Webcuts Music

How did we lose this CD? Never mind, we finally give Austin’s other post-rock band’s eighth album a run through.

Ladies and gentlemen, the envelope please! Webcuts favourite albums of 2008 as argued and fought over by us, including star-studded appearances from Beach House, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Nick Cave, Santogold, Okkervil River and many more…

Expanded and remastered fourth album tour de force from Stockton, CA quintet. High-ho silver ride!

In the annals of Australian music history, The Welcome Mat only succeeded in living up to their name, laid down at the gates of opportunity to watch in dismay as their more fated friends were to find out what lay behind door number one. As an underground phenomenon in Sydney, they were the kings of [...]

  Beach House Cargo, London 2nd December 2008 Roughly a year since their last headline show at the Water Rat in Kings Cross, Baltimore’s Beach House have doubled their output and returned to London on the tail end of a European tour, promoting Devotion, their second album released earlier in the year. Having played support on recent tours [...]

The Stills channel an environmental apocalypse with Oceans Will Rise. Will anyone be left to hear it?

The ever durable Lucksmiths get up before dawn on their latest album. Don’t forget your mittens, boys!

“I don’t know. I feel a bit naughty playing here”, confides Jonathan Meiburg, singer with the Austin, Texas outfit Shearwater, sitting in front of a grand piano in St.Giles in the Fields, an 17th century church in London’s West End. As a packed audience crammed pews to watch in rapt appreciation, Shearwater settled in to [...]

A christmas gift from Chan Marshall aka Cat Power. You might want to keep the receipt…

Melbourne’s The Fauves prove to be remarkably prophetic with their ninth serve of twisted rock.