If Sex Bomb-Omb and Crash and the Boys sound oddly familiar, that’s because it’s actually Beck and Broken Social Scene masquerading as the fictitious bands of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgirm vs. the World. You can stream the soundtrack (which also includes Beck and BSS originals, Metric, Black Lips) now at Spinner. Also streaming is the [...]

Mm. As Beck’s Record Club (feat. Liars, St. Vincent, and Os Mutantes) makes it’s way through INXS’s Kick, let us stop to pay special attention to this creamy rendition of “Devil Inside.”

Above, Beck’s Record Club re-interprets “Guns in the Sky,” the lead-off track from INXS’s Kick, with St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes. It sounds like Beck, St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes covering INXS’s “Guns in the Sky.” TwentyFourBit found this on St. Vincent’s Twitter, as it’s not yet been added to Beck’s official Record [...]

As of yesterday, French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg is offering up new track, “IRM,” as a free download on her website. I finally got around to listening to the intriguingly short, Beck-heavy track (he co-wrote and produced her entire new album), which appropriately references The White Album’s “Glass Onion.” The self-aware, psychedelic mindf*ck is [...]

Another interesting contribution to the world of music from Beck’s [Awesome Live Covers] Record Club, Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” with Devendra Banhart, and members of MGMT, Wolfmother, and Little Joy. Keeping with the Velvet Underground covers, there were no pre-session rehearsals for this recording.
The most interesting part of the post on the Record Club site is [...]

According to Beck’s site, his new ‘Record Club’ is “an informal meeting of various people to record an album in a day. An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework. Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time.”
First up is a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, members of Beck’s band, [...]

This weekend’s Outside Lands Festival saw an amazing line-up, with Radiohead, Beck, Wilco, Tom Petty and, of course, Jack Johnson among the headliners.. Here are some of my favorites recovered from an hour of youtubing, including Beck performing “Gamma Ray,” above.
Radiohead “Idioteque”

Cold War Kids “Dreams Old Men Dream”

Regina Spektor “On the Radio”

Lupe Fiasco “Superstar”

More Modern Guilt for you. Cause who doesn’t have guilt now-a-days?
Beck tour dates below…(first leg only, we hope. Where are the New York dates?!)
August 21 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
August 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival
August 24 – Bend, OR @ Les Schwab Amphiteater
August 30 – Seattle, WA [...]

Jeez, Louise, Beck is awesome. I’m having trouble picking a favorite track on this album…
Might have to go with this one.

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I think a universal law should be voted into place that states that every album can only be 10 tracks in length. With the latest offerings from artists like Coldplay and Radiohead releasing 10 track albums that overwhelmingly outshine their respective predecessors, it’s time to entertain the possibility that in this iPod age, solid, compact [...]