartet Sans Froid bring their tangled, piano-led art-rock to Leeds.

Refract returns to Waterside this July with a genre-spanning music programme that’s as playful and unpredictable as the festival itself – and much of it is completely free.

With sardonic wit, towering hooks and distortion dialled high, Blondshell lands at New Century this September, armed with new songs and unfinished business.

Manchester Psych Fest is back with 70+ live acts, turning the city into a playground for the ones who like it loud, loose and a little off-centre.

The White Hotel loads the booth with serious weight, as four of the scene’s most uncompromising figures bring a night of industrial techno, electro and scorched circuitry.

Amid a packed line-up of rising bands, Riot Days – a live protest piece by Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina – plays at Future Yard.

Somewhere in Trafford, behind an unmarked gate, a former garden centre hosts one of Greater Manchester’s most original festivals.

Still brilliant. Still weird. Still moving forward. Deerhoof return to Brudenell with their most abrasive album in years.

Once a post-rock collective, now something closer to a live techno machine, Leeds band Vessels bring it home to the Brudenell.

A quietly radical force in contemporary club culture, John Talabot returns to The White Hotel for one of his signature all-night sessions. No cheap thrills, just a slow, hypnotic descent into the good kind of oblivion.

Emerging from a four-year crucible of creative tension and personal reckoning, Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV return to Leeds for the first time in nearly a decade.

The Hallé’s new season blends classical heavyweights, boundary-pushing premieres, and genre-straddling names like Jonny Greenwood and Anna Meredith – plus a whole festival dedicated to John Adams.

Hulme’s Green Island Festival returns this summer, bringing a three-part series of events to Hulme Garden Centre and the iconic NIAMOS.