Cover Me: Old Man

Watch Beck perform the Neil Young classic Old Man. Just him, a guitar, and some vocal trickery

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Beck: new single "Dear Life", new album "Colors" in October

Beck is back with a new single. Dear Life is a taster for his new album Colors. Quirky and poppy he relies on the piano and double-tracked vocals to keep the track moving. A whiff of pyschedelic guitar comes in as the track progresses.

Colors will be released on October 12. He will be on the road in September supporting U2 on their The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 extravangza. Odd billing indeed.

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Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

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Beck: "Song Reader" show In Los Angeles 11/24

A special Song Reader show by Beck at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. On November 24th he will be joined on stage by Jack Black, Jon Brion, Jarvis Cocker, Childish Gambino, Jonathan Gold, Josh Kun, Jenny Lewis, Van Dyke Parks, Randall Poster, John C. Reilly, Moses Sumney. The orchestra of choice is the L.A. Philharmonic under the direction of conductor David Campbell (yes, that's Beck's dad).

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Portland Cello Project: Beck's "Song Reader" in full

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The Portland Cello Project are quick to release an album featuring all 20 songs from Beck's sheet music project Song Reader. It took them only three days. A wealth of guest singers takes care of the vocals.

The album is available from iTunes and Amazon.

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Beck: Odelay (Deluxe Edition)

In the late Nineties every music critic seemed to have a crush on Beck. The rest of the world pigeonholed him as one-hit wonder after his surprise hit Loser in 1994. Then came Odelay, an album that covered nearly every genre in the alternate rock business and inventing many new ones along the way. It was one those albums that is fun and challenging at the same time.

The Deluxe Edition is a 2CD and comes with lots of outtakes, B-sides and soundtracks songs. There are also three remix tracks that you will probably listen to only once, and not the whole way through a that. Odelay has stood the test of time with ease. Beck was the Captain Beefheart for the hiphop alterna-dance crowd, who can drill a hole into you eardrums with the highly unpleasant Novacane at one moment, and be Frank Black the next in Minus. Beck is at this best when can poke fun a things. Listen to the previously unreleased Gold Chains, a great putdown on hiphop parafernalia.

Disc One (Original album): Devil's Haircut Hotwax Lord Only Knows The New Pollution Derelict Novacane Jack-Ass Where It's At Minus Sissyneck Readymade High 5 (Rock the Catskills) Ramshackle Hidden Track Bonus tracks: Deadweight Inferno Gold Chains

Disc Two: Where It's At (UNKLE remix) Richard's Hairpiece (Aphex Twin remix of "Devil's Haircut") American Wasteland (Mickey P. remix of "Devil's Haircut") Clock Thunder Peel Electric Music and the Summer People Lemonade SA-5 Feather in Your Cap Erase the Sun 000.000 Brother Devil Got My Woman Trouble All My Days Strange Invitation Burro

Odelay (DeLuxe Edition) is released on Geffen / Universal.

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