"To make better records," says guitarist and songwriter Stevie Jackson. But with this year's Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, the band surprised a lot of people—including itself. "I kind of said, for ...

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch took the stage at Pitchfork Music Festival last month wearing white pants, a tight black T-shirt, and a black jacket, looking like a character from Grease or ...

2014 has been a big year for a relatively small band: Belle and Sebastian. The Scottish indie-pop group formed 18 years ago, and while it’s never had anything so ordinary as a hit single in the United ...

In 2002, the cult-beloved Scottish indie-pop collective Belle And Sebastian released a full soundtrack album for the Todd Solondz film Storytelling. In 2014, Belle And Sebastian leader Stuart Murdoch ...

LONDON – It might be a case of too little too late. “Belle and Sebastian,” the latest big screen makeover of a children’s classic, is proving a breakout hit in France, running up a first five-day ...

The dashing Scots of Belle and Sebastian are nothing if not prolific. Even these days, when they seem to prefer releasing proper albums only every four years or so, the charming and hard-working ...

There’s that one song that when it begins, when the first notes hit your ears, your heart stops for a millisecond and you’re taken back to the place you were when you heard it play for the first time.

The music industry is known for hype and drama and flash-in-the-pan stars who are up-and-coming one day and gone the next. But Belle & Sebastian are an exception. Since releasing their debut album in ...