news / updates
March 31, 2005
Some Guero reviews:
Beck may be playing at this year's Lollapalooza, scheduled for this July as a two day event in Chicago. For more information go to
Pollstar.
From
beck.com, some upcoming radio appearances:
March 29, 2005
Some UK tour dates:
London Hammersmith Apollo: Thursday, June 2nd - Doors 7pm, show 8pm
Manchester Apollo: Friday, June 3rd - Doors 7pm, show 8pm
Tickets go onsale Wednesday March 30th at 9am at
gigsandtours.com.
Remember to listen to Beck's performance
Morning Becomes Eclectic tomorrow at 11:15 AM PST.
You can now
watch the E-Pro video at beck.com. There's a new flash video for the gameboy remix of Que Onda Guero by
audio dregs (and if you haven't heard any
audio dregs music before, you should check it out because it is GOOD STUFF).
Some more reviews:
Pitchfork: 6.6 [from reckoner]
The Hartford Courant [from Jmj/David/Me]
The Washington Times [from Jmj/David/Me]
Entertainment Weekly: A-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A
Live Daily
USA Today: 3/4
Rolling Stone
New York Daily News
In case you didn't know, Guero came out today in the US. :)
March 27, 2005
Here are lots of reviews that aren't in English. If you're bored enough you can try to read them:
Oslopuls: 4/6
RP Online
Politiken.dk: 6/6
Aftonbladet.se: 2/5
Svenska Dagbladet: 4/6
Fædrelandsvennen: 4/6
adressa.no: 6/6
VG: 5/6
And for some stuff in English:
Elle Q&A: Loser Takes All
Toronto Sun: Beck bounces back with new CD [from Jmj/David/Me]
The Star Ledger: Beck in business [from Jmj/David/Me]
Beck.com has some updates:
strange new links page and
updated news page.
March 26, 2005
Link roundup:
The Age: Beck is back [registration required, from Jmj/David/me]
bbc.co.uk: Guero review [from Jmj/David/me]
The Scotsman: Guero review [from Jmj/David/me]
The Globe and Mail: Guero review
Philadelphia Inquirer: Guero review
Loads of Beck-related stuff online, although not all of it [via
stewoo beck forum, mainly if not all via Jmj/David/Me so thank him]:
Rolling Stone's Guero review
Rolling Stone Q&A
Eye Weekly's Guero review
Megastar's Guero review
Beck on Morning Becomes Eclectic March 31st
Beck playing Homelands music festival
Contact Music: Beck questions scientology bashers
March 24, 2005
For all the 21+ NYC-ers, head to
Atomique tonight at 10PM for a Guero listening party.
March 22, 2005
Starbucks has Guero?
Central Village found Becks' new album displayed at Starbucks a week early. Hm...
March 20, 2005
Another heap of news from Jmj/David/Me via the
stewoo.net board:
Plattentests gives Guero 7/10 (or 8/10?).
NME gives Guero 8/10.
musicOMH also reviews Guero.
Beck tops
the NME chart with E-Pro.
If you live in Europe and get MTV2,
watch Beck live at 10PM on Monday.
March 19, 2005
News from the
stewoo.net forum [thanks to Jmj/David/Me]:
Beck's Back With New Album 'Guero': "Beck plans to hit the road in June; before that he will play a few surprise gigs in Los Angeles."
Beck continues to have fun with musical hybrids: Guero review
The Independent reviews Guero: 5/5 stars
March 18, 2005
Watch Beck perform E-Pro from the aforementioned TV German TV appearance
here (reaplayer required, from
beckhansen.de).
Guardian Unlimited gives Guero a
4/5 star review and
interviews Beck. There's also a Beck interview in The Sun, which you can read at
Stewoo.net (thanks to Steve).
Listen to Guero at
nme.com (registration required). Also listen to Beck's appearance on German TV today at
stewoo.net, courtesy of
slein.
[blogger has been a poop resulting in un-emailed recents posts, so be sure to check out
beckbeckbeck.net]
March 16, 2005
I just found out that
Associates of Science directed the video for Black Tambourine (
watch in quicktime). The site has lots of nifty music videos that you should watch if you haven't already seen them. Some news from the site (that's a month old...erm, better late than never):
I spent most of December working with Beck on the design of his cd, which was a blast. We ended up using some beautiful drawings by Marcel Dzama. Here's the cover. It's out in March. And be sure to check out the deluxe cd with a 50 page book of craziness.
For all the Japanese fans: Beck is playing at this summer's
Fuji Rock Festival with
lots of great artists.
There's a
Guero review at
Exploding Plastic (via
Nik).
Beck is in the latest issue of
Nylon. Scans and article are at
stewoo.net/beck/forum.
You can pre-order the deluxe version of Guero (that comes with a booklet, DVD, extra stuff and...who knows, maybe a KITTEN) at the
beck emporium (also at
amazon.com).
March 12, 2005
From the
beck.com mailing list:
Beck's playing a show this coming Monday, March 14th at the Islington Academy in London. Tix go onsale Saturday at 9am. You can order them here:
http://www.gigsandtours.com/index.asp?link=beck&site=beck
also, for those in the UK, we're giving away 1 pair of tix for Beck's appearance
on both CDUK, filming on Saturday March 12th and Jonathan Ross, filming on
Wednesday March 16th . All you have to do to enter is live in the London area,
and send an email with your name, address, and email to contest@beck.com
Each winner will be selected randomly tomorrow.
March 10, 2005
Ask Beck a question, courtesy of
Guardian Unlimited:
In the UK to promote his new album, Beck has agreed to take time out to answer Guardian Unlimited readers' questions. So, send them in to arts.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk before next Tuesday, and we'll put the best ones to the singer. Please put Beck in the subject line.
Hear Guero song clips and other media stuff at
hyperlaunch.com/beck/.
March 9, 2005
Are you French? Then you can read
this thing about Beck playing on March 24th in Paris. And it says the concert will be on the radio also...I think. [via
stewoo.net beck forum]
There's a new E-Pro remix on iTunes by Homelife.
March 6, 2005
New York Times Magazine (March 6th issue)
profiles Beck. [registration required, via
largehearted boy] Here's the accompanying
Metafilter discussion.
March 5, 2005
Beck is on the cover of the latest
Planet Magazine.
March 4, 2005
Not doing anything this weekend? Listen to new Guero tracks on
KROQ. From
beck.com:
All weekend long, starting at 6pm, KROQ will be previewing new music from Beck's "Guero." Tune in this weekend to hear "E-Pro", "Que Onda Guero", "Girl", and "Hell Yes"
If you have even less to do, play the Beck version of
What's That Song?
And for those of you with $75,000+ lying around, you can get Beck to ...do something! [
More prices here, via
product shop].
March 2, 2005
There are new Geuro-related Beck shirts at
King Fu Nation.
