Meneguar @ Death By Audio, NYC - July 8, 2008 (piratehat)

today in NYC
* FREE STUFF
* Dance stuff
* The King Left @ Pianos
* The Vaselines @ Southpaw
* St Vincent @ Castle Clinton
* Daryl Hall @ Highline Ballroom
* Boris, Clouds & Torche @ Webster Hall
* Fleet Foxes @ Union Hall late (11:30pm)
* At The Gates & Municipal Waste @ Irving Plaza
* Fleet Foxes & Dutchess & the Duke @ Union Hall early
* The Watson Twins & Tim Fite @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Tomorrow is that Brian Wilson show at Hammerstein Ballroom.

The Siren schedule.

Win Dungen tickets.

Portishead working on fourth album.

Beck's new video for the song "Gamma Ray" below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Thursday?"

One of my most anticipated albums of the year, Beck's Modern Guilt, drops tomorrow.

The most interesting release this week combines three of my favorite things, baseball, Steve Wynn, and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows). The Baseball Project: Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails brings these talented musicians together to share their love of America's pastime in song.

Other discs I have heard and can strongly recommend include CocoRosie's God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me 7", The Capstan Shafts' wonderfully lo-fi Fixation Protocols, Dutchess & The Duke's She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke, Patti Smith & Kevin Shields' collaboration The Coral Sea, and Ratatat's LP3.

I am definitely picking up the Fiery Furnaces' vinyl reissues of Blueberry Boat, The Fiery Furnaces EP, and Gallowsbird's Bark on vinyl. Other vinyl reissues I am buying include British Sea Power's Open Season; Xiu Xiu's Fabulous Muscles
La Foret, and my favorite M. Ward album, Transfiguration of Vincent.

What new music releases have you excited this week? Have any let you down?

Continue reading "Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week"

Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Sasquatch 2008 (more by Chris Graham)

"The multi-faceted, three-day festival will take place in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park on August 22 - 24, 2008. Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson will headline the event. Tickets for the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival are available for purchase at www.SFOutsidelands.com."

Beck, Manu Chao, Sharon Jones, Nellie McKay, and Rodrigo y Gabriela are a few of the other artists playing. All of them below....

Continue reading "Outside Lands Music Festival lineup - now w/ more artists"

Sonic Youth has finalized the track list for its compilation "Hits Are for Squares," due June 10 exclusively in Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as well as online.

In addition to the exclusive Sonic Youth track "Slow Revolution," the limited-edition CD features Sonic Youth songs, handpicked by Radiohead, Chloe Sevigny, Dave Eggers, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Beck, Flea, David Cross and other enthusiasts. Participants have also written about their selections for the liner notes... [Billboard]

Continue reading "The SONIC YOUTH Starbucks tracklist (curated by Radiohead, David Cross, Beck, Eddie Vedder, Flaming Lips...)"

Spiritualized are streaming their entire new album @ MySpace. "Songs in A&E" is out June 3rd. The "Mister Lonely" soundtrack is out now. Tickets for their show at Terminal 5 are on sale. More tour dates here. Are they playing Music Hall of Williamsburg too?

The Hold Steady have a new song called "Sequestered in Memphis" streaming at MySpace. Stay Positive is out on Vagrant on July 15th. Tour dates HERE.

Beck has a new song called "Chemtrails" streaming at MySpace. The track was produced by Danger Mouse.

Wolf Parade have a second new song for download at MySpace (it's called "Language City"). Their new album At Mount Zoomer is out on Sub Pop on June 17th. Tickets are still on sale for their show at Terminal 5. More tour dates HERE.

NIN have a whole new FREE album out (in case you forgot). Tickets for their NJ show are on sale. You can also catch them in CT with gambling and Deerhunter.

Tickets are now on presale (password = BOWL) for a Beck/Spoon/MGMT show in LA on May 10th. More info on Beck's new album (which Paper Tiger/P4K say includes a collaboration with Cat Power) and Beck & Spoon tour dates below.....

Continue reading "Beck's Danger Mouse album (with Cat Power) - a Spoon show @ the Hollywood Bowl (PRESALE)... and stuff (tour dates)..."

The latest news making the rounds is that The White Stripes have announced they recorded a few new songs with Beck.




Papertiger points out why this is not a surprise.....

