CEDRIC BURNSIDE sets a soulful groove on HILL COUNTRY LOVE
After 2021’s I Be Trying set a new standard for Mississippi hill country blues, Cedric Burnside is back with a lighter follow-up that reflects the warmth of his live performances.
After 2021’s I Be Trying set a new standard for Mississippi hill country blues, Cedric Burnside is back with a lighter follow-up that reflects the warmth of his live performances.
London duo Bob Vylan follow up a breakhrough year with Humble As The Sun, an LP fusing rock, rap and politics to moshpit-friendly effect.
Storm Kathleen may have remained under control on this early April evening in Cardiff, but Storm Caity Baser sure didn’t.
If you’re looking for fine rock’n’roll bangers on a Friday night, you won’t do much better than The Hives at Cardiff's Great Hall.
As part of his latest UK tour, Paul Weller brings his exceptional live show in Newport – here are five classics to keep an ear out for on the night.
Yes readers, festival season is back in 2024, as is Buzz's bumper guide covering the period from April to November.
Texas and Spooner Oldham is a combination which fits like a glove on compilation album, The Muscle Shoals Sessions.
If you’re looking for evidence that aliens are here, start with Shabazz Palaces, beaming hip-hop from a distant galaxy on new album, Exotic Birds Of Prey.
High Llamas' Sean O’Hagan's melodies rotate and distort embedded in Hey Panda, a weird, clean, modern wonder of an album.
With El Magnifico, producer and songwriter Ed Harcourt has moved away from the instrumental, cinematic soundscapes of his last, highly recommended album Monochrome To Colour.
As Strange Things Are Happening makes clear, Richard Norris might not be a household musical name, but's he's still a countercultural lodestone.
The scene this band grew up as part of is one that many are nostalgic about, yet through their musical evolution, Sum 41 proved they could transcend it.
Yorkshire's finest postpunk prodigies Yard Act ramp up the energy on an otherwise quiet Sunday night at Cardiff's Y Plas.
As Saturday night was the first date of a nationwide tour for Declan McKenna, Cardiff’s Students Union gets to christen a handful of new songs.
From even more dungeon synth to improv drumming to sludgy fuzz, here's what's been rattling around Wales' music scene lately.
With large and infectious hooks, VR Sex's third album, Hard Copy, is one for rockers of many persuasions.
Gossip's Real Power brings together pop, indie and disco, with their punk convictions intact, stamped with Beth Ditto’s unmistakably punchy vocals.
Julia Holter claimed that her sixth LP, Something In The Room She Moves, has “a corporeal focus”, yet like its predecessors it feels like another out-of-body experience.
With three new reissues out, it goes without saying that if the Butthole Surfers were active today, they’d be cancelled sooner than you could say, “I’m outraged by this stuff.”
Adrienne Lenker doesn’t shy away from vulnerability on Bright Future, a delicately made record that envelopes listeners in tales of childhood, heartbreak, and love.
Sweet Baboo and Bill Ryder Jones are perennial exceptions to the rule that all acoustic singer-songwriters must be arse-numbingly boring.
Ahead of a summer saturated with Welsh festival appearances, N’Famady Kouyaté brings his story to the heart of Cardiff in a flash of infectious Friday evening joy.
On a dark Thursday evening, Boyo floods Clwb Ifor Bach with outstanding talent for the launch of his In A Minute, Now EP.
Alison Cotton's first concept album Englechen focusses on the story of two German sisters who helped Jewish citizens escape persecution in the 30s.