Welcome to Beck’s morning after. On the heels of Sea Change—his well-publicized dark night of the soul, a glowingly moody album yearning for sedative anodyne in the wake of an ugly break-up—Beck has ...

For the first 10 years of his career, the idea of the "real" Beck was up for grabs. You had the lo-fi folkie, the slacker white-boy rapper, the is-he-for-real Prince impersonator, the epically ...

Due March 29 via Interscope, "Guero" will be released as a standard CD, a double-disc package with two videos and a 5.1 audio mix and a third edition featuring four remixes. By Billboard Staff In the ...

There was a time when Beck seemed superhuman. His late ’90s albums all appeared to be strange, disfigured creations at first glance, only to reveal profound layers of subtlety and enchanting musical ...

MTV Latin America has postponed its 2005 Video Music Awards Latin America due to the rapidly intensifying force of Hurricane Wilma. By Billboard Staff Beck is eyeing a Dec. 6 release for the ...

Many musicians have established themselves under the banner of one genre -- only a few have managed to master a vocabulary including, say, the simplicity of country music, the complexity of ...

Beck's latest offering is a perplexing slab of soniference. I say perplexing because it's saturated in an overwhelming sense of d¿j¿ vu. To paraphrase a colleague of mine, it's like a greatest hits ...

Beck Hansen's last album, 'Sea Change', was a searingly personal collection, featuring spare, haunting songs that had been stripped right back to the bone. After this unexpected move that delighted ...

There are some who believe that, in pop music, wilful eclecticism is a good thing. That hopping from style to style is the way to make great records. These people are wrong. Eclecticism is the enemy ...

After Mellow Gold, it seemed Beck would soon die out, remembered only as a one-hit wonder. But Beck's sixth major label album has marked him as a respected musician, an excellent producer and a ...