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W♥M225: Party Line

W♥M225: Party Line (40 mins) Read More Belle & Sebastian We've been very excited about news of the new Belle & Sebastian 2015 album for a while now, but the band recently made things official: It is called Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance …

Sally is back on W♥M Podcast, talking about some Sydney, Australia, things:

Yes I'm Leaving (21 Nov 2014) poster

Yes I'm Leaving is playing this Friday (21 Nov 2014) at Petersham Bowling Club with The Holy Soul, Avoid Island, Small Town Incident and Garry David.

Newtown Social Club (newtownsocialclub.com) is a new music venue in Sydney. They are booking some excellent bands:

Hurray for the Riff Raff (26 Nov 2014)

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (3 Mar 2015)

Gruff Rhys (6 Mar 2015)

Sydney Festival is taking place most of January 2015... The Clean from New Zealand, and How to Dress Well are two of the bands playing at the Sydney Festival shows.

Johnny Marr is on tour for his second album Playland, stopping by Sydney's Enmore (05 Feb 2015)

Belle & Sebastian is playing in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre on Jan 29th and also at the Taronga Zoo on January 31st.

God Help the Girl film, Vu doesn't like, but Sally doesn't care.

B&S is releasing Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance for 2015, we previewed their new single, "The Party Line".

BONUS:

Harper's Bazaar (Dec 2014) Photographer: @simonlekias

Peter Hook played over three hours at a "no re-entry" sold out show.

Leichhardt Wind Orchestra's Summer Concert 2014 is taking place this 15th December 2014 at the Leichhardt Town Hall in Leichhardt, Australia.

Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Roxette's got the look.

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Morrissey News: World Tour is None of Your Business, God Help the Smiths shirt, and David Bowie is not Morrissey's friend

One of my hobby is spotting Morrissey and the Smiths in everyday life. I've compiled them at Registered Historical Facts.

Read More Morrissey Planning on buying Morrissey's latest release, World Peace Is None of Your Business (Harvest Records)? Check out the exclusive Best Buy Edition, which is a double-disc digipak with six extra tracks. …

MORRISSEY
true-to-you.net

Never a dull moment in Morrissey's world.

Best of the Ramones Sire-Rhino

Recently, Morrissey has compiled the track-listing for the forthcoming Best of the Ramones CD/LP for Sire-Rhino... even though he famously wrote that the Ramones were a "bumptious band of degenerate no-talents" when he was 17.

Also, Morrissey announced that he was dropped by his record label, Harvest Records... then within weeks, his latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business, was quickly removed from all digital outlets, including iTunes and Spotify.

Then, a few weeks ago, Morrissey announced a world tour. Touring would be a great way to promote the new album ... which is not available anywhere.

Upcoming tour dates*

10/06/14 Lisbon, Portugal Coliseu Dos Recreios
10/09/14 Madrid - Barclaycard Center
10/10/14 Barcelona - Palau Sant Jordi
10/13/14 Rome, Italy Atlantico
10/14/14 Rome, Italy Atlantico
10/16/14 Milan, Italy Teatro Ciak
10/17/14 Bologna, Italy PalaDozza
10/19/14 Pescara, Italy Pala Giovani Paolo II
10/21/14 Florence, Italy Obihall
10/22/14 Padova, Italy Gran Teatro Geox
10/24/14 Vienna, Austria Wiener Konzerthaus
10/27/14 Paris - Grand Rex
10/28/14 Utrecht - TivoliVredenburg
10/31/14 Lyon - Le Radiant
11/02/14 Lausanne - Les Docks Post-show Now
11/03/14 Basel - Event Hall Messe
11/05/14 Hannover, Germany Capitol Hannover
11/08/14 Lund - Sparbank Arena Denmark
11/09/14 Frederiksberg, Denmark SAS Falkoner
11/11/14 Gothenburg - Lisebergshallen
11/13/14 Stockholm - Hovet
11/15/14 Helsinki, Finland Finlandia Hall
11/16/14 Helsinki, Finland Finlandia Hall
11/19/14 Warsaw, Poland Stodola Club
11/21/14 Krakow, Poland Teatr Laznia Nowa
11/23/14 Berlin - Columbiahalle Post-show Now
11/24/14 Essen, Germany Colosseum Theatre
11/26/14 Antwerp - Stadsschouwburg
11/27/14 Antwerp - Stadsschouwburg
11/29/14 London, UK The O2 - London
12/01/14 Dublin - Dublin 3Arena

* to be canceled at a later date (joke).

