Buzzin Music

Last Friday night, July 17th, at the City of  Manchester Stadium the Live in the City concert took place to celebrate the unveilling of Manchester City Football Club’s 2009 Umbro designed strip.
The Manchester legends Doves bought the Live in the City event to a close with a storming headline set supported by up and coming [...]

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For hundreds of people attending this year’s Latitude Festival, the weekend started on Thursday; from midday onwards as festival-goers from all over the UK and Europe began descending on the fourth Latitude Festival in the beautiful surroundings of Southwold in Suffolk.
Each year has seen Latitude grow in stature and capacity, and it is now considered [...]

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PONTIAK are three brothers from the rural hills of Virginia – Lain, Van and Jennings Carney – who come together to make expansive, elemental psych rock grooves, which draw on the proto-metal of Sabbath, the howling psychedelia of Comets on Fire and the heavy stoner rock of Kyuss.
The band are about to embark on a [...]

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MySpace has asked me to nominate a band (featured on their site) I would like to see featured in their new online drama Freak. In order to make the show more interactive, they are offering bands a chance to have their music featured in an episode.
I was quite excited to be asked, until I realized [...]

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Cass McCombs – Catacombs – album review
In a music world where having the next new sound is essential to being the next big thing, it would appear hard for Cass McCombs to fit in. McCombs’ current album, Catacombs, could easily fall into the sort of genre I would  call (no doubt frustratingly) laid-back acoustic folk-influenced [...]

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