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.

At the beginning of 1998, it felt easy to peg Beck as one of the top-tier artists of alt-rock. After he followed up the seemingly out-of-nowhere success of "Loser" with the career-solidifying ...

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 ...

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 ...

Considering I've long declared Beck's "Odelay" to be the first or second best album of the '90s, I was more than a little surprised to find my CD in the basement the other day. I was stunned to find ...

“I thought at the very best, it would come out. It would be a big flop—but in 20 years, a bunch of weirdos would find it and go, ‘Oh, this record was cool,’ because it wasn’t the obvious commercial ...

There are lots of marvelous extras to listen to in the new, deluxe edition of Beck’s 1996 landmark album, “Odelay,” including more than an hour’s worth of music that wasn’t in the original collection.

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 ...

Anyone who's spent much time with the Beck discography knows that while he's one of a kind, there's more than just one Beck. Here, we present a breakdown of Beck's most dominant personalities, all of ...

How does an entire Beck double album of solo Hank Williams covers sound to you? How about a pre-Odelay LP of indie rock songs, one which the man himself describes as sounding “like a Pavement, Sebadoh ...