Buzzin Pop Music

The Pipettes are back with “Boo Shuffle” a super fun single resplendent with its own dance routine that zaps them right back to their polka-dotted girl group roots.
One of the last songs to be produced by the legendary Martin Rushent (The Stranglers, Shirley Bassey, Altered Images, The Buzzcocks and, most famously, the Human League’s ‘Dare’) [...]

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Re-issuing everything that might bring them in a few quid to swell their enormous coffers, Universal Music turn their attention to three albums recorded and released in 1964 and 1965 by the leaders of the Mod movement The Kinks.
Packaged in Universal’s deluxe format, these albums will contain a stack of rare or unreleased material, demo [...]

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On 3 June 2011, 1960’s poet and folk-psychedelic-pop legend Donovan will be performing his classic 1966 album Sunshine Superman and a selection of his phenomenal hits at the Royal Albert Hall. The special event will see the celebrated singer-songwriter teaming up with The London Contemporary Orchestra and some very special guests. It’s the centrepiece of [...]

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The assocaition between the BBC and Status Quo stretches back almost 45 years beginning with some recordings of The Spectres in 1966 before the band changed their name to Status Quo.
It was two years later when Status Quo peformed their psychedelic inspired Pictures Of Matchstick Men at the beeb in 1968 for The Dave Symonds [...]

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Launched by The Beatles in 1968 as an outlet for their own recordings as well as hoping to break new artists from various musical genres, Apple Records was responsible for introducing artists such as James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Doris Troy and Billy Preston.
All of the artists were personally brought to the Apple [...]

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