She didn't think the Beastie Boys was a bad influence, so she got me Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill for Christmas one year.
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V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor"), Sekou Andrews & The String Theory, and Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys ('Beastie Boys Book") for the award.
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I'd like to work with Mike D from Beastie Boys.
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BEASTIE BOYS BOOK By Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz Illustrated.
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To be down with the Beastie Boys was — and is!
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The reference points here are clear: Beastie Boys, early Run-DMC.
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Final Fight is basically a Spike Lee-directed Beastie Boys video.
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Artisanal action figures have appeared on his show, and Mr. Goldberg has an extensive personal collection, including his "holy grail": Dead Greedy's Beastie Droids, which are "Star Wars" robots made to look like the Beastie Boys.
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And so like there's an interview with the Beastie Boys that probably says a bunch of interesting stuff about what a song means, and there's also WIkipedia page and there's Beastie Boys fan sites or whatever.
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Beastie Boys original member John Berry has died, according to a report.
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Ad-Rock performs with the Beastie Boys in Los Angeles on Feb.
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Then things kind of wrapped up, and then cue the Beastie Boys.
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It used the song "Girls" by the Beastie Boys as the soundtrack.
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Barnes' cousin is Ayana Fite, daughter of the Beastie Boys' DJ Hurricane.
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Hail John Berry, an original Beastie Boy, who died yesterday at 52.
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"Bastards!" he shouts again, laughing as yet another beastie knocks Noctis over.
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But being ruminative is not what the Beastie Boys are all about.
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Nevertheless, here are some choices for the favorite beastie on your list.
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For one, there's a new Beastie Boys documentary coming to Apple TV+.
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Together they released a memoir, "Beastie Boys Book," and have toured small venues.
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According to her posts, Stewart is a big fan of the Beastie Boys.
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Wars, especially if you throw a bit of Beastie Boys into the mix.
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It has also been called the wee beastie; this is Scotland, after all.
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But Beastie Boys was the thing that really got me into hip-hop.
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For almost 30 years, the Beastie Boys fought for their right to party.
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To paraphrase the Beastie Boys, was his exit sabotage or just a mirage?
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Caash, who is single-handedly restoring early Beastie Boys mayhem to hip-hop.
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His character's name is a reference to "Beastie Boys" song "Slow and Low."
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The passing of Adam Yauch in 2012 also marked the end of the Beastie Boys, but thanks to an artist named Coins, a new album featuring Daft Punk and Beastie Boy mashups has lots for fans of either group to love.
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With apologies to the Beastie Boys: You gotta fight for your right to privacy.
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Mike D of the Beastie Boys (right) with Russell Simmons in London in 1987.
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This comes from when he was working with Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys.
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Brooklyn In 2013, a park was named for Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
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"Beastie Boys Book" — (Various Artists) Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt, producers.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda is, in the immortal words of the Beastie Boys, intergalactic; planetary.
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Crowd Sim 1, however, is less chaotic and has much more Beastie Boys and breakdancing.
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His 2015 album, Heartland 99, channels the Beastie Boys as much as Gang of Four.
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Hence the absence of Dr. Dre and the Beastie Boys in the factory's listening room.
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But Sonos tells me that the Beastie Boys speaker will get an extremely limited production run.
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Beastie Boys said viewers might be misled into believing that the group endorsed Monster energy drinks.
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He's worked with artists ranging from Run-DMC to LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys.
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M.C. and the Beastie Boys broke in 1986—what sparks the howcums isn't the old stuff.
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The Beastie Boys blended punk and hip hop and rose to fame in the 1980's.
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One thing that was definitely true of the early Beastie Boys was the playful, obnoxious persona.
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But nothing sort of seriously going through and figuring out what this Beastie Boys lyric meant.
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And of course, the world has long been waiting for a Beastie Boys record devoted to Shrek.
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To end the nostalgia-filled three minutes, Adam "MCA" Yauch, a late Beastie Boy member, is remembered.
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There are the bumbling detectives that harken back to the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video from Spike Jonze.
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Two members of Beastie Boys, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond, testified at trial.
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Now that the Beastie Boys are good, they struggle with how to talk about having been bad.
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The Dust Brothers, who oversaw the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique and Beck's Odelay, produced Middle of Nowhere.
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"No Sleep Till No Hate in Brooklyn," one placard read, a reference to a Beastie Boys anthem.
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People have now started requesting soundtracks to go with the videos, like The Beastie Boys' Egg Man.
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Legendary producer Rick Rubin is the architect behind Jay-Z, the Beastie Boys and now... Lil Tay?!
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People who take the time to source the original track sampled in that one Beastie Boys song.
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In the Beastie Boys video, we ended up breaking two cameras because we were just doing stuff ourselves.
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The second twist is that the invertebrate beastie can flit with frightening speed around its zero-gravity environment.
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Maleficent loves "Beastie," as she still calls her, but isn't so thrilled about her marrying a, well, human.
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The LGBTQ community there has latched onto this Lizzo-Beastie Boys supercut, as well as songs like will.i.
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It also contributed to the groundbreaking sample-heavy sound of the Beastie Boys' second album, "Paul's Boutique," (1989).
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" Travis ended his speech with one Beastie Boys-approved message -- "YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY!!!!
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Obama's win for best spoken word album beat out nominees John Waters and the Beastie Boys, among others.
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At this point in the '90s, I was probably super big into the Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan.
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John Berry, founding member of The Beastie Boys and a key part of the band's early years, has died.
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I always wanted to be in a band; I grew up listening to Beastie Boys and stuff like that.
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The three vocalists traded off lines like the Beastie Boys, all before dovetailing into a mess of gang vocals.
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The park was named for a member of the band the Beastie Boys who died of cancer in 2012.
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They are full of recording gear, but not to capture the vocals of Frank Sinatra or the Beastie Boys.
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And remember that the special edition Beastie Boys Play:5 will be released in December for the standard $499 price.
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The red-and-white speaker is pretty distinctive, with Beastie Boys written out on the grille in a contemporary typeface.
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If the Beastie Boys stormed in as the archetypal wild hip-hop white boys, they always existed in both worlds.
