"Gamma Ray" to be specific. There was no MGMT or fatherly strings, just his usual live backing band and the darkly upbeat Modern Guilt standout. Beck looks like he's having a good time up there (note…   Read Story »

Friday night, before their official show at the Aragon, tourmates Beck and MGMT teamed up for an early evening set of covers/originals. (We know this because Nick B. tipped us.) The evening was…   Read Story »

Collaborating with Danger Mouse on Modern Guilt returned Beck to a number of previously disinterested iPods. This past weekend he joined forces with his pops David Campbell and David Campbell's…   Read Story »

Mixmaster Richard Jankovich (aka Pocket) last splashed through these pages with a stunning reworking of Radiohead's Björk cover "Unravel" -- as impressive for its electronic undercurrents and…   Read Story »

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 »