1. Beck appeared in the Stripes’ video for “The Hardest Button To Button”.

2. Beck showed up to play bass on “The Denial Twist” at the Stripes’ show in LA in August 2005.

3. Jack showed up to play guitar with Beck & Smokey Hormel at their show in Detroit in August 2002. They played “99,” “Last Fair Deal Gone Down,” and “Cold Brains.”

4. Jack plays bass on “Go It Alone” on Guero, and they reportedly did a few other songs together then too (but it’s the only one that’s out yet).

5. In a photo gallery on beck.com, Meg was pictured, hanging out with Beck and his band on a boat in Australia (I think in 2003).

6. Beck covered “Black Math” once on stage (a bootleg surfaced of this show, but it has not fallen into the hands of Beck collectors yet).

7. Jack White interviewed Beck once.

"Conquest" details below....

Continue reading "Beck & The White Stripes - they go way back"

Previously
Beck played Knitting Factory
Beck @ Angel Orensanz, NYC | pics

DOWNLOAD: YYYs & Etienne De Cracy - Fast Hearts (eve massacre mix) (MP3)

A Rolling Stone magazine party...

KAREN O @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC | OCT 19, 2006 (CRED)

"Last night the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed to a mostly full crowd of industry honchos (and their dates) at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom." [Rolling Stone]

"Rollingstone was celebrating something -an anniversary of a few hundred years- and we pumped our fists in approval as Karen O delighted and wooed." [Yeti Don't Dance]

"Celebration also put on a lively performance and David Sitek joined them onstage for the last few songs." [Productshop]

FULL SETLIST: Our Time / Honeybear / Pin / Phenomena / Gold Lion / Wayout / Art Star / Cheated Hearts / Miles Away / Warrior / Maps / Turn Into / Date / Y Control (by audience request) and Date with the Night [The Modern Age]

An Interview magazine party...

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER @ THE ANNEX, NYC | OCT 25, 2006 (CRED)

A Paste magazine party...

BECK @ THE KNITTING FACTORY, NYC | OCT 26, 2006 (CRED)

"Beck showed up with his skinny well-coiffed band of punky deviants last night at the Knitting Factory to play an hour-long private set in front of 200 celebrating his Paste magazine cover. Roots drummer ?uestlove served as the between-sets DJ." [fishbowlNY]

"The party turned into a gathering of musicians by the end of the evening, with James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Adam Schlessinger (Fountains of Wayne), Ben Kweller, the Benevento Russo Duo, Willie Nile, Matt Maye & El Torpedo and Matisyahu all in attendence." [Paste]

An AOL party...

THE WALKMEN @ CANAL ROOM, NYC | OCT 26, 2006 (CRED)

"We launched our weekly show yesterday. It's called the DL and a proper celebration was in order. So, we rang up the Walkmen and our boy $mall ¢hange to party with us." [Spinner / AOL Indie blog]

An off-stage pic of Beck and more below....

Continue reading "Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiery Furnaces, Beck & The Walkmen played parties"

DOWNLOAD: Beck - Cell Phone's Dead (MP3)

The last-minute "solo acoustic" Beck show at Angel Orensanz (an old beautiful synagogue) in NYC Sunday night (Oct 22, 2006) wasn't very solo at all (his whole band was there), but I guess you could call it acoustic. There were no puppets, but there was a Casio. It was really great.

Continue reading "Beck @ Angel Orensanz, NYC | pics"

STREAM: Beck - Dark Star (Dave Sitek from TVOTR Remix) (WIN | REAL)

"The Bowery Presents "Beck & Friends: A Special Solo Acoustic Performance", Sunday 10/22/06 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. 6:00pm doors, 7:00pm show. The Angel Orensanz Foundation is located at 172 Norfolk Street (b/t E. Houston and Stanton). Tickets will be available on Ticketweb Thursday October 19th at noon." (thx all)

Previously
Win tickets to (see Beck @) the mtvU Woodie awards
Beck adds October Jersey City show

"To win tickets to the mtvU Woodie Awards, be one of the first to send an e-mail to: mtvUwoodies@mtvnmix.com with "Beck Fan" in the Subject line. (2) Tickets are available per e-mail and are on a "first come, first served" basis. If you are one of the winners, you will receive a confirmation e-mail by 5 PM EST on Friday, October 20th with pick-up & show information." (thx ondal)

"Sat. 10/21 Beck! This is a full band show in support of the highly acclaimed new album, The Information. The show is at the amazing Landmark Loew's Theatre (54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ). Tickets go on sale Monday 10/9 at 4 p.m. at the usual outlets (Ticketweb, Tunes and Other Music)."

