Beck is an iconic singer/songwriter, who represents the folk/funk music scene to many fans. He rose to fame in the early ’90s, thanks primarily to “Loser,” his first big hit. The tune became an ...

When Beck’s second single was released on an indie label in March 1993, the 22-year-old singer and songwriter had no idea what to expect. It was something of a surprise to him that Bong Load Records ...

Here’s what really happened when MTV played Beck’s “Loser” for the first time, in 1994: The culture inverted itself, weirdness was instantaneously mainstreamed, everyone stopped combing their hair, ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, we’re picking from 1994’s most popular ...

In honor of Beck’s 44th birthday, we’ve dug through our archives and revisited all four of SPIN’s cover stories on the funk-hop, indie-rock innovator. Read about his first breakthrough hit —yep, that ...

Even a long, fulfilling career is bound to have its share of regrets. For Beck, one such misstep has haunted him for well over two decades: not allowing “Weird Al” Yankovic to parody his 1994 breakout ...

Nothing on mainstream radio sounded like Beck's "Loser" when it dropped in 1994. Thirty years later, we explain why, look at its impact on the... Beck's 'Loser' at 30 and the golden age of slacker ...

"In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey"— Beck had me immediately with that first line of his 1993 song “Loser." I was already intrigued by the opening guitar line and beat, but when I heard that ...

Beck Hansen is the hip-hop generation's David Byrne: A peculiar, deadpan, geek-chic frontman with a permanent thousand-yard stare, a penchant for mad scientist mixing and matching of genres, and a ...

The last time Beck was at South By Southwest was back in 1994, a year where Johnny Cash gave a keynote address and then later played a showcase at Austin’s notorious punk club Emo’s. The headliner on ...

You might have thought that Beck’s Red Rocks set would be a slowpoke, folksy affair akin to his latest studio album, Morning Phase. Nope. The night was a twenty-plus year retrospective, covering ...