If you've ever obsessed over a band, then you'll know nothing is more shattering than when someone else brutally pans them. We all saw a little bit of ourselves in timid record store assistant Dick ...

Stuart noted that “this is first time i’ve listened to this lp for many years, and the one thing i felt about it was that it was the one when the band announced itself. as a result, i think it has a ...

Maybe it was the whimsical lyrics, or the nostalgia inducing melodies. Maybe it was the thoughtful approach to their songcraft that allows their music to gently seep into your skin rather than ...

Belle & Sebastian finally brought their Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance tour to NYC (the album came out in January), playing the tony digs that are Radio City Music Hall. The band long ago outgrew ...

“Belle And Sebastian were the product of botched capitalism. It would be nice to say they were the children of socialism, but it would be a fib.” So begins a typically wry paragraph in the liner-note ...

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Los Angeles’ picturesque Hollywood Bowl, with its posh bars and bánh mì sandwiches, caters to a certain kind of wine-sipping, cheese-slicing crowd, which, at a capacity of 18,000, can be difficult for ...

Belle and Sebastian are part of a prestigious pop music lineage; their music has become intrinsically attached to geography. They are proud to be Scottish and their music is laced with references to ...

After surveying their fans earlier this year, Belle and Sebastian have officially announced a music festival boat cruise: The Boaty Weekender is a four-day “floating festival and luxury cruise around ...