Buzz Magazine

Buzz is a complimentary monthly magazine that highlights culture and events in South Wales. Launched in 1991, it operates with a small team and is funded primarily through advertising. The magazine covers a variety of topics, including art, films, music, entertainment, and dining options in the region, and includes an extensive guide to local listings.

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After 50 years, CHICAGO still razzles and dazzles on its visit to Cardiff

1 week ago | buzzmag.co.uk | Chris Williams

Chicago – that perennial favourite, cousin to Cabaret and one of Kander and Ebb’s hit musicals – is bringing razzle-dazzle to the Wales Millennium Centre this week. A strong hit in its 1970s run, Chicago became a phenomenon during its late-90s Broadway and West End revivals. Based on a 1920s play which was itself based on real life events, we follow two “merry murderesses” – rivals Velma Kelly and Roxy Hart – as they court celebrity while trying to avoid the hangman’s knot.
Broadway and West End smash musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN visits Cardiff, fuelled by fine performances

2 weeks ago | buzzmag.co.uk | Chris Williams

A suicide and some lies, a broken arm and Waving Through A Window: that’s more or less all this reviewer knew, going into the first UK and Ireland tour of this hit Broadway and West End phenomenon. An unusually experience, going into a musical quite this cold, but there’s more to Dear Evan Hansen than its main premise. Not your razzle-dazzle type musical, DEH deals with teenage depression and suicide.
LUCY DACUS: a solo album of sad girl music from one third of BOYGENIUS

1 month ago | buzzmag.co.uk | Hannah Collins

Forever Is A Feeling (Polydor)Sapphics just keep winning in today’s zeitgeist: case in point, a brand new Lucy Dacus album twinned with the news that she and Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker have been quietly dating, resulting in the funniest, most weirdly edited band photo ever.
Lady Gaga drops album seven, Mayhem

2 months ago | buzzmag.co.uk | Hannah Collins

Mayhem (Interscope)Mother Monster is back. Not the rave queen from the planet Chromatica. Not Joanne. Not Harley Quinn. Not Tony Bennett’s other jazz half. The OG Mother Monster. The countdown for Mayhem, Lady Gaga’s seventh solo studio album, began with the release of lead single Disease last October, a complete departure from her late summer crooner Die With a Smile with squeaky-clean pop prince Bruno Mars (though the two now top and tail the same album).
Chicagoan trio HORSEGIRL's second album is a textural delight with postpunk spirit

2 months ago | buzzmag.co.uk | Hannah Collins

Phonetics On And On (Matador)From the pitter-pattering drums of Where’d You Go? to the childlike xylophone tinkles of I Can’t Stand To See You, Horsegirl’s second album Phonetics On And On is a harmonious playground of ideas, textures and unexpected sounds.
UK experimental rocker BRIDGET HAYDEN turns folk singer with THE APPARITIONS

Jan 18, 2025 | buzzmag.co.uk | NOEL GARDNER

Cold Blows The Rain (Basin Rock)If Bridget Hayden’s previous, more experimental, work has toyed with guitar and drone to produce its mysterious squalls, Cold Blows The Rain is purely concerned with the flat drizzle of English folk songs. Explicitly inspired by the damp microclimes of Yorkshire’s Calder Valley and mum-sung standards of the Hayden household, it’s a slow and mournful album, a fixed palette of violin, harmonium and banjo clothing Hayden’s swooping and piercing vocals.
LAZARUS MAN: Richard Price paints Harlem's streets engagingly

Jan 16, 2025 | buzzmag.co.uk | NOEL GARDNER

Manhattan-based Richard Price is well known for his urban crime novels like Clockers and Lush Life, but was also a contributing writer for The Wire and its hard-hitting social realism. While Lazarus Man – set in Harlem circa 2008 – is a different creation to Price’s previous crime-versus-police procedural tales, gang and drug violence bubbles away in the underbelly of these mean streets.
UK pop institution Saint Etienne offer bitesize pleasure on album 12

Jan 12, 2025 | buzzmag.co.uk | NOEL GARDNER

The Night (Heavenly)UK three-piece Saint Etienne’s 12th studio album is comprised of 14 short tracks. Settle In, the opening number, begins with sounds of cars and bars before settling into a relaxing groove. Each subsequent song is a meditation in its own right, and each entices you to linger, but herein lies the problem: these songs feel like tasters and leave you wanting more. Even Hear My Heart – the longest track, at just over six minutes – feels incomplete.
DAVID HURN & ROBERT GREETHAM help to launch the SIGNATURES photography talks in Penarth

Dec 21, 2024 | buzzmag.co.uk | NOEL GARDNER

Ben Woolhead nips to Penarth’s Turner House Gallery to report on the first in a new series of speaking events covering Wales’ photography scene and its storied history. Signatures is a new initiative set up by Brian Carroll, founder of Offline Journal, in which Welsh and Wales-based photographers are invited to talk about their self-published zines and photobooks.
Buzz writers' favourite albums of 2024 that got away… until now

Dec 17, 2024 | buzzmag.co.uk | NOEL GARDNER

Despite reports about music fans’ changing listening habits, the album currently seems like as solid a format as ever. There’ve been absolutely bajillions of them, to use a statisticians’ technical term, released in 2024, and Buzz caught plenty, but we thought we’d see out the year by rounding up some of our writers’ favourites that they didn’t get a chance to praise on release.