Everything but the Girl news

British indie pop duo Everything But the Girl will reissue four albums on June 4: 1984's Eden , 1985's Love Not Money , 1986's Baby the Stars Shine Bright , and 1988's Idlewild .

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck is 91. Country singer Helen Cornelius is 70. Singer Frankie Beverly of Maze is 65. Actress JoBeth Williams is 63. Comedian Steven Wright is 56. Guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. is 55. Drummer David Lovering of The Pixies is 50. Guitarist Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl is 49. Actress Janine Turner is 49. Director Judd Apatow is 44.

It seemed like a brilliant idea at first. Fresh from their Mercury Prize win in their native England, ethereal outfit The xx decided to put together a covers album, but one featuring their personal-fave artists doing the songs from their own debut. Naturally, they got in touch with Everything But The Girl’s evocative Tracey Thorn (and her old bandmate Ben Watt) to see if they might be interested ...

Not too long ago, British inside-out rock specialists the xx asked a host of their favorite artists to cover songs from their own Mercury Prize-winning debut, including Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl fame. But due to some "logistical" issues, Watt and Thorn's contribution never materialized. Such a bummer. Today, however, Merge has shared a silken cover of "Night Time" that ...

Listen to Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt cover the xx's 'Night Time.'

Tracey Thorn: "Night Time" (the xx Cover) Stream of "Night Time (the xx Cover)" unavailable on this device. The duo behind Everything But the Girl , Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, haven't released music together in over a decade. But last summer, the xx asked the pair to contribute a track to a compilation of covers of songs from the xx's 2009 self-titled debut . The covers compilation never came to ...

Swedish electro-skitterers Little Dragon traffic in coolness, a tough balance when you're not particularly cool. Most electro-skittering these days comes with a retroactive feel (Washed Out) or a futurist aura (James Blake). But these sexy middlebrows come closest to an Everything but the Girl or a Roisin Murphy, who followed American beat influences like Timbaland rather than decidedly Euro ...

Swedish electro-skitterers Little Dragon traffic in coolness, a tough balance when you re not particularly cool. Most electro-skittering these days comes with a retroactive feel (Washed Out) or a futurist aura (James Blake). But these sexy middlebrows come closest to an Everything but the Girl or a Roisin Murphy, who followed American beat influences like Timbaland rather than decidedly Euro ...

WASHINGTON: Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real acknowledged that he is also a man.

Julia Biel is a new artist with the whole package – a self taught singer, songwriter, musician and producer that has already impressed some big names in the music industry, including Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl , and Mercury Prize nominees, Polar Bear , whom she has collaborated with.

It's all in the numbers. South Africa's Kruger National Park may be known for its big-five species but the number that's caught my attention is 950,000. That figure represents how many visitors the park attracts each year and it's enough to send a shy type like myself searching for a more intimate safari experience.