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Other past recipients include Madonna, Britney Spears, Guns N' Roses, Beastie Boys, Peter Gabriel, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and Kanye West.
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He introduced me to Japanese hip-hop—Scha Dara Parr, who are like the Beastie Boys of Japan, and Shakkazombie.
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Among the other nominees in her category: the Beastie Boys, actor John Waters, poet Sekou Andrews, and musician Eric Alexandrakis.
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Previous recipients include Jackson, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Guns N' Roses, Beastie Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and Kanye West.
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The park is named after the late Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band Beastie Boys.
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Is there a particular Pharcyde or Beastie song that you remember, where it's like, "Oh shit, this is the one,"?
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He looked like the fourth member of the Beastie Boys, and was greeted by gallery owners and artists like royalty.
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The long list of performers included the Velvet Underground, Bruce Springsteen, the Talking Heads, the Ramones and the Beastie Boys.
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For many of us, "Intergalactic" was our introduction to the unique humor and theatrical performance style of the Beastie Boys.
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For my last meal before my fast I am loving my "Beastie Bolognese" (see my highlights) I eat it like chili!!!!
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The 2808 ended up being used by iconic acts such as Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy.
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Beastie Boys fans will surely delight to hear "Eggman," from the band's classic "Paul's Boutique" album, play over the closing credits.
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There's a lot of hip-hop and funk stuff—it's like Beastie Boys, you can't really put it into a box.
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On the front, an illustrated rudder of a jet plane seemingly in homage to the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill cover.
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Since there won't be any more new Beastie Boys music, this scrapbook will help to consolidate a sprawling and complicated legacy.
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Also featured are Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for "Moonlight," and Adam Horovitz, the Beastie Boy known as Ad-Rock.
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M.C. and the Beastie Boys, and spent decades as a top label executive — most prominently at Universal Music and Warner Music.
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December 8, 213: Bad Brains (with an opening set by the Beastie Boys) plays the closing night of Max's Kansas City.
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Years after that we ended up, we've had Prince there and the Beastie Boys and Jimmy Fallon and all these guys.
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Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, has responded to sexual misconduct allegations leveled at his father, the playwright Israel Horovitz.
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Toronto producer Coins created the album Daft Science by intricately layering the finest of Beastie verses over Daft Punk's indelible, futuristic beats.
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Finding success, they graduated to two- and three-legged versions until they finally hit a wall at an eight-legged robo-beastie.
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The songs are all pretty on point, too, like "Intergalactic" from the Beastie Boys and "I Want to Break Free" from Queen.
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Spike Jonze began his career directing videos for Beastie Boys and Weezer, and went on to direct Her and Being John Malkovich.
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A 2012 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Beastie Boys have long refused to license their music for advertising.
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There was an animated discussion in 2012 over where to place the obit of Adam Yauch, a founder of the Beastie Boys.
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Formerly a member of the Style Boyz — a trio more Beastie than Backstreet — Conner has reached a hazardous point in his career.
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The volume, full of old photographs and comics, with a riot of fonts and layouts, is a nonmusical summa of Beastie aesthetics.
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The biggest dilemma facing her that day was whether to bring Otis with her to a Beastie Boys stage show that night.
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Also, here's the trailer for Spike Jonze's Beastie Boys Story, which hits Apple TV+ on April 24 and Imax on April 2.
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Water towers are beloved fixtures of the New York skyline, inspiring urban myths and song lyrics (see: Beastie Boys and Bruce Springsteen).
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The Beastie Boys were devising a tongue-in-cheek marriage of heavy metal and hip-hop rhymes and recording their first record.
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You can pick up the Sonos Play:5 Beastie Boys Edition in December for $499 — the standard price for the speaker — on Sonos.
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"Hello Brooklyn" - Beastie BoysI love this song because it's just them screaming "Hello, Brooklyn" and we're in Brooklyn and it's a beautiful place.
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The band's sound was like if Eminem and the Beastie Boys had an angry fourgy, then gave birth to a less talented baby.
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When you encounter one of the critters while out and about, your phone will buzz and the beastie shows up on the map.
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Her son Michael took the stage name Mike D, created the group the Beastie Boys with two friends and made hip-hop history.
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"For my last meal before my fast I am loving my 'Beastie Bolognese' " — her version of pasta with meat sauce, but sans the pasta.
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The original video includes the Beastie Boys jumping over cars, climbing up buildings and kicking down doors in a parody of '70s crime dramas.
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On Friday, a memorial park set up to honor the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was vandalized with "Go Trump" graffiti and swastikas.
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LONDON — John Berry, founding member of the Beastie Boys and the man credited for coming up with the band's name, has died aged 52.
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As the opening guitar licks of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" blasted over the loud speaker, a beam of red zipped across the parking lot.
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Sonos is releasing a special Beastie Boys version of its Play:5 speaker, designed by San Francisco artist Barry McGee, the company announced today.
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Mike D from the Beastie Boys was duly impressed J.J. Abrams gave an oblique shout-out to his group in the new 'Star Wars.
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Berry came up with the Beastie Boys name and was one of the group's first members when it formed in 1981, the magazine said.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, like his Beastie Boys bandmates Mike "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, was Jewish. .
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Famous names, from Adam "MCA" Yauch (of the Beastie Boys) to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hail from the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
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The label, whose artists have included Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and Kanye West, is credited with helping to bring hip-hop to the mainstream.
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He reminded me of my friend's older brother with all the Beastie Boys posters on his ceiling because he pretty much was that guy.
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This one focuses on the Beastie Boys, the rise of Def Jam, Krush Groove and Beat Street, KRS-One, Dr. Dre, and Egyptian Lover.
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The rally, at a playground named after the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, was attended by band member Adam Horovitz, better known as Ad-Rock.
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It was bright red, and it sped around the track outside to the crowd's great delight, as the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" blasted over the speakers.
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Light's L16 is undoubtedly an unusual looking beastie — but teaching it to see is turning out to be a bigger challenge than the company anticipated.
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It's a cozy place that's played host to the likes of Sofi Tukker, St. Lucia, and was the same space where The Beastie Boys rehearsed.
