All his life, Beck’s been adapting. The son of a multi-instrumentalist father and a mod mother, he is less a man than he is aesthetic overlap made corporeal, immersed in liminality from the time he ...

Beck‘s groundbreaking, genre-mashing 1996 album Odelay turns 25 on Friday (6/18) and he recently appeared on Apple Music to talk with host Matt Wilkinson about the record, its creation and its legacy.

And he didn’t stay in one place for it. From the whirring alt-rock of opener ‘Devils Haircut" and retro groove of "The New Pollution" to the somber bluesy folk of "Jack-Ass" and the chugging Cali-funk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beck was not a sure thing. "Loser" felt like a generation-defining song even as it was cresting in 1994, but it did not feel like ...

The reason they had so much time to listen to records? The trio was using an early version of Pro Tools: After every take, the computer required about a half-hour to compile the data. Technology aside ...

Beck’s ‘Odelay’ expanded for reissue Beck's 1996 classic "Odelay" will be expanded for a Jan. 29 reissue by Geffen/UMe. The new edition of the album, which in original form has sold 2.2 million copies ...

Beck Hansen's music has always been a Venn diagram of art, with balls-out unironic rap occupying one circle, and beautiful melodic folk in the other. Right in the middle is when Beck rocks, and it was ...

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Beck was not a sure thing. “Loser” felt like a generation-defining song even as it was cresting in 1994, but it did not feel like the start of anything. Beck Hansen himself cut a fascinating figure: a ...