NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Beck Hansen wants you to think about the way music has changed over the last century and what that means about how human beings engage each other these days. Laboring over the ...

The shape-shifting musician often sounds like a completely different artist from one song to the next. On his new Song Reader, he leaves the sound... Beck Explains 'Song Reader,' An Album Fans Perform ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Beck Hansen wants you to think about the way music has changed over the last century and what that means about how human beings engage each other these days. Laboring over the ...

Even if white men can't jump, Guero can try to soar. The title of Beck's newly released album is derived from a Spanish derogatory term for a person of European descent -- that is, a white male. The ...

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 ...

This article was taken from the April 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

LOS ANGELES — Don’t look now, but Beck is back on the street, and the street is back in Beck’s music. The singer had recorded “Que Onda Guero,” a new song that describes the colorfully chaotic Los ...

As they say, hindsight is 20/20. And the latest artist to feel the sting of reflection is Beck Hansen, the alternative rocker who performs under the mononym Beck. In a recent interview with Audible, ...

It was partly out of "wanting to have extra time to get all the details right: the artwork, the videos," says Beck Hansen, 47. "Also, I'd been on the road intensely for about five years. We were about ...

The pendulum has swung back pop-ward for Beck Hansen. His new album, Colors, to be released this month, is his most uptempo collection of songs since 2005’s Guero: shiny and hooky, in marked contrast ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Among Beck’s finest virtues — and it’s one ...