Belle and Sebastian are celebrating the upcoming 25th birthday of their third album The Boy with the Arab Strap by giving it the anniversary reissue treatment.
After the back-to-back success of 1996’s Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, 1998’s The Boy with the Arab Strap saw Belle and Sebastian bandleader Stuart Murdoch share some songwriting credits with band members Stevie Jackson and Isobel Campbell. While their first two albums were each recorded in just a few days, Arab Strap took months, giving the personnel of Belle and Sebastian time to let their creativity wander.
The 25th anniversary edition of Arab Strap exchanges the green-tinted cover photo of keyboardist Chris Geddes for a blue version, along with a pale blue limited edition vinyl to match. It also comes with an exclusive art print of behind-the-scenes photos from the promotional video for the album, taken by band member Sarah Martin.
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After the back-to-back success of 1996’s Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, 1998’s The Boy with the Arab Strap saw Belle and Sebastian bandleader Stuart Murdoch share some songwriting credits with band members Stevie Jackson and Isobel Campbell. While their first two albums were each recorded in just a few days, Arab Strap took months, giving the personnel of Belle and Sebastian time to let their creativity wander.
The 25th anniversary edition of Arab Strap exchanges the green-tinted cover photo of keyboardist Chris Geddes for a blue version, along with a pale blue limited edition vinyl to match. It also comes with an exclusive art print of behind-the-scenes photos from the promotional video for the album, taken by band member Sarah Martin.
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- 7/12/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced a new live album titled Sunset 666, out August 4th via Fuzz Club. Recorded in 2018 while the band was opening for Nine Inch Nails in Los Angeles, it includes a version of “Sometimes Always” with former Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell. Hear that below.
Sunset 666 was recorded during a run of six shows at the Hollywood Palladium and spans the Scottish alt-rockers’ discography from 1985’s Psychocandy through their 2017 comeback album, Damage and Joy. The first 12 tracks capture The Jesus and Mary Chain’s full set from the final date on December 15th, 2018, while the latter five were recorded at the show that took place four days prior.
Besides “Sometimes Always,” Campbell guests on “Black and Blues” as a fill-in for Sky Ferreira. The album will be available in digital, CD, and multiple vinyl formats. Pre-orders are ongoing. Check out the artwork and tracklist below the jump.
Sunset 666 was recorded during a run of six shows at the Hollywood Palladium and spans the Scottish alt-rockers’ discography from 1985’s Psychocandy through their 2017 comeback album, Damage and Joy. The first 12 tracks capture The Jesus and Mary Chain’s full set from the final date on December 15th, 2018, while the latter five were recorded at the show that took place four days prior.
Besides “Sometimes Always,” Campbell guests on “Black and Blues” as a fill-in for Sky Ferreira. The album will be available in digital, CD, and multiple vinyl formats. Pre-orders are ongoing. Check out the artwork and tracklist below the jump.
- 6/27/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Nick Cave paid tribute to his friend and occasional collaborator, Mark Lanegan, in his Red Hand Files newsletter. Lanegan, who fronted Screaming Trees before embarking on a solo career, died Tuesday at the age of 57.
“I encountered Mark many times over the years — we engaged in some extremely dubious escapades back in the Nineties; he sang ‘White Light/White Heat’ and ‘Fire and Brimstone’ with Warren [Ellis] and me on the Lawless soundtrack; he recorded my favorite ever Nick Cave cover — an astonishing version of ‘Brompton Oratory’; we did something together...
“I encountered Mark many times over the years — we engaged in some extremely dubious escapades back in the Nineties; he sang ‘White Light/White Heat’ and ‘Fire and Brimstone’ with Warren [Ellis] and me on the Lawless soundtrack; he recorded my favorite ever Nick Cave cover — an astonishing version of ‘Brompton Oratory’; we did something together...
- 2/25/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Mark Lanegan, the gruff-voiced singer who fronted Screaming Trees before embarking on a successful solo career, died Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. “No other information is available at this time,” a rep for the singer wrote. “The family asks everyone to respect their privacy at this time.” Lanegan was 57.
Lanegan rose to prominence in the late Eighties and early Nineties as frontman for Screaming Trees, the psychedelic-leaning, Ellensburg, Wash., hard-rock group that foreshadowed grunge. His deep, dramatic voice gave weight to guitarist-songwriter Gary Lee Conner’s compositions in...
