BECK & FRIENDS KICK INXS

Beck's newest "Record Club" installment is a fantastical take on INXS' 1987 classic Kick.  Along for the ride this time are Annie Clark from St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes.  Check out the video below of the supergroup rocking out to the album opener, "Guns in the Sky".
Record Club: INXS "Guns In The Sky" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Beck's Record Club with Feist & Nels Cline

Record Club: Skip Spence "Weighted Down" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

As previously reported by the Boombox, Beck's latest Record Club installment covers Skip Spence's 1969 folk album, Oar, and Mr Hansen recently posted this video of his version of "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" which features Leslie Feist on lead vocals, and Nels Cline getting celestial on acoustic guitar.  Great stuff here... can't wait for the whole project to be released.  Enjoy! 

Coolest Man on the Planet is...

Beck.  Yeah, that's the end of the sentence. There was never a voting process.  

It's hard to tell whether this project will be released or whether its just for shits and giggles, but what Mr. Beck Hansen has done the last few months is pretty uncanny.  His Record Club is surely to become the stuff of legend, with soldiers like Nigel Godrich, Devendra Banhart, Binki Shapiro (Little Joy), actor Giovanni Ribissi and others getting together to record tracks from Velvet Underground & Nico.  Members of MGMT have also been in the Club studio lately recording, which is downright frightening.  Now, Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell have been recruited to record a new vision of Skip Spence's Oar. 

Hear "Little Hands" while you patiently wait for the rest.