While Trent Reznor reduces his Web 2.0 (and center stage) time, Beck is smoothly stepping in as the new web-generous/fan-friendly mainstream artist. We've talked about Hansen recording Velvet…   Read Story »

In addition to covers and DJ projects, Beck's updated website houses "Irrelevant Topics," a section featuring "conversations between musicians, artists, writers ... without promotional pretext or…   Read Story »

After launching his DJ mix series, Beck's back on The Velvet Underground & Nico tip. As you likely recall, one of the new sections on his overhauled website involves he and his friends going into the…   Read Story »

Beck's having so much fun with other people's songs, he's decided to stream a weekly mix on his website. The inaugural "Planned Obsolescence" includes tracks by Madlib, Upsetters, Broadcast, Comets…   Read Story »

Beck's Record Club project promises a series of installments in which the man and a bunch of buddies ducking into the studio sans rehearsal and knocking out a cover version of an entire album. The…   Read Story »

Beck's giving his website an overhaul. One of the new sections, Record Club, launched today with a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning." The idea behind the Record Club's for Beck and…   Read Story »

Yesterday we heard Sonic Youth cover an old Beck song and vice versa. Today we've got Islands' Nick Thorburn covering an even older Beck song. "Cyanide Breath Mint" can be found on the newly reissued…   Read Story »

On a Record Store Day exclusive split 7" that was nowhere to be found by the time I got to Other Music, Beck covered EVOL cut "Green Light" and The Sonik Youth returned the favor with a take on…   Read Story »

Last week we posted about One Foot In The Grave, Beck's old, satisfyingly straight-up K Records folk album. (At the time of its release, I was one of those people who didn't dig Mellow Gold as much…   Read Story »

Although the slacker anthemics of "Loser" alone wouldn't have suggested the pending depth of Beck's discog, by the end of 1994 close listeners had a roadmap in the form of three disparate records:…   Read Story »