Lanegan rose to prominence in the late Eighties and early Nineties as frontman for Screaming Trees, the psychedelic-leaning, Ellensburg, Wash., hard-rock group that foreshadowed grunge. His deep, dramatic voice gave weight to guitarist-songwriter Gary Lee Conner’s compositions in...
- 2/22/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
For a quarter of a century now, Mark Lanegan has been running away from his past.
From the mid-Eighties until 2000, he fronted Screaming Trees, a hard rocking, neo-psychedelic band that got swept up in the major labels’ Seattle-grunge gold rush and crossed over into the mainstream with “Nearly Lost You.” Along the way, Lanegan befriended Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, recorded with the supergroup Mad Season, and launched a solo career playing bluesy, rootsy rock that was more melancholy and brooding than the output of his grungy peers. He’s always had a deep,...
From the mid-Eighties until 2000, he fronted Screaming Trees, a hard rocking, neo-psychedelic band that got swept up in the major labels’ Seattle-grunge gold rush and crossed over into the mainstream with “Nearly Lost You.” Along the way, Lanegan befriended Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, recorded with the supergroup Mad Season, and launched a solo career playing bluesy, rootsy rock that was more melancholy and brooding than the output of his grungy peers. He’s always had a deep,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
For many bands, the prospect of a former member writing a memoir about their time in the group would be filled with stress and conflict, but for perpetually positive indie pop superstars Belle & Sebastian, news that ex-bass player Stuart David would be releasing a book has been met with nothing but positivity.
As keyboard player and founding member Chris Geddes speaks to HuffPost Canada Music from his home is Glasgow shortly before Belle & Sebastian depart on their first North American tour in years, it's clear he sees David's memoir as a chance to reconnect. He says that David is "really brilliant guy" whose departure from Belle & Sebastian was entirely amicable, occurring when he wished to focus on band Looper, which he founded with his partner, Karn. Geddes states that he and David have been hanging out again the last few years, even making music together.
This sense of positivity and...
As keyboard player and founding member Chris Geddes speaks to HuffPost Canada Music from his home is Glasgow shortly before Belle & Sebastian depart on their first North American tour in years, it's clear he sees David's memoir as a chance to reconnect. He says that David is "really brilliant guy" whose departure from Belle & Sebastian was entirely amicable, occurring when he wished to focus on band Looper, which he founded with his partner, Karn. Geddes states that he and David have been hanging out again the last few years, even making music together.
This sense of positivity and...
- 7/5/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
One thing has kept Mark Lanegan from the hitting the stratospheric highs and catastrophic lows of his grunge-era peers: the timelessness of his voice. Even in his best-known outfit, Screaming Trees, his single-barrel baritone conjured feral purrs and psychedelic wails, sounding so huge it swallowed everything in sight—often including the music it accompanied. Age has been kind to Lanegan, due in part to the taste and aptness of his post-Trees collaborations, most notably with folk-pop chanteuse Isobel Campbell and fellow grizzled vet Greg Dulli. But with Blues Funeral, the new album from Mark Lanegan Band, the singer has done ...
- 2/7/2012
- avclub.com
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- 7/18/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Snubbed by Scotland's jazz scene, guitar virtuoso Bill Wells has teamed up with ex-Arab Strap man Aidan Moffat for a panoramic meditation on life and death
'I like to think I can do things over a very wide musical range," Bill Wells says. "Even if you're just a session player, you like to think you can be recognised in some way. But if I'm collaborating with someone, I try and find out what's the best thing to do to make the music work. I also enjoy taking control. I like to think there's enough identity there in my own music so that people will recognise it, but I also want to do different things. I like stuff that's very free and very melodic as well."
Wells is a jazz pianist – he's won jazz awards and led his own octet and trio. He's also a session guitarist and a key contributor to Scotland's indie scene.
'I like to think I can do things over a very wide musical range," Bill Wells says. "Even if you're just a session player, you like to think you can be recognised in some way. But if I'm collaborating with someone, I try and find out what's the best thing to do to make the music work. I also enjoy taking control. I like to think there's enough identity there in my own music so that people will recognise it, but I also want to do different things. I like stuff that's very free and very melodic as well."
Wells is a jazz pianist – he's won jazz awards and led his own octet and trio. He's also a session guitarist and a key contributor to Scotland's indie scene.
