Webcuts Music

In the early hours of the first day of this year a friend told this Webcutian about one of his favourite bands, Japandroids, a two piece from Canada, and put their Post-Nothing LP on the stereo. I wasn’t in the mood for discovering new music and promptly forget all about the band until this week [...]

To celebrate 50 years of the footwear of choice for pretty much every rock music subculture — Dr. Marten’s boots (aka Docs) — the company has asked 10 artists to cover a cult classic representing the spirit of the people who have worn Docs. Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club have done an admirable acoustic version [...]

And now for something completely different… We’ll admit we don’t feature many non-Western acts here at Webcuts but when, out of left field, comes a piece of ear candy from the east like The Suzan’s “Home” we do listen. And look. With a cute glockenspiel intro, maracas-a-plenty, chunky bass and soothing if indecipherable vocals culminating [...]

Brisbane upstarts DZ have thrilled and spilled with their brash brand of  indie-punk since last year’s DZ Ruined My Life EP and legendary live shows including a sweaty but memorable gig at the Hangar. With a fund-raising east coast tour around the corner to enable the band to terrorise the inhabitants of NYC they have [...]

A non-stop assault of pop gems, Kicks is the approaching release of 1990s‘ second collection of knock out songs, which is due out late March and follows on from he group’s cult hit loaded and hugely acclaimed debut album Cookies. With fuzzed out guitars, thumping bass line, organ plus a few “oo-ooos” thrown in for [...]

Bon Iver is currently wowing all and sundry on his Australian tour. His recently released EP Blood Bank is rather good too and funnily enough Jagjaguwar and Inertia have the title track available for your downloading pleasure: Bon Iver – “Blood Bank” MP3 (192kps, 6.5MB) What do you get when you combine garage rock and [...]

Malcolm Middleton’s Sleight of Heart was one of our favourite albums of 2008. Sample some of it yourself courtesy of Inertia. Malcolm Middleton – “Blue Plastic Bags” (6MB)

Lick were one of Britpop’s great forgotten bands. Forming in Camden in 1994 they made a splash with glam anthems, perchant for eyeliner and sexually charged lyrics. But the dream was all over two years later on the cusp of releasing their debut album. We feature an in-depth Q&A with lead singer Gary Cosby and feature the Turbulence album available for download for the first time.