Webcuts Music

Somehow, from somewhere, emails from the Noisevox people have been regularly appearing in the Webcuts inbox begging our attention. Having kinda dealt with them in the usual in-house manner, we felt it was time enough to take notice. In the last few weeks on their Noisemakers on Noisevox segment with ex-MTV VJ John Norris, they’ve hosted interviews and live performances with the bewitching Warpaint, Australia’s Temper Trap and this week, the 1/3 Australian, Liars talk about their latest album, Sisterworld.

Cassie, Katy and Ali aka Vivian Girls are back again with their sophomore album Everything Goes Wrong and we caught up with them in a place where nothing ever goes wrong, unless you have a show scheduled at the Hopetoun Hotel this week (fyi girls – it’s closed).

From Vivian Girls’ new album Everything Goes Wrong, here is “Can’t Get Over You”. Download “Can’t Get Over You” (3.3MB, 128 kps)

The title may be Everything Goes Wrong, but to our ears, everything goes right for the Vivian Girls on their sophomore release.

Once again Sweden’s WoW proved to be worthy of its acronym and Webcuts was there to cover all three days. We (re) acquaint ourselves with the likes of Glasvegas, Grizzly Bear, Florence & The Machine, Echo & The Bunnymen, Wilco, Vivian Girls, Bon Iver and My Bloody Valentine, to name but a few.

For the third year in a row the brains behind Way Out West bring us a great mix of interesting newcomers, some acts who are just beginning to find their stride and a couple of absolute legends. On the 14 of August 2009 it is time, once again, for lovers of good music to take over Slottskogen in Gothenburg.

Brooklyn twee-punksters the Vivian Girls hit the reverb heights in a hail of cartoon tattoos and converse on their debut album.

Flowers and chocolates? We brought neither but Brooklyn three-piece the Vivian Girls graciously didn’t hold that against us.

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 [...]