With Huw Volume 1" via Wichita Recordings on iTunes. It featured 21 up and coming artists including Gold Panda, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Banjo or Freakout and Young Fathers. Stephens is a curator of the BBC Music Introducing Stage, which showcases new unsigned and emerging music at the Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury, Radio One's Big Weekend and T in the Park festivals. He has also invited bands and artists to play at Sonar, Groningen and the SXSW music festivals. Since its inception in 2006 he has curated the Lake Stage at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, inviting The 1975, Cate le Bon, The xx, Sam Smith, Catfish and the Bottlemen amongst others to play. Stephens has been the opening presenter on the Mountain Stage at the Green Man Festival, and DJ's there regularly onstage and on Green Man Radio. In 2005 Stephens became the compere and DJ for the main stage of Reading Festival. He hosted the NME Awards from 2014 until 2018 and has DJed at Green Man, Sonar, Camp Bestival, Bestival, Big Chill, Field Day and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, where he also presented the Gig y Pafiliwn with the Welsh Pops Orchestra. He has contributed to the Western Mail, Kruger Magazine, The Independent, The Mirror and NME, and guest-edited the Guardian music blog. He was the voice of the Discovery Shed television channel. In 2007 he established a new music festival for Cardiff. The first Sŵn festival took place on 9–11 November across 13 venues in the city and has occurred yearly since (with the exception of 2020). Sŵn (pronounced "soon") is the Welsh word for "sound", and the festival brings new bands, DJs and performers from Wales, the UK and elsewhere together with art and films in Cardiff city centre's venues. Clwb Ifor Bach currently runs the Swn Festival. In 2015 Stephens began co-presenting the RTÉ music show Other Voices, featuring performances from the Irish festival, alongside regular presenter Aidan Gillen, Annie Mac and MayKay. He was also the host of that year's BAFTA Cymru awards ceremony, which took place at St. David's Hall in Cardiff in September, and has presented it yearly since. Huw has presented the Glastonbury Festival coverage for BBC 1 and 2 television since 2015, and Reading Festival on BBC4 television. Stephens was a member of the jury for the 2017 . Huw has also been a judge for the AIM Awards. In