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BARRY ADAMSON | FEATURE

September 30, 2021 by Noel Gardner

With his long-awaited memoir out now, what better time for a look at the life and work of Barry Adamson: Mancunian musical cult icon and collaborator with the likes of Nick Cave and David Lynch. David Nobakht has the goods.

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 17, 2021 by Noel Gardner

A week of heavy music in various forms this week - and though Adia Victoria and Moor Mother prove that doesn't have to mean big rock riffs and the like, Carcass, Employed To Serve and Merthyr band Florence Black offer a bit of that anyway.

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 10, 2021 by Noel Gardner

A week of marquee releases including Manic Street Preachers album number 14 and a bumper-sized Metallica reissue/tribute album package. Plus Elvis Costello is redone in Spanish and there's comebacks from Martina Topley-Bird and Saint Etienne.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 25, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Murderous thrillers, Russian historical fiction, a perfume-scented journey to 19th-century Edinburgh, explorations of identity and belonging, and a graphic novel devised by Line Of Duty's main brain.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 11, 2021 by Noel Gardner

This week's books include a Southern Gothic novel by Bethany W Pope, a UK-Cypriot search for identity by Elif Shafak, and Séamas O’Reilly's bereavement memoir.

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 6, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Buzz's second set of weekly album reviews this week (don't ask) includes a set of womanly pop covers by Will Young, more measured classical by Max Richter, and intense meditations on Christianity by Lingua Ignota.

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 3, 2021 by Noel Gardner

The first of two sets of album reviews to be handed down to you this week, for reasons, features an eclectic crop of Dot Allison, Erasure, John Francis Flynn, Lump and Underdark.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

July 14, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Buzz’s second book reviews section to be published this week (as a cheeky one-off) brings you reviews of Riley Sager’s ghostly tale, Sara Jafari’s Iranian-British family saga, an American crime thriller by S.A. Cosby, a novel co-written by married couple Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, and a scarily expensive scrapbook about Janis Joplin…

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

July 12, 2021 by Noel Gardner

A big week for albums by relatives of more famous musicians – indeed there is not one, not four but THREE such releases in this perky little section! However, because Buzz thinks music should stand on its own merits, this familial connection has only been mentioned in one of the reviews.

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

June 11, 2021 by Buzz

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN Silfur (Deutsche Grammophon) Pianist and score composer Dustin O’Halloran’s first venture into the world of music was playing guitar and keyboards for the hugely underrated and wistful Los …

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

June 4, 2021 by Buzz

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BUGZY MALONE The Resurrection (Ill Gotten) From the opening title track of Bugzy Malone’s latest, the mood and scene is set: …

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GEORGE ORWELL: TWO NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS | FEATURE

June 3, 2021 by Buzz

George Orwell is back, and he’s in graphic novel form! An illustrated biography of his remarkable life has hit bookshops at about the same time as a similarly pictorial treatment …

BARRY ADAMSON | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

GEORGE ORWELL: TWO NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS | FEATURE

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