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With Adam Yauch drafted in to replace departed bassist Jeremy Shatan, the four-piece renamed themselves The Beastie Boys and adopted a straight hardcore sound.
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Pavement did a tour with Beastie Boys, who were the headliners, and Bikini Kill in Australia and that's where he met his wife Kathleen Hanna.
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Somehow, Spike Jonze hasn't made a feature since Her, but he's finally back with this Beastie Boys documentary, which is heading to Apple TV Plus.
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Somehow, Spike Jonze hasn't made a feature since Her, but he's finally back with this Beastie Boys documentary, which is heading to Apple TV Plus.
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Without imagination, we would never have been able to feel a kinship with people we've never met, be they other Americans or Beastie Boys fans.
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Ms. Hanna first came across Kiki and Herb in the late 1990s when visiting her boyfriend, Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, in New York.
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Elon Musk crashed his own party at Tesla's Semi event with a surprise staged to the Beastie Boys banger: Tesla's making a brand-new Roadster.
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I ended up shooting all of my early music videos—like the Breeders video for "Cannonball" and the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video—with those two cameras.
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The Twilight alum, 28, was wearing light-wash jeans and a Beastie Boys T-shirt while Dinkin sported a white crop-top and off-white jeans.
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The assembled vocalists were no slouches either, folks like Frank Black of the Pixies, Henry Rollins of Black Flag, and Mike D of the Beastie Boys.
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That would almost certainly be the same beastie that Empire revealed in concept art back in August, some kind of Space Octosaur, or Dinopus, or ... Kraken?
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But in Rio the four riders will share the spotlight with their mounts Veronica (The Troll), Mighty Nice (Happy), Loughan Glen (Beastie) and Blackfoot Mystery (Red).
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"Sledgehammer," a rueful and dark song penned by Sia, stands in pretty stark contrast to the hammy Beastie Boys track selected for the film's first trailer.
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But Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, otherwise known as Adam Horovitz, is one person who's trying to help women hold onto the right to choose.
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But instead of Lizzo singing that she likes "big boys and itty bitty boys," the song jumps seamlessly to the first lines of Beastie Boys' "Girls".
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Arnault hired Rogers, a 22-year-old American who once worked with the Beastie Boys hip hop band, to challenge the digital mindset of his executives.
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Apple was set to premiere three AppleTV+ originals: Spike Jonze's documentary Beastie Boys Story, an animated musical series called Central Park, and a docuseries called Homes.
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She knew Mr. Horovitz; one of his sons, Adam Horovitz, who would go on to fame with the Beastie Boys, had been her high school boyfriend.
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Personal favourites Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz narrate their wild Beastie Boys Book, with heartfelt dedications to their friend Adam "MCA" Yauch.
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In the middle of "Little Red Corvette," Phife ran back on with a new arrival with his own guitar: Beastie Boys co-founder John Berry (May 19).
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Ibifornia will be Cassius' first album in ten years, and features some musical greats like Cat Power, Mike D of the Beastie Boys, and Pharrell Williams himself.
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If you thought the original Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" music video couldn't be any more cinematic, try adding Sesame Street characters from the 1985 film Follow that Bird.
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I was at one of the concerts for Tibet at Carnegie Hall back in 2002 and David Bowie was there with Adam Yauch [late Beastie Boys member].
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In 1994, he saw one of his stickers on the MTV show "120 Minutes" -- plastered on a music equipment crate during a segment with the Beastie Boys.
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The third Beastie, Adam Yauch — MCA, the conscience, shaman and intellectual backbone of the group — died in 2012 after a three-year battle with salivary gland cancer.
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Silly and do-it-yourself, it had the disarming, off-the-cuff, look-what-I-found sense of artistic integrity that is central to the Beastie legacy.
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" The Beastie Boys later sampled a snippet of one of the album's tracks, "Shuckin' the Corn," on "5-Piece Chicken Dinner," from their 20093 touchstone, "Paul's Boutique.
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"I Might Regret This" is an illustrated essay collection; the Beastie Boys — and Timberlake, to a far lesser extent — have delivered memoirs with a technicolor, scrapbooky feel.
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Fellow show hosts Matt Wilkinson, an ex-NME writer, and Mike D, well, a Beastie Boy, are recalling how they ended up co-hosting for a while.
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The second video available on YouTube is "Uniform On," a two-minute track which pays homage to The Beastie Boys and Canseco and McGwire's well-documented steroid use.
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If this crap was happening so brazenly in Brooklyn, at a park named for a Beastie Boy, many of us guessed that anti-Semitic violence wasn't far behind.
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I thought it was gonna be like the fine line of maybe like guitar stabs and 808s, almost like the Licensed to Ill, Beastie Boys album type vibe.
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In connection with the dismissals, Monster dropped its appeal of a $1.7 million jury verdict and an award of $667,849 in legal fees in the Beastie Boys' lawsuit.
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"Beastie Boys Book," chockablock with personal snapshots, punchy, stream-of-consciousness memories and stories from friends, is especially raw, a deeper way for the band's fans to engage.
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By the '27s CBGB was a pilgrimage site for punks from around the world and a home to hardcore bands, including an early incarnation of the Beastie Boys.
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"If kids out there are into the new sneakers, that's cool," Mike D of the Beastie Boys is quoted as saying to MTV's "House of Style" in 1992.
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Also featured: The Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" and our first glimpse at Krang, a classic TMNT villain making his first big screen appearance in the upcoming film.
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Mike D from the Beastie Boys told cops he's out thousands of dollars in surf and skate gear and now police are on the hunt to catch the thief.
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Season's Three's musical guests included Nas performing with his father Olu Dara at the Cotton Club, The Beastie Boys performing on the Staten Island Ferry, and Eminem and Proof.
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A New York City memorial park in honor of the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was vandalized with graffiti of swastikas and the words "Go Trump" on Friday.
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Could it be that this period's bad, bourgie rappers have become—to quote the former Beastie Boy Mike D in a recent interview—"the Lionel Richies of their day"?
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A lot of kids are growing up now in a Beastie-created world, where music, sneakers, clothes, food, so much of what they consume is connected and cross-branded.
