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When we talked to Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning about his band's contributions to the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World soundtrack he said, "They're really short punk rock jams." He wasn't kidding. The song "I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"-- played by fictional band Crash and the Boys in the film and featuring actor Erik Knudsen on vocals-- is five seconds long. Listen to it below (via Prefix):

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is out August 13. The film's star-studded soundtrack and score are out August 10.

Record Club is back for a new covers album

For his Record Club series, Beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website. So far, the Record Club choices have come from canonical or at least critically respected artists: the Velvet Underground, Skip Spence, INXS, Leonard Cohen.

But now Beck and friends have made their first batshit-ass crazy selection: Live at the Acropolis, the 1993 album from mustachioed Greek new age composer Yanni. As previously reported, Beck has enlisted Thurston Moore and Tortoise in his latest Record Club endeavor. (There's something weirdly appropriate about the idea of Tortoise covering Yanni.)

The first track, "Santorini", is up now, with a new track to be posted every week on Beck's website throughout the summer. Tortoise don't appear on "Santorini"; they won't show up until later in the album. Beck's website reports that "several studio musician heavyweights were brought in to read a heavily doctored score with interpolations of everything from Stravinsky to Shania Twain (look for others)."

While that's happening, Beck runs around making noise and Thurston improvises new lyrics that, per Beck's website, "give the track an added urgency and pathos." And since you asked, here's a sampling of those new lyrics: "Roasted pigs! Roasted pigs! Oinkin' oinkin'

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The ongoing project sees a group of artists rework an album in a day

Beck's Record Club project-- in which he enlists friends to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website-- stands as a consistently fascinating ongoing project. At the moment, we're almost done hearing the version of the INXS album Kick that Beck did with St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes. And now Time Out Chicago reports that Beck has lined up the collaborators for his next Record Club project: Tortoise and Thurston Moore.

According to Time Out, Tortoise visited Beck's studio last weekend, while they were touring the West Coast. The Sonic Youth leader also checked in. No word yet on what album they might've covered or when we'll get to hear it, but Tortoise bassist/guitarist Douglas McCombs tells Time Out that the assembled luminaries played a "broad spectrum of music that was sort of appropriate."

While you let this news percolate, check out St. Vincent's Annie Clark singing the INXS jam "Never Tear Us Apart" as part of the current Record Club project, because damn.

On the back of his sophomore album 'Maniac Meat', Tobacco gives Dazed an exclusive mixtape: 'Songs to Get Killed in the Woods To 2'



In the July issue of Dazed (out tomorrow), Beck's favourite beat butcher, Tobacco, talks about his insane second album, Maniac Meat, and his Mum's beef stroganoff. It's really rather good, you should check it out. The album that is, not the stroganoff. After the interview we asked if he'd like to make Dazed Digital an exclusive mixtape. A few days later he came back with this....

"I did one of these in 2008 for my last album, so I wanted to stick to the idea and make it a sequel. The title is 'Songs to Get Killed in the Woods To 2'"

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Musician Jeff Beck performs for a celebrity crowd in New York to honour rock guitar pioneer Les Paul, who died last year.

Jeff Beck honored his late friend and mentor, Les Paul, with an intimate performance at his favorite haunt, the Iridium Jazz Club.

"Glee" got funky Tuesday night with "Give Up the Funk" and "Tell Me Something Good," but it was the Beck and Marky Mark numbers and a borderline jump-the-shark teen pregnancy ballad that really stole the show. 

"Glee" got funky Tuesday night with "Give Up the Funk" and "Tell Me Something Good," but it was the Beck and Marky Mark numbers and a borderline jump-the-shark teen pregnancy ballad that really stole the show.