Hi everyone.

I have some exciting news for you. Most of you have probably already heard that a deluxe version of The Information is coming out soon (Feb 27 in North America). It’ll have the international bonus tracks, a bunch of remixes, homemade videos for all the songs except O Menina, and two studio videos.

Last year, though, we kept hearing news about a deluxe 10th anniversary edition of Odelay coming out. When 2006 ended without official word of the rerelease, many of us gave up hope of seeing it. Well, it’s back, baby! HMV Japan has a page up for the rerelease! There’s not much information there, other than a release date (April 4) and the fact that it’ll be 2 CDs. Hopefully we get official confirmation and a tracklist soon. And hopefully there’s some new stuff on there that we haven’t heard before.

(Thanks to my favourite Japanese Beck blog HamBeck for linking to this.)

It may be a little bit late for this, but who doesn’t enjoy a good year-end review? 2006 was a good year for Beck fans, so I’ve put together this list of all the new Beck stuff that was released or discovered last year. For all the non-commercially-released stuff, make sure to head over to the BeckTabs hub, your Mecca for Beck earcandy media. (I can’t believe I wrote earcandy. I apologize.)

Keep in mind, this list is leaving out a whole mess of great concerts, club gigs and TV appearances, not to mention videos, puppet shows, t-shirts and lots of other great stuff. You can find a lot of that on the hub, too.

December

• Bloodless

November

• 99X Live X 11: Strange Apparition featuring Nausea (The Chap Remix)
• The Harry Smith Tribute DVD, featuring Beck’s performance of Last Fair Deal Gone Down

October

• Nacho Libre soundtrack and DVD, featuring six Beck songs (though only three showed up on the CD)
• 1st & Hope DVD, featuring an all-Beck soundtrack
• The Information – most, if not all, of the tracks and their videos were leaked ahead of time, but the album actually dropped on October 3. Along with the album came international bonus tracks and singles/promos for Cellphone’s Dead, Nausea, O Menina and Think I’m In Love (though the actual month these were released is unclear).
• Dark Star (TV On The Radio Remix)

September

• Cellphone’s Dead (Jamie Lidell Remix)
• a Lemonade video, the first whiskeyclone.net video production.

August

• California Rodeo

July

• Beck and Dava, a new old tape full of unheard covers (and possibly some original songs)
• Breaks and Beats
• We’re Punkers Now

March

• Kill The Moonlight DVD + soundtrack

January

• new version of Don’t Get Bent Out Of Shape

So what am I leaving off? Any major Beck events you think deserve attention? Let us know in the comments!

(On a personal note, I saw Beck perform three times in 2006, tying with 2002. Yeah, me!)