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With performances from The Ex — as well as their spotlighting of Ethiopian music in Fendika and Zerfu Demissie — and Brazil's Elza Soares, at he tenth anniversary year of Utrecht's Le Guess Who?, Noel Gardner finds a festival that has shifted its weight and broadened its vision in search of more. (Photographs by Tim van Veen, Jan Rijk and Jelmer de Haas)
With performances from The Ex — as well as their spotlighting of Ethiopian music in Fendika and Zerfu Demissie — and Brazil's Elza Soares, at he tenth anniversary year of Utrecht's Le Guess Who?, Noel Gardner finds a festival that has shifted its weight and broadened its vision in search of more. (Photographs by Tim van Veen, Jan Rijk and Jelmer de Haas)
Ahead of their appearance across Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht this November Terrie Hessels, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer of The Ex sit down with Noel Gardner to talk about the importance of Ethiopian music. Features exclusive Fendika track
Ahead of their appearance across Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht this November Terrie Hessels, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer of The Ex sit down with Noel Gardner to talk about the importance of Ethiopian music. Features exclusive Fendika track
Digging into their third album in seven years, Noel Gardner finds Nails on focused and punishing form – delivering an unapologetic treatise on elitism and an unmixed, streamlined and unrelenting record of distilled extreme metal
Digging into their third album in seven years, Noel Gardner finds Nails on focused and punishing form – delivering an unapologetic treatise on elitism and an unmixed, streamlined and unrelenting record of distilled extreme metal
Following on from the release of In Black And Gold earlier this year, Noel Gardener examines the group's continual moving further away from big riffs and sludge metal, into hypnotic melodies, creamy bliss, and giving breathing space to tangible human emotions
Following on from the release of In Black And Gold earlier this year, Noel Gardener examines the group's continual moving further away from big riffs and sludge metal, into hypnotic melodies, creamy bliss, and giving breathing space to tangible human emotions
Noel Gardner's punk and hardcore reviews column returns with some thoughts on music's eternal obsession with youth and write-ups of new releases from Poison Idea, Terveet Kädet, YDI, Violent Reaction, Hard Left, Sheer Mag, Christi, The Coneheads and Foot Hair
Noel Gardner's punk and hardcore reviews column returns with some thoughts on music's eternal obsession with youth and write-ups of new releases from Poison Idea, Terveet Kädet, YDI, Violent Reaction, Hard Left, Sheer Mag, Christi, The Coneheads and Foot Hair
In a busy month for his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner looks at trans visibility in the hardcore scene as he reviews a demo from G.L.O.S.S., and covers new releases from Dark Blue, Give, Cheena, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, Karanteeni, Couch Slut, Generacion Suicida, G.L.O.S.S, Jackals, Mangle
In a busy month for his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner looks at trans visibility in the hardcore scene as he reviews a demo from G.L.O.S.S., and covers new releases from Dark Blue, Give, Cheena, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, Karanteeni, Couch Slut, Generacion Suicida, G.L.O.S.S, Jackals, Mangle
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