Noel Gardner

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain for May

Our powerful bi-monthly antidote to pop music, a round-up of the real stuff, music available primarily on cassette tape and three-inch CD, songs that will glow from the boot of your car like in Repo Man. Includes Aja, Yeah You, Vanishing Twin and the great Nick Blinko of Rudimentary Peni

Sarah Louise

Deeper Woods

Like a lot of great leftfield folk, this album understands rich traditions and knows how to experiment with them

About Time: A Brief History Of Grind, Doom & Sludge At Desertfest

Fast as light or slow as a stoned glacier, but always heavy: this weekend in Camden, Napalm Death, Zeke and Warning prompt theories about tempo and reflections on the history of extreme metal

Leila Abdul-Rauf

Diminution

An ambient solo project from the Oakland metal artist, and a worthy addition to her outstanding and expansive body of work

Zohastre

Pan And The Master Pipers

Chanting, bagpiping goodness from Héloïse Thibault and Olmo Guadagnoli

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Roundup For April

Scuzzy grind, squelchy wigout and molten-hot tech-grind queer trans anarchism with The HIRS Collective, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Geld, Unease, Bad Aura, The Snivellers and more

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain for March

Happy birthday to our New Weird Britain column, which is one year old and still mewling and puking in our grateful arms. This month: Wart Biter, Cysta Cysta, DJ Ford Foster, White-fawn and more

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Roundup

From Leeds to Arizona to Melbourne, Noel Gardner traverses the globe (virtually) to bring you (actually) the best in new punk and hardcore. Starring: Nasho, Turnstile, Dauđyflin and more.

The Skull Defekts

The Skull Defekts

The last and best album from Sweden’s noisy avant-rock experimenteers.

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain Hits For January

This month, we celebrate the nefarious goings-on of Paper Dollhouse, the wobbly non-linear Chow Mwng and the throbbing drone of NoCorner

Noel’s Straight Hedge: The Best Punk & Hardcore Of 2017

Noel Gardner rounds up his top ten of 2017, plus an extra ELEVEN that we missed the first time round.

Noel’s Foul House Of New Weird Britain: Best Of 2017

New, weird and British-ish, these are the best releases of 2017 from Noel’s Foul House. Make way for Ansome, Duds, Vom, Golden Teacher and more.

Hüsker Dü

Savage Young Dü

Huge great 69-track boxset chronicling the early years of Hüsker Dü: a landscape-mangling tornado of sound, music that contains multitudes.

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain This November

This month, Noel celebrates the diverse freakosystem of New Weird Britain, from Mick Harris’s techno to Ben Wallers’ loving desecration of Pink Floyd and Claire Potter’s mysterious West Yorkshire fetish reading.

German Oak

Down In The Bunker

A krautrock lost classic - once only available for loads of cash or on dodgy bootleg, now lovingly remastered and reissued.

Emmanuel

Rave Culture

Emmanuel Beddewela flies high and hits hard with an album of solid banging rave-loving techno tunes.

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore For October

Freewheeling hardcore rammage and more in this month's punk and HC round-up, including Permission, The Side Eyes and Sissy.

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain This September

Sticky jewels from the UK DIY underground, including The Rebel, Buttonhead, Aging, Memnon Sa, Green Door Studios and Dtub

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For August Reviewed By Noel Gardner

New, magnificent noise from Obnox, Limp Wrist, Raw Power and more in this month's punk and HC round-up.

Biogen

Halogen Continues

Sheer Mag

Need To Feel Your Love

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain In Review

Noel Gardner tunnels through the British underground and digs out tasty tubers belonging to The Telescopes, Sly & The Family Drone, Bamboo and a whole loada goths

Institute

Subordination

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For June By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner probes the boundary areas of punk and finds much to report back on

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain In Review For May

Noel Gardner brings us the best from the UK DIY underground, including releases by Lower Slaughter, Wolfhounds, Tomaga, JFK, Vom and Vanishing

“The Band Moves As Slowly As The Riffs” – An Interview With Khünnt

Not just a rude-sounding name and a vital umlaut, this Newcastle band make some of the most elephantine ultra-sludge noise metal you’ll hear. They’re playing a rare gig at Desertfest soon, too. Noel Gardner has a word

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For April Reviewed By Noel Gardner

From the speed metal scene of Helsinki to the Mexican HC underground, Noel Gardner's bringing you all the punk and hardcore you'll need for another month. Fuck You Pay Me photo by Kevin McCann

King Ayisoba

1000 Can Die

Noel’s Foul House: Weird New Britain In Review

What is Noel's Foul House? Let Noel Gardner answer with his pre-emptive FAQs - Foul Assistance Questions - before tackling new music by Casual Nun, Shitmat, Kiran Leonard, Colin Webster and more...

Intonation, Innovation, Interventions: An Interview With Horse Lords

Neither rock, dance, trance, noise or minimalism, Baltimore's Horse Lords are a great and hypnotic Other. Noel Gardner presses them on their process

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For February Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back in the punk, hc, crust, oi etc. saddle with reviews of Iron Reagan and Vexx... plus mix! Gutter Knife pic by Ben Hills

Killing It In America: An Interview With Uniform

With their second album of industrial noise punk metal fury out now, Noel Gardner talks downward spirals, overloaded drum machines and pulp fiction with NYC duo Uniform