Beck rocks!

Emily at 32 weeks in the nursery room.


In other Beck news...I've been hearing about Beck doing covers of entire albums for awhile now. Inviting a bunch of musician friends over and they record the whole album in one day with no pre-rehearsal. He recently did a great cover of Green Light from the awesome EVOL Sonic Youth album (actually this one will always be thought of as a cassette tape for me 'cuz that's how I bought it when it first came out and I still listen the-hell-outta that original copy today). Apparently that's how it was for Beck too, cuz he's putting out his rendition of the entire EVOL album - to be available on cassette only. coolness.

In the meantime, he's releasing his rendition of the whole VU/Nico album, Andy Warhol's Banana, song-by-song on his website with a lil' video of each session. Here's the first 2 songs (seems like a new one pops up every week or so, I'll try to keep throwing them up so they're easily collected for yer aural pleasure).

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico 'Sunday Morning' from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

a gorgeous lil' video of a live Magnolia Electric Co. show from Chicago a few months ago. These guys, well it's mostly just Jason Molina, have made my antlers gone twisty lately. Such great sonics, lyrics, atmosphere, etc. It's very cool to see them live and am looking forward to an upcoming show at the 7th St. Entry in Aug. by them... I'm always amazed when a band plays such a small venue that I personally hold in such high esteem - when I saw Dead Moon play there a few years ago, I expected throngs! Actually, it was just a handfull of us and Toody, Fred, and Andrew were sitting next to me with a pitcher for half the show! its weird that so few folks get into what I see as a Major Event. oh well, enjoy!

We Have Signal: Live From Birmingham - Magnolia Electric Co. from We Have Signal on Vimeo.