2025 marks Will Wiesenfeld’s first Baths album in eight years, and his first show in Leeds in seven. It’s a big moment, then, as he brings his fourth record, Gut, to Headrow House this May.

Manchester’s open-air club Progress scales up to 5000 capacity and launches a spring/summer season of forward-thinking electronic music and grassroots culture.

From sunny Los Angeles to deepest darkest Salford, electronic punk duo Sextile bring an anarchic, serotonin-boosting party to The White Hotel.

A new festival is born as Outer Waves brings to Liverpool an inclusive space for all things experimental and underground.

Salford’s Sounds From The Other City returns for a bumper anniversary edition this Early May Bank Holiday, ringing in 20 years as over 100 acts play across 15 stages.

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

Political-journalist-turned-musician Annika Henderson is about to drop her third studio album. Apparently it’s her heaviest and angriest to date, making her intimate gig at Brudenell Social Club an extra exciting prospect.

When Keeley Forsyth arrived on the scene in 2019, The Guardian called her “The new Scott Walker”. Others placed her next to Beth Gibbons, Nico or Nick Cave. But the more she releases, the more she sounds like no-one other than herself.

Penelope Trappes exorcises her demons in the grand surrounds of Salford’s Sacred Trinity Church. For god’s sake, don’t tell the vicar.

Pursuing a thrilling slash-and-burn ethos to music-making, genre collagists Moin bring their rock-informed, techno-adjacent live show to Manchester.

StrangeForms Festival returns for its 10^th edition, bringing two weird and wonderful days of math-rock, post-rock and post-metal to Leeds’ best small venue.

Jazz lovers rejoice – manchester jazz festival is back with a bumper edition in 2025, as the festival celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Experimental folk artist Richard Dawson is no stranger to big musical ideas, but his new work hits different, stripping things down to the bare bones to reveal the brilliant songwriting at its core.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief brings Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s seminal album together in an intoxicating blend of theatre, music, and movement.