Beck
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31.05.2008 00:00
Garbage singer will star in TV series and release solo album
Shirley Manson got a regular role in a US TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She will play the CEO of a cutting edge hi-tech company. The singer will also release a solo album this year.
30.11.2007 00:00
Thom Yorke’s and The White Stripes’ recording sessions will get TV broadcast
A new show From The Basement starts on December 1 on the Sky Arts channel. It will feature recording sessions by a variety of artists.
28.09.2011 10:06
Sonic Youth to release best hits compilation
Sonic Youth announced plans to release best hits compilation. Track list for the album was created by famous rock musicians, including The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck and others.
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Biography
Beck David Campbell, known all over the world merely as Beck, was born into the artistic family. His grandfather opened the talent of Yoko Ono, while his mother is a highly appreciated visual artist. Beck's father left the family very early. The future musician grew up in Los Angeles mostly, but also lived in Kansas and Europe. Beck left the school when he was in the tenth grade and became a street musician. Around that time, he performed blue and folk. In 1988, the artist made his first record called The Banjo Story and went to conquer the New York anti-folk scene. However, it appeared a hard nut to crack for him, and he came back to Los Angeles where in 1991, the Bong Load label managers found Beck. They proposed him to record a number of songs and he agreed willfully. Around that time, the artist recorded his hit of all times Loser along with the part of the material for Mellow Gold – the performer's debut – it included also the socially sharp composition MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack.
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Reviews
Modern Guilt2008
Just like all the rest of Beck's albums Modern Guilt is really hard to categorize. This time he decided to work with such a popular and omnipresent producer as Danger Mouse, which of course produced a specific impact on the overall sound
The Information2006
The Information marks Beck's turning into a more sensitive and openhearted, and at the same time ironic and indescribable visionary, whose inner world is ciphered in the most intricate metaphors of his lyrics
Guerolito2005
The thing that separates Beck from other artists is that Guerolito is a remix of his album Guero delivered in the same sequencing order as the original. The all-star producers garnish the shaggy one's originals with their own spices
Guero2005
We loved Beck the sex machine (Midnight Vultures), Beck the mutant folkie (Mutations) and even heartbreak Beck (Sea Change). Guero, however, is the real follow-up to his outstanding opus Odelay. Guero
