Clowns Ex-Machina

It's a perfect match, really. An artist who's made a career out of refashioning musical kitsch to his own inscrutable ends plays a venue refashioned out of a massive, gold-encrusted, Art-Deco movie-palace and former televangelism center in Washington Heights. It's Beck at the United Palace Theatre!

The pop mystic seems to be out of a record deal as his latest album, Modern Guilt, concludes his contract with DGC Records. Of course, Beck is totally chill about it. "I haven't bothered to plan anything," he told the Times Dave Itzkoff earlier this month. "I don't know where the record business is going to be in six months.  read more »