Tag: Beck
Studio 360
Beck's Play-It-Yourself Album & Photo Remix Winners
Friday, December 21, 2012
Kurt Andersen talks with the musician Beck, whose new project is a collection of 20 songs released as sheet music. If you want to hear the songs, you have to play them yourself, and we did. Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” defines the sound of dance music we’re still grooving ...
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Beck’s Song Reader: Open to Interpretation
Friday, December 21, 2012
Beck has always been an unpredictable musician: from the folk-rock of Mellow Gold, to the digital sounds of Odelay, to the raucous funk of Midnite Vultures. But for his latest project, there’s no music at all — unless you want to make some yourself. Song Reader, published by McSweeney's ...
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Stephin Merritt Plays Beck, With A Toy Piano
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The Magnetic Fields songwriter delivers and eerie and playful version of "Old Shanghai" from Beck's Song Reader project.
Gabfest Radio
Gabfest Radio: The “You Asked for It, Beck” Edition
Saturday, December 15, 2012
On this week’s episode, the Political Gabfest panelists discuss Michigan’s new right-to-work law and the declining power of unions while the Culture Gabfesters talk about the award-winning indie darling, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Beck’s "Song Reader."
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Beck's Sheet Music Project Revives A Great Tradition
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Beck's new sheet music album Song Reader reminds John Schaefer of the old days, the 1970s.
Studio 360
Music Video: Our Rendition of Beck's "Saint Dude"
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Beck’s new album isn’t what you’d expect. There’s no CD, no .mp3s, or vinyl. So how’s it being released? Sheet music. Kurt's conversation with Beck will be online early next week. As we were getting ready for the interview, we had an idea: What if we put together a band to play some of the sheet music?
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Beck And Stephin Merritt Talk About 'Song Reader'
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Beck Hansen just put out his latest release last week, except it's not a new album. It's not even a recording. Instead, this new project comes in the form of an old-fashioned songbook filled with sheet music, titled Beck Hansen's Song Reader. Hansen joins us along with Stephin Merritt from the Magnetic Fields to perform a song from the project and take your questions.
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Beck, Stephin Merritt And The 'Song Reader'
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tune in Thursday, Dec. 13 at 9 p.m. ET for live conversation, calls and in-studio performances.
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Exclusive Download: Portland Cello Project Teases Beck's 'Song Reader'
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Hear one band's take on the first "single" from Beck's upcoming sheet music collection.
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Beck's Sheet Music Album Is So Nineteenth Century
Thursday, August 09, 2012
The shape-shifting musician’s new album is his most unlistenable yet. Literally.
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An interesting year in soundtracks
Monday, December 13, 2010
John Schaefer likes these film scores, even though he hasn't seen the films.
Studio 360
"Genius of Love" Gets Its Due
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The first time I heard the Tom Tom Club's song 'Genius of Love' off their eponymous debut album I thought 'Hey, that’s Mariah Carey's song.' Turns out I was only half-right. Back in 1995, when I was twelve, Mariah Carey's hit 'Fantasy' was playing on every Top 40 station and I was choreographing dance routines to it with my friends. The rhythms in Tom Tom Club's upbeat 1981 hit made 'Genius' a hip hop sampling favorite too. Public Enemy, Tupac Shakur and T.I. have all used snippets of the track. Mariah Carey created 'Fantasy' as a remix and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five made 'It's Nasty'.