6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (239+ words) Cardiff-based poet and performer Rachel Helena Walsh is once again bringing Buzz some typewritten excellence! (Read her review of 2025’s Sŵn Festival here and an interview with Spit Hood here.) Below is the results of her meetup with Ellis Acton-Dyer…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (71+ words) Jamie Fisher’s Nobody Broke Your Heart is the latest biography to document Elliott Smith’s 34 years on Earth, and is forensic in telling his story. This 1990s nostalgia-fest is perfect for Xennials – that most blessed mini-generation who were taught analogue but later…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (136+ words) A new book of annual traditions takes in everything from cheese rolling in Gloucestershire to warm pennies raining down from the sky in Devon. The old house they buy there once belonged to John Malachy, 1960s occult celebrity and Crowley fanatic....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (184+ words) Buzz Magazine Art, culture and the best of what’s on in Wales Looking for something in particular? Here’s a funny thing. Man/Woman/Chainsaw, with their pre-twenties youth and sold-out Scala gigs, are clearly on the upwards glam part of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (114+ words) Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Bo Diddley and many other wild mavericks, misfits and outsiders all make appearances in Brian Cullman’s new memoir. In a later chapter, Orzabal reflects, “It seems that Tears for Fears cannot produce their best work without…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (143+ words) Buzz Magazine Innovative and cinematic, Arca’s first album in five years allows us to witness both rupture and rapture. XXXXX is at once frightening and abrasive and yet delicate in its dealing with issues of patriarchy, desire, and humanity. Xiu…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (417+ words) Antonia Levay spoke to David Massey, the Creative Technology & Storytelling Senior Producer at Wales Millennium Centre, about Evolver – an immersive show narrated by Cate Blanchett, which takes audiences on a journey through the human body, and is on in the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (628+ words) Buzz Magazine Art, culture and the best of what’s on in Wales Looking for something in particular? New Welsh music you may have missed in July, from war metal mania to rambling acid memories Noel Gardner has a bag and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (202+ words) The final album in the trilogy that started with Sweet and Sad, Sugar finds Florida pop-punk rockers Mayday Parade on excellent form. The songs are upbeat, packed with catchy riffs, and even when singing about sadness and hurt, they still…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (160+ words) Gino Ochello makes his acting debut as Daniel in The Karate Kid – The Musical. Ahead of its visit to Cardiff, Oliver Howells chatted to him. Adam Garcia and Sidonie Smith take the lead roles: former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer,…...