Beck has contributed a song called “Looking for a Sign” to the new Jason Segal film Jeff Who Lives at Home.
German electronic master Paul Van Dyk is releasing his first album in five years tomorrow. Evolution will be available for download as well as deluxe and vinyl editions. Billboard has an exclusive first listen of the full release.
On this date in 1987 U2 kicked off the tour for The Joshua Tree album in Tempe, Az.
Members of Radiohead, Pearl Jam, the Smiths, Wilco, Crowded House and Split Enz are featured in a new video that takes a look at how they worked together. It’s out next week and titled : “The Sun Came Out: The Making of the Album ‘7 Worlds Collide.'” The LA Times reports the project explores the creation of 2009’s follow-up to the 2001 benefit album “7 Worlds Collide,” which former Split Enz and Crowded House singer and songwriter Neil Finn assembled to raise money for Oxfam, the international charity whose mission is to alleviate poverty and injustice.
Flock of Dimes is the solo project of Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak. Their first 7” features newly-mastered “Prison Bride” as the A side, and “I Can’t Tell You Why (screwed mix)” on side B. More at BmoreMusic.
English quartet Bombay Bicycle Club are on Last Call with Carson Daly tonight.
