Buzzin Music

Born in Fort Worth Texas in 1979, Shea Seger learnt about music at an early age from listening to her parents enormous record collection that encompassed everything from classical, Motown, disco, country, pop and rock and everything in between.
Having won a scholarship to study theatre, with dreams of becoming a playwright and actress Shea met [...]

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The Smiles and Frowns release debut, eponymous album in UK on 16 August, on Manchester-based aA Recordings
The story begins, in a time not too far ago, in Phoenix. Adam Mattson was living in his own world, mainly due to his unruly height. However, when he chanced to break the spell and gaze down he saw the [...]

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Chicago-based quartet Light Pollution release their debut album Apparitions on 26 July, on Carpark.
As halogen beams and fluorescent streams bleach the crystal tranquillity of the night sky, tricks of the artificial light muddy the mind’s eye and apparitions make flights of fancy. Translate this to a sonic landscape and rarely has a band’s name and [...]

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d_rradio release their fifth album Parts on 2nd August, if you count Underscore released in 2004 as their debut album and not an extended EP, and not Making Spaces, a collaboration with Lianne Hall released earlier this year on Sentence Records.
With every release,  d_rradio have moved their music goalposts.  It’s not as straightforward as saying, [...]

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The Latitude Festival is much more than a music festival with a broad range of arenas, stages and tents offering theatre, poetry, film, dance, literature and music.  But for this review I will concentrate on my Latitude Festival 2010 music highlights.
As with previous years, many festival goers and keen campers began to arrive on the [...]

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