Dig into the depths of Beck’s catalog in our Spotify playlist; #xpnfest tickets onsale today!

To say that we’re psyched that Beck is playing this year’s XPoNential Music Festival is a bit of an understatement. We were practically doing backflips when we found out that he was on the bill, and not because we remember that song “Loser” from the 90s and think it was a pretty good song.

Beck Hansen is a remarkably varied and adventurous artist: one who dabbles in blues, folk and bossa nova as readily as party-time funk, hiphop and punk rock. His twelfth album, Morning Phase, might skew mellow and melancholic, but that doesn’t mean the tenor of his Sunday night show will be sad-and-unhappy. Ever-unpredictable, he always mixes things up, whether its bringing uptempo dance moments to his show at Irvine Auditorium on the Sea Change tour or simmering down the Tower Theater on the high-energy Information tour with an aching “End of the Day.”

Tickets for Beck’s appearance at the XPoNential Music Festival with Band of Horses and The Districts go on sale today at noon. (That’s really soon, people.) You can purchase them through the Live Nation website. To provide you with a soundtrack to your ticket-buying, we’ve compiled an 18-track, “Loser”-free Spotify playlist giving you a primer on Beck’s career. The poppy, the introspective, the wild and crazy, the wacked-out and weird. Listen below, and stay tuned for the full XPNFest lineup announcement on April 17th.