Bon Iver, Beck, St. Vincent, The Shins, Feist and the newly announced solo project from Jack White will be featured at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.
Feist: "How Come You Never Go There" (Beck Remix):
Here's a Feist pairing that's a little more expected than the last collaboration she announced: her Metals standout "How Come You Never Go There", remixed by Beck. The two previously worked together on Beck's Record Club cover of Skip Spence's Oar.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: "Paradisco"
On December 13 (December 5 in France), Because Music/Elektra will release Stage Whisper, a double-LP of live and unreleased material from Charlotte Gainsbourg that follows up October's Terrible Angels teaser EP. We've already heard "White Telephone"; above, stream another song from the collection, "Paradisco". The song was written and produced by Beck, and features drum programming from ex-Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti/current the Samps member Cole M.G.N.
Beck and producer Hector Castillo are putting together a remix album for the minimalist composer Philip Glass, who celebrates his 75th birthday in January. (That's Castillo, Beck, and Glass, above, via the Just Managing website.)
The culinary artist presents his one-off collaborative Green Box piece in his hometown of Los Angeles
Making a name for himself in hometime Los Angeles with his outrageous food concoctions, Craig Thornton has been established as a controversial food pioneer and painter who uses the culinary arts as a way to creat art. His DIY attitude to fine food means he once gave away foie gras on a street corner to the unexpected public. As you do. Thornton runs intimate underground dinner parties from his LA home, which he calls the Wolvesmouth, and will be creating an edible art-on-a-plate piece for Beck's Green Box Project entitled, “Wolves in the ... article continues »
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Here's one you probably weren't expecting: The new video for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' "Senator", off the recent Beck-produced album Mirror Traffic, stars Jack Black as the titular corrupt and incompetent senator. He sniffs coke, holds babies, and takes what appears to be a cattle prod to his genitals. Office Space's Gary Cole also plays a role.
Below, watch the clip, which was directed by "Daily Show" writer Scott Jacobsen, via Grantland.
Guitarist Jeff Beck is honoured with a living legend award by Classic Rock magazine.
Last night at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A., artists including Beck, Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, Victoria Legrand of Beach House, Zola Jesus, Mike Patton, and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt honored French pop luminary Serge Gainsbourg with a tribute concert.
Below, check out a shaky but audible fan-shot clip of Beck performing a trio of covers anchored by "Les Sucettes" (translation: "Lollipops"), a sexually suggestive song Gainsbourg wrote for singer France Gall in 1966, years before 50 Cent or Lil Wayne were born. Also, watch two high quality videos of Gordon-Levitt's performance. (Via Consequence of Sound.)