Beck photo by Autumn de Wilde; Merritt by Will Deitz
Yesterday on the WNYC program Soundcheck, Beck called in to chat about his new Song Reader sheet-music release, as Consequence of Sound points out. The episode also featured several artists performing songs from Beck's project. The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt did "Old Shanghai".
Check out the segment here-- Merritt comes in at the 10:30 point-- and read Ryan Dombal's recent interview with Beck about Song Reader.