Buzzin Music Blog

There are not many artists that cause such global excitement when there are rumours of a world tour afoot.
But U2 have been playing sold-out stadium tours for the past three decades, and tickets will be so hard to get as soon as they go on sale, Viagogo, the online ticket agent, is offering a free [...]

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FM is a new TV comedy showing starting tonight (Wednesday 25th February) on ITV2.
The sit-com is set in a radio station and follows two deejays, played by Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Under The Blue Sky) and Kevin Bishop (The Kevin Bishop Show, Star Stories, Fat Pig).
Each episode includes a live performance in the FM [...]

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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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“The Chicago trio’s second LP balances crazy-paving rhythms and synth-addled hyper-skronk with a new found melodic sweetness” **** Mojo
The Chicago rock band volcano! have announced three live UK dates as part of a European tour this spring.
Following the release of their acclaimed second album Paperwork last September, volcano! flew over for six weeks of intensive [...]

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In the summer of 1980, following the untimely suicide of Ian Curtis, the remaining three members of Joy division: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook & Steven Morris, returned to the studio to record with a Factory Records labelmate and friend, Kevin Hewick.
I can’t remember if the official line was that Kevin Hewick was auditioning to become [...]

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