Buzzin Music

Art Brut Live @ The Lexington, London on Friday 3rd June 2011
The soliloquy is a very under used form in the history of pop music. With good reason. It is completely unsuited to a medium where the optimum format is a blast of joyous energy with musical accompaniment lasting a maximum of 3 mins 20 [...]

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Guitarist Joel Schneider and drummer Ethan Jacobson epitomize the purest distillation of rock, blues, and garage punk. Their sonic chemistry became immediately apparent when they began playing together as My Goodness.  Think Jon Spencer Blues Explosion head on collision with White Stripes with bigger balls!
“Schneider struts and hollers, the quiver in his voice and the [...]

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Poly Styrene the former singer with punk pop group X-ray Specs died of cancer last night at the age of 53.  Poly Styrene, whose real name was Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, revealed earlier this year that she had undergone treatment for breast cancer.
This after Poly made a comeback by releasing a one-off seasonal single Black Christmas [...]

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If you are a regular reader you will be aware there is a new wave of great bands referencing various indie pop groups from the early to mid 1980s.  This era was best captured by a free NME cassette called C86.
Scottish bands like The Pastels and The Jesus & Mary Chain influenced a generation of [...]

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The Singing Loins have a special place in my tattered heart; they have inhabited a gristly ventricle since I first saw them perform with Medway’s finest folk purveyors, the mighty Hot Rats, at some village boozer when I was about 16. Hypnotised by the awesome sight of Chris Broderick beating a large stick with [...]

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