Ahead of the release of their second album, Future This, The Big Pink have recorded a set of five songs as part of the 4AD Sessions series. Bringing to life the anthemic qualities of the new album, the session is a showcase of the unabashed step towards stadium dynamics the band have made on Future This, while also displaying the often-curveball influences that continue to underpin their best work
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The Too Pure Singles Club returns in 2012 with a bang (or is that a rattle) with the sound of Icelandic mantra magicians Dead Skeletons. For the uninitiated, Dead Skeletons came into existence in 2008 when band member Jon Saamunder needed music for an art installation in the Reykjavik Art Museum. Enlisting the help of friends Henrik Bjornsson and Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt the trio penned the songs w
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Out of the Fiery Furnace and into the solo arena, Eleanor Friedberger released her debut solo record Last Summer last year to positive reviews (I’m pretty sure we liked it too). Currently enjoying an Australian summer playing a few shows and watching the tennis, Eleanor also found time to put together a video for [...]
Recent Rough Trade signings Howler stake their claim as a band to watch in 2012 (while coming across like a Midwest Strokes) with a brand new track “Back of Your Neck” taken from their forthcoming debut album America Give Up due out January 16. Download the song for free above and catch the band touring [...]
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From her isolated upbringing in rural Wisconsin, comined with a passion for opera, philosophy and industrial music, Nika Rosa Danilova aka Zola Jesus has created a name for herself as being a successor to the great Diamanda Galas and Lisa Gerrard with her haunting, otherworldly vocal style. Over the past three years Danilova has reached the point in her career where she is no longer an experimenta
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As the year slowly winds down we get reminded, we being Webcuts, of the albums we just didn't get around to reviewing. Either because our plate was too full or because well... yawn, where does the time go? So, look, we'd like to apologise to Scottish indie-pop quartet Zoey Van Goey who released their second album Propeller Versus Wings way back in February for not expressly recommending it's quirk
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For those of you who resided in Sydney, Australia in the Summer of 1992/93, Evan Dando's presence was a ubiquitous one. On a night off in Sydney, Dando recorded a set of songs in his Bondi hotel room featuring tracks that would later appear on Come On Feel The Lemonheads, along with covers of Love Positions and Smudge songs. Having recently unearthed the cassette, Dando deemed it worthy of release
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Ass-kicking rock n' roll from Spain's Layabouts. Not sure why we reviewed this, but hey, why the hell not.
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They released one of 2011's finest albums with the 20th anniversary celebrating The Double Cross and now my own personal rock n' roll heroes Sloan are to release their first live bootleg LP. Titled Is That All I Get? the album documents the band 'rough and ready' style after a year of touring their debut album Smeared and features nascent versions of tracks which would later appear on the Twice Re
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London, Paris, Condale, Munich. Everybody's talking about Summer Camp's pop music. Well, not everybody. But they should.
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Sizzling psyche-pop debut from San Francisco three-piece Wet Illustrated. A little Feelies, a little Sonic Youth.
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New Jersey outfit Real Estate’s shares their first music video from their album Days for the lead single "It's Real", filmed in Ridgewood, New Jersey and directed by Weird Days. Days was recorded over the course of five patient months in a remote New Paltz, NY barn-cum-studio, and is a coming of age moment for childhood friends Martin Courtney (Guitar and Vocals), Matt Mondanile (Guitar) and Alex
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Given the dream-like quality of the music and the wide scope of the title for visual artists to work with, Okkervil River have unsurprisingly released a second video for the song “Your Past Life As A Blast” taken from I Am Very Far. How do you capture a memory? This is the main question director [...]
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Webcuts has favourite Misfits songs and it has favourite Misfits songs. This one tops the lot. Indie rock veterans Superchunk also have a thing for the Misfits too, in what seems to an annual Halloween tradition, they’ve posted a new Misfits’ cover on their website for the occasion. The band says, “Happy Halloween everyone! An [...]
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In September of this year, St. Vincent took a giant leap forward with the release of third album, Strange Mercy. This time out Annie Clark was to combine her long-celebrated musical virtuosity with ambitious songwriting that ran a gamut of emotional cadences, all the while underpinned by a colourful sense of melody. Recording these songs live for the first time, St. Vincent has performed four trac
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It's October. Why are we reviewing Christmas albums in October? Why She & Him? Why?
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Wilco -- "They’ve solidified themselves as the greatest American band playing today, possibly of all time".
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HTRK have always been a difficult band to love. Once you got used to their decaying minimalism and the anonymity that pervaded their artwork, you realised they weren't a band seeking attention, merely like-minded souls to tumble down their rabbit hole. They weren't looking for you, you were looking for them. They ply romance as being one of their tenets, but their music is neither romantic nor sed
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Folk bands are slowly going the way of the emo bands -- cookie-cutter, predictable, uninspired, and inevitably becoming a parody of themselves because music is a business and the market dictates that consumers will always want more of what's popular. The Beggar Folk fall nicely into the afore-mentioned folk music genre, however their music doesn't seem to follow suit with the folk status quo. Thes
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It's been a tough month for music fans having to deal with the loss of one legendary 80's alternative rock band, now compacted by the news of a divorce in the ranks of Sonic Youth throwing up serious questions mark over their future. It's not the end of the world just yet as Thurston Moore has announced a second London date at the Electric Ballroom on December 3 which will showcase the entirety of
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