The Onion interviewed Beck.

Previously
Beck | Fall 2006 Tour Dates
Beck, TV on the Radio, & Imogen Heap performing @ The 2006 Woodies

"Beck's new album has been banned from U.K. charts, as a result of the unusual packaging that accompanies it." [Yahoo News]

Nominees for the "Left Field Woodie" are:
* Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
* Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
* Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
* Lady Sovereign - Random
* Wolfmother - Woman

You can vote online.

Beck, Imogen Heap, TV on the Radio, and Gym Class Heroes will be among the performers at the 2006 mtvU Woodie Awards at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on October 25th (Premieres on mtvU & mtvU.com November 2nd). Last year I went. Full press release below..

Continue reading "Beck, TV on the Radio, & Imogen Heap performing @ The 2006 Woodies"

"Beck will be performing in support of the new album, The Information." Tickets on sale shortly. All dates below...

Continue reading "Beck | Fall 2006 Tour Dates"

Continue reading "Beck @ Sasquatch! 2006 | pics"

"After garnering much buzz in the past year, Jamie Lidell is re-releasing last year's Multiply as Multiply Editions May 30. The new set will have remixes by the likes of Feist collaborator Gonzales labelmate Luke Vibert, as well as live songs recorded in London and Paris." [MTV]

JAMIE LIDELL @ SOUTHPAW (more)

On August 31, 2006, Jamie Lidell is playing a Rocks Off Concert Cruise in NYC. Tickets are $25. Before that he's playing Sasquatch and a bunch of other U.S. dates including some with Beck. All dates below....

Continue reading "Jamie Lidell playing Concert Cruise, touring w/ Beck"

"Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the initial lineup for the 2006 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The fifth annual three-day camping and music festival will be held on June 16-18, 2006, on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. A list of confirmed acts follows, with more to be announced in the weeks ahead to round out the festival's 80-plus acts. "

Confirmed acts below...

Continue reading "Radiohead, Clap Your Hands, Beck playing Bonnaroo"

"It's the season of the remix album, and Beck is set to release Guerolito, his own remix version of Guero. That album was released earlier this year and eventually went on to gold status. Now Beck has joined with artists like Boards of Canada, Air, John King of the Dust Brothers, Adrock of the Beastie Boys, and Mario C (among others) to remix tracks from Guero and release them as a compilation. Cover artist Marcel Dzama of Royal Art Lodge has even been asked to remix his original artwork for the new release." [Spacelab]

Guerolito is out on December 13th. Preview it.

Previously
Beck played in a Mexican Restaurant

Beck with Whirlwind Heat
Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
Fri, Oct 7, 2005 06:00 PM
tickets on sale
thx Productshop

In addition to an appearance at Across the Narrows in Brooklyn at the beginning of October, one at Pop Motreal, two at Vegoose in Vegas at the end of October, and a bunch of dates with the Rolling Stones, Beck has the following tour dates posted on Ticketmaster:

Thu, 10/06/05 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
presale begins Fri, 09/09/05 09:00 AM

Continue reading "Beck | Tour Dates & presale | Tickets"

"Resfest will showcase the year's best short films, music videos and animation through a mix of screenings, parties, workshops and live music events....The festival will travel on its most extensive tour yet to more than 35 cities."

It starts in NYC. The dates are September 15-18, 2005.

Highlights include:
* A concert with Hot Chip @ Hiro Ballroom on Sept. 18
* A Beck retrospective on Sept. 17 @ Tribeca Performing Arts
* 'Videos that rock' on Sept. 18 @ Tribeca Performing Arts

All events on sale at Ticketweb. Schedule at the Resfest website.

P.S. This coincides with CMJ

"Last night Melanie and I went to Pancho Villa for the award-winning deliciousness. As you may know, it's not unusual for somebody to be standing in the back playing a guitar. However, the dude playing the guitar last night was Beck." [sfist & dennis yang]

Previously
Beck @ Hiro Ballroom, NYC | Pics

Listen to Bloc Party live in Washington DC on NPR (literally playing live as I post this)

Watch or Listen to Keren Ann on KCRW (same lineup as the recent Southpaw show)
Watch or Listen to Martha Wainwright on KCRW

Watch or Listen to M. Ward on the BBC
Watch or Listen to Beck on the BBC

Watch & Listen | M.I.A, Gang of Four, Sleater Kinney...