• Primavera Sound 2015 Announces Lineup, Featuring Alt-J, Sleater-Kinney, The Strokes, Many More

    The latest festival to announce its 2015 line-up is Primavera Sound, which is celebrating its 15th year. The line-up was originally announced through an app called Line-App, but if you don't feel like downloading that, you can just watch the video announcement below. As can be expected from Primavera Sound, this year's lineup is absolutely killer. Among the most notable acts performing this year are Alt-J, The Black Keys, Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes, Run The Jewels, Interpol, Sun Kil Moon, Spiritualized, Mac DeMarco, Patti Smith, Panda Bear, The New Pornographers, Caribou, Ariel Pink, Tyler, The Creator, Swans, Brand New, Twin Shadow, and many, many more.

  • Belle & Sebastian Extend World Tour, Perfume Genius and Real Estate to Open [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Belle & Sebastian's upcoming studio album, 'Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance.' is set for release next week and in support of the album, the band has extended their world tour with a new string of North American tour dates for the spring. According to reports, the first North American leg of the tour kicks off on March 30 in Boston and finishes up in on April 18 with the band's second appearance at Coachella 2015, while the second leg kicks off on June 9 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and finishes up on June 18 in Kansas City. Singer-songwriter Perfume Genius will be opening for six dates, while New Jersey indie rock band Real Estate will be opening on two dates.

  • Belle & Sebastian Share New Song "The Cat With The Cream" From Upcoming Album "Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance" [LISTEN]

    Scottish indie pop legends Belle & Sebastian have shared another track from their upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, titled "The Cat with the Cream," which you can check out below. Though the previous songs that have been shared so far from the album have been pretty upbeat and fun, "The Cat with the Cream" is far more dramatic and low-key, with a prominent string section and almost no percussion other than a steady kick drum. The lyrics are also more political than we're used to hearing from frontman Stuart Murdoch, with lines about Tories and the boom/bust nature of capitalist economies.

  • 8 Artists Who Hated The Production On Their Own Albums: Nirvana, Oasis, And More

    Making albums is almost always a collaborative process between the artist and their producer, which means that egos often clash and ideas are often compromised. For these eight artists, however, these compromises apparently didn't work out in their favor. Here are eight artists who hated the production on their albums.

  • Honeyblood, Belle and Sebastian Announce North American Tour [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Honeyblood is a Scottish duo who will finally be taking their talents to North America for an extended stay in 2015. Joined by 2:54 and Belle and Sebastian, the budding European stars will hit several areas of the United States between February and April.The pair — Stina Tweeddale and Shona McVicar — sat down with Line of Best Fit this year to discuss breaking the gender wall in rock 'n' roll."At my school, soon after my higher year, there were only three girls including myself who played guitar with, like, 20 boys ... and I guess I always felt inadequate," Tweeddale said. "Now, that feeling gives me a sort of confidence. And I'm sure girls are still feeling this. It used to be a sort of exclusion, I guess, but I wanna turn it into a secret club."Tweeddale has been recording with McVicar since late 2011.

  • Belle & Sebastian Share Music Video For "Nobody's Empire" From Upcoming Album 'Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance' [WATCH]

    Scottish indie pop outfit Belle & Sebastian have shared the music video for their latest single "Nobody's Empire," which you can check out below. The video, directed by Blair Young and frontman Stuart Murdoch, features footage from the cover photoshoot for the band's upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, with model Tamzin Merchant lip-synching the lyrics, intercut with home movies submitted by fans and stock footage taken from the Scottish Screen Archive and the Prelinger Archives.

  • Belle & Sebastian Share Music Video For "The Party Line" [WATCH]

    A few weeks back, Scottish indie pop crew Belle & Sebastian shared their single "The Party Line," the first from their upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, and today they've shared the song's music video, which you can check out below. The Leblanc + Cudmore-directed clip features choreography by Robert Binet and offers three different takes of a shy girl going out to a dance club with her friends, like a twee version of Run Lola Run.

  • Belle and Sebastian Share Funky New Single 'The Party Line' [LISTEN]

    Belle and Sebastian's upcoming album "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance" will not be released until January, but today the Scottish indie pop legends have shared the album's first single, "The Party Line," which you can check out below. Anyone coming into this song expecting some of the band's signature chamber pop musings might be in for a shock, however, since this is a funky, synth-heavy dance number all the way.
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