Noel Gardner caps off his 15th year as our punk and hardcore columnist with a roundup of the 10 best records of 2025, and reviews of 10 more that got away Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025 buff.ly/02Lav6g

To think I’ll never see HARD SKIN again! Their last gig in Bristol will simply run out of alcohol, won’t it

For January: an end of year review of sorts, plus some predictions for UK Punky in 2026. So! Tell Another Subculture your favourite gig/event of this year, and one reason to look forward to next year, and you might win a £25 TOME RECORDS VOUCHER. Take the survey: anothersubculture.co.uk/survey

For January: an end of year review of sorts, plus some predictions for UK Punky in 2026. So! Tell Another Subculture your favourite gig/event of this year, and one reason to look forward to next year, and you might win a £25 TOME RECORDS VOUCHER. Take the survey: anothersubculture.co.uk/survey

Hey folks, I need your help. I’m publishing a video game fanzine annual. A physical companion to the online zine directory. I want to include as many publications as possible. So if you have a recommendation plz drop me a line. Thx 🙏 #Fanzine #Zine

I love zines

📈 Here's how much money Los Camp! make from streaming... On the occasion of #SpotifyWrapped, we thought now would be a good time to share some cold, hard stats about how much money our band makes from streaming royalties. 📖 tinyurl.com/LCwrapped

Tired: Spotify Unwrapped Wired:

I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Tomorrow, tomorrow, a look at tomorrow: CRUDE IMAGE crudeimage.bandcamp.com/album/crude-... MOIST CREVICE moistcrevice.bandcamp.com/album/psychi... BLUE ZERO www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-Q... Doors 19:30, done by 22:30 - £12 online + on the door wegottickets.com/event/679313

I am raising an egg punk son in a chain punk world

My clever friend Lynda Waterhouse is part of a team producing films for Southwark starring residents of Elephant and Castle talking about their childhoods and formative years in the borough. This is the latest.

Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, a server with a bunch of FLACs from Bandcamp, physical media, take your pick man.

I understand why people stay on services that suck but not Spotify. There’s so many other platforms that are 1-to-1 the same but with less garbage if not objectively better.

December 2025's Another Subculture listings are OUT NOW, and you should come to the Ivy House this Thursday... latest newsletter for the newsletter: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...

December 2025's Another Subculture listings are OUT NOW, and you should come to the Ivy House this Thursday... latest newsletter for the newsletter: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...

All best of shopping lists should contain SUBLUX and TRAIDORA, and have a number one record that is, ultimately, the correct choice

THIS THURSDAY 🔵0️⃣🎸🎄 Blue Zero (Oakland, CA shoegazin’ post punkers) + Moist Crevice (local noises no wavers) + Crude Image (enigmatic new hardcore Punk) ☘️🌱🏠🍻 at the IVY HOUSE Nunhead SE15 3BE TICKETS £12 on the door and at wegottickets.com/event/679313

IT’S TIME TO ROCK AND ROLL

BUDGET REACTION. The £135 LV exemption for imports to the UK is being abolished from 2029 in what looks to be an anti-Shein move... wondering if that means more customs charges for, say, long sleeve USHC shirts bought from Bandcamp? (Gifts under £39 still except, though) www.gov.uk/government/c...

Don't suppose anyone has a spare tombola?

More than 150 members at Tate Galleries are taking seven consecutive days of strike action from tomorrow (26) until 2 December. Pickets will be taking place at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate Modern – so please support them. www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

ep 8 of @criticallistening.bsky.social w/ amirtha kidambi is live now wherever you get your podcasts except sp*tify listen below and if you like the show maybe hit the 5 stars or text it to your group chat or something tysm podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Following the Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency doc I started (please add to it!), what are some reasons people are not buying stuff at the art book fair / zine fest? I'll share some ideas and observations in the comments.

I do think that wondering how, and looking into, how MTV2 and its ilk worked lead me into the day job (and the printers from those day jobs certainly helped Another Subculture, so!)

