Articles tagged "beck"

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Charlotte Gainsbourg - “Heaven Can Wait” (feat. Beck) (stream)

by Tyler Gould

[3.Nov.09] :. Don’t get too excited, “Heaven Can Wait” is not a cover of the Meat Loaf ballad from Bat Out of Hell, but the wispy voices of Charlotte and Beck over the otherwise chunky,...

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Record Club - “Winter Lady” and other Songs of Leonard Cohen (video)

by Tyler Gould

[21.Sep.09] :. The Record Club, a rotating crew of musicians gathered by Beck to release weekly covers of tracks from classic albums, just put out a video for “Winter Lady”. This iteration of the Club...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008 Feature

The Best Re-Issues of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Dec.08] :. Artist: Pole Album: 1 2 3 Label: ~Scape Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/music_cover_art/p/pole-123.jpg US Release Date: 2008-08-05 UK Release Date: 2008-08-04 Display as: List List number:...

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Events Review

Beck

by Rory O'Connor

[20.Oct.08] :. If there is a flaw with Beck it may be that he has so many sides you can never be quite sure which one is going to turn up.

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Beck: Modern Guilt

by Thomas Hauner

[7.Jul.08] :. The much-anticipated collaboration with Danger Mouse doesn’t live up to the past accolades of either artist.

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Marcia Ball, Beck, Luke Doucet…

by PopMatters Staff

[23.May.08] :. Marcia Ball Live at the Highline Ballroom [Video] Part 1: Part 2: Beck Chemtrails [Streaming] Luke Doucet The Day Rick Danko Died...

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Beck: Odelay

by Zeth Lundy

[8.Feb.08] :. Beck's 1996 breakthrough album gets the two-disc deluxe treatment, which augments the original record with remixes, unreleased songs, and b-sides.

 

Mark Ronson: Version

by Mike Schiller

[25.Jun.07] :. If Ronson is going to pander to an audience, he may as well be straightforward about it.

 

V Festival feat. Pixies, Beck, Nouvelle Vague, Gnarls Barkley, Jarvis Cocker, and Phoenix

by Nick Gunn

[20.Apr.07] :. PopMatters' Nick Gunn takes on the crowds and craziness, to find out what happens when Virgin's V Festival pops up down under.

 

Beck

by A. L. Friedman

[22.Nov.06] :. Beck and his band are upstaged by stylized facsimiles of themselves, but, puppets aside, other parts of the show also divert attention from its star. Is the great "Loser" getting tired of himself?

 

Beck: The Information

by Zeth Lundy

[4.Oct.06] :. Beck's ninth studio album, his third with producer Nigel Godrich, is his most infectious and adventurous mess of irrelevance since Midnite Vultures.

 

Beck: Guerolito

by Zeth Lundy

[7.Dec.05] :. Rock's resident chameleon has his latest album remixed by the likes of Air, Diplo, Boards of Canada, and the Beastie Boys' Adrock.

 

Beck

by Alexander Coté

[9.Aug.05] :. 'This is the last night of our tour, so we're stripped down... we're... inoculated.'

 

Beck: Guero

by Dave Heaton

[29.Mar.05] :. The emotional scope of Beck's discography is further broadened by Guero, which places his schizophrenic party music under a more solemn cloud.

 

Beck: Sea Change

by Andy Hermann

[25.Oct.02] :. I admit I was one of those people who didn’t “get” Beck when he first appeared on the scene in the early ‘90s. I found “Loser” to be the worst kind of white-boy...