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Tamra Davis, who had directed videos for the Beastie Boys (her husband is band member Mike D), the Lemonheads, Veruca Salt, and Sonic Youth, helmed the "MMMBop" music video.
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The Barrage hosts have also attracted famous names to promote them publicly, including Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, the singer Huey Lewis and the hip-hop artist Biz Markie.
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Romero and co-writer John Russo took an old horror beastie and transformed it into a malleable parable that could adjust itself accordingly to the prevailing paranoias of the age.
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The adorable 6-month-old is front and center in a photo her mom Behati Prinsloo shared to Instagram Tuesday, wearing a Beastie Boys T-shirt and a little smile.
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When the Beastie Boys burst onto the scene in 1986, the three nasally, white, boy rappers from New York City had only recently abandoned a sputtering career in punk rock.
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In contrast, the Zone was a gritty, raw space, with walls covered in graffiti, including some left behind by the Beastie Boys when they were in town opening for Madonna.
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Over the years, the artists Brice and Helen Marden came, as did Steve Martin, the poet Susan Wheeler and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, who eventually brought Ben Stiller.
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In 230, with the producer Rick Rubin, he made Def Jam the defining rap label of its era, with hits by the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Public Enemy.
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"The Great Milenko," the first album from that partnership, is a lo-fi curiosity: Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope come off like Beastie Boys starring in a Troma film.
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The Beastie Boys went on to find fame with their debut album, License To Ill, in 1986 and released several albums before they disbanded in 2012 following Yauch's death from cancer.
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Given that Amazon is delighted to sell you any number of Micro Four Thirds cameras for under $500, it's tricky to see where Yi's new mirrorless beastie fits into the market.
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Beastie Boys have resolved their lawsuit accusing Monster Beverage Corp of using excerpts from five of the hip-hop group's songs without permission in a video promoting a Canadian snowboarding competition.
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His example doesn't need to speak for the entire category of white rappers—Mac Miller, the Beastie Boys, and many others show that whiteness and this brand of rap aren't synonymous.
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Once, in its glory days, it was a phallic jack-in-the-box transported from arena to arena across America as part of the Beastie Boys' 1003 "License to Ill" tour.
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MCA (left), Mike D (second from left), and Ad-Rock (right) of the Beastie Boys pose backstage with DJ Hurricane (third from left) at the Reading Festival in Reading, Berkshire, on Aug.
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A hairy chest and gruff voice is certainly attractive to many, and when the full moon hits, those jeans are getting torn to shreds and the beastie is going on a rampage.
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"They said, 'Go interview the Beastie Boys,'" Ms. Bellettini was quoted as saying in "I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution," an oral history published in 2011.
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The second is Sweet's "The Ballroom Blitz," which is best known for being sampled in a very aggressive Beastie Boys song, as well as soundtracking a pivotal scene of Daddy Day Care.
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Mike D says the highly anticipated book about the Beastie Boys isn't exactly a memoir -- it's not sexually explicit enough -- but if the charts are any indication ... it's gonna make some noise.
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The record went on to influence Chuck D, Lupe Fiasco, Ice T, Melle Mel plus hundreds more, and was sampled by Wu Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, and Nas to name a few.
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It's got a stomping '80s vibe, and it borrows liberally from the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video — a VHS grain, a high frame rate car chase, and a bucket or two of schlock.
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A striped gray jacket opened the show, followed by witty polo shirts sewn to twist asymmetrically around the torso, a reissued Beastie Boys concert T-shirt, a windbreaker worn with a tie.
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For example, these ultrawide ratio shots, a technique that first appeared in the videos of the Beastie Boys and then was pioneered in the &apos90s by legendary hip-hop director Hype Williams.
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" In September 2015, Ms. Ahmad met Mr. Pattison on OkCupid, describing him to family and friends as "this 63-foot-tall white guy who looked like Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
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"I mean, the Beastie Boys were here twice, Ray Davies a number of times, Patti Smith at least six, well, maybe 10 or 12 times, Laurie Anderson two or three times," Glass says.
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My editor, John Paczkowski, a metalhead, said Yob's "Our Raw Heart" sounded a little muddy, but the AirPod Pros handled Beastie Boys' "Shake Your Rump" well ("even the low, low notes," he said).
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The adorable 5-year-old son of 98 Degrees frontman Nick Lachey and wife Vanessa looked like the next Beastie Boys member in a photo his mama shared to her Instagram account Tuesday.
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He plays soccer in public parks and basketball in a court at a West Village public school (in a loose league that was begun many years ago by the Beastie Boys, no less).
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They founded Delicious Vinyl by cobbling together a studio in Mr. Dike's apartment with Mario Caldato Jr., a recording engineer who later worked with the Beastie Boys and the singer-songwriter Jack Johnson.
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Caash released "Kerwin Frost Scratch That" (a collaboration with the feral young rapper Matt Ox), basically a hardcore song of a hip-hop track that's reminiscent of the earliest Beastie Boys mosh anthems.
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Produced by Eminem and Dr. Dre, it pays homage to the classic Beastie Boys album License to Ill and features collaborations with Joyner Lucas, Jessie Reyez, Royce da 5'9, and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.
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Shakur, who died in 1996, would become only the sixth hip-hop act to join the pantheon, after Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and N.W.A, which was inducted this year.
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Casey Walsh, 20, and his childhood friend Alex Sheehan, 21, make up the duo Versatile, a north Dublin take on the strain of delinquent rap acts running back from Eminem to the Beastie Boys.
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The room feels like hanging out in a parking lot, except there are a lot of flashing lights and adrenaline-pumping music courtesy of bands like Rage Against the Machine and the Beastie Boys.
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He is a computer science graduate and onetime roadie for the Beastie Boys who first became a father at 17 (that daughter, now 26, is finishing her Ph.D. in genetics in the United States).
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Und war es nun perfekte Planung oder einfach nur Glück - genau in dem Moment, als wir die Verrazano-Narrows-Brücke erreichten, Staten Island hinter uns lassend, sangen die Beastie Boys "No Sleep Till Brooklyn".
