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 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 ...

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 ...

In ‘The Follow-Up,’ we take a look back at the album that came right after an artist's most iconic record. In this installment, we spotlight Beck's 1998 album, 'Mutations,' which came after his hugely ...

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 ...

Classic album covers come in many different varieties. Some reach classic status due to their artistic merit, others because they were banned or altered for being too controversial. The creators of ...

Each week, “Music Insiders” Michael Heidemann & Paul Farahvar review, dissect and discuss a new album, complete with personal opinions and journeys related to the music. Subscribe today! On Episode ...

In the summer of 1994 following the death of Kurt Cobain, an enterprising exec might have put together a compilation LP celebrating the rise and fall of post-grunge alternative rock. All the 120 ...

It's unfair to say that the infamous Dust Brothers resurrected Beck's career, because Mr. Hanson had never fallen off (having only released on full-fledged studio album prior, along with two indie ...

Beck's 1996 classic "Odelay" will be expanded for a Jan. 29 reissue by Geffen/UMe. By Jonathan Cohen Beck’s 1996 classic “Odelay” will be expanded for a Jan. 29 reissue by Geffen/UMe. The new edition ...