Today in New

First and foremost, Jamie Lidell, the idiosyncratic music force previously featured on this blog, has released a video for the second single off of his upcoming album, Compass

Featuring about every variation upon granular cinema possible on an anonymous beach, its way enjoyable.



For those of you who haven't been paying attention to the revamp of his website he launched back in June, Beck's new site features a series of segments, inluding one entitled Planned Obsolescence featuring some of the best mixtapes this side of everywhere. The most notable, however, is Record Club.

The video clips feature black-and-white shots of studio music-making at its finest. The albums so far have been Velvet Underground & Nico, Songs of Leonard Cohen, and Skip Spence's Oar.

Now in its fourth iteration, Record Club is a one-day gathering of musicians to cover an album in its entirety. Myriad guests have included Jamie Lidell, Feist, Glenn Kotche & Wilco, James Gadsen, Devendra Banhart, MGMT, and more.

The new record is INXS' 198, Kick. Guests this time around include Liars, St. Vincent's Annie Clark, and Serge Dias aka the guitarist from Os Mutantes. The first episode is up and it is good. real good.

Record Club: INXS "Guns In The Sky" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Lastly there LCD Soundsystem has finally released the first single from the new album. The track is called "Drunk Girls" and it is good. Pleasantly it has nothing to do with the college mock-rap pseudo-party music implied by the title.