Beck

Ed Harcourt will lead a band of musicians, including Stealing Sheep, Steve Mason (of The Beta Band) and more for an evening of music dedicated to Beck’s new album ‘Song Reader’ which was released as unrecorded sheet music.

★★★★★ Stephen Malkmus and his current band, known as the Jicks have released their 5th album titled Mirror Traffic. Beck is on-board as producer and with 40 odd years experience between them something good had to come of it all.

According to Johnmartyn.com work on a tribute album is now well underway that will feature many well known artists singing their own interpretations of John’s songs. To date the following artists have all confirmed their support.

The Ring is the first single from the upcoming new Lidell long player Compass and it has a serious stomp to its swagger. Jamie and fellow musicians including Chilly Gonzales and Dan Rossen (Grizzly Bear) lift their hammers in this Anvil blues, whose lyrics describe a bedraggled beachcomber as he is seen desperately searching for his lost gold.

The press have managed to shape a large hook of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s past to hang her latest album IRM from. So I’m not going to over indulge in this, only to say, it had people clambouring for video clips of her infamous musical debut with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, as well as clips from her appearance in Antichrist