Buzzin Music

The Xcerts have experienced quite a year in 2009 and have recently announced a UK tour that will keep them busy until Christmas, featuring a hatful of gigs in Scotland.
The Xcerts kicked off 2009 with the release of their anthemic single Crisis in the Slow Lane, which The Observer considered ‘a classic piece of fist [...]

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Straight Lines was originally conceived by Welsh duo Tom Jenkins and Dane Campbell following the demise of their previous band. The pair collated ideas and wrote enough material for a new album, but strapped for cash turned to Dane’s brother Todd Campbell to help them record the new work at his home based studio.
Todd was [...]

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Originally released on Rough Trade in 1983 by a 60-year-old Ivor Cutler, Privilege is a highly enjoyable 45 minutes in the company of one of modern culture’s true outsiders.
A one-man conundrum occupying an unlabelled category of his own somewhere among Surreal Folk, Nursery Rhyme, whimsical Sea Shanties and Lullabies, this is the only album where [...]

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High Places – I Was Born – single review
After the hype that surrounded the initial appearance of some of High Places individual songs on the web, their 2008 compilation and release was somewhat mutely received. The fact that most of the songs were already in circulation  meant that their effective re-release was unlikely to create [...]

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One of Scotland’s most respected bands Trashcan Sinatras have announced a UK tour that will take place in November, kicking off in Glasgow on November 12th at the Oran Mor and finishing a week later at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre.
Trashcan’s will be supported on all the dates by fellow Scottish band The Seventeenth Century, a band [...]

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