Webcuts Music

One of the top records of the year that you never want to hear again? Merrill Garbus is Tune-yards and experimental lo-fi folk is the order of the day.

Sultry New York electro-pop trio Cold Cave are set to tour Europe this May, beginning their journey at the Matt Groening-curated ATP Festival and finishing up at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival. To coincide Matador Records are to release Cold Cave live favourite ‘Life Magazine’ as a 12″ featuring a number of high profile guest remixes. The video clip itself is something of a burlesque make-up tutorial as if filmed by Andy Warhol, but it’s actually directed by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell (Focus Creeps) and stars Marti Domination, star of Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster’ (she played Goodyear) and main protagonist on the cover sleeve of Cold Cave’s Love Come Close album.

Having released one of Webcuts favourite albums of 2010, The Big Pink begin the new decade with another single, this time a reworking of album track “Velvet”, set for a full commercial release on February 15th.

We all know the Big Pink’s own work is terrific (A Brief History Of Love is out now through 4ad/Remote Control) so it’s no surprise to find out their music taste is also awesome. A mix they did for Fact magazine ranges from the indie influences you’d expect (Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Jesus & Mary Chain) but also [...]

Well versed in the Bible John Darnielle’s Mountain Goats new album doesn’t actually require a religious bone in your body to enjoy.

Recently setting the stereo at Webcuts HQ on fire with their debut release A Brief History of Love, we speak to Robbie Furze of The Big Pink as he explains the power of love and offers us a brief history of this incredible electronic/shoegaze duo.

Another month, another Deerhunter namecheck this time through the release of Logos the forthcoming album from Bradford Cox’s side project Atlas Sound, which features guest appearances via Panda Bear from Animal Collective and Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab.

Deerhunter’s willowy singer-guitarist and stand-up comic in the making Bradford Cox entered the 2Ser studios to trade words with Static’s Chris Berkley about all things in the Deerhunter-verse.

On an unexpected jaunt down to the Southern Hemisphere, Webcuts had the good fortune to be in attendance at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney to witness the final show of Deerhunter’s first Australian tour and to record the final song of the night, a mesmerising slow-burning version of Microcastle masterpiece “Twilight at Carbon Lake”. Check back later this week for a review of their Australian tour, as well as an exclusive interview with frontman Bradford Cox.

Hot on the heels of Microcastle comes this warmly welcomed five track EP from Webcuts’ band de jour.