Beck is also quite busy
Modern Guilt Acoustic "Orphans" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
We just posted on the ultra-prolific Jack White, but he's not the only overachiever making news these days. Beck, one of our favorites, has launched a series of new ventures (Pitchfork has a pretty good summary here, you don't need me to rewrite it). The highlights include an acoustic version of 2008's "Modern Guilt," with one track per week posted to the Videotheque (that's entry no. 1, "Orphans," above) and a multi-part interview with Tom Waits posted to Irrelevant Topics. An excerpt:
TW: Yeah and we have every generation making a whole bunch of new [songs]. Even though the generation before says, "What's wrong with these tunes? We've got plenty of good tunes lying around here. What are you making new songs for? We've got cool songs about everything you're writing about. We've got plenty of songs about girls." "No, no. That's all right, Dad. We're doing something else, something cooler over here. You go ahead." And the dad says, "Do you know Jimmy DURANTE? Have you ever heard of Jimmy Durante?"
