The Beta Band mapped out North American tour dates for 2025. The influential Scottish group will be celebrating their noteworthy 1998 compilation, The Three E.P.’s, which will receive another reissue ...

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 ...

Someone alert the clerks at Championship Vinyl, it looks like late-’90s/early-’00s indie greats The Beta Band are getting back together. The Scottish group, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.s by the Beta Band." With those legendary words, John Cusack's Rob Gordon put on ...

The Beta Band got back together last night to play their first public concert in 21 years. The Scottish group consisting of Richard Greentree, Robin Jones, John Maclean and Steve Mason kicked off ...

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 ...

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… ...

It seems like The Beta Band have been teasing some kind of reunion after appearing to be active on social media this past month. Formed in 1996 by Scottish musicians Steve Mason and Gordon Anderson, ...

When Rolling Stone released their best albums of the '90s list, Nirvana's Nevermind stood predictably at the top. I'm not saying that it doesn't deserve it, but didn't you just know they'd pick that?

Over the last decade, Steve Mason has performed under many guises. He’s been the deep-voiced frontman of the underappreciated Scottish astro-folk crew the Beta Band and the brains behind the melodic ...

If they loved the Beta Band so much, why did people give them so much shit while they were still alive? Their early development was so startling-- from pleasant late 90s stoner-hop to a startling mix ...