Beck’s Record Club is nothing new at this point. Previous guests have included MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Nigel Goodrich, Jamie Lidell and many others. For the club’s latest effort, Beck brings together Wilco and Feist to cover Skip Spence’s album, Oar. Check out the video of “Little Hands” below.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg – “IRM”
Gainsbourg’s forthcoming LP, IRM, features the handy-work of Beck who writes, produces and mixes multiple tracks. There’s even a duet [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
A modest yet significant mix of videos this week, featuring the Antlers, the Horrors, the Walkmen, Fanfarlo, the Music Tapes, Julian Lynch, Portugal. the Man, Those Darlins, Telekinesis, Wavves, Beck, the Noisettes, Eels, [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, we remember two late greats: John Hughes (who passed away yesterday, 8.6.09 from a heart attack at the age of 59) and Heath Ledger (who directed a video for Modest Mouse [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, we’ve got the standard sampling of videos: the special-edition live (Andrew Bird, Beck, Tiny Vipers, Akron/Family), the late-night-TV live (Ray Lamontagne, Metric, the Dead Weather),  the at-a-festival live (Kanye West, Thom [...]

I really like where Beck’s new project, Record Club, is headed. The premise: Beck will lead a group of musicians to cover an entire album of their choosing in one day. The tracks are recorded and then released once a week on his website for fans to enjoy.
Wired reports:
“An album will be chosen to be [...]

Beck’s early collection of folk songs entitled One Foot in the Grave was quietly released in 1994. And yes, it’s as somber as the title suggests. But it still provides an interesting look at the young songwriter as he experiments with one of the styles that ultimately gets added to the brew of Odelay. After [...]

Bay Area musician Michael Zapruder does things a little differently than most artists. Best known (so far) for his 52 Songs project — for which he recorded and released one track online every week for a year — Zapruder also formed an orchestra dubbed the Rain of Frogs, which features a rotating cast including members [...]

We had a little surprise from Mother Nature last night, as she threw a 4.0 magnitude earthquake our way here in San Francisco. Now, I’m not saying I like them, but there’s something exhilarating about these smaller ones.
MP3s:
Fruit Bats – “The Earthquake of 73″
Beck – “Terremoto Tempo (Earthquake Weather)”
Prince Buster – “Earthquake”
King Tubby – [...]

Here’s an old mix that I made for a friend. It started out as an introduction to Alt Country, but turned into more of a mood mix than anything. It’s still one of my favorite mixes that I’ve made.
It’s got some pretty sad bastard material on it, but I don’t think of it as depressing [...]