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… ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...