By Stephen DeFilippo on June 21, 2010
Michael Cera’s up to it again, with another big-screen comic book adaptation for which he’s enlisted the help of Beck, Broken Social Scene, and a couple acts called Crash and the Boys and SEX BOB-OMB. Wait, who?
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Beachwood Sparks, Beck, Black Lips, Broken Social Scene, Crash and the Boys, Frank Black, Michael Cera, SEX BOB-OMB, T. Rex, The Rolling Stones
By Jennifer Marston on May 20, 2010
A pressing question weighing heavily on all our minds these days: What’s up with vampires and indie rock? The Twilight saga has yet another crop of top-shelf indie artists contributing to its soundtrack, and now HBO’s True Blood series has unveiled the rather, um, killer soundtrack to its third season.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams, News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Beck, Bob Dylan, Buddy & Julie Miller, Chuck Prophet, Eels, Elvis Costello, Jace Everett & CC Adcock, Jr. Walker and The All Stars, King Britt & Sister Gertrude Morgan, Lucinda Williams, M. Ward, Robbie Robertson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The 13th Floor Elevators, Thievery Corporation, true blood, twilight, vampires
By Jennifer Marston on February 8, 2010
Last Friday, we had an initial taste of Jamie Lidell‘s forthcoming new album via the song “Compass.” Turns out that number is the title track off the new release, and plenty more details regarding the album emerged today.
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Posted in News, Upcoming Releases | Tagged Beck, Feist, Jamie Lidell
By Jennifer Marston on February 1, 2010
Pop chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck dabble in a mélange of musical styles and ponder near-death experience on their highly anticipated collaboration.
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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg
By Jennifer Marston on January 4, 2010
While we were away for the holidays, Beck’s Record Club continued cranking out the music. The previously mentioned third installment of his ongoing “informal meeting of various musicians” features the members of Wilco, along with Feist, Jamie Lidell, and Beck himself, covering the music of Jefferson Airplane member Skip Spence. Feist and Jeff Tweedy did [...]
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Posted in Videos | Tagged Beck, Feist, Jamie Lidell, Skip Spence, Wilco
By Jennifer Marston on November 18, 2009
Flying axes. Knife fights. Baseball played with melons. A kid in a Sponge Bob outfit being hauled away by cops while Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck sing poolside. It’s all part of the duo’s latest mind-fuck of a video, which we got wind of this morning and have had to replay several times in the last hour (Via Spinner). It’s useless to try analyzing this disparate pack of images here. Best to just sit back and enjoy the ride, which was directed by Keith Schofield and features plenty of pancakes too.
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By Jennifer Marston on November 13, 2009
A quick refresher. Five months ago, Beck started his Record Club project, which he touts on his site as “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day.”
Previously, we’ve seen the man himself covering The Velvet Underground and Nico, as well as MGMT and Devendra Banhart covering Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Rumor surfaced a while back that Wilco would, at some point, be involved with the project, a fact confirmed via beck.com earlier this week. Better yet, neo-soul crooner Jamie Lidell and Feist just happened to be hanging around the studio when Wilco dropped by, and the whole crew covered Jefferson Airplane member Skip Spence’s classic psych-folk album, Oar. Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer even lended a hand with some of the drumming for the project.
The eight songs recorded during that session will be released in weekly installments. The first, “Little Hands,” is up and available now.
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Posted in MP3s and Streams | Tagged Beck, Feist, Jamie Lidell, Record Club, Wilco
