Looking ahead to the new year, our bumper issue for Dec and Jan features the likes of @HamiltonMusical at @theCentre, @theGLC, @Bryn_Terfel, @CVCband_, @bfmvofficial, and @TheatrCymru. We also highlight our #onestowatch 👀✨ Read online:

The 16th studio album from American prog-metal titans @dreamtheaternet sees the return of their classic and well-loved style

Postpunk quintet @squidbanduk abandon complex time signatures for more simplistic repetition with Cowards

Journalist and essayist from Baltimore, @TaNehisiCoats' writing in The Message has the power to tangibly influence wider conversations

A guide to the very best theatre happening across Wales this spring

It’s been nearly 25 years since @CraigDavid’s debut album Born To Do It. Now he’s hitting the road again, combining his TS5 DJ set with a live band performance

Shock Induction, the new title from @chuckpalahniuk is a welcome shot in the arm for the dystopian genre

Hero is no romance: it’s a story of modern-day love from debut novelist Katie Buckley (@TinderPress)

UK folk-rock mainstay @DavidGray returns with Dear Life, his first album in four years, and he’s back in Wales for a brace of March gigs including one at @ArenaSwansea

Written in prose of extraordinary visual and sensory precision, @HanKangOfficial faces spectres of Korea’s past in a story of uncommon power and depth

RT @BuzzMagWales: With their third album Solas @adwaithmusic look set to step into the spotlight.

RT @amycwild: I interviewed @CraigDavid for @BuzzMagWales! After 20+ years in the industry, what stands out most is how grounded he is—no e…

The Marriage Of Figaro, showing at @theCentre, combines the eternal talent of the @WelshNatOpera and fearless conductor Karem Hasan

With their third album Solas @adwaithmusic look set to step into the spotlight.

It’s been nearly 25 years since @CraigDavid’s debut album Born To Do It. Now he’s hitting the road again, combining his TS5 DJ set with a live band performance. @UtilitaArenaCDF

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ writing in The Message has the power to tangibly influence wider conversations

With EP Nowhere Near Today, @midding_band recalibrate their sound with a little help from DIY home recordings and their @shiftcardiff community

A guide to the best theatre happening across Wales this spring featuring @ShermanTheatre @theCentre and @GleeClubCardiff

Artists @IAMKP, @juliefowlis and @marychapin101 make for a folk/Americana dream team on lockdown project Looking For The Thread

Hallucinating Love, the new album from @mariboustate blends silvery vocals, plaintive strings and hypnotic grooves

With The Visitor, @PressPeninsula republish Maeve Brennan, an Irish writer who made her name in mid-century America