Jun 13, 2024 By Marina Malin

Punk rock and alternative music festival, Riot Fest has announced its 2024 lineup for September 20-22. More

May 10, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 16th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 25 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

May 07, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Madrid-based band Hinds have announced a new album, VIVA HINDS, and shared a new song from it, “Boom Boom Back,” which features Beck. They have also announced some North American tour dates. VIVA HINDS also features Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten. More

Aug 21, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The Chemical Brothers (Ed Simmons and Tom Rowlands) are releasing a new album, For That Beautiful Feeling, on September 8 via Republic. Now they have shared its latest single, “Skipping Like a Stone,” which features Beck. More

Jun 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out of town last Thursday to this Monday in Washington, DC, covering Awesome Con. So, this week’s Songs of the Week is supersized and incorporates tracks from the last two weeks. More

Jun 21, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Beck and Phoenix have teamed up for a new song, “Odyssey.” This song shares a name with the band’s upcoming tour, coined “Summer Odyssey.” More

Feb 10, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Beck has shared a new song, “Thinking About You.” It’s a stripped back ballad more in line with Sea Change and Morning Phase, than his Technicolor widescreen pop fare. The song is a precursor to his co-headlining Summer Odyssey tour this August and September with Phoenix. More

Jan 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Beck and Phoenix have announced a co-headlining tour they are calling the Summer Odyssey tour. Select dates feature support from Weyes Blood, Jenny Lewis, and Japanese Breakfast, depending on the show, with Sir Chloe to be the opener for all shows. More

Sep 26, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Beck has shared a cover of Neil Young’s 1972 song “Old Man.” The cover was featured in an NFL Sunday Night Football ad from last night. More

Apr 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Paul McCartney is releasing McCartney III Imagined on April 16 via Capitol. It features remixes and covers of songs from McCartney’s 2020 album, McCartney III. Now he has shared a remix of the album’s “Slidin’” done by Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien (who also releases solo music under the name EOB). More

Mar 25, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Paul McCartney has shared a new Beck remix of the song “Find My Way,” originally featured on his McCartney III album from last year. The remix will be on the upcoming McCartney III Imagined, which consists entirely of reimaginings of songs from the original by different artists. More

Jul 09, 2020 By Samantha Small

Beck turned 50…yesterday. And to carry on the celebration of the legendary songwriter, Texas psych-rock trio, Khruangbin, gifted the seven-time GRAMMY-winner with a funky remix of his deep cut “No Distraction.” More

Apr 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has joined the ever-growing list of artists who have shared videos of themselves performing while under quarantine by sharing a video of himself covering Chris Bell’s “I Am the Cosmos” solo acoustic. More

Mar 05, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2020 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 18. More

Jan 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Hyperspace, last November via Capitol Records. Now he has shared a remix of the album’s “Uneventful Days” by St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark), which ups the funk. More

Dec 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Hyperspace, last month via Capitol Records. On Tuesday night he stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform the album’s “Uneventful Days.” The performance started with Beck singing in an office, complete with a cat poster behind him. More

Nov 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has released a new album, Hyperspace, today via Capitol Records. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Today we also posted our review of the album.

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Nov 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Last week Amazon Music released the audio of a session of Beck performing at Prince’s iconic Paisley Park studios outside of Minneapolis where Beck and his band did a medley of Prince classics (“Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” and “1999”). Now the full video for the Prince medley has been shared. More

Nov 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck is releasing a new album, Hyperspace, on November 22 via Capitol Records. Now he has shared another song from it, “Everlasting Nothing,” which was co-written and co-produced by Beck and Pharrell Williams, with the two playing every instrument on the song. More

Nov 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has done a session for Amazon Music at Prince’s iconic Paisley Park studios outside of Minneapolis where Beck and his band do a medley of Prince classics (“Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” and “1999”), as well as performing Beck’s own songs “Where It’s At” and “Up All Night.” More

Nov 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck is releasing a new album, Hyperspace, on November 22 via Capitol Records. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Dark Places,” via a lyric video for the track. More

Oct 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck is releasing a new album, Hyperspace, on November 22 via Capitol Records. Now he has shared a video for the album’s recently shared single “Uneventful Days.” Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) directed the video, which features notable actresses Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson, and Alia Shawkat. More