- 7/1/2011
- by Mike Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Would Bob Dylan stop his punishing schedule for Martin Carthy's samurai sword or a slice of Alela Diane's apple pie? We asked some famous fans to come up with the perfect gift for him…
Geoff Dyer: writer
What I propose is this: that on 24 May, at 7pm BST precisely, we all throw open our windows and – in homes, cars or bars around the world – play a Dylan track on our stereos or iPods. Checking a photocopy of his birth certificate I see that Robert Zimmerman was born at 9.05pm, but 7pm is a good time because, well, it chimes with 70. It also means that a good part of the planet can join in the gift-celebration at the same moment (11am in California). The choice of track is up to you. Some people will go for anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" that I can't bear to listen to or...
Geoff Dyer: writer
What I propose is this: that on 24 May, at 7pm BST precisely, we all throw open our windows and – in homes, cars or bars around the world – play a Dylan track on our stereos or iPods. Checking a photocopy of his birth certificate I see that Robert Zimmerman was born at 9.05pm, but 7pm is a good time because, well, it chimes with 70. It also means that a good part of the planet can join in the gift-celebration at the same moment (11am in California). The choice of track is up to you. Some people will go for anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" that I can't bear to listen to or...
- 5/21/2011
- by Geoff Dyer
- The Guardian - Film News
Last night's after school special of a 90210 episode featured a negative HIV test, a birth scene and the realization that it's a bad idea for an 18-year old to sell her eggs to a crazy couple.
But it did not feature any new songs from Adrianna.
As a result, Jessica Lowndes is not featured in our 90210 music section dedicated to "Catch Me If You Cannon." But the following artists/singles are:
Best Coast - "Boyfriend" Cey - "Comandi" Isobel Campbell - "Come Undone" Andreya Trianav - "Draw The Stars" Lissie - "Everywhere I Go"...
But it did not feature any new songs from Adrianna.
As a result, Jessica Lowndes is not featured in our 90210 music section dedicated to "Catch Me If You Cannon." But the following artists/singles are:
Best Coast - "Boyfriend" Cey - "Comandi" Isobel Campbell - "Come Undone" Andreya Trianav - "Draw The Stars" Lissie - "Everywhere I Go"...
- 10/12/2010
- by matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
- TVfanatic
Unlikely duo loses its spark Isobel Campbell (she of angelic voice and formerly Belle & Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (he of rusty growl and formerly Screaming Trees) have made three albums of beautiful country-folk together, their voices co-existing like wine and whiskey. But while their first two collaborative efforts were largely slow, quiet affairs, their new album Hawk is more dynamic, featuring both whispered ballads and dusty, boot-stomping rockers, and not always for the best....
- 8/24/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Where once it seemed slightly odd that Isobel Campbell (of early Belle And Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (of Screaming Trees) had decided to sing together, it’s now almost sad to imagine their voices apart. Two more complementary sets of pipes have rarely been paired—and while that’s been the intention all along, the duo’s third full-length, Hawk, still banks on that delicious friction, and does it well. Campbell’s pixie-like chirp and Lanegan’s slow-burn growl entwine to do particular justice to Townes Van Zandt’s “Snake Song,” one of two covers of the late Texas country-folk ...
- 8/24/2010
- avclub.com
If you see Mark Lanegan today (and considering how tall and imposing he is, you can't really miss him), be sure to give him a slap on the back and wish him a happy birthday. The Seattle icon turns 45 years old today, and he can feel pretty good about the decades he has spent creating music. Best known as the frontman for Screaming Trees (the band lumped in with the grunge movement who were secretly much heavier, more psychedelic monster than anybody gave them credit for), Lanegan has made a career out of lending his distinct voice (a whiskey-soaked croon that can shift into an apocalyptic metal growl) to a variety of projects. He's currently a member of the Gutter Twins, his collaboration with former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli, but he has also teamed up with Belle and Sebastian member Isobel Campbell and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age.
- 11/25/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Sheryl Crow, Modest Mouse, Katy Perry, Michael Franti & Spearhead, De La Soul, and Raphael Saadiq have been confirmed to perform at the 2009 Bumbershoot Festival. The event will be held Labor Day weekend, Sept. 5-7, at Seattle's City Center.
Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, which is the 39th annual event, will also see Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, the Long Winters, Sly & Robbie & the Taxi Gang, World Party, Mstrkrft, Roy Ayers, Common Market, Uh Huh Her, Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women, Eric Hutchinson, No Age and Matt & Kim.
The organizers are expected to announce more artists in the coming months. The non-musical offerings at the fest include a special appearance by "The Outsiders" and "Rumblefish" author S.E. Hinton, Billboard reports.