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Spuds is an extension of my lifelong fascination — envy, even — with the unalloyed levity and audacity found in a certain type of white, straight masculinity: early Beastie Boys, Ferris Bueller, 2011-2013 Justin Bieber.
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This talent is backed up by direction from Spike Jonze, famous for lots of off-beat music videos like Beastie Boys' Sabotage, directing movies Her and Being John Malkovich, and even an amazing perfume ad.
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They take their inspiration from anything and everything—namely Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, David Bowie, J Dilla and Madlib.
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As only the fifth hip-hop act ever voted in (after Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy), and the first not from New York, this Compton, Calif.
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This Lizzo-Beastie Boys remix cut on TikTok can be traced back to Lanie Calcara, an 18-year-old TikTok user who mixed the two songs together on a whim to reflect her queer identity.
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The Beastie Boy, who was born Jewish and died in 2012, famously went from being a caustic prankster in the group's early years to a practicing Buddhist heavily involved in the campaign to free Tibet.
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"The Carp Is Mine" is a remix of Jay Z's 1997 single "The City Is Mine," while "Fuck You Too" tackles the Beastie Boys' "Hey Fuck You" from their 2004 album To The 5 Boroughs.
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Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" came on the loudspeakers, and then the new Roadster rolled out of the very Semi he had just introduced, ripping around the massive lot where the trucks had been just a moment earlier.
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Maniatty has worked numerous festivals and concerts with well-known rappers including Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan and Killer Mike and this isn't the first time that she has stolen the show with her major skills.
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He came up as a turntablist in late-'80s Hamburg; in the mid-'90s, he was part of the German hip-hop outfit Fischmob, helping craft brash tracks that sound something like a Deutsch Beastie Boys.
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This year featured hip-hop architects like DJ Premier—who peppered his career-spanning set with shoutouts to fallen artists including Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, Nate Dogg, and his Gang Starr partner Guru—and Too $hort.
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Just when it seemed like there wasn't a lot of original content on Apple TV+, the streaming service revealed Wednesday that it has picked up a feature documentary from director Spike Jonze about the Beastie Boys.
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The wallpaper was created to complement the bathroom's walls and other areas, which are plastered with stickers from retro rock bands like the Beastie Boys, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Green Day and the Grateful Dead.
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Billy Ray Cyrus"Sunflower," Post Malone and Swae Lee"Señorita," Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Vida, Luis Fonsi 11:11, MalumaMontaner, Ricardo Montaner#Eldisco, Alejandro SanzFantasía, Sebastían Yatra Beastie Boys Book, Various Artists Becoming, Michelle ObamaI.
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There is a term in the legal world for such instructions — dead hand control — and, although compliance has varied and enforceability is debatable, they have been attempted by artists from Franz Kafka to a Beastie Boy.
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Here, slowly, he, his father, and brother have been building out the raw space into a place — inspired by the Beastie Boys' old G-Son Studios in Los Angeles — where he can work, and also play.
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The Beastie Boys started rapping, The Chili Peppers were funky, all of that—'Well damn, if these black dudes from D.C. can be a punk band, maybe me, a white dude, I could be an ill rapper.
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All of which is to say, this two-year old Daft Punk and Beastie Boys mashup is getting passed around this week thanks to a Reddit post, and we couldn't be happier to have it in the world.
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His genre-flipping sound is hard to define, but it fits somewhere between The Clash, Beastie Boys, and The Streets if the aforementioned came of age in the 00s and wore head-to-toe Thrasher, Palace, and Supreme.
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But when Kirk and crew decide (through some pretty hastily explained faux tech logic) that the sonic dissonance of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" would save the day by destroying enemy ships I buried my head in my hands.
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It's a more polished take on the slapstick demolition-derby energy of his debut, "The Creator," one of last year's most preposterously engaging albums, full of quasi-nonsensical, punk space-rap redolent of the early, rowdy Beastie Boys.
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Let me remind you all that the first time we ever met Kendall back in season one, he was in the backseat of a chauffeured Mercedes Benz rapping to "An Open Letter to NYC" by The Beastie Boys.
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Adam Schleichkorn, the same guy who expertly mashed up the Muppets and the Beastie Boys, has used his editing prowess to help Grover, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Telly cover "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
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McGee and Sonos worked with Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond of the Beastie Boys on the design of the speaker, and all proceeds from its sale will go to charities, including the Adam Yauch Foundation.
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There was this Beastie Boys video called "Time for Living" that was like a skate video that I loved, and all my mates were listening to their first record this one summer, so I got into them around then.
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Spotify can start by removing The Beastie Boys, The Doors, David Bowie, Prince, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, The Velvet Underground, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash from its catalog, just to name a few.
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The two felt sure Yauch, who was a vegan, would have approved of the shoe they helped design, a vegan cream-colored number with a light gray stripe made of hoodie material, called the adidas Skateboarding x Beastie Boys Americana.
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The nation's most populous city has long been a sanctuary for immigrants and the arts alike, for the Beastie Boys and Saturday Night Live (which featured a Trump/Pence cold open and a sketch about a progressive sanctuary called "The Bubble").
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Since then, she's worked with countless other artists and producers (including ASAP Rocky, Beastie Boys, Pharrell Williams, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, and more), all while maintaining her fiercely independent voice and ear for out-of-the-box influences.
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Along with the Bomb Squad's collaborations with Public Enemy and the Dust Brothers' production for the Beastie Boys, its work with the producer Prince Paul resulted in some of hip-hop's pioneering sounds, establishing the melodic and harmonic possibilities of sampling.
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Maybe it was the fact that The Standing Room—the venue for Wednesday's gig—is the sort of place that normally hosts Beastie Boys and The Killers tribute bands made the moshing/crowd-surfing seem out of place for this song.
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The new book by the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys is "a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy" to their bandmate, Adam Yauch, who died in 2012, our critic writes.
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I was classmates at Saint Ann's, the Brooklyn private school, with Mike Diamond and Tom Cushman, the friend of the band who co-wrote "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" among many other contributions to the Beastie Boys canon.
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ICYMI ... Offset made his declaration earlier this week, which triggered Layzie to fire back and say Outkast, NWA and the Beastie Boys can arguably lay claim to the title, but Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is right up there with them.