Oct 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck previously announced he was releasing a new album, Hyperspace, at some point via Capitol Records. Now the details of the album (its release date, tracklist, and cover art) have been announced and Beck has shared the album’s first two tracks: “Hyperlife” and “Uneventful Days.” More

Jul 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck is releasing a new album, Hyperspace, at some point via Capitol Records. Back in April he shared the album’s first single, “Saw Lightning.” Now he has shared a grainy black & white video of him performing the song with simply a harmonica and his voice. The new version is labeled “Saw Lightning (Freestyle).” More

Jul 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Bird and the Bee (aka Inara George and Greg Kurstin) are releasing a new covers album, Interpreting the Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen, that features covers of 10 songs (11 if you get the vinyl version) of the 1980s rock band. Now they have shared another track from the album, a cover of Van Halen’s 1984 hit “Hot For Teacher.” They have flipped the gender of the teacher and he is voiced by special guest Beck. More

May 03, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Cage The Elephant released a new album, Social Cues, which is their fifth, last month via RCA. Previously we posted the album’s “Night Running,” which is a collaboration with Beck and was one of our Songs of the Week. Now they have shared a video for the song. Jennifer Juniper Stratford directed the clip, which features both Beck and Cage The Elephant in a simulated world of sorts. More

Apr 15, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has shared a brand new song, “Saw Lightning.” A press release says it is the first single from an upcoming new album, Hyperspace, which will be released “at an as yet undetermined point in the space time continuum” via Capitol Records. Beck co-wrote the song with Pharrell Williams, who also “contributes drums, keyboards, and mumbles.” More

Mar 29, 2019 By Mark Redfern

This week’s Songs of the Week list stars with a 24-minute first movement of a symphony featuring a trip-hop icon, but most of the songs in the Top 10 are by artists that have already made the list in recent weeks with previous songs. More

Mar 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck and Cage The Elephant have teamed up for a new song “Night Running.” It’s a new single from Cage The Elephant’s upcoming new album, Social Cues, which is their fifth and is due out on April 19 via RCA. More

Mar 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jenny Lewis has shared a video for “Red Bull & Hennessy.” It is made up of behind-the-scenes footage from her recent live-streamed On the Line Online telethon/variety show and features cameos from Jeff Goldblum, St. Vincent, Beck, Danielle Haim, Mac DeMarco, Jim James, Jason Schwartzman, Nikki Lane, David Arquette, King Tuff, Natasha Leggero, Tim Heidecker, Vanessa Bayer, and more. More

Mar 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Last night Jenny Lewis live-streamed On the Line Online, a telethon/variety show to promote her upcoming new album, On the Line, and to raise money for Los Angeles’ The Downtown Women’s Center. If you didn’t catch it live, you can still watch the whole three and a half hour thing here. It was co-hosted by comedians Tim Heidecker and Vanessa Bayer (of Saturday Night Live) and featured a slew of special guests, including Jeff Goldblum, St. Vincent, Beck, Danielle Haim, Mac DeMarco, Jim James, Jason Schwartzman, and more. More

Feb 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck and Cage The Elephant have teamed up for some co-headlining tour dates, with support from Spoon. Other support acts include Sunflower Bean, Wild Belle, and Starcrawler. The tour is dubbed “The Night Running Tour,” the dates happen this July and August, and tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. local time. More

Feb 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has shared a new video for “MASSEDUCTION,” the title track to her acclaimed 2017 album. She also performed the song on the Grammys last night with British pop singer Dua Lipa, in a mash-up with her song “One Kiss” and a little bit of Aretha Franklin’s “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” thrown in for good measure. More

Feb 08, 2019 By Mark Redfern

This week’s Songs of the Week was almost just a Top 8. However two fun, but seriously inessential, songs from the Lego Movie 2 soundtrack skated in at the bottom of the list. Veteran Scottish rockers Idlewild surprised us with an interesting new song, even though we admittedly haven’t paid much attention to their last few albums. More

Feb 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has shared a new song, “Super Cool,” that features Robyn and The Lonely Island. It was written for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, the new animated film that comes out this Friday via Warner Bros. The song plays during the end credits of the film, as referenced by The Lonely Island’s portion of the track. More

