HUW STEPHENS celebrates the best of Cardiff’s music scene with rollicking BBC 6 show celebration
Huw Stephens' BBC 6 Music celebration at Clwb Ifor Bach was a night filled with Welsh-language folk-dance and psych-garage rock.
Huw Stephens' BBC 6 Music celebration at Clwb Ifor Bach was a night filled with Welsh-language folk-dance and psych-garage rock.
Delve into the sonic landscapes of Aurogeny, Ben Richter's latest album blending accordion magic, experimental tones, and orchestral brilliance.
The measured, romantic drama of Iechyd Da by Bill Ryder-Jones captures the beauty of Wales with heartfelt vocals and starbursting instrumentation.
More than a decade in, what do you expect from The Vaccines? Their new record, Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations, is sure to meet their fans’ expectations.
Over 30 years since their inception in York, Shed Seven are making a strong case for their place this century with new album, A Matter Of Time.
A posthumous reappraisal of Lou Reed's Hudson River Wind Meditations brings forth the late artist's deep-rooted love of tai chi, curated by Laurie Anderson.
Cheeky references, injokes, and most importantly a gamut of outrageous bangers: a ridiculously good show from Bring Me The Horizon on a cold Cardiff night.
For anyone unfamiliar with the musical output of Oli Sykes and co, Joshua Williams chooses five songs to check out as a prelude to entering Bring Me The Horizon’s world.
Noel Gallagher packs out Cardiff Utilita Arena with many generations of people, a testament to the legacy of his career.
Johnny Cash left a seriously hefty musical canon behind when he passed in 2003. This wonderful book is a fitting testament to that legacy.
A Chapter Called… captures Finnish metal band Children Of Bodom's last ever gig, the year before vocalist Alexi Laiho's death in 2020.
Dawnwalker, Healthyliving and Goat Major make up an evening of sonic doom metal clutter at Newport's Le Pub.
Southern California metalcore combo Atreyu's ninth album compiles three recently released EPs alongside three new offerings.
25 years into her pop career, Sophie Ellis-Bextor is arguably even more successful than ever in the 2020s. Now, she's due to regale Cardiff with a pre-Christmas arena gig.
Kelly Jones, Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker's Far From Saints offer a really enjoyable night, leaving the audience with that warm fuzzy feeling.
Bittersweet Satisfaction, the latest full-length release from Norfolk heavy rockers Bad Touch, is an album you’ll want to play from beginning to end before going back for more.
Neil Young's new acoustic album, Before And After, reaches to the past with knowingly scuffed re-recordings of songs from down the decades.
Tickets are now on sale for three concerts set to take place in the great outdoors of south Wales next summer: Ministry Of Sound Classical, The Stranglers and James Arthur.
Rebel Diamonds compiles 20 single and album tracks by The Killers, from Mr Brightside to When You Were Young to Human to Quiet Town.
Black Grape warm up frosty noses and cold-bitten toes in a Cardiff show with fresh energy and real teeth.
Released on VHS over 30 years ago, Anton Corbijn's Depeche Mode video collections Strange and Strange Too are now resurrected on a more up to date format.
The Nutty Boys themselves, Madness are still skanking away for audiences around the country - including Cardiff on Monday.
“I am what they call a relatively high-strung person,” says Jack Jones, frontman of Welsh indie group Trampolene, in pacy memoir Swansea To Hornsey.
The Cardiff leg of Leona Lewis’ long-awaited Christmas With Love tour was an evening brimming with both festive spirit and a selection of heartwarming moments.