Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Beta Band in 1999. (Credit: Brian Rasic/Getty Images) “I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.s by the Beta Band.” With ...

For many in the crowd at Brooklyn Steel on Saturday, this may have been the most instrument-switching and most false-ending-filled show they’d ever seen. The Beta Band were gloriously weird in their ...

There was something a little too poetic about the refrain, "I need light" in the Beta Band's signature song, "Dry the Rain," last night (April 18) at Chicago's Vic Theatre. Making the best of a power… ...

The Beta Band can help you relax. They specialize in the kind of slow, chin-bobbing grooves that urge you to dance, walk or water the plants in a cheerful, introspective mood. Call it their Edinburgh ...

“I think we owed it to ourselves as a band to fire up the engines and have a trip that was really for us,” The Beta Band’s Steve Mason told us in regards’ to their reunion tour. That tour started on ...

The Beta Band have shared that they will be releasing a deluxe vinyl reissue of their classic ‘The Three E.P.s’. Check out the details below. READ MORE: Remembering The Beta Band, the self-destructive ...

Ex-Beta Band members John Maclean and Robin Jones will release their first album as the Aliens, "Astronomy for Dogs," June 19 via Astralwerks. By Michael D. Ayers Ex-Beta Band members John Maclean and ...

Watch me sell five copies of the new Beta Band album before this review is over. Apparently the only Scottish combo not currently signed to Matador, the Beta Band has very little in common with its ...

The Beta Band excels at willful awkwardness. A few years back, its weirdo edge made the Scottish quartet hip, thanks to its reckless and High Fidelity-approved album, The Three EPs. Unlike some ...

You’ve probably seen it. Midway through the film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity,” John Cusack says, “I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.’s by the Beta Band” with the ...

Imagine a collection of Beck B-sides. Now imagine a collection of the B-sides to those B-sides and you're on the right track toward conjuring the sounds of the much-hyped Beta Band's new, self-titled ...

Scottish rock troupe the Beta Band will split at the end of the year, following a U.K. fall tour in support of its newest release, May’s Heroes to Zeroes. “Sadly, eight years of hard work and critical ...