In the early days, when the famed English punk rock band, Buzzcocks, wrote new music, they wanted to be finished by 5:30 PM that afternoon. Because, says early member, Steve Diggle, that’s when the ...

As he releases a new album 50 years after the birth of the band, the only surviving member talks about how they led the Big Bang of Manchester music - and his encounter with the Moors murderers ...

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 ...

Manchester punk legends Buzzcocks are mounting a 22-date North American tour where they’ll play their first two albums, Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites (both released in 1978) in ...

Pete Shelley died in 2018 but Steve Diggle decided to keep the Buzzcocks flame alive and the band have now shared their first single since Shelley’s death. “Gotta Get Better” was actually released six ...

The Buzzcocks have announced their return to Australia for the first time since 2016, playing seven shows across the country from late October to early November 2024 as part of their Buzzcocks Are ...

The co-founder, singer and guitarist of the pioneering British punk band Buzzcocks, Manchester-born Pete Shelley, died Thursday at the age of 63. The BBC is reporting Shelley died of a suspected heart ...

How do you get the Buzzcocks sound? Steve Diggle says that’s like a chef revealing his secrets, but admits that one crucial ingredient is his old H&H amp. This was acquired almost 50 years ago with ...

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 ...

Never Mind the Buzzcocks was a huge hit for BBC, originally airing in 1996 when hosted by Mark Lamarr. Simon Amstell took the hotseat a decade later before leaving the show in 2010. Guest presenters ...

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, ...

The world lost one of the great pop-punk singer/songwriters when Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley died from a suspected heart attack in December 2018. He was 63. Had he lived Shelley would have ...