Last week Beck posted the first of his ‘record club’ videos as he and a bunch of friends cover the The Velvet Underground & Nico’s self-titled and this past weekend the prolific musician followed Sunday Morning with Waiting For My Man, featuring Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, actor Giovanni Ribisi, Icelandic singer/songwriter Thorunn Magnusdottir among others. [...]

Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Max
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Some of you may be aware of a new project that Beck is undertaking called the ‘Beck & Friends Music Club’. For those who are unaware, Beck has invited a load of his friends, including Devendra Banhart, Jamie Liddell, MGMT and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, to spend one day in a recording studio covering a [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Max
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Tomorrow is the return of Record Store Day, which is, in my opinion, a brilliant and important cause. In this current recession it is very uncertain how many record stores will survive but we need them to stay as an alternative to soul-sucking modern day corporate powerhouses like HMV. More shops than ever are participating [...]

Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Max
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O2 Wireless has now been going for four years and I’ve always wanted to go there. It’s definitely a different kind of mainstream festival to what else is on the circuit. This year I decided to go on the Friday and see what it was like. There were definitely a few bands I wanted to [...]

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Max
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A few weeks ago Beck released a teaser track for his new album, Modern Guilt, on the Internet called Chemtrails. I found it to be quite a good listen and it raised my expectations for the upcoming album release. Two new tracks were unveiled a few days back and one of them was Gamma Ray. [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Max
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