Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Pete Shelley's sneering yet sweet voice and Steve Diggle's relentless guitar, Buzzcocks were the Mancunian punk misfits who ...

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 ...

Of all the punk originators, few are as compelling today -- or at least worthy enough to still be playing -- as the Buzzcocks. Even if you prefer the Buzzcocks' definitive material -- the songs that ...

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 ...

Steve Diggle decided to keep the Buzzcocks flag flying after the death of Pete Shelley in 2018, releasing a single in 2020 and an EP earlier this year. Today Sonics in the Soul arrives, the first ...