Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anti-Folk Groups, Anti-Folk Musicians, Beck, the Moldy Peaches, Jenn Lindsay, Jeffrey Lewis, Emmy the Great, I Told You I Was Freaky, Righteous Babe Records, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Anticomp Folkilation. Excerpt: Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and ...
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anti-Folk Groups, Anti-Folk Musicians, Beck, the Moldy Peaches, Jenn Lindsay, Jeffrey Lewis, Emmy the Great, I Told You I Was Freaky, Righteous Babe Records, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Anticomp Folkilation. Excerpt: Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock. The four time platinum artist rose to underground popularity with his early works, which combined social criticism (as in "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" and "Deep Fried Love") with musical and lyrical experimentation. He first earned wider public attention for his breakthrough single "Loser", a 1994 hit. Two of Beck's most popular and acclaimed recordings were Odelay (1996) and Sea Change (2002). Odelay was awarded Album of the Year by American magazine Rolling Stone and by UK publications NME and Mojo. Odelay also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Sea Change was also awarded Album of the Year by Rolling Stone. Beck was born in Los Angeles, California, to David Campbell, a Canadian musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist and former Warhol "star". His maternal grandfather was Al Hansen, a visual collage artist of the Fluxus school of art. His paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, while his maternal grandmother was Jewish; Beck himself is a Scientologist, as are his wife and his father. Beck's mother, Bibb... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=149681
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