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Noel Gardner , January 14th, 2021 09:32 Noel Gardner opens the first instalment of this column for 2021 by taking a look at current punk acts whose lyrics and outlook are for and about the Black community . Home page photograph of Twisted Thing This introductory sentence is being written during the first week of 2021, or what the Gregorian calendar claims is 2021, and because there is no real reason to feel any positivity over this changeover, no-one of note has dropped any underground punk or hardcore releases in this particular window. This Straight Hedge, then, is a further mop-up of neato shit that came out in the last couple of months of 2020, such as this spindizzyingly good five-song EP by ....
Noel Gardner , December 10th, 2020 08:51 Noel Gardner marks a full decade of reportage from the claret pumping edge of punk rock, HC, oi, crust &c. by bringing you his prime cuts from 2020 Muro live by Joe Briggs It’s been a decade since I started writing the Straight Hedge columns, and half a decade since the top brass of this acclaimed website cracked the whip and got me to file them to set deadlines, including an annual December overview of ‘The Year In Punk And Hardcore’. The first one of those, in 2015, rather set the prevailing tone in its intro I suppose, by countering a couple of lazy prejudices and offering some truisms in their place – saying, not literally but in so many words, that this subculture doesn’t tend to change in ways that can be usefully expressed in a ‘Year In Review’ type blurb. So it’s gone for each following year, with provisions for obligatory mentions of Brexit, Donald Trump etc: the context being, ‘Don’t expec ....