Beck’s latest album, Song Reader, echoes the time when popular songs were played at home, around the parlor piano, porch guitar or grandpa’s harmonica. Existing only as loose-leaf sheet music, Song ...

The album’s release ties into the debut of Beck-created, limited-edition “black cherry” Carmichael eyeglass frames by Warby Parker, which is producing the album. (The album will be released by Capitol ...

Beck’s new album, Song Reader, contains no actual recordings. It’s an album of sheet music, 20 songs in total, handsomely packaged in a navy blue hardback portfolio. Each tune is printed on thick ...

The shape-shifting musician often sounds like a completely different artist from one song to the next. On his new Song Reader, he leaves the sound... Beck Explains 'Song Reader,' An Album Fans Perform ...

“We’ve been working on it since before the book came out,” Beck says. “I started casting people, getting in touch with people like Tom Waits. Lots of people agreed to do it, but wrangling them was ...

They say music belongs to everyone. But rarely has that maxim had more practical application than with Beck’s ongoing “Song Reader” project. The star started it back in 2012. He released sheet music ...

After releasing an album in the mid-nineteen-nineties, I was sent a copy of the sheet-music version by a publisher who had commissioned piano transcriptions and guitar-chord charts of everything on ...

“Not so long ago,” writes Beck Hansen in the introduction to his new collection of tunes, “Song Reader,” “a song was only a piece of paper until it was played by someone.” Indeed, as far back as ...

Los Angeles singer and songwriter Beck has begun offering his new group of compositions, “Song Reader,” for pre-order, his publisher announced on Friday. The 20 new songs might be called an album, ...

1 of 4 — Beck's newest album, Song Reader, is a collection of sheet music intended to be arranged and recorded by his fans. 3 of 4 — Song Reader original art for the song "Don't Act Like Your Heart ...