Swinging Modern Sounds #103: Song Turned Blue
I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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Posts Tagged: Beck
Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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Sound & Vision Is
Aside from his endless capacity for self-invention, Bowie changed the way we experience our own sense of identity.
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Sound Takes: Good Advice
Look at the hand on the cover: it is an older hand, an experienced one. It is an empathetic hand.
...moreArtists Petition Against Streaming Enablers
A long list of known and respected musicians from a wide variety of genres have signed a petition against the systemic enabling of illegal streaming provided by entities such as YouTube and Google. The petition urges Congress to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects companies that host user sharing from being held accountable […]
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Albums of Our Lives: Beck’s Odelay
A friend once showed me his dad’s copy of the Beatles’s White Album and said you could find secret messages hidden in the lyrics. I tried to look for the same things in Odelay, but it resisted.
...moreThe First of Summer’s Festival Lineups
The lineups for two of the summer’s biggest festivals have been announced, with many more to come. Coachella is boasting the first reunion of Guns N’ Roses original members in twenty years, along with the return of LCD Soundsystem, who have been on a break for five years, Consequence of Sound reports. CoS also recently published […]
...moreLollapalooza Nostalgia
In celebration of this era recently stirred up by the release of Montage of Heck, the Washington Post published an oral history of Lollapalooza’s most alternative of tours. In 1995, Lollapalooza’s founders took a break from booking platinum artists and experimented with featuring a lineup that matched the “indie” and “alternative” labels that are now so […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren discusses his newest novel, Polyamorous Love Song, the relationship between art and ethics, and whether Kanye West is a force for good in the art and music world.
...moreSong of the Day: “Don’t Let It Go”
Beck’s skillfully-produced new album, Morning Phase, is loaded with beautiful, atmospheric melodies like “Heart Is A Drum” and “Wave.” So the decisive guitar hook of “Don’t Let It Go” provides a pleasant lift without sacrificing the moody pacing of surrounding tracks. Morning Phase sounds like a continuation of Beck’s carefully-wrought album of 2002, Sea Change. […]
...moreWant a free ticket to a private Beck Show?
Our friends at The Believer are giving away ten free tickets to “Beck’s Song Reader” at Sonos Studios next Thursday evening in Los Angeles. Check it out: The event isn’t open to the public, so if you want to come chill alongside Beck (THE BECK! BECK HIMSELF!), McSweeney’s editor Jordan Bass, and select fans as they […]
...moreBECK HANSEN’S SONG READER
Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released in December 2012 by McSweeney’s. “Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be at the end of 2012—an alternative that enlists the […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Mary Lattimore
Most often associated with chamber ensembles and orchestras, the harp first gained pop music cred thanks to the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”
...moreGainsbourg in Gowanus via Beck
In celebration of the January release of IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s latest album, which was produced by Beck, Gainsbourg will be performing two shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn (1/19, 1/20), tickets for which go on sale today at noon. Other Gainsbourg delights in January include a screening of her latest film, Antichrist, directed by […]
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