Buzzin Music

Legendary punk rocker Michael Monroe is hitting the UK again this summer having just been announced for the infamous Download Festival 2010! While the band demos new material in NYC for their debut, they’re still finding time to get a few summer festival appearances in.
After a sensational stint at SXSW this year followed by a [...]

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Dirty Shirt Rock n’ Roll: The First Ten Years by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will be released on 24 May on Shove Records. The first seven albums to be reissued throughout 2010.
In 1990 the blues exploded. Already high on a cocktail of overloaded frequencies, Jon Spencer and his cohorts took the full force. The shards [...]

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The Red Bull Bedroom Jam – Monday 14th September 2009
I have only just recovered from the launch of the second season of The Red Bull Bedroom Jam at the Sanctum Hotel in Soho, London.
While the Sanctum did not seem the obvious venue to host the post-hardcore-emo-pop-punk-rock party, Red Bull pulled out all the stops to [...]

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Latitude Festival Music Stages
There were four main music stages at this year’s festival: Obelisk (main stage) Arena and The Lake Stage were open air, while the Uncut and Sunrise Arenas were in tents.
Latitude Festival Highlights – Sunday 26th July
Thom Yorke – Obelisk (main stage) Arena
I’m sure a large majority of all ages at this year’s [...]

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Black Lips have been carting their chaotic rock n roll show across the globe for years, but have only achieved anything approaching “success” in the last 12 months. Much to the annoyance of their hardcore fans apparently, selling out to the scenester driven indie scene and putting out their seminal Good Bad Not Evil on [...]

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