MTV is reporting that the new Beck album may be stealth dropped, Raconteurs-style, sometime within the next month or so. The album would be the second Danger Mouse-produced album of 2008 to be rushed into release to avoid extended periods of leakage. More »
MTV is reporting that the new Beck album may be stealth dropped, Raconteurs-style, sometime within the next month or so. The album would be the second Danger Mouse-produced album of 2008 to be rushed into release to avoid extended periods of leakage. More »
Beck shockingly confirms that the pop-bricolage libretto to Odelay was mostly random-function funny-talk. No word on the relative heartfelt-ness of his Mellow Gold-era lyrics, but you should probably snip “to have and to beefcake pantyhose” from your wedding vows just to be sure. More »
The video for Beck’s “Round The Bend,” which was created by video artist Jeremy Blake, somehow manages to be even more low-key and glacially paced than the song itself. The images slowly melt together, leaving abstracted, animated washes of bright colors while only occasionally revealing the nature of their form. There are no figures; when the face of Beck appears, it’s only as a two-dimensional representation directly lifted from the art that Blake created for the 2002 album Sea Change. It’s a gorgeous piece, and it’s likely the final music video of Blake’s career–he went missing last week and is now presumed dead.
We try to be pretty sparing when it comes to posting mash-ups, because they get a little tiring after a while, and also because the genre seems to have fallen into a “this song’s title is kind of the same as that song’s title!” stylistic rut as of late. More »
Anyone who’s read one of the kazillion reviews or blog posts about Beck’s recent tour knows that a) he uses marionettes, and b) at one point, all of his band members sit at a kitchen table, playing their utensils. More »
A few months ago, Wired magazine ran a cover story on Beck that focused less on his songwriting and more on his music-distribution prowess. And damned if it didn’t draw some of the angriest reader mail we’ve seen. From the new issue’s “Rants + Raves” column: Beck is the ultimate marketing tool. More »
Welcome to this week’s installment of “On the Shelf,” our Monday look at selected new releases hitting stores on Tuesday. We’ve already gone over tomorrow’s releases from The Killers and Evanescence; after the jump, we give new albums by Beck, The Decemberists, Sleepy Brown, and Chris Young a once-over.
