Buzzin Music

After captivating British fans for more than four years, London-based Razorlight – fronted by lead singer/guitarist Johnny Borrell – now turns its attention to the United States as the latest addition to the Mercury Records roster in America.
Razorlight’s third album, Slipway Fires, released last November in the UK, will be issued in the United States [...]

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Essie Jain begins a European tour in February to promote her second album, The Inbetween which was released on The Leaf Label in November 2008.
Based in New York, Essie returns to the UK following a successful tour with Liz Green and Benjamin Wetherill in September 2008.
The Inbetween was released to critical acclaim, and these shows [...]

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Looker – Looker EP – review
The opening track of Looker’s brand new self-titled EP is pretty retro. Entitled ‘After My Divorce’, the 60s harmonies and swoony, wistful tone of this female-fronted Brooklyn band make for a lovely pop record that seems to inhabit another world of sun and simplicity, far away from one of divorces.
The [...]

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Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion – album review
On their ninth studio album, Animal Collective, the popular avant-garde music group consisting of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb, who doesn’t appear on this album), and Geologist (Brian Weitz), come back from various side projects to produce Merriweather Post Pavillion, an [...]

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Formed in 1992 amidst tape and fanzine trading scenes, The Bran Flakes aka Otis Fodder and Mildred Pitt, already have seven releases of zany mash-ups and poppy audio collages. ‘I Have Hands‘ brings Lawrence Welk, Mister Rogers, Van Halen and Strawberry Shortcake to the same party.
One track uses Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” at its [...]

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