Feb 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck recently shared a new track, “Tarantula,” which is a cover of a 1983 song by Colourbox (who were signed to 4AD), which was also covered by This Mortal Coil in 1986 (their version is likely more an influence on Beck’s). Last night Beck stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform the song. He was joined by a backing choir that featured Feist and Alex Lilly (who both sing on the studio version of the song), alongside Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) and The Bird and the Bee’s Inara George. But that’s not all; he was also accompanied by the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel. More

Jan 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has shared a new track, “Tarantula,” which is a cover of a 1983 song by Colourbox (who were signed to 4AD) and features Feist, among others. The song is taken from the upcoming album Music Inspired By the Film Roma, which is due out February 8 via Sony Masterworks. More

Dec 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The 2019 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced. Despite expanding the major categories from five nominees to eight this time, it’s still the usual collection of mainstream pop, R&B, and hip-hop artists, with rock generally shut out of the main categories. More

Dec 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Jenny Lewis has finally announced her new album. She has also announced some 2019 tour dates. More

Jul 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Last night he stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform two songs from it, “Colors” on the broadcast show and “Wow” as a web-exclusive performance, in the run-up to his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden tonight. More

Jun 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

U2 released a new album, Songs of Experience, last fall. Now they have shared a new remix of “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way” by Beck. More

Apr 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2018 lineup. The festival goes down August 10 - 12 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, and The Weeknd. More

Mar 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Now he has shared a video for “Colors” directed by acclaimed British director Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). More

Mar 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Now he has shared a remix of one of its singles, “Up All Night,” by Los Angeles electronic duo Oliver. A press release says the song has now been “infused with an epic coat of twisted yacht rock smoothness, sure to keep the good vibes rolling.” Beck has also announced some more tour dates, including his first ever headlining show at Madison Square Garden in July (with support from Glass Animals). More

Jan 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Now he has covered The Velvet Underground classic “I’m Waiting for My Man” as part of Spotify’s Music Happens Here series. More

Jan 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, last October via Capitol. Now he has shared a video for “Fix Me,” in partnership with the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Fittingly it features some dogs, as well as a toddler. More

Dec 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, back in October via Capitol. Now you can stream the whole album below. Last night he stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Up All Night.” Watch it below. More

Oct 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Beck released a new album, Colors, today via Capitol. Now you can stream the whole album below. More

Oct 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Beck is releasing a new album, Colors, this Friday (October 13) via Capitol. On last night’s episode of the BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland Beck performed two songs: Colors single “Up All Night”and “Devil’s Haircut,” from his classic 1996 album Odelay. Watch both performances below. More

Sep 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has shared a video for a brand new song, “Up All Night.” It’s the latest song to be taken from his forthcoming new album, Colors, which is due out October 13 via Capitol. Canada directed the video, which features a female warrior in armor and with a shield, as she literally crashes a party. More

Aug 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This week’s biggest new song was probably “Look What You Made Me Do,” the first offering from Taylor Swift‘s new album, Reputation. But it was far from the week’s best song (it didn’t get close to our Top 8). More

Aug 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has shared a lyric video for a widescreen sounding new song, “Dear Life.” He has also confirmed the release date, cover art, and tracklist for his new album, Colors. Colors is due out October 13 via Capitol. More

Aug 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

In June 2016 Beck released a brand new song, “Wow,” and announced plans to release an as yet to be titled new album sometime via Capitol (it was originally due out last October, but was pushed back to a TBA date). More

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Last June Beck released a brand new song, “Wow,” and he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album sometime via Capitol (it was originally due out last October, but was pushed back to a TBA date). More

Oct 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Back in June Beck released a brand new song, “Wow,” and he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album sometime soon via Capitol (it was originally due out next week, but has been pushed back to a TBA date). More

Sep 13, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Back in June Beck released a brand new song, “Wow,” and he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album on October 21. “Wow” was announced via a bunch of interesting Instagram videos by different visual artists. More

Aug 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Beck recently released a brand new song, “Wow,” and said he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album on October 21. Now he has shared a remix of “Wow” by Mexican Institute of Sound. More

Jul 19, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has released a brand new song, “Wow,” last month and said he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album on October 21. Now Beck has announced a handful of Fall tour dates. They include a show in Charlottesville, VA that features Peter Bjorn and John. The dates are below, followed again by “Wow.” More

Jun 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has released a brand new song, “Wow.” Yesterday he teased snippets of the song via a bunch of Instagram videos, some on his own account and many on other accounts from different users and artists. More

