Watch Beck Perform Two Song Reader Tracks

Watch Beck Perform Two <i>Song Reader</i> Tracks

When Beck released Song Reader last year as sheet music only, he left many interpreters to be his voice....  read more

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Beck Enlists All-Star Lineup for Song Reader Performance

Beck Enlists All-Star Lineup for <i>Song Reader</i> Performance

Franz Ferdinand, Joan Wasser (of Joan as the Police Woman), Charlotte Gainsbourg, Beth Orton, Michael Kiwanuka bring their interpretation.   read more

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Beck Announces Summer Dates

Beck Announces Summer Dates

In the midst of working on the follow-up to Song Reader, Beck has announced seven summer tour dates.  read more

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Song & Video Premiere: Royal Canoe - "We All Wear Cloaks," "Just Noise"

Song & Video Premiere: Royal Canoe - "We All Wear Cloaks," "Just Noise"

On Feb. 2, Canadian six-piece Royal Canoe performed a selection of songs from Beck Hansen's Song Reader.  read more

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25 Albums We're Looking Forward to in 2013

25 Albums We're Looking Forward to in 2013

It’s only nine days into the year, and already we’ve heard so much about what to expect in music.   read more

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Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Performs Song From Beck's Song Reader

Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Performs Song From Beck's <i>Song Reader</i>

Beck’s newest project Song Reader has taken music back to it’s roots. Releasing his new material only as sheet-music, Beck has provided blueprints for fans allowing them to add their own personal twist on songs written by him. During a recent appearance on WNYC’s Soundcheck radio show, Magnetic Fields singer Stephin Merritt sat down and performed one of the songs from Beck’s Song Reader, while Beck was on the phone....  read more

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Beck Announces Plans For New Album

Beck Announces Plans For New Album

Beck has confirmed that he is working on a new album that will not be in sheet music form, but in fact as tracks performed by the man himself....  read more

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Beck Covers Caetano Veloso

Beck Covers Caetano Veloso

Brazilian tropicalia singer and political activist Caetano Veloso is getting the cover treatment. In honor of the singer’s 70th birthday, various artists came together to create A Tribute to Caetano Veloso, which will be released in the UK on Oct. 22. Beck, who worked with Veloso in 2011, covers “Michelangelo Antonioni” for the album....  read more

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Beck to Collaborate with Flying Lotus

Beck to Collaborate with Flying Lotus

It makes sense that electronic artist Flying Lotus would collaborate with Beck, who, especially in recent years, has been no stranger to incorporating electronic elements into his music. Combine this with the fact that both artists have collaboration-happy as of late (FlyLo with Earl Sweatshirt and Thom Yorke; Beck with Childish Gambino and Jack White), and the news that the two will be pairing up to record a single is hardly surprising....  read more

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Listen To Three New Beck Songs on Sound Shapes

Listen To Three New Beck Songs on <i>Sound Shapes</i>

Last month, we reported that Queasy Games’ newest, Sound Shapes, would feature three previously unreleased Beck songs. As the videogame came out last week, all three songs have hit the Internet, complete with gameplay videos....  read more

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