Sorry, not a lot of Beck stuff going on lately. Mainly, there are some US tour dates in May and June, and some Europe shows in August planned. You can see them here, or at beck.com. It appears that Justin Meldal-Johnsen will be rocking the bass with the band again for the US shows, at least. Great news! Also, I guess the Nacho Libre film score was shelved by the producers. But since it was in fact recorded, maybe if we all ask real nice, Beck will put it out for us somehow (beck.com? EP?). More on all that courtesy of Beck’s keyboardist, Brian Lebarton, here.
Author Archive
Get Well Cards To The Hostage Vans
Sunday, April 16th, 2006Turning Jams Up To Eleven
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006Mojo Weedwhacker Cuttin’ Into Space
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Don’t know what possessed me, but I started a Whiskeyclone myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/whiskeyclonenet
Feel free to add us if you’d like!
Like A Vagabond In The Distance
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006That “some shows with Radiohead” news from a few days ago seems to be meaning that they’re both hitting the summer festival circuit: Beck and Radiohead will both be playing the V Festival in the UK in August.
I’m A Driver, I’m A Winner
Monday, February 27th, 2006Hello. I thought I would write a little about the set of Loser songs which recently surfaced. Basically, an extended version of the 1992 Demo tape showed that, along with the Beck demos we already had, there were nine demos by Loser. Loser was a band led by Steve Hanft, who went on to direct a number of videos for Beck (and other artists) and a few movies (including Southlander, in which Beck appears).
These nine songs are all very metal/grunge-y, though occasionally they do touch on some country punk blues styles too. I believe most of the vocals were Steve Hanft, and Beck mainly appears as a musician.Â
The nine demos are:
1. “Born Of Whiskey”
2. “Dad Come Home”
3. “Trash Can”
4. “Backwash Mother”
5. “Back Of My Hand”
6. “Night Birds”
7. “Spinning Way Too Fast”
8. “Carburetor”
9. “Speeding Train”
The first two are official titles, the remaining seven are made up for identification purposes. We know the officiality of the first two songs because of this. Kill The Moonlight is finally getting an American DVD release. The soundtrack was released on CD years ago, and had three Beck songs. But with the DVD-release comes three more songs credited to “Loser (feat. Beck).” Two of those are “Born Of Whiskey” and “Dad Come Home.” The third is the instrumental, “Fish Bait.”
Hopefully more info about Loser will continue to arise. The Kill The Moonlight soundtrack is pretty killer, I’ve had the CD version for years. I guess I’ll need to get it again now with the three new tracks!
Blowin’ Like Horns About To Shout
Friday, February 24th, 2006So. Rolling Stone has a paragraph up on some Beck news. Here’s the exciting summary:
1. some shows with Radiohead this summer [we already know of Bonnaroo… will there be others?]
2. Odelay 10th Anniversary Deluxe edition [with original “Debra”! Slo-jam!] [I feel old]
3. finishing up the new Nigel Godrich record [with a song called “The Girl From RIP-anema”]
4. soundtrack/scoring the new Jack Black movie
HOORAY
Sasquatch Was Eating A Burrito
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006It looks like Beck is scheduled to play another festival now, besides the previously mentioned Bonnaroo in June. This one is May 26-28 in Washington state, and is the Sasquatch Festival. The lineup currently looks like this (pretty impressive, if you ask me!):
Friday 5/26: ONE STAGE / GATES AT 1PM
Nine Inch Nails, (Surprise Act – TBA), HIM, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, WolfmotherSaturday 5/27: 3 STAGES / GATES AT 11AM
Ben Harper, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, The Tragically Hip, Neko Case, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Gomez, Rogue Wave, Architecture In Helsinki, Sam Roberts, Constantines, The Brunettes, Matt Costa, Bedouin Soundclash, Tim Seely, Korby Lenker, Common MarketSUNDAY, MAY 28: 3 STAGES / GATES AT 11AM
Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Queens of the Stone Age, Matisyahu, The Decemberists, Nada Surf, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Blue Scholars, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Chad VanGaalen, The Heavenly States, Rocky Votolato, Laura Viers, The Village Green, Mercir(news courtesy of Stereogum.)
Spaceships can’t tame the jungle
Saturday, February 4th, 2006If you haven’t noticed AlmostAGhost has a new design up. I think it looks great and thank Dave for the great work on it. This new database should allow better interaction with the other sections of the site, and for more functionality and useful features in the future.
– Vin
UPDATE: PS. I wanted to add that there will be a source/era way to view the songs on AlmostAGhost soon enough. That is one of the functionalities we will be adding. More than a few people have asked about that, so I thought I’d mention it here too. Thanks for the interest! :-)
A Destination A Little Up The Road
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Beck is scheduled to play the Bonnaroo Festival this June.
Here is the link for the festival.
What this means about Beck doing a fuller tour around the US then, or if he’ll have an album to promote, or what, remains to be seen.
Still… always good to have some Beck-ness on the horizon.
– Vin
Interviewolito
Saturday, January 28th, 2006ITunes has a new 30-minute free interview about Guerolito. It consists of a series of interviews with different remixers who were involved with the release (Mario C, Doseone from Subtle, etc.).
This is the link to the US ITunes store if you would like to download it. If you’re in another country, just do a search. It is pretty interesting, and gives history to how Beck found remixers, how they were inspired to remix, how they went about remixing, etc.
– Ghost