Jun 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has announced that he is releasing a new song, “Wow,” at noon EST tomorrow and has teased snippets of the song via a bunch of Instagram videos, some on his own account and many on other accounts from different users and artists, including one for a horse with human hands and another featuring a girl sticking her face in a loaf of bread. More

May 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home on April 21 and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. Over the weekend Beck covered Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” during his set at Memphis, TN’s Beale Street Music Festival. More

Mar 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez and collaborators) have announced their new album and shared its first single. JUNK is due out April 8 via Mute. Below you can stream “Do It, Try It.” Beck and Susanne Sundfør, among others, guest on the album. Above is the fast food-referencing album cover and below is the cover art for the “Do It, Try It” single. More

Feb 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last night at Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy Awards party Beck and the surviving members of Nirvana teamed up to cover the late David Bowie‘s “The Man Who Sold the World,” which Nirvana once covered in their MTV Unplugged episode and on their MTV Unplugged in New York album. Below are some fan videos of the performance. More

Jan 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Back in July The Chemical Brothers released their first new studio album in five years, Born in the Echoes, via longtime label Astralwerks. Now the British electronic duo has shared a video for “Wide Open” (which has vocals by Beck). Dom&nic, who have worked with The Chemical Brothers before, directed the clip, feature features a dancer as she slowly transforms into something more translucent. Watch it below. More

Oct 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Beck and Paul McCartney teamed up last night and performed at a benefit for PETA, a 35th anniversary gala in Hollywood. They dueted on The Beatles’ classics “Just Seen My Face” and “Drive My Car.” More

Aug 26, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift likes to bring special guests up on stage with her at each of her shows and last night at Los Angeles’ Staples Center she brought out the one-two punch of Beck and St. Vincent. More

Jul 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Back in April The Chemical Brothers announced their first new studio album in five years, Born in the Echoes, due out July 17th via longtime label Astralwerks. More

Jun 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As was hinted at last week, Beck has released a brand new song, “Dreams.” It’s a far cry from what was found on his last album, 2014’s Morning Phase, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. “Dreams” is a dance-y upbeat number that sounds like Beck mixed with early MGMT mixed with the more pop inclinations of Tame Impala. More

Jun 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has posted a gif to Twitter that appears to be cover art to something titled “Dreams.” Whether it’s a new song or album or something else remains to be seen. More

Apr 03, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Already mixing things up plenty as the program’s new host, last night James Corden broadcast The Late Late Show from the home of a complete stranger. More

Apr 02, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Following his Grammy win for Album of the Year, Beck has shared a vintage-style lyric video for his latest Morning Phase single, “Country Down.” More

Feb 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Last night, Beck‘s Morning Phase won Album of the Year at the Grammys. During Beck’s acceptance speech however, Kanye West momentarily ran onstage, calling back to his infamous rant during the 2009 MTV VMAs when Taylor Swift won Best Female Video over Beyoncé. More

Feb 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Shortly after winning Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards last night Beck performed a special rendition of his Morning Phase track “Heart Is A Drum.” More

Feb 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Last night the 57th Grammy Awards took place, with Beck taking the top honor of Album of the Year with last year’s Morning Phase. More

Feb 04, 2015 By Laura Studarus

This Sunday, Feb 8, The Grammys will air, golden statues will be handed out—and then the next day we’ll all take to Twitter to complain about how much the music industry sucks. More

Jan 26, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Not looking to repeat going another six years between albums, Beck will reportedly release his follow-up to last year’s Morning Phase with a brand new LP this year. More

Oct 06, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Austin City Limits aired a full-hour set featuring music from Beck. More

Sep 23, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Commemorating the release of The Apple Years 1968-75, a new retrospective compilation of George Harrison’s work, late night mainstay Conan O’Brien is hosting a week-long celebration of The Beatles’ Quiet One with a number of special musical guests. More

Jul 29, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Back in 2012 Beck released Song Reader, an album of sheet music. More

Jul 29, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

After teasing a number brief clips, Beck has premiered the full music video for his latest Morning Phase single “Heart Is A Drum.” More

Jul 29, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Beck was welcomed as the musical guest on The Colbert Report. More

Jul 28, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night while performing the Providence Performing Arts Center, Beck was joined onstage by none other than Jack White, who just so happened to be in the area headlining the Newport Folk Festival. More

