To celebrate 50 years of the footwear of choice for pretty much every rock music subculture — Dr. Marten’s boots (aka Docs) — the company has asked 10 artists to cover a cult classic representing the spirit of the people who have worn Docs. Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club have done an admirable acoustic version [...]
And now for something completely different… We’ll admit we don’t feature many non-Western acts here at Webcuts but when, out of left field, comes a piece of ear candy from the east like The Suzan’s “Home” we do listen. And look. With a cute glockenspiel intro, maracas-a-plenty, chunky bass and soothing if indecipherable vocals culminating [...]
Brisbane upstarts DZ have thrilled and spilled with their brash brand of indie-punk since last year’s DZ Ruined My Life EP and legendary live shows including a sweaty but memorable gig at the Hangar. With a fund-raising east coast tour around the corner to enable the band to terrorise the inhabitants of NYC they have [...]
Listen up, those of you who surf the web expressly for free music, have we got a treat for you. The lovely people at Domino Records have seen fit to drop their poker face and show the world their hand, putting together Snapshot: A Domino Compilation — an 11 track selection of their latest and [...]
Is Grinderman now the guiding force in Nick Cave’s life? With the departure of Nick Harvey as both perennial Bad Seed and Cave’s right hand man, what are the Bad Seeds now but just Grinderman with a new name and a new lease on life, without all the trappings of three decades journeying to hell [...]
In 2008 Melbourne’s Cut Copy were lauded left right and centre for their New Order inspired rock-disco opus In Ghost Colours. Two and half years on and the first fruits of their upcoming, yet to be titled third album (not due until early 2011) have been cast out onto the internets in the form of [...]
Bands they come and bands they go, like a passing breeze you never really know when, or if, they’ll return. After an extended period of silence, ’90s New York three-piece Versus (think Yo La Tengo meet Mission of Burma), have reconvened with On the Ones and Threes, the band’s first LP (fifth total) in ten [...]
Remember The Rentals? In 1995 Matt Sharp, then Weezer’s bassist, formed a group which amalgamated sweet male-female harmonies, new wave moog synths and violins for the stunning Return of the Rentals. A follow-up LP in 1999 lacked focus and The Rentals seemingly called it a day, until 2005 which saw the them return for live [...]
While the new STARS album may be a mixed bag it nonetheless contains several stellar tunes including “We Don’t Want Your Body” which imagines Torquil Campbell and Amy Milan as two sordid lovers in London, lying in the gutter looking up at the stars — figuratively speaking — combining Afropop with arpeggio organ and an [...]
Ornate and dreamlike New York trio Blonde Redhead return with Penny Sparkle, the follow-up to 2007′s 23, due out September 14 on 4ad. Details on the album are still somewhat scarce, but frontwoman Kazu Mazion recently released this vague soporific statement (edited for space here). “I can’t say what Penny Sparkle is about just yet. [...]
You couldn’t pair a better band with a better song with New York’s The Walkmen taking on the R.E.M. classic “Driver 8″ as part of the AV Club’s Undercover series. With the list of 25 songs narrowed down to just one, The Walkmen were left with the track nobody else wanted. Regardless, they take “Driver 8″ and transform into their own inimitable style, albeit a little rough and ready, with vocalist Hamilton Leithauser sounding as if he’s never heard the song in his life. It’s worth remembering that the new Walkmen album Lisbon is due for release on September 13 through Bella Union, and coincidently, the deluxe edition of R.E.M.’s Fables Of The Reconstruction in which “Driver 8″ sits proudly on, was released a month or so ago. Webcuts favourite R.E.M. album of all time, you say? Well, yes, indeed it is.
