Beck (Musician)

Reign of Vengeance's Marshall "F*cking" Beck vs. New Times (Again)

From Up On The Sun's "Fire Marshall Beck" rant in 2007 to praise of his project Staren Black in 2010, the relationship between the Phoenix New Times and local metal figure Marshall "Fucking" Beck has always been, um, "complicated." Certain members of the New Times staff -- past and present -- thi ... More >>

Beck's Song Reader To Get Local Treatment by Black Carl, Jim Adkins, Spirit Cave, and More

In case you've got the memory of Mr. Magoo, Beck's latest musical release wasn't an album. Instead, it was just a book of sheet music. Called Song Reader, the book includes over 100 pages of original artwork and 20 songs that Beck wants you to bring to life. Already dozens, perhaps hundreds, of folk ... More >>

Beck's Sheet Music Album: Bourgeois PR Stunt or an Audition for Fans?

See also: Beck, Modern Guilt (Review) See also: Beck, The Information (Review) Beck is the Tom Sawyer of modern music: he never grows up, and we love him even when he's annoying or faking his own death. And now, like Sawyer's famous white fence episode, Beck is getting someone else to do his job ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2012: Beck Is Back, Jack White to Perform Solo

Sasquatch! Music Festival​Jack White, Beck, Bon Iver, Pretty Lights and Tenacious D will be headlining Sasquatch! Music Festival this year.Kudos to the good people of Sasquatch for digging Beck out of the grave. Hopefully this means he's finally got some new material. Beirut, Girl Talk, The R ... More >>

Are Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Sharply Dressing the Part?

New Album From the Strokes on Its Way to Being Complete

​The Strokes have finally finished a long awaited album, according to SPIN.While the mixing and mastering still has yet to be done, the recording process itself has been completed.After working out their differences and deciding to go forth with making a new album, they worked with Beck and White ... More >>

Reign of Vengeance Frontman Marshall "Fucking" Beck On His New Book and Upcoming Gig With Job For a Cowboy's Jon Rice

Reign of Vengeance​ Why wait for the weekend when you can start your Halloween festivities on "hump day"? Marshall "Fucking" Beck, one of the Valley's most prolific and controversial heavy metal musicians, is getting a head start on the season with a Halloween bash at Martini Ranch Wednesday night ... More >>

Funkytown

British soul comes to Phoenix

Top 10 Celebrity Cameos in Indie Rock Videos

These days, the lines between indie and mainstream music are difficult to pinpoint. With indie artists featured prominently in mainstream media (I'm looking at you, Twilight soundtrack), it's hard to see what makes indie music, well, indie. When you add celebrities to the mix, it becomes even more d ... More >>

Album Tacos For Everyone

Album tacos. That is all.​What happens when delicious Mexican food meets the album cover of Billy Joel's 1980 album Glass Houses? Hilarity. Such is the case for Album Tacos, a fantastic new Tumblr that popped up on the radar this weekend. Rocket science, this ain't, but it yields some very funny a ... More >>

Marshall Beck's New Project, Staren Black, May Be The Best Thing He's Done

Marshall "Fucking" Beck​To say  Marshall "Fucking" Beck and New Times have had a contentious relationship over the years would be an understatement.Love him or hate him, though, Beck's dedication to the local metal scene is unassailable. In addition to hosting and promoting numerous metal sho ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Designer Condom Line

​So make sure your little mosters are in them.Okay. I stole the joke. But it was so obvious I couldn't resist. Evidently making music, performing sold out concerts, winning Grammys, finding the most outrageous fashions that she can, and working for Polaroid is not enough for the Lady. Now she has ... More >>

G. Love & Special Sauce

On Mexican Mouseketeers and Delusions of Grandeur

Walter Trout

NIN Prove Radiohead was Right: FREE SELLS

Amazon just announced their list of the Bestselling Albums of 2008 on their MP3 digital service. At first glance you might not think much of the list: Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, 3 Doors Down, Beck, and Radiohead are all near the top of the list. What is remarkable and noteworthy is the #1 sp ... More >>

Warren Miller's Children of Winter

Warren Miller's Children of Winter

Bar Soap

How about a floor show with your fluff ’n’ fold?

Point/Counterpoint: Beck and MGMT at Dodge Theatre on Monday, September 22

Beck

Modern Guilt
(Interscope Records)

Future Shock: Beck, Ani DiFranco, EdgeFest 2008, and more

More than mariachi: Yes, Mexicans dig your rock 'n' roll. So why can't you listen to some Café Tacuba?

Fop Star

Victorian dandy meets 21st-century Beck -- in one stylin' suit

The Vinyl Frontier

Sound installation lets everybody be a DJ

Beck

The Information
(Interscope)

Beck

Maybe he can free Katie

Beck

Guero (DGC/Interscope)

Mush Records Tour

Eclectic electronica and then some

Mirage

Getting nostalgic at Coachella

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Tracy Chapman

Let It Rain (Elektra)

Analysis: Beck's New Heart

With Sea Change, Beck forgoes the 'Loser' of the past for a session with irony-free honesty. More power to him.

Sheer Gaul!

Moulin Rouge thrusts forth a deliciously garish Paris

Flashes 04-27-2000

Critical Mass

Even with impending Willennium looming, 1999 proved to be a banner year for music

Molten Wax

Molten Wax

Molten Wax

Recordings

Recordings

Recordings

Recordings

Recordings

Indie Rockers Do It Better

Live Wire

Pic Hits for the week

Odelay-ee-ow

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