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January 10, 2003

The Buzzcocks Buzz Back

Punk legends to release new album in March
October 22, 1999

Performance: Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks still playing the punk after nearly twenty-five years

Many Parts

What kind of punk-rock band is this? The booklet to Product, a terrific box-set retrospective, tells of the Buzzcocks taking LSD in the recording studio, and some of the songs clock in at six and seven minutes. If this is the kind of behavior Johnny Rotten would have called "hippie-ish" and Joe...

1988 RS: 4of 5 Stars

A Different Kind of Tension

1979

Singles Going Steady

1979

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The Buzzcocks were a successful U.K. new-wave singles band during the late '70s, combining Beatlesque romance and melodicism with a buzzsaw guitar attack and blistering punk-rock tempos. They came together at Bolton Institute in 1975 and made frequent London club appearances the following year. Their first recordings, including the four-song EP called Spiral Scratch (widely credited as Britain's...

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