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.

BREAKING NEWS: New Moon Soundtrack Doesn't Suck

It's true. I'll be the first to admit that I expected the soundtrack to the upcoming Twilight: New Moon movie to be terrible. Sure, the films director lined up some big names, but I thought the tracks would sound forced and, you know, vampire-y.

But the indie pop collective actually shines, for the most part. Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me at the Equinox" opens, and is less annoying than usual. Radiohead's twitch-genius Thom Yorke gets in on the fun with "Hearing Damage", a fuzz beat laden pendulum of a track not safe for driving late at night. The St. Vincent/Bon Iver collaboration "Roslyn" is a keeper, with both artists sticking to what they know. The haunting Lykke Li ("Possibility") and Sea Wolf ("The Violet Hour") have solid contributions, but the standouts are London's Band of Skulls (above), whose "Friends" is the soundtrack's clear-cut best, and Anya Marina's(below) "Satellite Heart". The former is a simple, riff-heavy straight jab that gets it rebelliousness across without overdoing it, and gets the cocktail of love and confusion measured out just right. Marina's "Heart" is as gushing as Bella Swan's in those awful yet-bestselling books, but it is also unmistakeably elegant. I'm new to her music, but its immediately evident that her reeling voice could lead to bitemarks in the future.