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Among the rest of this year's 84 categories, Michelle Obama is up for best spoken word album for "Becoming" — she will compete against the Beastie Boys and John Waters — and "Homecoming," Beyoncé's Coachella concert movie, is up for best music film.
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Though they have not released a record in years, Cassius's members have remained busy, in particular Zdar who's produced and mixed seminal albums for Kindness, Bloc Party, and Chromeo, as well as albums from their "Action" collaborators Cat Power and the Beastie Boys.
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Paleontologists on Thursday said the partial skeleton of the previously unknown beastie, named Diluvicursor pickeringi, that lived about 113 million years ago provides insight into the array of dinosaurs that inhabited Australia during the Cretaceous Period when it was still connected to Antarctica.
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" And in a statement, Rick Rubin — who has worked with artists as varied as Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys — said that "he continues to be the inspiration for those of us striving to make timeless music.
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The band credits their sound to the influence of 90s rap and reggae acts like the Pharcyde, Beastie Boys, and Israel Vibration, as well as the smooth vibes and texture of a lifetime spent at the heart of Huntingon Beach street-skate culture.
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There's no question that this narrative is incomplete, that a book that doesn't mention Sly Stone or Grace Slick or Fleetwood Mac or Bad Brains or the Beastie Boys can't claim to be the last word on race and sexuality in American music.
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After working with the Beastie Boys and Yahoo, Rogers spent less than a year at Apple after it had paid about $3 billion in 13 for Beats, the music streaming and headphones company he led, backed by Elton John and Pharrell Williams.
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The cover is an homage to Licensed To Ill, the Beastie Boys' debut album, which is several orders of magnitude looser and more fun than Kamikaze, and which the group planned to call Don't Be a Faggot before thinking better of it.
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Mike D. of the Beastie Boys, who enrolled his two sons (Davis, 15, and Skyler, 13) this year (he and his ex-wife take turns living in Bali), first visited the school at the insistence of Skyler, whose friend had recently enrolled.
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Beastie Boys Story will feature Mike Diamond and Adam Horowitz (Adam Yauch, the third member of the legendary hip hop group, died in 2012) and will open in Imax theaters on April 3 before heading to Apple's streaming service on April 24.
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Hot off the announcement that the streaming service would be releasing Spike Jonze's upcoming Beastie Boys doc, Apple TV+ presented some of its forthcoming shows to the members of Television Critics Association on Sunday—and it's a pretty hearty slate of shows.
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Young's recreation features her family in the same gear as the Beastie Boys posing around Toronto landmarks such as Union Station, Yonge-Dundas Square, the convention center, a subway train and the grounds surrounding the CN Tower, according to CNN network partner CTV.
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Guests show up, play some of their favorite records, talk with the Beastie Boy about music discovery, and usually get a tour of his pool house, but nothing is pinned in place and D somehow keeps things mellow while they spin off in different directions.
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The acclaimed French Disco producer Cerrone has not dropped the beat since the 70s; he's worked with everyone from Nile Rodgers to Toto, been sampled by the Beastie Boys and Nas among others, and performed in the Palace of Versailles and for the Dalai Lama.
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On Friday, just as the curtain rose on that performance of Hamilton, a picture began circulating on social media showing that Adam Yauch Park, a Brooklyn playground renamed in memory of the late Beastie Boy, had been defaced with swastikas and "Go Trump" graffiti.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Troll, Beastie, Red and Happy will be out to put an end to German domination of three-day eventing at the Rio Olympics and carry the United States to a gold medal they have not held for over three decades.
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Zayn wasn't enthused by One Direction's Journey or Beastie Boys predilections, but he's more than willing to borrow from The Weeknd, Miguel, Chris Brown, and, notably, R&B darling Kehlani, who shows up for a hot second on one of the album's few stand-outs.
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Like you said, Sugarhill Gang, Treacherous Three, Ultramagnetic MCs, Jimmy Spicer, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Herc, LA Dream Team, Ice-T...man...Fat Boys, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Captain Rapp that was out of Long Beach–– ––That was the first LA rap single, right?
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In any case, he heeded his friend's counsel, and in the spring of 1970, moved with his wife and their three children (among them, the future Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz) to a brick townhouse on a street known at the time as Writers' Block.
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It seemed like something so contrary to Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boy better known as "MCA," who passed away in 2012—swastikas and the message of "GO TRUMP," sprayed across the playground of the Brooklyn Heights park that was renamed after him on Friday.
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"Swastikas in a children's playground is a messed up thing to do," fellow Beastie Boy Ad-Rock said into a megaphone at a "Stand Up Against Hate" rally, which he helped organize with local elected officials, alongside his wife and Bikini Kill frontwoman, Kathleen Hanna.
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The Beastie Boys, when they weren't fighting for the rights of rich kids from New York private schools to party, were celebrated for ending the rocker tendencies of white suburban youth and opening the door for them to discover Public Enemy and Queen Latifah.
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In 2018, it published multiple New York Times best sellers and other high-profile titles, including a book about the Beastie Boys by the band members Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz, and one about pressing societal concerns by the Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Harari.
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While Berry was also a member of other bands including Even Worse, Big Fat Love, Highway Stars and Bourbon Deluxe, his original band mates still acknowledged Berry's early work with them when the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
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" The Beastie Boys, who blended punk and rap, burst on the music scene in 1986 with the album "Licensed to Ill," which included hits such as "(You Gotta) Fight for the Right (to Party"), an anthem to teen angst; "Brass Monkey" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn.
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If you want a beastie that's particularly wee, sleekit, cowering and timorous, for example, you could ask for mutations in the Ghrhr gene, which can govern size; Foxq1, which makes coats shiny; and Lypd1 and Atcay—mutations that provide, respectively, a fearful nature and general skittishness.
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That time they performed the 'History of Rap – Part 6' In just a few glorious minutes, Fallon and Timberlake tackled LL Cool J, N.W.A, the Beastie Boys, Drake, Salt-N-Pepa, DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Fresh Prince, R. Kelly and so, so many more – it was beautiful.
