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Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch Launches Kickstarter Campaign For 'God Help The Girl'

Posted 12-15-11 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, God Help The Girl

Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, who has been steadily working on his film musical "God Help The Girl," launched a Kickstarter campaign today, December 15, to help fund the project's shoot in Scotland next year. Back in 2009, Murdoch released a soundtrack of songs, titled God Help The Girl, to help fund the movie, but he hopes to begin shooting the film itself this summer in Glasgow.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending February 6

Posted 2-1-11 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Broken Records, Matt and Kim, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, Tennis, The Twilight Singers, The Vaccines, Warpaint

New albums from Bright Eyes and Broken Records stir up the TAS Top 20 while Warpaint's The Fool still sits smartly in the top spot.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 23

Posted 1-18-11 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, British Sea Power, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, Destroyer, Gorillaz, Matt and Kim, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, The Greenhornes, The Posies

PJ Harvey, Cut Copy, Destroyer and Smith Westerns gambol onto this week's TAS Top 20 while those quirky Scots still dominate the apex of the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 16

Posted 1-10-11 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, British Sea Power, Chromeo, Clinic, Deerhunter, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Tennis, The Greenhornes, The Twilight Singers

Tennis and British Sea Power sail onto the TAS Top 20 while the Scottish juggernaut of Belle and Sebastian remain at the mainmast.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 9

Posted 1-4-11 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, Clinic, Deerhunter, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, The Greenhornes, The Twilight Singers

The Twilight Singers' upcoming release on Sub Pop, Gorillaz' Christmas surprise and the latest, asterisk-abundant record from The Greenhornes all enter the first TAS Top 20 album chart for 2011 as another long-lived group takes over the top spot.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending December 19

Posted 12-14-10 by

Tags: Antony and the Johnson, Belle and Sebastian, Chromeo, Deerhunter, LCD Soundsystem, Mark Ronson, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk, The Posies

Little surprise that Deerhunter's excellent Halcyon Digest is back atop the TAS Top 20 album chart, but the "and" bands - Matt and Kim, Antony and the Johnsons and Belle and Sebastian - are challenging Bradford Cox and his crew.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending December 12

Posted 12-7-10 by

Tags: Antony and the Johnsons, Belle and Sebastian, Chromeo, Deerhunter, Grinderman, LCD Soundsystem, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Warpaint

LCD Soundsystem's cathartic live album London Sessions blasts onto the TAS Top 20 while a indie-cute Brooklyn couple take on the top slot, elbowing Deerhunter and Antony Hegarty out of the way.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending November 21

Posted 11-16-10 by

Tags: Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Belle and Sebastian, Chromeo, Deerhunter, Interpol, Junip, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk

The TAS album chart takes a seismic shift as Interpol and Arcade fire slip to the bottom rungs while Deerhunter, Superchunk and Sufjan Stevens soar to the top.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending November 14

Posted 11-9-10 by

Tags: Antony and the Johnsons, Autolux, Belle and Sebastian, Deerhunter, Junip, Mark Ronson, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk, The Posies

Belle and Sebastian and The Posies pop onto our Top 20 album chart this week while Sufjan Stevens and Superchunk shake up the TAS top three.

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Animal Collective Tapped to Curate ATP in May 2011

Posted 10-27-10 by

Tags: Animal Collective, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Belle and Sebastian, Broadcast, Lee

Okay, can we book our trip to Minehead, England now? Animal Collective has been tapped to curate the All Tomorrow's Parties festival there in May 2011 and the lineup includes Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Broadcast and Lee "Scratch" Perry.

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TAS Interview: Isobel Campbell

Posted 10-12-10 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Harper Simon, Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan, The Vaselines, Victoria Williams, Willy Mason

In August, Scottish chanteuse and cellist Isobel Campbell released her third collaborative album, Hawk, with gruff, saturnine cohort Mark Lanegan, ex of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. The two friends launch their first-ever North American tour tonight, October 13, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and they arrive in New York this weekend. Campbell chatted with The Alternate Side on Monday about her work with Lanegan, a future project with Victoria Williams and the sweet reunion she had last week with her former bandmates, Belle and Sebastian, in Los Angeles.

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Reunited Guided By Voices, Pavement, Belle & Sebastian Aboard Matador Records Anniversary Show

Posted 6-29-10 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Guided By Voices, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Superchunk, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo

The influential indie record label will be celebrating its 21st birthday in Las Vegas this October with a three-night mini-festival that includes Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Sonic Youth, The New Pornographers, Superchunk, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and, significantly, a reunited Guided By Voices (the so-called "classic 1993-1996" lineup)

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TAS Interview: Codeine Velvet Club

Posted 4-13-10 by

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Codeine Velvet Club, Phil Spector, The Fratellis

While The Fratellis are on an indefinite break, frontman Jon Lawler is focusing on his latest venture, Codeine Velvet Club, with singer Lou Hickey. The duo just officially released their ebullient, eponymous debut album in the States last week. The Alternate Side caught up with Lawler and Hickey at SXSW where they chatted about the genesis of Codeine Velvet Club, the conundrum of admiring the music of a convicted murderer, and the horror of embarrassing yourself in front of drummer Max Weinberg.

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Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch Launches Kickstarter Campaign For 'God Help The Girl'

The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending February 6

The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 23

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending November 14

Animal Collective Tapped to Curate ATP in May 2011

TAS Interview: Isobel Campbell

Reunited Guided By Voices, Pavement, Belle & Sebastian Aboard Matador Records Anniversary Show

TAS Interview: Codeine Velvet Club

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