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Lil Beck
5+ albums
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Lil Beck has been part of the 'indie' rock scene in Los Angeles since 2005, playing shows at LA clubs like the Knitting Factory and appearing as one of the headliners at a 2008 tribute to the Replacements in Sonoma organized by ‘Mats biographer Jim Walsh. LB’s latest release, "Life After Hip Hop," is his fourth full-length CD on Chicago’s NeedleDrop Records in as many years. He’s also released several solo EPs and one with his side project Carman 9. He’s been reviewed and interviewed in 'zines like Babble and Beat and Origin Story. Many have compared him to Johnny Thunders, Lou Reed, Paul Westerberg, the Stones, and Tom Verlaine. Astute reviewers like Supernautica’s Dr. Benway and the guys at the Global Virtual Homemade Music Radio Show might also point out his ties to country and electric blues via artists like Leadbelly, Robert Johnson and Elmore James. Although a certain member of LB’s back-up band The White Boys has no idea who Elmore is. "Life After Hip Hop" features a kiss-off to the 1960s era of excess called “Stuck Inside of Glendale w/ the Sedgwick Blues Again.” It’s a tribute to Edie Sedgwick and a diss of Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol for the way they treated the Factory Girl before she disappeared into a series of New York institutions for several years, briefly re-emerging to finish filming the cult classic "Ciao! Manhattan" in Southern California before she died. Dylan wrote of Edie, “she takes just like a woman, she aches just like a woman, but she makes love just