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"Record Store" was inspired in part by issues of Rolling Stone from the '90s, with their endless ads for CD racks and other accessories, along with the youth-culture "Rookie Yearbook" and the limited-run magazine "Grand Royal," published by the Beastie Boys from 1993 to 1997.
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Mike D of the Beastie Boys joins COOKIES hosts Ben Detrick and Jordan Redaelli to discuss the NBA Finals, the threat of the Zika virus on Olympic athletes, and making a mixtape with Kevin Durant if he joins the New York Knicks as a free agent.
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Called "Beastie Boys Book" (though the front cover might lead you to believe that the actual title is "PIZZA"), it's a 571-page doorstop and a tombstone, a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy to a much-missed friend.
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While Mr. Dike worked on his hits for Delicious Vinyl, he also worked on "Paul's Boutique" with the Beastie Boys, who had acrimoniously parted ways with Def Jam after their debut album, "Licensed to Ill" (1986), had sold more than four million copies in about a year.
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Philippe Zdar, the hugely influential French music producer famed for being one half of the electro duo Cassius and also for working with artists ranging from Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and the Beastie Boys to Phoenix and Franz Ferdinand, died on Wednesday night in a freak accident in Paris.
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And lastly, he'll be introducing a brand-new rapper to the world at the UFC's long-awaited arrival in Brooklyn, one of hip-hop's ancestral homes, land of Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Mos Def, Big Daddy Kane, and one-third of the Beastie Boys.
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We got the rapper at LAX Friday and asked if he could dish any details on the upcoming "Beastie Boys Book" about his days with Ad-Rock and the late MCA -- he confirms it includes a cookbook ... and straightens out our camera guy on how many pages it is.
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Musically it's certainly a return to the feel of Nights Out: the bass, the synth throbs, it works a minimalist, glacial kind of groove… and then there's Beastie Boys' Mix Master Mike on the decks towards the end, which definitely isn't anything like '08, but a sweet addition nonetheless.
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The practice of sampling that emerged from in-studio composition was the foundation of what many consider to be the "Golden Age of Hip-Hop," with artists like The Beastie Boys and De La Soul incorporating clips of other music and topical audio recordings into their songs and lyrics.
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The glories of Since I Left You owed plenty to Steinski's avant-garde cut-and-paste experiments, John Oswald's provocative Plunderphonics project, early hip-hop, Beastie Boys' masterpiece Paul's Boutthe turntablism micro-craze of the 1990s, DJ Shadow's dark classic Entroducing…, the ironic collagist pop of Beck's Odelay!
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The same goes for Covenant, which is a more direct Alien prequel in that it features most of the famous elements of the original — that egg and the face-hugging little beastie and the jet-black alien itself — but attaches them to a story about the horrors of creation.
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I had come to the opening to hear Cassius — the long-absent French dance-synthpop-house music of duo Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francard — spin "Action," a cool dance single featuring Cat Power and Beastie Boy Mike D, from their new LP Ibifornia (named for a fictitious tropical island).
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But the Beastie Boys would change with the times (and apologize for the past) while becoming one of the most successful rap groups of all time — a monumental run that stretched through founding member Adam Yauch's 2012 death, and far beyond, as new fans continue to embrace their back catalogue.
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She narrates her discursive thoughts in a breathless torrent of thrillingly precise observations about everyday life ("the rubbery satisfaction of yanking a single blade of grass from its root") and minute reflections on cultural figures and their work, from the playwright Annie Baker to the Beastie Boys to Janet Jackson.
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I started the New York playlist at the top of the Outerbridge Crossing, Frank Sinatra crooning his lungs out in the jostling traffic; and whether by perfect planning or blind luck the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" kicked in just as we hit the Verrazano-Narrows and left Staten Island.
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For example, while the Beastie Boys may have been initially criticized for biting black culture, their hard-partying frat boy personas soon demonstrated their idiosyncrasy, and their sophomore album, Paul's Boutique, established them as masterful samplers and exemplified a particular way of loving the rap art form that was understood and acceptable.
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The documentary, offered exclusively on Apple Music on Saturday, features Pharrell Williams, Questlove, the Beastie Boys, legendary producers Rick Rubin and Arthur Baker, old school rappers T La Rock and Soul Sonic Force, Phil Collins, Goldie (a UK master of jungle and drum and bass), Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy) and many others.
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" The same philosophy could summarize the work of Mr. Jonze, who has variously been a founder of a skateboarding company; an editor of youth culture magazines like Dirt and Grand Royal; a director of innovative music videos for Beastie Boys, Björk and Fatboy Slim; and a creator of MTV's comic stunt series "Jackass.
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Coins has been releasing Daft Punk/Beastie Boys mashup tracks since 2014, but two years after starting, he's now assembled eight fantastic tracks into a new album called Daft Science that will help you end this week on a high note—or at least a higher note than the end of last week.
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PiL, on the other hand, has survived (in various incarnations) long enough to record 10 studio albums, and has influenced a generation of rock stars including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, who give glowing testimonials in the film.
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Rap music soon went mainstream—it was Mr Rubin's idea for Run-DMC and Aerosmith to collaborate on "Walk This Way", the first rap track to make the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 chart—with Def Jam stars such as the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and LL Cool J at the forefront.
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It's not that One Direction never cribbed from the Beastie Boys, because they did and then some, and it's not that they never put out a single with some problematic lyrics, because they did and then some, but they also never stopped bowing down in worship to the girls who gave them their careers.
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Two of the dads, though, are the surviving members of the Beastie Boys: Adam Horovitz, with upswept gray hair and a white T-shirt with a faint graffito on the front; and Michael Diamond, wearing a bright red button-up, his hair still dark, his face creased and tan from years living in Southern California.
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He and Jon Sidel, a restaurateur and club impresario, began a series of parties at temporary locations that coalesced in the mid-1980s into the popular dance and art club Power Tools, which featured Mr. Dike as the main D.J. and shows by young groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys.
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For Yeti, a firm that does R&D work with companies like Google, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent, Gotta Go was a fun side project for them – and one that recalls Yeti President Tony Scherba's past where he once built apps and websites for music celebs, including Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, the Beastie Boys and others.
