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Beck and omoti
• Above is "Heaven Can Wait," a track from the forethcoming Beck/Charlotte Gainsbourg collab.
• PItchfork has gathered a few videos of Vampire Weekend performing new songs. The sound quality is variable and mostly bad, but it sounds like if you liked their first album, you'll like their second.
• Antlers has done a Daytrotter session.
Tags: Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Heaven Can Wait, Vampire Weekend, Antlers, Daytrotter
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Beck is also quite busy
Modern Guilt Acoustic "Orphans" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
We just posted on the ultra-prolific Jack White, but he's not the only overachiever making news these days. Beck, one of our favorites, has launched a series of new ventures (Pitchfork has a pretty good summary here, you don't need me to rewrite it). The highlights include an acoustic version of 2008's "Modern Guilt," with one track per week posted to the Videotheque (that's entry no. 1, "Orphans," above) and a multi-part interview with Tom Waits posted to Irrelevant Topics. An excerpt:
TW: Yeah and we have every generation making a whole bunch of new [songs]. Even though the generation before says, "What's wrong with these tunes? We've got plenty of good tunes lying around here. What are you making new songs for? We've got cool songs about everything you're writing about. We've got plenty of songs about girls." "No, no. That's all right, Dad. We're doing something else, something cooler over here. You go ahead." And the dad says, "Do you know Jimmy DURANTE? Have you ever heard of Jimmy Durante?"
Tags: beck, tom waits, modern guilt, orphans, your favorite band
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New Beck Video: Gamma Ray
By eh
Beck premiered his new video for "Gamma Ray" on MySpace Music yesterday. It stars a painted up Chloe Sevigny shaking it for all she's worth. Thus, your enjoyment of the video hinges on how much you
can toleratelike Sevigny. It's still a good song, though. And typically Beck, if there can be such a thing.Tags: beck, chloe sevigny, myspace music, gamma ray, modern guilt, new music, your favorite band, videos