One of North America's largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center. Bumbershoot three-day passes are on sale now via Bumbershoot.org. Single-day tickets begin...
Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, which is the 39th annual event, will also see Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, the Long Winters, Sly & Robbie & the Taxi Gang, World Party, Mstrkrft, Roy Ayers, Common Market, Uh Huh Her, Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women, Eric Hutchinson, No Age and Matt & Kim.
The organizers are expected to announce more artists in the coming months. The non-musical offerings at the fest include a special appearance by "The Outsiders" and "Rumblefish" author S.E. Hinton, Billboard reports.
One of North America's largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center. Bumbershoot three-day passes are on sale now via Bumbershoot.org. Single-day tickets begin...
- 4/2/2009
- icelebz.com
At Sundance every year, there are at least a few films released with killer soundtracks. 500 Days of Summer is one of this year’s musically talked about films. I have done the detective work and have the complete track listing for you after the jump.
Us Written and Performed by Regina Spektor Courtesy of Sire Records By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
The Boy With The Arab Strap Written by Sarah Martin, Stuart Murdoch, Richard Colburn, Michael Cooke, Christopher Geddes, Stephen Jackson and Isobel Campbell
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Written by Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey Performed by The Smiths Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Bad Kids Written by Cole Alexander, Ian Brown, Jared Swilley and Joseph Bradley Performed by Black Lips Courtesy of Vice Records By arrangement with Zync Music Inc.
Us Written and Performed by Regina Spektor Courtesy of Sire Records By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
The Boy With The Arab Strap Written by Sarah Martin, Stuart Murdoch, Richard Colburn, Michael Cooke, Christopher Geddes, Stephen Jackson and Isobel Campbell
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Written by Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey Performed by The Smiths Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Bad Kids Written by Cole Alexander, Ian Brown, Jared Swilley and Joseph Bradley Performed by Black Lips Courtesy of Vice Records By arrangement with Zync Music Inc.
- 1/25/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The latest collaboration from Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan—late of Belle And Sebastian and Screaming Trees, respectively—offers a combination that's instantly striking, though not exactly new: the gnarled male vocal and its glassy female foil. Perhaps familiarity makes that blend so resonant (the opener's title, "Seafaring Song," nods to tradition), or maybe it's just an aural parlor trick, but accompanied by lonesome plucked guitar, a smattering of strings, and upright bass as it is here, the mix is undeniable. The question: Can these two sustain interest over an entire album (their second together), or, like so many of their predecessors' contributions, will Sunday At Devil Dirt become mere ambience for the two things most commonly done in bed? As the second song, "The Raven," comes in, featuring Lanegan atop Campbell's wordless backdrop, it's clear that their chemistry not only extends beyond the niceties of their voices intertwining, but.
- 11/18/2008
- by Chris Martins
- avclub.com
Former Screaming Tree and Sebastian’s Belle encore—call them the “Butter Twins.”
Although he’s become a terrific solo artist, former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan still has a taste for collaboration. Whether as half of the Gutter Twins (with ex-Afghan Whig Greg Dulli), part of Josh Homme’s Queens of the Stone Age, or as an occasional member of Dulli’s Twilight Singers, Lanegan has often done his most compelling work in partnership with others whose strengths offset the raw power of his nicotine-and-bourbon-stained rasp. In 2006, this took the shape of Ballad of the Broken Seas, a duet with former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell, whose sweetness-and-light persona is as removed from Lanegan’s barroom brio as Scotland is from Seattle. The album worked precisely because of the starkness of the contrast, going down like a tumbler of aged scotch. Sunday at Devil Dirt finds the pair reprising...
Although he’s become a terrific solo artist, former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan still has a taste for collaboration. Whether as half of the Gutter Twins (with ex-Afghan Whig Greg Dulli), part of Josh Homme’s Queens of the Stone Age, or as an occasional member of Dulli’s Twilight Singers, Lanegan has often done his most compelling work in partnership with others whose strengths offset the raw power of his nicotine-and-bourbon-stained rasp. In 2006, this took the shape of Ballad of the Broken Seas, a duet with former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell, whose sweetness-and-light persona is as removed from Lanegan’s barroom brio as Scotland is from Seattle. The album worked precisely because of the starkness of the contrast, going down like a tumbler of aged scotch. Sunday at Devil Dirt finds the pair reprising...
- 11/17/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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