For the artists Doug Aitken and Beck, making art nowadays is an attempt to counter the constant white noise of a culture so rapid and fragmented that it’s hard to discern the value of any one thing.

Beck Hansen has pushed the boundaries of the alternative genre and mixed and matched sounds throughout his career. Ever since his breakout album Mellow Gold in 1994, an effort that mixed angsty ...

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 ...

It's good fun to laugh at the Grammys' expense. Of all the major award shows, it's the one that seems perennially the least culturally relevant, the most out of touch — the one that showers trophies ...

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 ...

Now a Beck staple, this gem found Hansen looking back to the dying days of his ailing relationship, bottling the feelings of resignation he felt as it neared its final phase. Lyrically, Beck framed ...

Beck Hansen has always been a musical shape-shifter, zigzagging between genres with each new release. As a young man in the early 1990s he was the quintessential Generation X slacker, a blues-obsessed ...

The context here is not in the vein of "You rock because you're cool," or "I rock because I'm cool," or "eating Cocoa Puffs with milk rocks because it tastes so good." No. Beck Hansen and his band ...

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning musician Beck Hansen, known in the popular culture universe simply as Beck, wants to make something very clear about his spiritual life. Contrary to a common ...

Beck Hansen and his deft live band will kick off the 40th season of PBS live music series "Austin City Limits" on Oct. 4 with an hour-long set showcasing his eclectic discography. In the meantime, ...

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 ...

Beck Hansen seems to have experienced a spiritual sea change after the acclaimed recording artist distanced himself from the Church of Scientology in an interview out Friday. The mononymous musician ...