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May 12, 2010 – The creators of Twilight have proven, yet again, to have good taste in music.
The soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was released today in a live roll out with one artist announced every 30 minutes until all 15 were disclosed. …
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April 16, 2010 – JANUARY 18, 1994
Here's what really happened when MTV played Beck's "Loser" for the first time, in 1994: The culture inverted itself, weirdness was instantaneously mainstreamed, everyone stopped combing their hair, people slept more and purchased broken turntables at stoop sales, dirtbags began using the word art in casual conversation, Michael Cera entered kindergarten.
Here's what nobody said when MTV played "Loser" for th …
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March 25, 2010 – Beck's Record Club series features indie all-stars joining Beck in the studio to re-imagine classic albums. For the fourth installment, Annie Clark and Daniel Hart from St. Vincent, NYC experimental groupLiars, Sergio Dias from Brazilian band Os Mutantes, and Record Clubveteran Brian Lebarton joined Beck to record Kick, the 1987 chart-topper from Aussie New Wavers INXS. Check out a performance video of "Guns in the Sky" below! …
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November 20, 2009 – This week, New Moon premiered in L.A., Aerosmith members discussed singer Steven Tyler's drug habits, Rihanna performed her first concert since the Chris Brown assault, and SPIN stirred the web with our Rock Myths package, which argued that Radiohead kinda blow!
These stories, plus the week's top news, photo galleries, audio/video, and live reviews, below.TOP STORIES:Movie Review: 'New Moon'
SPIN's Phoebe Reilly explains why more K St …
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November 18, 2009 – Beck's weird side is rubbing off on French pop royalty Charlotte Gainsbourg.
First the SoCal rebel helped divert the Parisian from the string-laden singer/songwriter style of her last album, 5:55 -- which Beck's father helped orchestrate -- towards the more experimental sound of her January release, IRM.
Now he's going visual with the music video for the jangly and folky (and clearly Beck-influenced) "Heaven Can Wait," working with th …
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November 13, 2009 – As part of his new Record Club project, Beck has recruited friends like MGMT, Devendra Banhart, and Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale to cover entire albums from the Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen.
For his latest installment, he tapped Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell to take on Oar, a 1969 cult favorite by onetime Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member Skip Spence.
Watch the all-star crew play its opening track "Little Hands" below!
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October 9, 2009 – If French actress/chanteuse/pop-royalty Charlotte Gainsbourg's last album 5:55 was a fairly conventional singer-songwriter affair, then the first taste of her upcoming collaboration with Beck promises something far more adventurous.
"IRM," the title track off the album due in January, was inspired by the brain hemorrhage she suffered two years ago -- IRM is French for MRI. …
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September 5, 2009 – This week, new drug details surrounding DJ AM's death hinted at suicide, while Michael Jackson's body was finally laid to rest in Los Angeles. In more upbeat news, Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 leaked a week early, Beck covered Leonard Cohen with MGMT, and Strokes singer Julian Casablancas played his first-ever solo show in Tokyo. …
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September 4, 2009 – For the second post in his much-hyped Record Club project, Beck has teamed up with Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser of MGMT -- plus freak-folk star Devendra Banhart, Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother, and Binki Shapiro of Little Joy -- for a fresh take on Leonard Cohen's 1968 classic love song "Suzanne" Watch it below.
The supergroup's rendition -- just posted on Beck's website -- turns the somber ballad into a boozy, groovin' sing- …
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August 12, 2009 – In addition to covering classic albums, Beck has been spending time lately chatting with his famous friends as part of his Irrelevant Topics interview series. A few weeks ago, he got Tom Waits on the horn. Today, Will Ferrell is on the hot seat -- and he revealed some, shall we say, unique information about himself. Below, we've excerpted three humorously revealing parts of the conversation. …
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