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 post The Beta Band Announce 2025 Reunion Tour appeared first on Consequence. The Beta Band will reunite this fall for their first tour dates in more than 20 years. On the jaunt, the Scottish ...

Scottish group will use their debut Australian visit to perform their landmark compilation 'The Three E.P.'s' in full.

“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 “Dry the Rain” in the adaptation of High Fidelity. Not only did copies of ...

Scottish "folktronica" favorites The Beta Band have announced a new 20th anniversary reissue of their early Three EPs compilation. Featuring new remastered versions of their first three ...

It’s been 20 years since The Beta Band broke up, but frontman Steve Mason has kept the shuffle beat going via various solo projects (Black Affair, King Biscuit Time) ever since. Just not in North ...

Ah, the Beta Band. Perhaps no other band making records right now so closely resembles the Bad News Bears as this perennially goofy Scottish quartet: On tour last summer with Radiohead playing arenas ...

There’s a scene in the film “High Fidelity” in which the record store clerk played by John Cusack blasts the Beta Band’s “Dry the Rain,” supremely confident that he will sell some records. To be sure, ...

Diamonds in the Dust is a weekly study of the criminally neglected; songs, albums and entire genres swept under the rug by a lack of media attention, misunderstandings or simply being too ahead of its ...

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 ...

“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 “Dry the Rain” in the adaptation of High Fidelity. Not only did copies of ...

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 ...