Beck

“Summertime”

[ABKCO; 2010]

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Kick

[Self-released; 2010]

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Are you an office zombie who dreams of one day being massacred with silly string? Well then Tobacco‘s newest mind-melting video is for you. “Grape Aerosmith” is one of the better cuts off of one of the best albums of the year, Maniac Meat. This post also serves as a surrogate for me to post a ridiculously silly mash up by recent tour mates the Hood Internet.

MP3: Hood Internet – “Grape For Your Trunk” (Tobacco v. Felt)

Tobacco – Grape Aerosmith (feat. Beck) Official Video from Allen Cordell on Vimeo.

The soundtrack for the upcoming movie Twilight Eclipse features new songs by the likes of Metric, The Black Keys and Vampire Weekend as well as several other artists. You can stream the whole soundtrack for free on the official soundtrack website. Check out the tracklist below.

01. Eclipse (All Yours) – Metric
02. Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) – Muse
03. Ours – The Bravery
04. Heavy In Your Arms – Florence + The Machine
05. My Love – Sia
06. Atlas – Fanfarlo
07. Chop And Change – The Black Keys
08. Rolling In On A Burning Tire – The Dead Weather
09. Let’s Get Lost – Beck and Bat For Lashes
10. Jonathan Low – Vampire Weekend
11. With You In My Head (feat The Black Angels) – UNKLE
12. A Million Miles An Hour – Eastern Conference Champions
13. Life On Earth – Band of Horses
14. What Part Of Forever – Cee-Lo
15. Jacob’s Theme- Howard Shore

Listen here.

Filter reports that they have teamed up with American Eagle Outfitters to gather rarities, covers, and remixes from an all-star cast of musicians to create Hear to Help, a compilation to benefit the crisis in Haiti. The CD will feature Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend, Julian Casablancas, Busdriver, Grizzly Bear, and many other notable players in today’s music scene. Check out that intriguing tracklist for yourself:

Hear to Help:

01 Beck: “Volcano” (acoustic version)
02 Snow Patrol: “You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.” (Bright Eyes cover)
03 Keane: “Black Burning Heart” (French version)
04 Air: “So Light Is Her Footfall” (Breakbot Remix)
05 Charlotte Gainsbourg: “Dandelion”
06 Julian Casablancas: “Long Island Blues”
07 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Am I Only” (ReMix)
08 The Breeders: “We’re Gonna Rise”
09 Vampire Weekend: “Cousinz” (Toy Selectah Mex-More Remix)
10 Noah and the Whale: “Love of an Orchestra” (Chew Fu Fix)
11 Camera Obscura: “The World Is Full of Strangers”
12 Minus the Bear: “Broken China”
13 of Montreal: “Take Me Out” (live) (Franz Ferdinand cover)
14 Busdriver: “Running Water”
15 Surfer Blood: “Take It Easy” (Drop the Lime Remix)
16 Grizzly Bear: “Boy From School” (Hot Chip cover)
17 AM: “Endings Are Beginnings” (Piano Mix)

The compilation is available at American Eagle stores from now until March 19. Starting tomorrow, it will also be available on their website. All proceeds will go to Oxfam America.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Femme Fatale” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Yep, continuing his full album cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico, Beck highly delivered on the above rendition of the Nico-sung track.

We’re all expecting a mindbending cover of “Venus in Furs” next.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico ‘Waiting for My Man’ from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Well there is is, the second song on Beck’s full Velvet Underground and Nico cover fest. A much roots-ier affair than the Velvets’ original, Beck has come through again with a solid cover.

“Femme Fatale” next! Excitement!

Nothing official, but according to the Paper Tiger blog:

Last November, Beck and his band covered on stage, “Star Power.” This is a Sonic Youth song from their album EVOL. A few months later, it was announced that Beck was releasing a cover of “Green Light,” which is also from EVOL. That release was a single, the b-side being a Sonic Youth cover of “Pay No Mind” no less!

What does all this EVOLness mean? We learned today, thanks to our friends in Japan, that Beck has covered the whole album. He said this in an interview/article with a Japanese magazine. I’m told it will be part of some Sonic Youth box set. I know SY has been releasing Deluxe versions of their albums, so maybe EVOL Deluxe? Or maybe some greater box set project?

Regardless, this is super interesting and really a fun thing for Beck to have done!

Beck truly has gone crazy. But look on the bright side, we may get an EVOL Deluxe Edition! We’ll keep you posted on whether this is debunked or officially announced.

-Evan