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my girlfriend Caryl reviews The Information

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I was cleaning up my hard drive and found this video from just over a year ago. It’s my girlfriend Caryl reviewing The Information. Thought you guys might enjoy it.

UPDATE: To protect her reputation, I must clarify that she is sick not high.

new Bowie boxset = mysterious third remix?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

As many of you might know, Beck remixed David Bowie’s song “Seven” a few years ago. As fewer of you might know, there were actually two separate Beck remixes of this that were released (eventually). As even fewer of you might know, Beck actually made three remixes but the third and final one has never been released except on internal record company promos and test CDs. Until now?

This coming Tuesday Columbia Records is releasing a ten-CD box set of David Bowie’s more adventurous work, expanding each of his recent Outside, Earthling, Hours, Heathen, and Reality albums with a second disc. More than 60 remixes and alternative versions pad the set, highlighted by his work with Trent Reznor, Beck and Moby.

Obviously this does not mention which Beck remix(es) will be included, but here’s hoping we finally get to hear that third remix.

Source

UPDATE: No such luck, it just has the two that have already been released. Tracklist at Amazon.

Echoplex roundup

Monday, November 26th, 2007

looks like it was an awesome show. comments from ghost coming soon?

band and setlist (from Prim0e. 5in) (UPDATED):

Beck, Joey Waronker (Drums), Justin (Bass), Nigel Godrich (keys and percussion), jason Faulkner (guitar)

they also teased 2 songs during the set Jason sang a bit of “Miss You” by Rolling Stones and Justin did the “You know where you are?!?” from Welcome to the Jungle

  1. devil’s haircut
  2. nausea
  3. loser
  4. motherfucker
  5. jack ass
  6. think i’m in love
  7. new pollution
  8. fuckin’ with my head
  9. information
  10. paper tiger
  11. soldier jane
  12. where it’s at
  13. black tambourine
  14. girl
  15. minus
  16. sunday sun
  17. e-pro
  18. encore: sissyneck >
  19. scarecrow
  20. lord only knows
  21. lost cause

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Beck show tomorrow in LA

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Here are the official details:

Beck Announces a Special Los Angeles Club Performance:

Here are the details:

Date: Sunday, November 25th

Location: Echoplex. Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd. between Park & Scott Avenues in Echo Park.

Tickets: On Sale Friday, November 23rd at 5pm PST. Get them HERE

2 ticket limit. The only way to retrieve your tickets is at will call the night of the show. You MUST bring the credit card you used to purchase tickets and a matching, government-issued photo ID to the box office the night of the show. These tickets are non-transferable.

General Information: Ages 18+. Doors open at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm.

Tickets might be sold out, but if you’re really interested in going you might be able to find something on craigslist.

Our own almostaghost will be there reprazntn whiskeyclone.net, so make sure to say hi if you see him.

Mashup

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Sorry I never post on this thing. I’ll try to be a better friend.

New Mashup:

Mama Bizzness (Will.I.Am vs. Beck vs. Free)

Will.I.Am – I Got It From My Mama
Beck – Mixed Bizzness (sic)
Free – All Right Now

http://djlobsterdust.com/?p=90

Beck on new SNL CD

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Beck’s performance of ‘Nausea’ on SNL is going to be on a new CD. The disc, Live From SNL! Performances From Saturday Night Live is going on sale Sept. 9, exclusively at Target.

Two things bother me about this. First, September 9 is a crazy-ass date to release a CD; they normally come out on Tuesdays in North America. Second, ‘Clap Hands’ from the same show was way awesomer! That’s what should have been included, screw Nausea’.

I also heard recently about some new SNL music DVD, but I’m too lazy to look for that right now. Anybody else hear about this? Is Beck on it?

Tracklist:

  1. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
  2. Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
  3. Foo Fighters – Best Of You
  4. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
  5. P!nk – Trouble
  6. Beck – Nausea
  7. Dave Matthews – Save Me
  8. The Shins – Phantom Limb
  9. The Strokes – You Only Live Once
  10. Maroon 5 – Harder To Breathe
  11. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out

[press release]

i’m so glad download

Monday, May 28th, 2007

It’s been pretty quiet around here, so I thought I’d toss you guys a musical bone. Puritan Blister has an mp3 up of Beck’s cover of Skip James’s I’m So Glad. This is a really great song, especially if you like Beck’s bluesier stuff.

I’m So Glad @ Puritan Blister
I’m So Glad @ almostaghost

beck interviewed for new elliott smith book

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

From Spin:

Elliott Smith, the troubadour behind haunting acoustic compositions such as “Needle in the Hay” whose life came to an untimely end in 2003, will be memorialized with Elliott Smith, a 200-plus-page photo book compiled by renowned photographer Autumn de Wilde, the same lady behind the lens of the cover shot from the singer/songwriter’s 2000 album Figure 8. The book, also containing Smith’s handwritten lyrics and interviews from Ashley Welch, Smith’s sister, Beck, Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla (Death Cab), and Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), among others, will arrive in November courtesy of Chronicle Books, alongside a five song CD of previously unreleased live material. The project’s proceeds will be donated to the SIMS Foundation to supply affordable mental health care to musicians, and Outside In, a Portland, OR-based homeless youth non-profit group…

De Wilde then recorded chats with the likes of Beck and Walla — whose discussion on being photographed will become the book’s forward — Caws, and Welch, as well as Mark Flanagan, owner of L.A.’s Largo Club, Neil Gust (Heatmiser), Sam Coomes (Quasi/Heatmiser), producers Rob Schnapf and Jon Brion, and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), the latter an individual who had never known Smith, but divulged the late musician’s deep influence unto his music.

Autumn De Wilde has worked with Beck on a number of occasions, I believe. I seem to remember her taking a whole bunch of photos for him and his albums. Anybody know which ones?

beck on ginsberg dvd

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Beck will be in the special features of the DVD for the 1994 movie The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, which will be released July 17, 2007.

new DJ Moule mashup

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I haven’t listened to it yet, but DJ Moule has a new Beck mashup up on his site called Tribute To James (James Brown Vs Beck Vs Peter Gabriel Vs Fatboy Slim, featuring RHCP) (scroll down to find it; there are a few other Beck mashups on there too, actually).

Things have been pretty slow around here, so I thought you might appreciate the heads-up.

[via A Capella v. 2.0]