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.

Listen to Devendra Banhart’s new album, What Will We Be, right here, right now. Thanks goes out yet again to the good people at imeem.

Most of the time when you hear the word “remix” it’s accompanied by a face-palm or two. But hear me out on this one – I’m seriously debating if Devendra Banhart’s remix of Phoenix’s track, “Rome,” is better than the original. Weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section…
MP3s:
Phoenix – “Rome” (Neighbours with Devendra [...]

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 [...]

[Roundup of the best Bay Area concerts this weekend.]
Friday:
Band of Horses w/ Drones and A Decent Animal @ Fox Theater Oakland
Paul Weller (of The Jam) @ Warfield Theatre
Tea Leaf Green w/ Or, the Whale @ The Fillmore
Devendra Banhart w/ The Healing Curse @ Mystic Theatre (Petaluma, CA)
Saturday:
Morrissey w/ Kristeen Young, The Courteeners @ Paramount Theatre
Noah [...]

It’s that time of year again — the turkey leftovers are long gone and we’re hearing Christmas music in every store in town, so it must be time for best-albums-of-year lists.
After screaming matches, insults and a fist fight or two, the dust has settled and the Stranger Dance staff stands before you united with our [...]

Given our current economic situation, “Bailout Blues” seems like an obvious theme. However, I’m not sure the songs I picked have anything to do with it – although you have to admit that a song named “Crop Circle Jerk ‘94″ may, in some small way, sum up the situation. For those of you who don’t [...]

It’s finally here. Though the months of anticipation, Outside Lands-related posts and Radiohead worship have been fun here at the Stranger Dance, it’ll be nice to get this bitch done with, so we can have some fun. So, in the spirit of community, good citizenship and milking this high-traffic cow one last time, we present [...]

[Update: Looking for playlists for the 2009 festival? We've got you covered: Friday, Saturday & Sunday]
Here’s the second installment of three for our Outside Lands Festival preview. Today, we bring you songs by all of the artists appearing on Saturday of Outside Lands. You can find yesterday’s installments here: Friday lineup
With our fancy new media [...]

While the folks at APE Concerts haven’t announced the schedule for the Outside Lands Festival [Update: full schedule now available here], most of the bands involved have which night they’re playing on their respective sites. So we did a little investigative journalism to cobble together a schedule.
According to their site, Radiohead is scheduled to headline [...]