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.

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 ...

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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 in the U.S., according to Nielsen ...

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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