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This weekend San Francisco hosted the first-ever Outside Lands Festival. We're still nursing hangovers from a long summer of fests, so in our stead we sent Heather of I Am Fuel You Are Friends to…   Read Story »
Cool American garage punk Jay Reatard put his lo-fi imprint on ghostly Modern Guilt tune "Gamma Ray" for the UK version of the single. It's out today. You can hear a short preview here. In related…   Read Story »
This b-side to the "Chemtrails" 7" is born of the very same, psychy Modern Guilt sessions as its a-side, but the last minute sounds more like the '60s beloved by Black Mountain than the '60s…   Read Story »
This second video from Modern Guilt doesn't add much in the way of exciting visuals. It's black and white, Beck and his rhythm section performing the heavy album opener in a lonely white room. No…   Read Story »
We've been pretty upfront about liking Beck's Modern Guilt. One of our favorite tracks is the darkly upbeat "Gamma Ray," which pairs a ghostly background vocal echo with a sort of thwapping groove.…   Read Story »
It's been some time since we learned Modern Guilt, Beck Hansen's eighth album, would be some sort of psych rock minimalist '60s trip with Danger Mouse. Since then, we've gotten a look at the…   Read Story »
And in order to watch it, alls you need to do is preorder Modern Guilt at iTunes. If you watch (or happen to dig up an embed link) while we're uh, trying to find the credit card, let us know.   Read Story »
All signs point to Beck and Danger Mouse pulling a stealth release of Modern Guilt. All signs also point to Modern Guilt being the album to restore faith in Beck's untouchable changeling abilities.…   Read Story »
"Conceived, created and even edited with 100% creative input from Beck every step of the way, the Modern Guilt trailer is equal parts video mixtape and black and white montage that recalls classic…   Read Story »
Beck's been garnering a number of Caribou references for Modern Guilt's "Chemtrails." Then, just a couple of days ago, he performed the lilting, '60s-evoking title track at L.A.'s Echo. Now the…   Read Story »