Belle and Sebastian leader Stuart Murdoch likes to tell stories about boys and girls, so it was only a matter of time before he made a musical film featuring stories about boys and girls. God Help the Girl is that film. As previously reported, the movie will have a soundtrack featuring all of his Belle and Sebastian buddies along with the Divi...

While most of the world's tussling and toiling indie rock bands would break their tour van's gear shaft to get a seal of approval from Merge Records, Glasgow twee-poppers Camera Obscura are leaving the North Carolina label behind for an imprint with even more history behind it: 4AD.According to a MySpace post, the band is "understandably excited...

Selecting from radio performances recorded between 1996 and 2001, including sets for the legendary John Peel, The BBC Sessions offers an appealing alternate portrait of Belle and Sebastian in their more ramshackle early days. read more

Belle & Sebastian, as you may recall, had been following up their Life Pursuit with the pursuit of women. Not like that, you goons: Stuart Murdoch put out a call last fall for a few good lady vocalists, to help the band work up demos for a film/soundtrack project they're calling God Help the Girl. A male-centric search followed suit (wit...

What better subject for Black Cab Sessions than Jens Lekman, the whimsical, melodic Swede whose "Black Cab", found on 2005's Oh You're So Silent Jens, still ranks as one of his best songs. Lekman leaves behind the the Left Banke- and Belle and Sebastian-derived orchestration of the original version to play his "Black Cab Sessions" "Black Cab" on...