SŴN FESTIVAL 2024: genre-bending performances from one of Cardiff’s quirkiest music weekends
Sŵn Festival 2024 takes over Cardiff with three days of multi-genre music. We review the best of the bunch, from Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard to Lambrini Girls.
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Independent Venue Week 2023 – the venues & bands in Wales you need to check out
Wales is home to an array of independent music and arts venues, 17 of which are taking part in Independent Venue Week, but we've narrowed it down to six in 2023 you should check out.
The best albums of 2022 – Buzz writers pick their favourite new music of the year
From Welsh up-and-comers like Adwaith and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard to established big names like George Ezra and The Unthanks, here are what Buzz's reviewers reckon are their best albums of 2022.
ADWAITH: rising Welsh-language dreampop trio excel with BATO MATO
For a group awarded the Welsh Music Prize in 2019, the prospect of releasing the ‘difficult second album’ could understandably be true. With Bato Mato, Adwaith needn’t worry.
“Winning the Welsh Music Prize confirmed we’re doing the right thing” – ADWAITH on their bigger, ‘weirder’ second album
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.
IDLES tear up Cardiff Motorpoint in front of packed crowd – in photos
Having postponed this Motorpoint Arena Cardiff show three times, Bristol’s Idles finally took to the stage in front of a sold-out crowd.
6 MUSIC FESTIVAL: HORIZONS X BBC INTRODUCING showcases sold-out Welsh lineup
Clwb Ifor Bach welcomed in the Horizons x BBC Introducing 6 Festival last night with a bang.
Wizard dreams and spontaneity – groove-laden psychedelic rockers DACTYL TERRA are ONES TO WATCH
Some start from song ideas, some from jams. We like to jam more than anything, so we just meet up and play.
“Going to America, the home of pop culture – I never thought we’d do that” – BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD’s Tom Rees on hitting the big time
Frontman of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Tom Rees tells John-Paul Davies what it feels like to be 'leading' the Welsh indie rock charge and, hopefully, cracking the States.
“Band-based spaces can be very male, white, straight and cis” – the Cardiff music workshop platforming inclusivity
Launching this month, Pitch In Cardiff is a music workshop scheme centered around making more room in the "stale male" band scene for marginalised people.
“Some of the songs were real gambles” – Ones to watch: SYWEL NYW on releasing new music every month in 2021
Already known as a member of north Wales' Yr Eira, Sywel Nyw has found Lewys Wyn releasing a song a month throughout 2021, each with a different Welsh vocalist.
THINGS TO DO | CHRISTMAS 2020
THINGS TO DO | CHRISTMAS 2020 The return to the Buzz website of this event-based march towards double figures, switching at will between digitally distanced happenings and ones involving …