Buzzin Pop Music

The Hard Rock Calling music festival is held in Hyde Park, London at the end of June.  Looking at the line up I see the promoters are aiming at a distinctly older music loving audience with a line-up of big names from the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney headline [...]

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The Christians had a string of soul-inspired pop hits in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s including Forgotten Town, Born Again,When the Fingers Point, Ideal World, Father, Perfect Moment, What’s in a Word and cover versions of Harvest for the World and The Bottle.
Next month, The Christians release their brand new single Where Do [...]

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Paw Paw release electro pop single, Wired OK on Albino Recordings as limited edition 12” vinyl and digital download.
This sugar-coated electro/synth pop song from Paw Paw is a  sweet catchy pop song with echoes of the 1980’s electro pop of Heaven 17 with a hint of the wonderful Little Boots.
Wired OK’s original release was [...]

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Katsen are the electronic synth pop duo of Chris Blackburn & Donna Grimaldi.
Their love of electronic pop music is analogue sounds, synthetic sounding drum machines.
The sound is distinctly 1980s synth pop while Donna’s look is more 1950s chic.
Donna and Chris became friends in 2001 while selling clothes at a craft market in Brighton. Donna’s brilliant [...]

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So there we were sitting in the Buzzin Media office, wondering whether to spend the August Bank holiday stuck in a coast bound traffic jam or sitting in a crowded Carnival bound tube, when we were contacted by the very nice We Are Social girls Sarah, Camille and Sandrine and invited to the Rock En Seine [...]

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