Spinning some files at MULTI STORY PECKHAM off Rye Lane tonight as one half of Repetitive Strain - a warmly welcoming club night for the coldest day in many months - until 12am, £4 pints available, free entry. Come Down An idea of what to expect: newsletter.repetitivestrain.club/archive/nov-...

grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Accepting event submissions for the December 2025 issue of ANOTHER SUBCULTURE -- send through any/all D-I-Y + independent + punk/hardcore/non-standard gigs and events happening in London next month. NYE, what are you up to...? DEADLINE: Thursday 20th November ❗ anothersubculture.co.uk/submit

Hey, to celebrate the 4 worst months in terms of sales in the whole history of HB, here's an offer 😅 You can buy 2 cassettes (click on "Include a message" to let me know which ones) and I will add 2 more (surprise!) for free in the parcel. hiddenbayrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/2-cassettes-2-free

Accepting event submissions for the December 2025 issue of ANOTHER SUBCULTURE -- send through any/all D-I-Y + independent + punk/hardcore/non-standard gigs and events happening in London next month. NYE, what are you up to...? DEADLINE: Thursday 20th November ❗ anothersubculture.co.uk/submit

Delighted to announce the next round of acts for our Corsica Studios closing parties next year New shows from Part Chimp and Pharaoh Overlord New supports from Export/Import, Dhangsha, aya, Soborgnost and @alexandertucker.bsky.social Tickets for everything here: dice.fm/bundles/cors...

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental and marginal music is back. We return on the 9 - 12 of April 2026 in Glasgow ♥️ Full Festival passes are now on sale in standard, solidarity and pay what you want tiers: counterflows.com/festival/cou...

Maybe this will take off? If you‘re in the alpha for @subvert.fm, say hello - yes, I do appreciate the Win9x buttons

The Wire 502 is out now! Featuring Mulatu Astatke on the cover, plus Griot Galaxy, Emergence Collective, Test Dept’s Invisible Jukebox, Konrad Smoleński, Alpha Maid, and much, much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

TONIGHT! Our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980). Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film. Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

I wrote about my favourite Physical Media Shops in London, which I'll no doubt be seeing this weekend dropping off November's zine, for @thefence.bsky.social CAPITAL LETTER newsletter -- go retrace my steps and spend £££ on plastic and paper already thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

NOVEMBER 2025's punk listings zine is out now! A few plans, a few videos in the 'newsletter for the newsletter' below: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...

EPISODE 7 a new headlines episode of critical listening is live. this time we are unpacking the major label deals w/ gen-ai companies and what they mean for music writ large. also, ek stepping down from his role as ceo at Spotify. hear it now by becoming a subscriber: www.patreon.com/c/CriticalLi...

NOVEMBER 2025's punk listings zine is out now! A few plans, a few videos in the 'newsletter for the newsletter' below: buttondown.com/anothersubcu...

hi hi - in the immortal words of yo la tengo: today is the day. our second album is here. we're all really excited with how it's turned out and v happy to finally have it out in the world fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-se...

Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Owen Williams (the Tubs, Ex-Voïd, Joanna Gruesome) announced a memoir titled 'Atrocity Exhibitions: Grieving In The TikTok Underworld'

The back of November’s listings does contain me making the case once again for building a NAS and using Plexamp, although I may have underplayed the amount of code you will need to search Reddit for to make it work well. But hey, my music is coming from a box in the corner of my flat instead of ????

Announcing the 26th edition of the Winter Sprinter, from Wednesday 21st January to Saturday 24th. Fika Recordings present The Winter Sprinter 2026. Four nights and twelve bands - the perfect antidote to the January blues in the intimate surroundings of The Lexington.

Last copies of October’s paper at the Gob Nation all dayer - if you take them outside they might just be readable:

Good to see someone else littering London with nightlife advice

More radio from 20:00 BST — DJing the nominally Punk show with @vanitycrystal.bsky.social, might play some Blood Incantation – nearly Halloween, after all - Repetitive Strain, voicesradio.co.uk in ten minutes

What’s the time? It’s @ohthatgoblinmarket.bsky.social time!