Read More God Help the Girl Stuart Murdoch (lead singer of Belle and Sebastian) is simply a genius. When he took a break from B&S to write and produce his 2009 album and concept called God Help The Girl, he clearly had the vision of …

GOD HELP THE GIRL
godhelpthegirl.com

The latest Stuart Murdoch film God Help the Girl is hitting a small selective theaters and On Demand, via Amplify and iTunes, tomorrow, September 5th.

The film stars Emily Browning, and in one scene, you can see Browning wearing The Smiths' Meat is Murder T-Shirt. Browning is no stranger to The Smiths, as she's heard singing "Asleep" in Sucker Punch (2011).

God Help the Girl (Not Rated)
In Theaters September 5th, 2014 | © 2014 Amplify

From writer/director Stuart Murdoch (lead singer of beloved indie pop group Belle & Sebastian) comes the most delightfully different musical of the year. Eve (Emily Browning) is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass (Hannah Murray) and fastidious James (Olly Alexander), and together they decide there's only one thing to do: form a pop group.

Also note that Morrissey, Johnny Marr, and Rough Trade Records, are thanked in the credits.

Check out the scene, featuring the T-Shirt:

Read More David Bowie There is a new David Bowie documentary called David Bowie is, set for release on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014, in over 80 cinemas across the United States. …

DAVID BOWIE IS
davidbowie.com

I was watching the "David Bowie is" documentary for review and noticed that Morrissey was listed as "influenced" section of the Periodic Table of David Bowie by Paul Robertson. Among other influenced musicians on there: Lady Gaga and Jarvis Cocker (who appeared as guest speaker on the "David Bowie is" film).

I find the whole Bowie/Morrissey thing interesting, at one point, the two were close friends. Morrissey covered "Drive-In Saturday" live and Bowie appeared with Morrissey in New York in 1992 to cover T.Rex's "Cosmic Dancer" and Bowie covered Morrissey's "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" ... but the first time I heard that the two were not friends anymore was in 2013 when Bowie issued a block to use his image for the re-mastered version of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys".

Those interested in David Bowie, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is bringing their "David Bowie is" exhibition to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA) on September 23, 2014.

David Bowie is... not friends with Morrissey.

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God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Listening Party 09/08/14 Dallas, TX @ Good Records 09/08/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Main Street Music 09/10/14 Bloomington, IN @ Landlocked Music 09/11/14 Detroit, MI @ Dearborn Music 09/15/14 Dultuth, MN @ Electric Fetus Read More God Help the Girl Excited to see the God Help the Girl film this September 5, 2014? This latest indie/musical film stars Emily Browning as Eve, and the nice part is that she also sings on the film's soundtrack. Browning is no stranger to singing …

Stuart Murdoch (lead singer of Belle and Sebastian) is simply a genius. When he took a break from B&S to write and produce his 2009 album and concept called God Help The Girl, he clearly had the vision of bringing this particular story to film.

The road to the upcoming God Help The Girl film took a few years, but it's finally done and it's finally here (in selective theaters and On Demand this Friday, September 5th).

Since the film starred Emily Browning, it also meant that she also had to sing the part. As a result, they went back into the studio to re-record the original God Help The Girl 2009 album. As much as I love the original Catherine Ireton vocals, hearing Browning singing familiar lyrics, I have to say that it added a fresh, new, and exciting perspective to the music.

Songs that I wasn't thrilled about on the 2009 version (for example, "If You Could Speak"), sounded much better in the re-recording. It is possible that the 2009 God Help The Girl album served more, or less, like polished demos, so when they went back to the studios, they knew exactly what worked and what didn't.

So I can't begin to tell you how good the God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is. The album clocked slightly over an hour with twenty-eight tracks, and all it is worth hearing. There are some throwaway audio dialogue or brief songs that you can only imagine in context to the film, but I'm sure it will all make sense when you see the film.