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YouTube has teamed up with Universal Music Group to remaster nearly a thousand classic music videos, the companies announced today, including those from Billy Idol, Beastie Boys, Boyz II Men, George Strait, Janet Jackson, Kiss, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Lionel Richie, Maroon 5, Meat Loaf, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Smokey Robinson, The Killers, Tom Petty and others.
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MTV Raps, where he interviewed and featured upcoming hip-hop artists of the day, including The Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. Using his close cultural connection to the hip-hop scene, the film includes interviews with musicians and veteran smokers, like Snoop Dogg, Damian Marley, Charlie Gabriel, Killer Mike, Cypress Hill's B-Real, Kermit Ruffins, and others.
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Tesla's cool culminated in a raucous, rock-n-roll spectacular at its semi-truck reveal in late 2017, when to the pulsating thrum of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," CEO Elon Musk staged the greatest "Just one more thing" moment in high-tech history and rolled out the new Roadster, to a crowd that went completely bonkers.
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Film highlights include "Beastie Boys Story," a documentary on the band by Spike Jonze; "The Lovebirds," a murder mystery comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani; "Critical Thinking," John Leguizamo's look at a group of black and Latinx teenagers who become national championship chess players; and "Clerk," a documentary about the filmmaker Kevin Smith by Malcolm Ingram.
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With the rise of hip-hop groups such as Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, and Run-DMC flirting with rock music, as well as rock bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, and Anthrax bringing hip-hop into their sound, it was only natural that a wave of groups would come along with a perfect hybrid of the two.
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They're scared of bodies here;' Linda Montano giving me a psychic reading instead of a crit; and standing on a tick-infested lawn in the middle of the upstate night watching a porch full of my drunken sweaty fellow students mosh to the Beastie Boys while my then-husband shouted at the top of his sober lungs, 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn.
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The loss and discovery of these ur-recordings is a perennial topic of interest in music news: In the past few weeks, Prince fans savored the release of a new collection of classic song demos pulled from his vault, while Mike D of the Beastie Boys made news by revealing that the masters of their hugely popular 1986 debut album cannot be located.
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A Malibu beach house with "a lawn that stretched out to a fruit orchard bordered by a neighbor's horse pasture" is not likely atop the list of places Beastie Boys fans would expect to find New York-bred rapper Mike D. But that's exactly where the MC (born Michael Diamond), 51, has decamped to with his wife, Tamra, and teenage sons Davis and Skyler.
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Whether they're performing Michael Jackson-Fleetwood Mac-the Weeknd after the manner of Earth, Wind & Fire, cramming Byrne, Marley, Zappa, and Chicago into a composite, yoking full-Lemmy Motörhead to Ween, or ramming the Beastie Boys up Ted Nugent's musclehead ass, they show a range as both lovers and players of music that you gotta respect and would be a tight-ass yourself not to enjoy.
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When Tupac Shakur is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in April, he will be the sixth hip-hop act ever voted in after Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and N.W.A. Ms. Moran, the president of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 2001, said that Jay Z had previously been considered for a nomination.
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Henry Rollins may have never joined a band if it wasn't for lead singer H.R. stage-diving onto him; The Beastie Boys wouldn't have had the guts to transition from punk to hip-hop had they not witnessed Bad Brains' subversion of racial stereotypes; the drums on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" would've lacked their punch were it not for Dave Grohl nicking specific rhythms and fills from Earl Hudson.
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The fest, which will also feature Alabama Shakes, Major Lazer, the National, Sufjan Stevens, Sia, ASAP Rocky and Mike D of the Beastie Boys, among others, is taking place just seven weeks after Governors Ball, a six-year-old event from a small New York promoter that is also being held at Randalls Island, with a lineup that this year will include Kanye West, the Strokes and Beck.
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As on their records, there are many guest artists: Luc Sante appears, almost at the book's start, with a beautiful essay on the genre-mingling East Village music scene of the late 1970s and early '80s on the cusp of transformation; Jonathan Lethem offers a taxonomy on parenting styles of the New York creative class; Colson Whitehead delivers a spoof on "Cookie Puss," the Beastie Boys' first club hit.
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This eight-legged wee beastie (they measure 103 mm in length and can only be seen through a microscope) can endure conditions that boggle the imagination, surviving for up to 30 years without food or water, and enduring temperature extremes of up to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Tardigrades can withstand blasts of radiation, complete dehydration, being frozen, the vacuum of space, and even the intense pressure found at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
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In the coming week, the theater's on-and-off monthlong retrospective on how hip-hop culture took shape onscreen includes Manfred Kirchheimer's "Stations of the Elevated" (showing on Thursday), a documentary collage that finds beauty and rhythm in images of graffiti-strewn subway cars; and "Krush Groove" (on Saturday), from Michael Schultz ("Car Wash"), which dramatizes the origins of the Def Jam record label and features Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and Sheila E.212-727-8110, filmforum.
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Though Mr. Osborne is too young to have made the scene at Building, Mr. Chow was a regular at the Thursday Night Train parties and Friday Powerhouse events where a dream roster (KRS-One, Run-DMC, De La Soul, Black Sheep, the Beastie Boys, Shabba Ranks, among many others) performed for a crowd that itself seems almost like an imaginary cross-section of New Yorkers — artists, photographers, designers, models, B-boys, downtown girls and celebrities like Russell Simmons, Sofia Coppola, Madonna, Bjork and Pedro Almodóvar.
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In Atwater, in the studio I was in, it wasn't really conducive to allowing me to finish the work, but I was able to bring a lot of artists into the studio, and just being around there, around the Beastie Boys studio, feeling all that energy, grinding it out by the LA river, feeling all that energy, and then being able to go to Joshua Tree and just space out around the rocks and shit, and just dial the record in, and finish it, man.
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Hip-hop was still, as the music mogul Lyor Cohen says, "a powerful little secret running through America," but it was bubbling to the surface — Blondie's 1981 hit "Rapture" name-checked the hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy and featured him in its video; a popular trio of white kids called the Beastie Boys endearingly wedded hip-hop mettle with adolescent impishness; and Run-DMC released the first rap album to go gold — before falling prey to internal battles incited by the myriad hustles of an underground industry.
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