After a week away, it was nice to be back in the studio. This week I played several folk-related tunes, a few garage-based ones, and a small handful of indie pop tracks. With the amount of indie-folk I've played of late, I'm thinking we're in store for another dreamy mix and maybe even a garage rock mix in the near future. Andi and I have been on a DIY kick of late and a recent project has been homemade laundry detergent. With the three ingredients displayed in the photo above, along [...]
God Help The Girl is fast approaching their Kickstarter deadline, and I'd like to see a show of hands - Have you made a contribution yet? No? Right, that's what I thought. Perhaps you need to be reminded of the pro list (or in some cases, told for the first time): It's a rock musical written by Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch The producer is Barry Mendel (Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, The Royal Tenenbaums, Munich) Thanks to Grandma and her collection of musicals, GHTG [...]
Paul Rains One of the criteria - really, the main one - for my year-end list was basically, "how many times did I listen to this record?". Which I think is reasonable. If we were to take out the "must have been released in 20113 stipulation, however, the list would have been rather different - at least to the extent that Allo Darlin's 2010 self-titled debut would have surely made the list. And if I'd assembled a supplementary list of favourite 73 singles of the year, their "Darren"/"Wu-Tang [...]
Desde que Stuart Murdoch , líder de Belle and Sebastian , realizó con bombo y platillo el lanzamiento del disco God Help The Girl en 2007, la mayoría de nosotros ya sabía que éste no era otra cosa que el soundtrack de una película que el músico estaba escribiendo y preparando, la cual hablaba de una chica llamada Eve, quien estaba saliendo de un difícil momento emocional y estaba buscando una nueva vida. Sin embargo, en el camino se cruzó el ya muy necesario [...]
Stuart Murdoch está juntando dinero para filmar una película sobre God Help The Girl , proyecto musical que nació allá por el 2009 y ya terminó. El líder de Belle & Sebastian abrió una página en Kickstarter para que todos los que estén interesados colaboren con algo de dinero para realizar un film que tendrá como protagonista el proyecto de God Help The Girl . God Help The Girl nació [...]
Last night was our second DJing experience, and it was rather a contrast to the first time around. It was all rather last minute, meaning I didn't have five weeks to fret about song choices. It was in a coffee shop instead of a bar with a dance floor, and given the rain and other factors, there wasn't exactly a big turnout. Didn't matter though as I still ended up enjoying myself immensely. Here's what I played: 1. Herman Düne - Tell Me Something I Don't Know 2. Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's [...]
Picture this scene: a dimly-lit bar with a wide variety of liquor lined up alongside its oak walls, the multitude of bottles casting a refraction on the dozen or so guests in the room. A grand piano sits on a small, elevated stage, several feet from your comfortable red silk-laden table. Those around you are [...]
It's been four years since the indie-wallflower group had gained notoriety with their last album, The Life Pursuit, and some comedic name-dropping in the film Juno . Within that time, frontman Stuart Murdoch had been working on a project called God Help the Girl, a collection of songs and videos depicting a young woman who had been released from the psychiatric ward and aspires to be a singer-songwriter. The songs would be performed not by the band, but a collection of female vocalists. In the time that God Help the Girl [...]
Finally Belle & Sebastian are following up 20062s the Life Pursuit with a new album. The album's titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love , and it's set for a release via Rough Trade on 10/11. The title track here is leaving me a little cold. It doesn't seems more theatrical than catchy. It's almost as if Stuart Murdoch hasn't shaken his love of writing songs that tell a clear story from his excursion into the project God Help the Girl. The lyrics feature a guy singing about a [...]
Working with Kylie is like working with every artist I have ever wanted to and continues to be as exciting and fresh every time we do something new. As promised, here comes part two of my interview with the sensational producer, remixer, songwriter and musical director (amongst other titles!), Mr. Steve Anderson . Go ahead and read on to learn about Anderson's unreleased electro-ballad with Britney ("Grow") and much, much more Kylie gossip (Unreleased tracks! Scrapped setlist ideas!), as well as Anderson's thoughts on remixing, the music [...]
After four years since Glasgow's best band (I can't name any other ones right now), Belle & Sebastian released The Life Pursuit , listeners finally have something new from the group not to the tune of God Help the Girl . so for those of you who will not stop your insistent complaining about the lack of "literary-centric, British indie pop," well, here you go. B&S's (heh) new album Write About Love is due out October 11, via Matador . You can grab the title-track [...]
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![[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – July 12th](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2679610_lg.jpg)
If you're unaware of what Music Monday is, it's a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by "MusicMonday" you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week. Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I've been listening to (new and old) over the past week [...]
Belle and Sebastian hliðarverkefnið God Help the Girl gaf út fína plötu fyrir um ári síðan þar sem Stuart Murdoch fékk nokkrar söngkonur til liðs við sig. Fyrir stuttu kom svo út ný smáskífa frá verkefninu með laginu "Baby You're Blind" en það er söngkonan Linnea Jönsson úr sænsku hljómsveitinni Those Dancing Days sem syngur. Samkvæmt Rough Trade útgáfunni var þetta síðasta lagið (í bili amk) sem tekið var upp undir merki God Help the Girl og nú er bara spurning hvort ekki fari að hilla undir nýja B&S plötu...? [...]
A quick round up of what's piqued my interest music wise around the internet in the past seven days. Reviews The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter on Faded Glamour . Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin' on The Line of Best Fit . Meursalt - All Creatures Will Make Merry on 17 Seconds . God Help the Girl - Baby You're Blind on SoundsXP . Teenage Fanclub - Shadows on 17 Seconds . [...]
A quick round up of what's piqued my interest music wise around the internet in the past seven days. Reviews The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter on Faded Glamour . Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin' on The Line of Best Fit . Meursalt - All Creatures Will Make Merry on 17 Seconds . God Help the Girl - Baby You're Blind on SoundsXP . Teenage Fanclub - Shadows on 17 Seconds . [...]
..is really not that far. But it's far from what's mainstream these days. Pop, rock, hip hop, folk and now also new wave are genres that dominate the charts right now. But some of the artists in this article are artists that most likely will be more exposed than they already are in the near [...]
Stuart Murdoch project God Help the Girl have a new single, Baby You're Blind / A Down and Dusky Blonde, out RIGHT NOW. I don't know what you're waiting for! Go buy it. It's the kind of typically quirky pop that's been the hallmark of God Help the Girl so far, even if it's not [...]
Stuart Murdoch's project God Help The Girl have released their new single 'Baby You're Blind', this new song is not featured on the debut album by the project. It is actually part of their singles series. They have even released a video for the song,... Click the link to read more
A new single from the Belle and Sebastian side project.
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