Punk rock legend and Buzzcocks leader Steve Diggle constantly is looking forward with his music, regularly constructing songs and thinking about what comes next for the band. Yet at the same time, ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
As the 1980s began, Pete Shelley found himself at a low ebb. Since their very first gigs in 1976, his band Buzzcocks had easily distinguished themselves among the punk-rock moshpit. Disdaining the ...
U.K. punk legends the Buzzcocks are on tour supporting new deluxe reissues and performing two seminal 1978 albums in their sequential entirety. They played Peabody’s on Friday. Through the opening ...
The Buzzcocks were back in the Bay Area on Thursday night. Yet, it was a different kind of Buzzcocks that took the stage at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. It was the first time that ...
Buzzcocks captured the imagination of a generation when the band released its debut, "Spiral Scratch", in 1976. "Time's Up!", a studio demo turned formal release, followed in 1978. The two of albums ...
Steve Diggle isn’t exactly a founding member of the Buzzcocks, but he’s been around since the beginning. He was recruited by Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto early on after a couple of the band’s ...
Buzzcocks plus The Seagulls, The Reflectors I've never understood why there's such a widespread belief that punk rock broke into the mainstream into the early '90s. It must drive Pete Shelley crazy, ...