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Archive for the ‘Beck’ Category
Mojo Weedwhacker Cuttin’ Into Space
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006I went and joined the band and went out on tour (just bend over in the clover)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006According to LowCountry Music, Sports & More Beck will be performing at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend OR on Saturday May 27 2006. Tickets go on presale at Ticketmaster March 10 at 10 AM PST.
Is this the start of a real tour? Bend is pretty near where the Sasquatch Festival is (where Beck will be performing the next day), so maybe this is a one-off deal. I certainly hope he does a real tour though.
blowin like a smoke machine
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006mellow_777 points us to an interesting comment by Ross Harris a.k.a. Rossangeles a.k.a. The Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm: Steve Hanft made a real video for Sissyneck that was never released. I sure hope this turns up somewhere.
While we’re talking about videos/films by Steve that we’d like to see, I’d also like to mention Computer Chips and Salsa. This was a tour documentary Steve made (or started to make) during the crazy-long Odelay tours. It would be awesome to see that too.
Also, I’m stoked about the Kill the Moonlight DVD release.
PS from Ghost: YouTube also has a video by Ross for “Funky Little Song” here.
UPDATE: Ross has posted another comment saying that the Sissyneck video was shot at the same time as the Where It’s At video, and is basically an extended version of the line dance scene. He also says that he’s gonna see if Steve has a copy of it, which hopefully means we’ll get to see this eventually!
you scream and you holla about my chevy impala
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Mashuptown has a new mashup of “E-Pro” with the Beastie Boys’ “So What’Cha Want?” by dj Erb. This is actually the second mashup of these two songs I’ve heard, I have another one by DJ Adequate. Anyway, check it out if you like mashups; dj Erb did a pretty good job.
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.)
sell me something vague and untamed
Monday, February 13th, 2006Wow. William Orbit has put up some Flash applications that allow you to remix the songs off his new album as well as a few other songs. Among the other songs is Beck’s version of ‘Feel Good Time’. I’ve only been playing with it for a few minutes but I’m having a lot of fun.
Orbitmixer [via Paul Gregory’s Public Secret Life]
UPDATE: If you make a remix post a link to it in the comments! We’d love to hear it.
UPDATE 2: Well, it looks like William Orbit has taken the ‘Feel Good Time’ remix thing down. Most (all?) of the others are still there, but unfortunately the Beck track has mysteriously vanished.
UPDATE 3: Everybody seems to think the lyric is “big and untamed”, not “vague and untamed”. So sue me.
Please Enjoy
Sunday, February 5th, 2006Ghost pointed me towards a mashup of “Hell Yes” with Q-Tip’s “Breathe And Stop”. It’s actually pretty good.