Webcuts Music

It’s not so much lurking in the 3 minute bluster of their debut single “How Long”, but a part of its DNA, that you quickly catch onto Ramona’s game. In the first 10 seconds alone they manage to answer the eternal question of “What if Debbie Harry joined The Ramones?”. You see it in singer Karen Anne’s bleached blonde locks and her breathy purr, and you hear it all over “How Long”, the harmonies n’ hooks, and the buzzsaw guitars that graduate with honours from The Ramones “Rock n’ Roll High School”. It’s just one song/one question answered, we thought best to rattle off 15 more. Thus becoming the first in our “Who The Hell Are…?” Q&A’s where we send out, Smash Hits-style, a random bunch of questions to a new act that has caught our eyes and ears, and then let them answer in their own words.

Edwyn Collins and his Scot-pop accomplices are to tear it up once again via a comprehensive seven-disc Orange Juice anthology entitled Coals To Newcastle. Comprised of six CDs and one DVD, Coals.. contains the band’s complete discography and studio recordings, as well 39 previously unreleased and digitally unavailable tracks and BBC sessions. The DVD contains the band’s two promotional clips for “Rip It Up” and “What Presence?!”, four performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and a posthumous concert video.

Send out the search parties — Missing in action on the latest album from M.I.A. — “melody, listenability, and some semblance of a point”.

Listen up, those of you who surf the web expressly for free music, have we got a treat for you. The lovely people at Domino Records have seen fit to drop their poker face and show the world their hand, putting together Snapshot: A Domino Compilation — an 11 track selection of their latest and [...]

Gemma Ray found the best way to deal with the Christmas period was to record a covers album. Not a bad idea really.

When you get down to the nuts and bolts of rock and roll, it’s not about how tight your jeans are or how good your stylist is, it’s about the music. It’s about the song. For some bands in particular, it’s about the pop song. Two and half minutes of spun gold that held your attention long after the needle left the record. Few bands embodied the spirit of the sublime ’60s pop song than The Primitives. Sitting backstage at The Scala in London, Webcuts catches up with Tracy and Paul to rewind the clock and to talk about the events that brought The Primitives into the 21st Century and what lies ahead for the band.

The (Bloc) Party is over. Now, it’s a dance party and there’s nobody here, except Kele and a few diehard Bloc Party fans looking bored.

Impressive third album from these exemplary Scots. It sounds like the Winter Webcuts had… except more productive.

For a band who’ve been around (in this incarnation at least) since December 2008, it would be more apt to call this Leeds-based 8-piece collective Milk White White Baby Teeth but Milk White White Teeth it is. “Ingrid Won’t Smile” is their debut 7″ release, once again cherry-picked for greatness by the taste-makers at the Too Pure Singles Club. The allure of “Ingrid…” lies in that snug calypso swing. The swirl of brass and keys, the soaring vocals, the vibrant percussive rattle… the fact it has a girl’s name in the title — all perfect pop song ingredients. Similar in style to Arcade Fire’s “Haiti”, “Ingrid…” has more of a grounding in classic 80′s British pop like Orange Juice and Haircut 100, but maybe that’s just me… Unfortunately, there’s no official clip as such for the track as yet, this Radio 1 session version will have to do. For more information, head over to http://milkwhitewhiteteeth.tumblr.com/

One of these albums is pure genius. The other went straight to #1. Bow down to The Boo Radleys, Britpop’s forgotten heroes.