Swansea Arena’s HOUSE PARTY is a win-win for the city’s music scene
Swansea Arena hosts a brilliant night of music for a great cause, one that showed that grassroots and the big stages can work together.
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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.
New Welsh music you may have missed in October, from solo wooden flute to ladles of nihilistic sludge
October’s pick of new music you may have missed in Wales includes pop, dance, indie, psychedelia and jazz.
New Welsh music you may have missed in September, from slick radio rock to 7am warehouse kickdrums
For September's new Welsh music you may have missed, Noel Gardner has a sound palette of techno, post-rock, experimental, hardcore and more.
New Welsh music you may have missed in July, from lo-BPM EBM to extreme oceanic ambience
Noel Gardner and Emma Way cast an eye over post-rock, punk rock, psych-rock, jazz and black metal to find the best new music Wales has to offer.
New Welsh music you may have missed in June, from octogenarian folk-rockers to futurist dance music
From folk to post-punk, explore the vibrant Welsh music scene with our curated selection of fresh artists, including Andrew Hawkey, Angharad Jenkins, The Crawling Eye, and more.
BBC NOW creates movie magic with live orchestra accompaniment of Disney’s FANTASIA
BBC NOW brought a family-friendly orchestral accompaniment to both Disney Fantasia films with two weekend performances in Swansea and Cardiff.
SANDBOX PERCUSSION wrap up the VALE OF GLAMORGAN FESTIVAL with a blazing concert
A week of music-making at the Vale Of Glamorgan Festival ended inspiringly thanks to Sandbox Percussion's blazing concert at Cardiff's Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama.
New Welsh music you may have missed: alt-rock from MIDDING + new age synth from DUN BURR
Get all the latest in new Welsh music with Noel Gardner's guide, featuring alt-rock from Midding to new age synth from Dun Burr.
Folk-rock Walian BRYDE returns to Cardiff for bracing live show
Supporting an album released in 2020, west Wales' Bryde brings her dramatic indie folk rock to Cardiff once more.
New Welsh music you might have missed: Punjab guitar from Bangor & rising folk poet CARA LUDLOW
Bangor guitarist Ash Cooke and west Wales alt-folk up and comer Cara Ludlow kick off Noel Gardner's picks of the best new Welsh music this month.
ENTER SHIKARI balance carnage and emotion at riotous Cardiff gig
This reviewer has been left giddy and grinning ear-to-ear each time witnessing Enter Shikari live, and this time in Cardiff was no exception.