Hot Tickets: Beck, Tasteless Clowns, Wolf Parade

It’s a perfect match, really. An artist who’s made a career out of refashioning musical kitsch to his own inscrutable ends plays a venue refashioned out of a massive, gold-encrusted, Art-Deco movie-palace and former televangelism center in Washington Heights. It’s Beck at the United Palace Theatre!

The pop mystic seems to be out of a Read More

Beck's Modern Problems

Why should anyone care about Beck? Isn’t he just some 90′s holdover gone morose, gone Scientologist, gone lame with the weight of his early successes and the death of irony, that vein he mined so long and so well?

His last two releases, the aimless Guero and the overworked yet hollow The Information were critically Read More