Webcuts Music

With their long-awaited third album The Suburbs released this week, it’s celebration time all round for the Arcade Fire collective, but as Webcuts assembles its verdict on just how good (or bad) The Suburbs is, they soldier on regardless, knowing at least the two new songs released so far (“The Suburbs” and “Month Of May”) exist well outside of the black hole Neon Bible was sucked into. To coincide with the release, the band has partnered with American Express, VEVO, and YouTube to live-stream their August 5 performance at Madison Square Garden, featuring surprise musical guests.

Out of nowhere comes a near perfect album by a near forgotten band that rewrites their own history in one superlative-inducing swoop.

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 [...]

A band of such warmth and light, the only way you’d see a ‘shadow’ here is if you held this Teenage Fanclub CD up in front of you.

Former Everything But The Girl frontwoman aptly wrestles with life after 40. “…not all fun and games, but a pleasure regardless”.

The anticipated follow-up to the fan and critic fave Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, fails to meet expectation, begging the question, ‘Where were Spoon transferring to?’.

Merge Records recently announced the long-awaited April 20 release of The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box set on limited-edition 10” vinyl. Story has it that Stephin Merritt came up with the idea for while sitting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar, and originally planned for it to be a live musical revue, with [...]

A protégé of Death Cab’s Chris Walla, Telekinesis, certainly has the über producer’s influence all over its thirteen power pop tracks.

A star-studded cast pay tribute on this anniversary compilation, but who invited Times New Viking?

Spoon Centre Stage, Atlanta, GA 14th April 2008 It’s Britt Daniel’s birthday but you wouldn’t know it. There’s no cake and candles, no rambunctious behaviour or jokes. You’d be expecting the band to be soused and swaying, playing covers and celebrating the occasion, using the opportunity to cut loose. In fact Daniel looks embarrassed as [...]