Watch Beck Cover Arcade Fire’s ‘Rebellion (Lies)’

On the second weekend of Coachella 2014, Beck joined Arcade Fire onstage to perform a cover of Prince’s ‘Controversy’. Before that, Beck Hansen played a set of his own on the main stage, slotted just before The Reflektors’ headline stint.

Running through ‘Morning Phase’ and a mini-greatest hits set, he performed his very own cover of Arcade Fire’s ‘Rebellion (Lies)’, taken from the band’s ‘Funeral’ debut.

Ahead of the performance, Beck explained how he first heard the song. Asked to check out a band at a nearby bar, he was soaking wet when he arrived:

‘The bar was already full, which was unusual for this bar. I stood outside for a while, they couldn’t let anybody else in. I was outside for forty-five minutes or an hour, I heard this music coming through. I thought to myself ‘I shout wait. I should wait to go in to this bar and see what happens’. They finally let me in. I was drying off, took off my coat. And this is what I heard.’

Beck recently shared plans to release a second album in the space of 12 months, promising a more ‘boisterous’ effort than ‘Morning Phase’.

Watch the performance, as it segues into ‘Blue Moon’ below.