Beck joined Japanese Breakfast onstage at a recent live show in the US – check out the footage below.
The Michelle Zauner-fronted outfit played at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California last Friday (August 22) as part of their current North American headline tour. It comes in support of their fourth and latest album, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’.
Towards the end of the main stage, Zauner invited Blake Mills – who produced her most recent LP – to assist on a rendition of ‘Leda’.
Beck then contributed to the ‘For Melancholy Brunettes…’ cut ‘Men In Bars’ – the original version of which features Jeff Bridges. He also stuck around for a collaborative take on his 2002 track ‘The Golden Age’, taken from 2002 album ‘Sea Change’.
You can watch fan-shot videos of the performances here:
Earlier this summer, Japanese Breakfast caught up with NME at Glastonbury 2025. Zauner talked about finally making it to the legendary festival, after she was forced to cancel her 2023 set due to “travel delays”.
“It was a major bucket list [moment] two years ago,” she recalled. “And in the history of Japanese Breakfast, it’s also the only show that we’ve ever not been able to play because of something that we’ve done.
“[Playing today] was hard won. Our bus broke down in Sweden a couple [of] days ago and we still don’t have a working bus. It’s a really intense, hard time for our band and crew, but we did it and it felt really hard won.”
You can revisit the video interview in full above.
In a four-star review of her latest album, NME wrote: “True to the literary whimsy of its title, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’ sounds like living inside a classical piece of art, every detail an elaborate brushstroke.”
Meanwhile, Beck revealed earlier this year that he was working on an orchestral album – shortly after his special orchestral gigs at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall. The artist’s 14th and most recent record, ‘Hyperspace’, was released in 2019.
