Noel Gardner

Straight Hedge: The Best Punk & HC Of 2016 With Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner brings you his top ten punk and hardcore records of the year and another top ten of juicy cuts he missed the first time round

In Search Of A Higher Plane: Le Guess Who? Festival 2016

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)

Straight Hedge! Punk Reviews For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with punk, hardcore, d-beat, oi & OMFUG releases galore to review

Viva Exthopia! The Ex On Ethiopian Music

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

Neurosis

Fires Within Fires

Wrekmeister Harmonies

Light Falls

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For September By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner once again brandishes the HC secateurs, leaving the punk rock topiary exquisitely shaped and ready for your appraisal

Cheena

Spend The Night With...

Deerhoof

The Magic

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner only has one problem - finding the space to fit in all of the reviews into this column that he wants. But enough with the flexi discs already

Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Nails’ You Will Never Be One Of Us

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

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For May With Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner brings you all of the punk, HC, oi and crust releases worth talking about and ponders artifice

The Second Summer Of Hate: NOISE ROCK NOW!

Carrying on Noise Rock Week, Noel Gardner looks to the current day and constructs a fearsome primer for the fans of the sludgy, lo-fi, ear-disrespecting... and modern. GNOD portrait by Sam Huddlestone

The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986

So here's a question: was noise rock healthier in 1986 than it is today in 2016? Noel Gardner spends today and tomorrow trying to answer this question. Today - here's his overview of 12 months of noise rock three decades ago

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore Reviews By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner casts a forensic eye over the best underground nuggets from the world of punk and hardcore... and he's done us a mix!

Relentless Working: An Interview With Sievehead

In the wake of last year's excellent debut LP, the Sheffield trio tell Noel Gardner why their hometown is a "hidden gem" on the UK punk scene, a community dedicated to forging a DIY atmosphere of apeshit-going gigs

Final Cut

Deep Into The Cut (Reissue)

The Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Årabrot’s The Gospel

With the Norway group's seventh album out at the end of this month, Noel Gardner explores the inner workings of "probably the most eclectic-sounding Årabrot release to date"

Straight Hedge: The Best Punk & Hardcore In 2015 With Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner rounds up his favourite underground punk & harcore releases of the year. Contains NSFW imagery

The Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Hey Colossus’ Radio Static High

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

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & Hardcore For September

What is punk rock? asks Noel Gardner. Well, it turns out that punk rock is not punk rock; except when it is

Eleventh Dream Day

Works For Tomorrow

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk And Hardcore For July Reviewed

Noel Gardner examines the current intersection between hardcore/punk and politics, reviews the best of the new releases and revisits the work of the god-like Leatherface. Picture of Institute by Breanna Kay

Various Artists

Better Late Than Never… The Reverb Worship Compilation

RP Boo

Fingers, Bank Pads And Shoe Prints

It’s Noel’s Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

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’s Straight Hedge: The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

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

Various Artists

Extermination Nights In The Sixth City/Burn, Rubber City, Burn!

Noel Gardner’s Straight Hedge XI: Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

Celebrate! Noel Gardner is back with more punk and hardcore reviews and discusses the punk rock/ drinking scrumpy/ washing machine on a 30 degree spin cycle interface

Tony Molina

Dissed And Dismissed

LIVE REPORT: Fat Out Fest

Noel Gardner reports on a raucous weekend at Islington Mill, featuring Melt-Banana, Cut Hands, Nisennenmondai and more. Photos by Oli Smith and Robin Hill.

Slants, Kinks & Extremities: Evil Blizzard Interviewed

Ahead of shows in London and at Supersonic, Noel Gardner catches up with Preston's finest purveyors of chemical bass ooze and juddering funk to talk their debut album The Dangers Of Evil Blizzard