Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
With a second album and rash of summer festival gigs on the horizon. Buzz’s Emma Way spoke to
folk punks Adwaith. Read, watch or listen to the interview here.
Will Varley and Jack Valero invest the audience through gorgeous wordplay and melodic progressions with their sets in Cardiff.
Ahead of her more-than-overdue debut in Cardiff, Carl Marsh speaks to Midlands soul siren Mahalia Burkmar (but just her first name’ll do, cheers) about her plans for ’22.
Puppy’s no-frills headline performance at Clwb Ifor Bach was a reminder that, at the end of the day, the music should always take centre stage.
Formidable pugilists righteously fighting the corner of the maligned and marginalised, Bob Vylan are a product of our times – and a band at the top of their game.
Production duo Subjective, made up of Goldie and James Davidson, weaves in various soulful musicians on their second collaborative album.
Malicious Intent is a giant of an album and represents a massive step on the upward curve that Malevolence find themselves on.
Florence + The Machine have done well to lambast themselves without losing any of their apparently genuine uniqueness on Dance Fever.
How does one revolutionise modern pop music? This was something Everything Everything wanted to combat on Raw Data Feel, their sixth studio album, after 2020’s songwriting-focused Re-Animator.
Alison Cotton's fourth solo album The Portrait You Painted Of Me is a strange, foreboding record, entrancing and unsettling in equal measure.
Many Illuminati Hotties tracks are smeared thick with jaded millennial irony - bratty chantalong choruses that animate the crowd, but all too often spark is sacrificed for smirk.
Noel Gardner brings you the latest new Welsh releases that may have passed you by, including jazzy post-rock from Blue Amber and Soundcloud indie-rap from Yxngxr1.
Irish folk legend Andy Irvine rolls into Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on Tue 17 May as part of the Roots Unearthed series.
Talented. Masterful. Unmistakable. These are just a few words used to describe Gregory Porter and his band, who finally performed in Cardiff.
Carl Marsh is full of praise for 2022’s more grown-up and raring-to-go Miles Kane – back in Wales this month.
The inclusion alone of Kitty Wells’ I’ve Got A New Heartache and Patsy Cline’s A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye make this compilation essential.
After the fantastic opener Dangerous, which pokes fun at Morrison’s status as the pot-stirring, sneering cynic, the rest of the new album is obsessed with lying politicians and a brainwashed nation.
Heafy’s love of black metal, Japanese culture as well as a personal glimpse into his own American/Japanese heritage are all brought together with a passion that goes further than a mere side project.
Like his first two albums, Duncan recorded and produced Alluvium at home, and reaches new heights with this lush kaleidoscope blend of electronic, dream and chamber-ish pop.
Although third LP Headful of Sugar is more consistent than previous releases, Sunflower Bean's quality control still needs adjustment.
Kae Tempest’s new album The Line Is A Curve has proved the best chart performer of their career to date. May’s tour, including a stop in Cardiff, is Kae’s biggest so far too. Sarah-Jane Outten grabbed a word.
A deeply affecting read, and an almighty wake-up call to the music industry, music writer Ian Winwood digs into why drugs and alcohol are so prevelent in rock 'n' roll.
The future of metal is looking promising with Architects at the helm and don’t let the naysayers tell you any different.
Sarah Beth Tomberlin played a daunting solo set at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach - dialling back her new material to you could take more notice of their vulnerability.