Not all the songs were re-recorded, familiar Belle & Sebastian songs "Dress Up In You" (from The Life Pursuit) and "F*** this S***" (from Storytelling) also were recycled for this soundtrack. I should also note that I didn't closely examine them, but they sound like the original songs, unmodified or edited.

I don't really know if the soundtrack will appeal to non-B&S fans, but if you are one of the devoted, God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a must on your playlist. God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released September 2nd on Milan Records, and the film will be in selected theaters and On Demand September 5th from Amplify.

Please note that a special pre-screening is available from Sound Unseen at McNally Smith College of Music tonight, Thursday, Sept 4 at 7pm.

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Em

Read More Spoon Starting with new songs from their upcoming They Want My Soul (out August 5 on Loma Vista/Republic), the audience was among the first to hear many of the new and yet-to-be-released songs live …

EMA
thefuturesvoid.net

South Dakota's EMA is the acronym of Erika M. Anderson. Anderson was originally the lead singer of Gowns, but by 2010 she released her debut album called Every Minor Arcana - Little Sketches On Tape via cassette tape (additional details can be found discogs.com).

A year later, EMA seemingly became a household name when Rolling Stones called her "Artist to Watch" for her sophomore album Past Life Martyred Saints.

EMA is back with her latest The Future's Void, which came out in April on Matador Records.

Exciting news is that EMA is currently on tour with Spoon, who we last saw at Rock the Garden 2014.

EMA's tour dates:

09/16/14 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre*
09/17/14 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre*
09/18/14 Madison, WI Orpheum Theater *
09/19/14 Minneapolis, MN The State Theatre *
09/20/14 St. Louis, MO The Pageant *
09/21/14 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall *
09/23/14 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom *
09/26/14 "Pygmalion Music Festival"
10/25/14 Vancouver, BC Electric Owl
10/26/14 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios

* with Spoon

Read More God Help the Girl So, I'm excited to tell you that Milan Records will be releasing the God Help The Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack this September 2nd …

EMILY BROWNING
godhelpthegirl.com

Excited to see the God Help the Girl film this September 5, 2014? This latest indie/musical film stars Emily Browning as Eve, and the nice part is that she also sings on the film's soundtrack. Browning is no stranger to singing, after all, she sang The Smiths' "Asleep" in the terrible film Sucker Punch....

Although I'm fond of the 2009 God Help the Girl album, I have to say that Browning's vocals is fresh and new.

God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be out on September 2nd on Milan Records, but those living in these cities can preview the album on the God Help the Girl Listening Parties.

Dates and locations listed below:

GOD HELP THE GIRL LISTENING PARTIES

September 1st
- Los Angeles, CA @ Origami Vinyl (3pm)*

September 2nd
- Bellingham, WA @ Everyday Music
- Eugene, OR @ Skips Records & CD World
- Houston, TX @ Cactus Music
- Long Beach, CA @ Fingerprints Music
- Seattle, WA @ Everyday Music
- St. Louis, MO @ Vintage Vinyl

September 8th
- Dallas, TX @ Good Records
- Philadelphia, PA @ Main Street Music

September 10th
- Bloomington, IN @ Landlocked Music

September 11th
- Detroit, MI @ Dearborn Music

September 15th
- Dultuth, MN @ Electric Fetus

EMMY WILDWOOD
facebook.com/emmywildwood

NYC's Emmy Wildwood is described as a musician, entrepreneur, and one-woman-army... her latest release is called Mean Love (Tiger Blanket Records), which you can listen in its entirety on soundcloud.com.

Mean Love EP Tracklist:

1. Mean Love
2. Stung
3. Blondes
4. RVR LVR

EM GEORGE
facebook.com/EmGeorgeMusic

Sydney-based singer/songwriter Em George recently released her video for her single "Truth". She is described as sounding and influenced by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

She's fairly new, having only appeared last year with her first single "Murderers On the Inside," which made it on Triple J Unearthed and Home Brew. Eventually the track was optioned by HBO and remixed by Stephen Kozmeniuk (Kayne West, Madonna).

Hear the "Truth" on soundcloud.com.

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W♥M218: Lollapalooza 2014

W♥M218: Lollapalooza 2014 (34 mins) Read More Lollapalooza Lollapalooza is an annual music festival founded by Perry Farrel for his last hurrah with his band, Jane's Addiction. Lollapalooza stopped being a traveling festival and is now stationary …

Brody reports on Lollapalooza 2014.

