Noel Gardner

With a summer of playing to outsized festival crowds ahead of him, Barry Can’t Swim releases Loner, a dance album with pop tendencies.

Kaptin Barrett discusses his curatorial role in Hip Hop: A Welsh Story, a long-term exhibition that's just opened at the National Museum.

Following Sufferer Sounds, a 2024 compilation of his late-70s work, Dennis Bovell is back with a set of brand new tracks, Wise Music In Dub.

Everything from minimalist guitar miniatures to cosmic hard rawk can be found in the 10 latest new Welsh releases reviewed by Noel Gardner.

Noel Gardner has written a column of reviews highlighting acts from the Welsh margins each month this year: here’s the final batch for 2025.

As in 2024, Buzz has hit triple figures in the gig review stakes this year. Here’s 20 of the best photos which accompanied those reviews.

Buzz's annual guide to who and what is set for a great Welsh year highlights creativity in art, food, literature, music and theatre.

From jangly powerpop to downtuned beatdown, with all sorts of offbeat burblings in between, Noel Gardner has 10 new Welsh releases for you.

Haunting The Black Air has much to say about family distant and immediate, colonialism, religious ceremony and the visceral reality of death.

Animal Nightlife is a head-spinning work that jumps back and forth between street-level realness and passages of fantastical zoomorphism.