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 ...

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 ...

Beck is back, and he's not a loser, baby. This week also brings new albums from Aslyn, 112, John Pizzarelli, Slunt and The Hip Hop Hoodios. “Guero,” BeckBeck’s “Guero” sounds a little bit like deja vu ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many artists today can prompt you to seriously, excitedly ask,”What’s he gonna do next?” Not very many. Unlike, say, mid-period U2, so many young acts are on what might be called the blunt edge of ...

Those online during the wee hours of the sleepy Sunday evening before Martin Luther King Day received an unexpected treat when word spread that mysterious (and now disappeared) Nappy Cat Blog had ...

ROCK Although Beck’s remarkable 2002 disc “Sea Change” is also a colossal downer, it’s the most meaningful thing that Los Angeles’ ever-reigning coolmaster has produced. And judging from the excess of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...