Subject: Beck (Musician)

• Talking frankly about Paul Frank

  Going on hour eight of my hangover. Nice job, Griley! Way to double fist Jack-and-Cokes until you're plastered and slobbering! (But man, the Fielding demos sure sounded awesome cranked up to eleven on the way home. Don't worry ma, I wasn't driving.) Anyway: woke up with a giant hangover this morning and quickly banged out a crappy review of the Paul Frank party. It ended up being completely re-written for this week's upcoming issue, but I thought a few tidbits of my o.g. version might be blog-w

  December 11, 2006

• LA Times: Galaxy Theatre to close

  The LA Times is reporting, via their Buzz Bands blog (monitored by the fabulous Mr. Kevin Bronson), that the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana will shut it's doors forever in two weeks. Set to take its place, according to the LAT: a 25,000-square-foot club called RevolveR, which will "cater to upscale clubgoers, offering multiple rooms of entertainment, myriad VIP areas, fireplaces, indoor/outdoor seating and eight full-service bars. Additionally, plans call for RevolveR's design theme to change every

  February 7, 2008

• San Diego Street Scene lineup announced

  The two-day lineup for this year's San Diego Street Scene was just announced today, and it doesn't look half bad, in this humble ex-music editor's opinion. Headliners include Beck, the Black Crowes, X, Tegan and Sara, Justice, plus Spoon, TV on the Radio, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti & Spearhead, The National, Atmosphere, Cat Power, Hot Chip, The New Pornographers, Vampire Weekend, The Hives, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory, Spiritualized, Antibalas, Man Man, The Mother Hips,

  June 16, 2008

• Peep the Trailer for Beck's 'Modern Guilt'

  The video trailer for Beck's Modern Guilt (out July 8 on DGC) is up now on Amazon.com's site. The clip's stylized B&W starkness pays homage to Warhol and Truffault, while the peppy, urgent retro-surf pop shimmying recalls B-52's, with unexpected tangents into analog-electronic tomfoolery and clipped, staccato funk and what could be a sideways nod to Motown. Intriguing, if not mind-blowing...

  June 23, 2008

• Rocks Great, Un-Ironic Hope

  March 16, 2000

• Coachella Rumblings

  January 25, 2001

• Indie 103.1 Goes Off The Airwaves, Lives On Online

  Edit: As you can see, the shock of this news has affected more than one of us here on staff...Acclaimed LA/OC radio station Indie 103.1--which attracted nationwide attention due to their deep playlists and unconventional specialty shows in the face of increasingly uniform FM radio formats--is abandoning terrestrial radio today, in favor of broadcasting solely online.A statement on their official site says, "Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game"

  January 15, 2009

• Album Review: The Shortwave Set, 'Replica Sun Machine'

  I review the sophomore release from The Shortwave Set in the Weekly this week, but seeing as how the album's been out for like, forever, overseas, and it's out today in the states, why wait to read it? Read it here, now! The future is now! But actually the past! Think about it. The Shortwave SetReplica Sun Machine(Wall of Sound)Danger Mouse first caught international acclaim in 2004 with The Grey Album, a then-controversial, now-legendary, blatantly illegal blend of Jay-Z's The Black Album and T

  March 24, 2009

• Acts Shaping Up for the OC Super Fair

  OMG. Fairs and Kelly Clarkson, two of my favorite things, together at last on July 23. What a day.The lineup for acts for this year's OC Super Fair is shaping up, and if you like nostalgia, well, this is the event for you! Other than Ms. Clarkson, it's pretty much all oldsters: Hearts, Moody Blues, Duran Duran (awesome, yes, but still old), etc. Sure, it's a fair, what do you expect, blah blah blah, but some of my best music memories came from the Arizona State Fair: Bob Dylan in 2002 (OK, he's

  April 7, 2009

• [CD Review] Beck, 'Modern Guilt' (DGC)

  July 10, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Summer Concerts, Festivals and Music Worth the Sweat

  June 12, 2008

• ¡Ask a Mexican!®

  January 24, 2008

• [CD Review] Beck

  Odelay—Deluxe Edition (Geffen/UMe)

  January 24, 2008

• Special Feedback !ask a Mexican!(r) Edition!

  November 15, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  October 18, 2007

• Shameless Plug

  October 5, 2006

• Exquisite

  July 20, 2006

• Things You Already Knew

  May 18, 2006

• Out of the Past

  February 23, 2006

• This Week in Post-Punk-Electrowhatever

  January 26, 2006

• Toll Road Rage: Documented Incompetence

  January 12, 2006

• All Mixed Up

  November 17, 2005

• Can You Dig It

  November 10, 2005

• Smell You Later

  July 28, 2005

• KILL YOUR FANS

  July 21, 2005

• SPECIAL BECK HANSON EDITION

  July 14, 2005

• BECK

  July 14, 2005

• Me Enamorado de Una Chica Mala

  July 22, 2004

• That Kweller Feller!

  May 20, 2004

• 2003 Soundtrack

  January 1, 2004

• Pastilla

  October 9, 2003

• Pale Blues

  October 2, 2003

• A Lovely Wad

  July 24, 2003

• Damaged Art Freak-O-Rama!

  December 19, 2002

• Brandi Lyon

  November 21, 2002

• Picnic Power

  September 5, 2002

• Hot Porn Lix!

  December 27, 2001

• New Music

  October 4, 2001

• Fusion Food

  September 6, 2001

• New Music

  July 5, 2001

• Pot (Hed)

  November 16, 2000

• New Music

  September 21, 2000

• Monsieur Leroc Le Slow Motion Boogie WoogieCornerstone R.A.S./skunk.com

  August 17, 2000

• Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

  December 30, 1999

• Fast Train Comin'

  May 13, 1999

• Last Night: Beck @ Club Nokia

  Last Night: Beck at Club Nokia November 9, 2008. Better Than: seeing Beck at the Hollywood Bowl. Download: "Gamma Ray" from the Beck website [http://www.modernguilt.com/#4] It was a grand evening for the grand opening of Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. Club Nokia appears to have studied many of the strong attributes of other concert venues before finalizing the design on their newest creation. A semi-circle of seats in the upper deck looked down on the stage strategically placed with exce

  November 10, 2008

• Thavius Beck

  June 25, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Disney's Mexican Heritage?

  June 25, 2009

• Deep Sea Diver records for Daytrotter website

  As Jessica Dobson and her band, Deep Sea Diver, continue to pick up steam on their national tour, they made a stop in Rock Island, Illinois for a little recording "sesh" for www.daytrotter.com which is going to be posted...soon (patience, grasshopper). No doubt culling a few key tracks from DSD's latest EP New Caves, this is just the latest chapter in a promising line of come-ups for Dobson whose been on tour with alt rock astronaut Beck and now Connor Oberst and his Mystic Valley Band. Anyways,

  June 26, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Jessica Dobson's Connections Run Deep. Plus News From Local Natives and Jeffree Star

  September 17, 2009