Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Jeff Beck accomplished so much during his decades-long musical ...

Yes, Sea Change, Beck’s cherished eighth album, could easily have been the debut release of an entirely different artist. Some still hail it as Beck’s strongest release to date (it certainly triggered ...

Beck boasts one of the most interesting, most schizophrenic discographies of any contemporary artist this side of David Bowie. Like Bowie, Beck has built a career on restlessness and reinvention, ...

It’s always exciting when an artist shows us something we didn’t know they had in them. Beck accomplished that with his 2002 album Sea Change. On the LP, he set aside his goofy hipster routine for an ...

Beck's "Modern Guilt" is a political album in the broadest sense of the term. It doesn't reference anything specific from recent headlines, name-drop any political figures or feature any kind of rally ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...