Jul 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Beck has premiered a series of teaser clips showcasing an upcoming music video for “Heart Is A Drum,” the latest single featured on his Sea Change sequel Morning Phase. More

Jul 09, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Back in 2012, Beck released a sheet music-only album called Song Reader. Now, Beck is releasing a pseudo-official recording of the album, featuring a host of musicians as contributors. More

May 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Back in the day when sparkly vampires ruled the cultural landscape, two amazingly cool singer/songwriters (that would be Beck and Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan) came together for a collaborative tune. More

May 05, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing to ride the success of his latest LP Morning Phase, Beck has announced the addition of several new shows to his ongoing tour. More

May 01, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Sure we all appreciated Beck’s recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. But things really started getting interesting after the cameras stopped rolling. More

Apr 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

It’s Wednesday—and we’re still talking about Coachella. More

Apr 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal has announced a slate of concerts for its 2014 event, taking place June 26-July 6. More

Apr 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

In continuing Beck news, last night the musician stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live. More

Apr 02, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Beck is doing the promotion thing for his excellent new album Morning Phase. More

Mar 13, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live Beck was welcomed as the musical guest of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. More

Mar 11, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Recently releasing his new album Morning Phase, Beck has announced plans for a North American tour this spring and summer. More

Mar 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Over the weekend Beck made his seventh appearance as the musical guest of Saturday Night Live. More

Feb 17, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next week on Feb. 25 Beck will return with Morning Phase, his first piece of recorded music in six years. More

Feb 04, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Later this this month Beck will release his highly-anticipated new album Morning Phase. More

Jan 20, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

With the release of his highly-aniticipated new album Morning Phase due on Feb. 25 Beck has shared the first piece of new music off the effort with the track “Blue Moon.” More

Dec 31, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On Feb. 4 Starbucks will release its newest compilation of love song covers, Sweetheart 2014. More

Dec 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next year controversial director Lars von Trier will release his hardcore exploration into sex, Nymphomaniac. More

Apr 17, 2023 By Celine Teo-Blockey

Byron Bay Bluesfest 2023 may have been hit by a few cancellations but those that did play delivered in style. More

Nov 22, 2019 By Christopher Thiessen

Beck Hansen is one of popular music’s great documentarians. The talented multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and production wizard pulls from his vast toolbox at will, reflecting the music landscape surrounding him with Tarantino-like precision and intrigue. More

Oct 13, 2017 By Austin Trunick

If you think you’ve heard this album before, don’t worry, you’re not losing your mind. Bits of Beck’s brand new Colors have been trickling out for years. “Dreams” landed as a single way back in 2015, followed by “Wow” one year later. More

Jun 29, 2014 By Laura Studarus

I rediscovered Beck’s coolness all over again on Wednesday night at his pre-Festival International de Jazz de Montréal show. More

Feb 25, 2014 By Austin Trunick

Attempt to connect the dots between Beck releases and you’ll rarely find moments where the artist has circled back on himself. Unfettered by genre or by audience expectations, his drowsy baritone and free-associative lyrics are the only things which remain consistent from album to album. More

Nov 26, 2013 By Laura Studarus

“If you have a wife, a job, and a car, you don’t have time for Beck” Jonathan Gold told the audience at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night. More

Aug 04, 2013 By Laura Ferreiro

The second day of the Osheaga Festival might best be summed up as a love fest to Montreal and the festival itself. Nearly every artist we caught on Day 2 mentioned how beautiful the festival was (The Breeders, Deap Vally), how much they loved Montreal audiences (Beck, Macklemore) and how Osheaga is the best festival they’ve ever played (Imagine Dragons). More

Aug 29, 2011 By Laura Studarus

It’s deceptively easy to see the career of French musician Serge Gainsbourg as one continuous punchline. With his distinctive vocal style—a muttered sing-speech—parodied almost into oblivion since his rise to popularity in the 1960s, the inclusion of his music in film or television seems to automatically indicate the horny bachelor, the ill-conceived seduction, or (horror of horrors) hipsters aiming to embrace kitsch with both hands. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl however, cool was the name of the game—as Beck, Zola Jesus, Victoria Legrand (of Beach House), Mike Patton, Ed Droste (of Grizzly Bear), The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Lulu Gainsbourg, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sang, spoke and cooed their tributes to the late performer. More