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.

25 years ago today, singer-songwriter Beck released what is now considered a modern classic. His 1996 studio record, Odelay, resulted in several successful singles, including “Devils Haircut” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artists with a bent for melding folk, blues and rock with hip hop and sampling culture were a scarce bunch in the mid-'90s. The experience they brought to the table helped Beck synthesize his broad ...

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. Is. Back… And it’s about time. Over the past few years, fans have watched Beck Hansen go from the playfully innovative author of songs like “Devil’s Haircut,” “Nicotine and Gravy” and “Debra,” ...

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 ...

On his early records, Beck made it all sound so easy, people fell for the idea he wasn’t trying very hard. He was happy to play the role of a musical innocent — just a blond surfer-poet dude with a ...