Posts Tagged ‘2008’

Windsor for the Derby – How We Lost

By Garry Thomson • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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



Webcuts Top 25 Albums of 2008

By Caleb Rudd • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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…



Pavement – Brighten The Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition)

By Craig Smith • Jan 19th, 2009 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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



The Welcome Mat – Gram

By Craig Smith • Dec 22nd, 2008 • Category: Secret History of Australian Music


Beach House – London – 2 December 2008

By Craig Smith • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Live Reviews

 
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 by Cat Power and Fleet [...]



The Stills – Oceans Will Rise

By Craig Smith • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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



The Lucksmiths – First Frost

By Molly Dorfman • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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



Shearwater – London – 22 November 2008

By Craig Smith • Nov 23rd, 2008 • Category: Live Reviews

“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 [...]



Cat Power – Dark End Of The Street

By Craig Smith • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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



The Fauves – When Good Times Go Good

By Craig Smith • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Album / EP Reviews

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