Artists with a bent for melding folk, blues and rock with hip hop and sampling culture were a scarce bunch in the mid-'90s. The experience they brought to the table helped Beck synthesize his broad ...

Beck was not a sure thing. "Loser" felt like a generation-defining song even as it was cresting in 1994, but it did not feel like the start of anything. Beck Hansen himself cut a fascinating figure: a ...

“‘Devils Haircut,’ like many others on the album, is full of sounds and moments that are ironically understated and slightly under-performing or just plain wrong. To us, it was all funny, especially ...

“I thought at the very best, it would come out. It would be a big flop—but in 20 years, a bunch of weirdos would find it and go, ‘Oh, this record was cool,’ because it wasn’t the obvious commercial ...

Beck Hansen's music has always been a Venn diagram of art, with balls-out unironic rap occupying one circle, and beautiful melodic folk in the other. Right in the middle is when Beck rocks, and it was ...

On his early records, Beck made it all sound so easy, people fell for the idea he wasn’t trying very hard. He was happy to play the role of a musical innocent — just a blond surfer-poet dude with a ...

Considering I've long declared Beck's "Odelay" to be the first or second best album of the '90s, I was more than a little surprised to find my CD in the basement the other day. I was stunned to find ...

When it was released in 1996, Beck's fourth studio album was considered by many to be a masterpiece of mid-'90s grunge and his best work since his 1994 debut, "Mellow Gold." Critics praised "Odelay" ...

Children of the ’90s, prepare to feel old: Beck’s breakthrough album “Odelay” turns 20 years old on Saturday. But hey, cheer up; TheWrap spoke to John King — one half of the Dust Brothers, who ...