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  Beware Beck's 360-Degree 'Sound and Vision': Interactive Video May Cause Nausea

  February 19, 2013 – As promised, Beck has now made it possible for you to feel like you're moving around within his nine-minute, 170-person rendition of David Bowie's "Sound and Vision." As Jack White and Beck's offbeat yet forward-thinking experiments put them in competition to be the quasi-alternative rock world's leading Willy Wonka, this experience brings to mind the candy man's lickable wallpaper. …
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  Watch Beck Expand David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' to Nine Glorious Minutes

  February 11, 2013 – Beck isn't exactly a man you'd accuse of being a literalist. But his in-the-round cover of David Bowie's classic "Sound and Vision" wonderfully emphasizes, well, both sound and vision. The Song Reader songwriter stretches out the Low original's lithe, plastic, deceptively upbeat art-funk to a whopping nine minutes, emphasizing every glorious detail. …
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  Beck Wants You to Feel His Cover of David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision'

  February 4, 2013 – Perhaps as a way to overcompensate for putting out an album of sheet music, Beck is hard at work on a new, fully immersive project: a cover of David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" that will be performed with 170 musicians and recorded with 360-degree equipment to make viewers feel as if they're actually at the show.The Lincoln car company has drafted the Sea Change singer to reinterpret "Sound and Vision," off Bowie's 1977 LP, Low, as part  …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Beck, Broadcast, Dropkick Murphys, Young Scooter, More

  January 3, 2013 – Presenting 2013's inaugural round of ready-to-stream albums:1) Beck via Portland Cello Project, Portland Cello Project Play Beck Hansen's Song Reader. "While the music is fairly consistent throughout, ranging from Sea Change-style string dirges to brighter cabaret-flavored jaunts, the band cycles through vocalists, from soulful men's chorus Chanticleer to outside folkie Jolie Holland." (via SPIN)2) Divorce, Divorce. …
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  Beck's 'Song Reader' Can Finally Be Heard in Its Quaint Entirety

  January 2, 2013 – Tired of wading through amateur YouTube videos in a foolhardy attempt to get a feel for Beck's new "album" — the one he released as sheet music last month? A group of savvy, covers-happy Northwestern cellists have got your number. Portland Cello Project have made their name performing symphony-pop versions of songs by everyone from Radiohead to Kanye West, plus collaborated with the Dandy Warhols and Thao Nguyen among countless others. …
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  Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Gives Life to Beck's Sheet Music Song

  December 14, 2012 – Beck may have stumbled upon a bit of genius when he made the seemingly anachronistic move of releasing a new album solely in sheet music form last week. Song Reader has inspired an endless stream of fan-made YouTube covers, and is no doubt generating a handful of IRL listening events between friends like the Flaming Lips' famous Zaireeka experiment did back in 1997. …
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  Karen O, Arcade Fire, Beck, Fiona Apple, and Rick Ross Make Oscars Best Song Short List

  December 12, 2012 – Coming in at 75 songs and including such stinkers as Owl City's "When Can I See You Again?" (Wreck-It Ralph) and Holladay's "Never Had" (10 Years), the Oscars 2012 short list for "Best Original Song" isn't exactly the tidy thing one might hope for. Nevertheless, there are a handful of happy inclusions worth mentioning. …
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  Good Sheet: 5 Revelations About Beck's 'Song Reader' From McSweeney's

  December 5, 2012 – Beck turned a lot of heads when he announced his plans to release an entire album as sheet music. Some guffawed at this old-timey notion, while others lauded the idea of the so-called Song Reader, but whatever your gut reaction, you've got to admit it's a bold and tantalizing move to release music on paper in the age of the Internet. …
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  Charity Rock: Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert Guide

  November 30, 2012 – A month after Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast, musicians continue to raise money for relief efforts. A variety of artists are performing at benefit shows in the coming weeks with proceeds going to charities such as the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, and Waves For Water. …
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  Beck Chronicles His Evolution from Open Mic Reject to 'Song Reader' Auteur

  November 27, 2012 – Beck has been attached to a number of unconventional releases lately: There's his Childish Gambino collaborations, his single on Jack White's Third Man label, and the new songs packaged as a video game. Oh, and there's his new album, Beck Hansen's Song Reader, which is only being released as sheet music via publishing house McSweeney's. …
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