Webcuts Music

Standing tall in the face of tragedy, Magic Dirt compile a lucky dip of new, rare and unreleased tracks to coincide with their recent tour.

A fusion of dub reggae, ska and soul, the brilliance of Pama International comes to the fore with their seventh album Pama Outernational.

If New Order and Doves made a record, how would it sound? Something like this, we think…

Load the chamber and light a candle for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, it’s rockabilly blues-a-go-go with The Gun Club.

Having given us one of the most lurid and arresting albums all year in Two Dancers, the Leeds-based Wild Beasts are let loose on London and give us such a performance that we (as they say) still got the taste dancin’ on our tongues.

UK retro-funk n’ soul act The Heavy roll out the grooves and ask the question “How you like me now?”. Our answer awaits.

Windmill embark on a musical trip through the Epcot Space Center to give us the futuristic feel of Epcot Starfields.

Having had the release of his first solo album The Real Feel eclipsed by that of the forthcoming Pavement reunion and scramble to get tickets, Spiral Stairs would probably be feeling a little robbed, but then again come next year, as the reunion-cash floods in, whatsitgonnamatter? “Stolen Pills” is a kinda The Fall meets Flying Nun records hybird, jangling guitars and distorted vocals. It’s a sweet return to the ragged lo-fi rock of Pavement, and is a firm two fingers in the face of the prog-noodling of his ex-counterpart Stephen Malkmus. Stolen Pills, I love’em. The Real Feel is out on Domino Records this week.

A first (and probably last) for Webcuts as we jump in the back of a tour van and hit the road with ex-Brisbane trouble makers, now Sydney’s problem, The Scare, as they attempt to corrupt the people of Melbourne with their new ‘voodoo, and nothing, not even the death of Michael Jackson, was going to get in their way.

Every rose has a thorn and so too does the fifth album by Raymond Raposa’s folk-beat one man band Castanets.