New this year at Lollapalooza are:

"Leopallooza" in Cornwall, UK, featured Radiohead's Thom Yorke as a guest DJ, except no one showed up and knew who he was!

Lollapalooza Argentina is new this year, in addition to Lollapalooza Chile and Lollapalooza Brazil

Colorful Lollapalooza wristbands have RFID (radio frequency identification) chips that you can use to buy things, and .... also to keep track of where you go.

Some bands Brody saw: Temples, Lorde, Arctic Monkeys, Calvin Harris, Cage the Elephant, Kings of Leon, Lykke Li, Typhoon, London Grammar, etc.

Missed band: Flume, Glen Hansard

BONUS: City Pages 10 Thousand Sounds Festival, Camera Obscura, Laura Cantrell, and God Help the Girl Soundtrack.

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God Help the Girl: Film and Soundtrack

Read More God Help the Girl I was able to watch a screening of Stuart Murdoch’s film “God Help The Girl” which is something that I helped support on Kickstarter a year ago. Someday I will receive a DVD copy …

You might recall that we covered the rough cut of Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl musical film screening in January 2013. Jennifer summed up the film as simply, "Visually it was Stuart’s story of the forming of Belle and Sebastian."

Needless to say, we've been following the God Help The Girl journey for quite a while now. It started in 2009, after Belle & Sebastian took a break, Murdoch went on to form God Help the Girl. I eventually bought three physical CDs in Toronto, and it became my favorite album of that year.

God Help The Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

So, I'm excited to tell you that Milan Records will be releasing the God Help The Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack this September 2nd, just in time the films' theatrical release and On Demand on September 5th from Aplify (although the film will be made available in the UK August 16th via Metrodome with soundtrack on August 18th). Very excited to hear the new songs, and very excited to see the finished film.

Minneapolis, please note that they are screening God Help the Girl at McNally Smith College of Music on September 4th at 7pm.

God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Out September 2nd on Milan Records

Tracklist:

1. I Suppose That Was A Prayer
2. Act Of The Apostle
3. I Dumped You First
4. Pretty When The Wind Blows
5. I Know I Have To Eat
6. God Help The Girl
7. The Psychiatrist Is In
8. The God Of Music
9. If You Could Speak
10. The Catwalk Of The Dukes
11. Perfection As A Hipster
12. Fuck This Shit
13. Pretty Eve In The Tub
14. A Loving Kind Of Boy
15. What Do You Want This Band To Sound Like
16. Come Monday Night
17. Collective Idiocy
18. I'm Not Rich
19. I'll Have To Dance With Cassie
20. Stalinist Russia
21. Baby's Just Waiting
22. Partick Whistle
23. Musician Please Take Heed
24. I Just Want Your Jeans
25. Invisible
26. The World's Last Cassette
27. Down And Dusky Blonde
28. Dress Up In You

Watch the teaser:

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God Help The Girl - Musical Film Screening

Please note that this was a rough cut of the film and the following was originally published on ginforjuniper.wordpress.com.

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Stuart Murdoch at United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills (01/30/13) photograph by Jennifer Juniper Discography [2009] Come Monday Night (Single) [2009] God Help the Girl (LP) [2009] Stills (EP) [2009] Funny Little Frog (Single) [2010] Baby You're Blind (Single) Read More God Help the Girl I looked up God Help the Girl and they are filming a new music video this July 2013 and they were looking for someone to allow them to film for three weeks in their "spacious" house. …

God Help The Girl

posted on January 31, 2013

Last night (01/30) I got to do something that makes it worthwhile to live in Los Angeles. I was able to watch a screening of Stuart Murdoch’s film “God Help The Girl” which is something that I helped support on Kickstarter a year ago. Someday I will receive a DVD copy of the film in the mail in exchange for my donation to the film project. I was very excited to see the movie since I have been a big fan of the band (Belle & Sebastian) since 1997 and I have been hearing about the project for the last few years.

