Beck News

Two big names in the pop-rock world - The Shins and Beck - will kick off Les Schwab Amphitheater's summer concert season on Memorial Day weekend, the venue announced earlier this week.

Philadelphia band Dr. Dog was formed in 1999. They bring two new members into the fold for their latest album, drummer Eric Slick and Dimitri Manos on electronics, percussion and guitar.

Charles Brown Superstar was a short lived band in the 1990s of Bobby Hecksher and Benett Rogers.

The first thing I thought when I heard the line-up announcement last night was: man, Sasquatch is never going to be Coachella.

IT'S REPUBLICAN primary season so that means every day some musician is complaining that his/her/their song is being used without permission.

Beck is best known for the single "Loser", the eccentric instrumentation on Odelay , and, to a much lesser extent, the rambling street musician who sang "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack". Mutations is right behind Odelay as Beck's greatest album with the eccentricity of Odelay relegated to superficial treatments over "wasted blues." The only ... (more)

Initially pegged as something as a voice of a generation when 'Loser' turned into a smash crossover success, Beck did wind up crystallizing much of the post-modern ruckus of the '90s alternative explosion, but in unexpected ways.

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