Was there a more surprising hit in 1994, or in the first half of the '90s for that matter, than Beck’s "Loser"? When it was released early that year, it sounded at first like any one of the disposable ...

Invisible Hits is a column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs, rarities, outtakes, and live clips. When Beck’s “Loser” became an inescapable MTV and radio ...

The album was the manifestation of his meeting with producer Tom Rothrock, who happened upon Beck at a local show shortly after the singer moved out to Los Angeles from New York City, By Ron Hart ...

At various points over the past 25 years, Beck has taken a hiatus from his artsy, eccentric persona and entered a reflective, melancholy mode. At such moments he has written some of his most poignant ...

Beck returned to 'Saturday Night Live' last night and performed two songs from his just-released new album 'Morning Phase.' And while the performances weren't as epic as 'Clap Hands' from 2006, they ...

In the 1960s, Bibbe Hansen was a visual artist and part of the in-crowd at Andy Warhol’s Factory, while her husband, David Campbell, was a viola player and string arranger who worked on classic albums ...

In a show that avoided his mellow records in favor of "Mellow Gold"-style fun, Beck struck guitar hero poses, reminisced about vintage L.A. record stores, covered Prince and sang with a local gospel ...

Beck boasts one of the most interesting, most schizophrenic discographies of any contemporary artist this side of David Bowie. Like Bowie, Beck has built a career on restlessness and reinvention, ...

In 1994 former coffee house music hustler Beck Hanson burst onto a floundering post-Grunge alternative music scene with a brash-yet-slacker infused musical stew consisting of back porch break beats, ...