First off I show up at United Talent Agency which is where the screening is taking place. Interestingly enough, it is located near where Maverick Records used to be housed in Beverly Hills and a corner of the city I have not been to since I left Maverick in 1998. I felt like I was coming full circle since I am someday soon going to leave LA and Maverick was one of the first places I worked at in this town.

So I sat and waited in the lobby while other fans started trickling in. To say that I can spot other Belle and Sebastian fans is not surprising. There was an English guy reading a Jonathan Lethem book, a couple in which the woman was grading her students’ classwork, and the usual assortment of people with dyed hair staring at their smartphones. The movie was going to start 30 minutes later than we were told and I was wishing I had brought a book to kill time. Instead all I had was my smartphone and a memo pad. I spot Stuart standing across the room with a pregnant American whom I guessed was his wife. Stuart having a kid? He was one of the few people out there who I thought would never have kids. It has always made me feel better knowing that there are other people out there who don’t have kids. It makes me feel less alone in my choices. Well I was feeling pretty alone last night, and this was mostly due to the fact that I did not know any of the people hanging around and I wasn’t too keen on trying to strike up a conversation with anyone new. If it was a show I was waiting around for, well then maybe, but this event felt very relaxed and mellow.

I finally get to sit down in the screening room which had these big gray couches for us to sit on and wait some more. This time I am drawing pictures of the gnomes on my socks because my cell phone would not get any reception. The theatre was about half full and I would say there were less than 100 people in the room.

Stuart introduces the movie and his pregnant wife and I am sitting right behind them. One of my favourite things to do is people watch and listen in on other people’s conversations. I have always felt that it was a way to learn about people and see what they are really like. I have learned most of my social skills from watching others or TV. When I was a child, TV and movies were the way I learned everything about life. It probably also set up unrealistic expectations like the fact that I should be asked out to the homecoming dance when I was high school, and going to the prom is a MUST. But I digress from the point…

Visually it was Stuart’s story of the forming of Belle and Sebastian.

The movie is good. I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew the songs from the “God Help The Girl” cd which came out in 2009 and the general plot line of the story but I didn’t know how the songs would run together. Basically the movie followed the order of the songs from the cd although there were new ones added in. Visually it was Stuart’s story of the forming of Belle and Sebastian. It was not a biography, but the signs were there if you knew where to look. Eve and James are the two facets of Sebastian (Stuart) and Cassie was Belle (Isobel Campbell). The story had already been told in their songs and liner notes years ago, but here it was being acted out down to the scenes of fighting with umbrellas instead of swords from the video of “Is It Wicked Not To Care?” and poses in the style of the cover of the “Legal Man” single.

What really struck me about the film was how young the characters seemed. It really took me back to my years in college and even a trip I took to Scotland to visit my friend in December of 1994. I was able to identify with the characters as being younger versions of myself while also seeing how far I have moved away from it. I felt old in many ways and sad because all I wanted to do was start a band when I was 20 but I didn’t have the nerve, or any talent. These kids in the movie had the self-esteem to do such a thing. I still wonder if it too late for me? Can I still form that band and live out my fantasies from when I was young? Or has being “older and wiser” gotten the better of me? Mind you, I am very glad that I am not 20 years old anymore. Those were hellish days, but the nostalgia and “what could have been” will get me every time.

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W♥M165: Dancing with Cassie

W♥M165 (20 mins)

Things have slowed down here at W♥M because of the holidays and sheer laziness.

While I'm putting things up in nice tidy square cardboard boxes, I've been listening to my "go to" playlist of Belle & Sebastian, God Help the Girl and Baxendale - plus not-so-"go to" video of "Uknowwhatiwant" by Elektrisk Gønner.

I don't think any of these bands actually active (Baxendale broke up years ago). I looked up God Help the Girl and they are filming a new music video this July 2013 and they were looking for someone to allow them to film for three weeks in their "spacious" house. The house has to obviously be in Glasgow, Scotland…

They were also looking for professional and non-professional actors, assuming they are unpaid stand-ins (?).

It should be good, whatever God Help the Girl decide to do should be worth looking into. I love their debut album; I'm getting tired of listening to the one album! More please.

If you stay for the "Bonus Round", it's all Baxendale. Plus randomly: Juliana Hatfield in 1995! I found this used ticket stub to Hatfield at The Fillmore, in San Francisco on June 23rd, 1995.

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