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GRAMMYS Close With Star-Studded Finale
Capping the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, LL Cool J, blink-182‘s Travis Barker, Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, Public Enemy‘s Chuck D and DJ Z-Trip crossed a wide range of musical genres to unite...
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Z-Trip On GRAMMY Supergroup “It Never Felt Like Work.”
Capping the 55th GRAMMY Awards, LL Cool J, blink-182‘s Travis Barker, Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, Public Enemy‘s Chuck D and DJ Z-Trip bridged a wide range of musical genres to unite for a...
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Beastie Boy Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch To Be Honored With Brooklyn Playground
Adam Yauch, best known as “MCA” of rap pioneers Beastie Boys, was a major figure not only in popular music, but also in the city of New York, specifically the borough of Brooklyn where he grew up. On...
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Yoko Ono Enlists Beastie Boys And tUnE-yArDs On Two New Tracks
(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band have teamed up with Beastie Boys‘ Mike D and Ad-Rock for the first collaboration since MCA’s death in May of last year. The track “Bad...
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Beastie Boys’ Song ‘Girls’ Transformed Into Girl Power Anthem for Toy Ad
(Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) One of the Beastie Boys‘ earliest and most famously misogynistic hits has been retooled by upstart toy company Goldieblox into a girl power anthem that encourages young...
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Did Goldieblox Use Beastie Boys’‘Girls’ Just to Drum Up Controversy?
(Nathanial Hornblower/Nasty Little Man) Last week, San Francisco start-up toy company Goldieblox made headlines with the release of an inventive new commercial spot that retools the Beastie Boys’ 1986...
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GoldieBlox Pulls Beastie Boys’‘Girls’ Commercial, Offers Peace in Open Letter
(Nathanial Hornblower/Nasty Little Man) It started simply enough with a commercial for a small Rube Goldberg toy that came with a parody song for Beastie Boys. It was positive, adorable, and empowering...
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5 Old Songs With New Life In 2013
(Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images; Frank Ockenfels/AMC; Kevin Winter/Getty Images) By Sarah Grant When it came to mining songs of the past, 2013 took – as Breaking Bad‘s Mike Ehrmantraut might have said –...
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Beastie Boys (Finally) Sue GoldieBlox Over Copyright Infringement
Beastie Boys (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) The Beastie Boys‘ 1987 single “Girls” was retooled earlier this year by girl-centric toy company GoldieBlox into a girl power anthem commercial that...
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Will ‘Beastie Boys Square’ Be the Next NYC Tourist Attraction?
(Nathanial Hornblower/Nasty Little Man) With the Beastie Boys still trying to scrape the whole Goldieblox “Girls” controversy from the soles of their limited edition Adidas, a fan of the band has...
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Ben Gibbard, Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz Working on Sundance-Bound Film Scores
By Scott T. Sterling It’s that time of year when the entertainment industry turns its collective attention towards Park City, Utah, as the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is rapidly approaching over the...
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Watch Blondie Cover the Beastie Boys at NME Awards
By Annie Reuter Blondie closed the NME Awards in Austin, Texas on Wednesday (Feb. 26) with an over eight-minute tribute to the Beastie Boys. Frontwoman Debbie Harry started by dancing and rapping along...
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Beastie Boys Reach Settlement With GoldieBlox Over ‘Girls’ Lawsuit
By Annie Reuter The Beastie Boys have finally reached a settlement in their ongoing case over copyright infringement with the toy manufacturer GoldieBlox. Today (March 18), Rolling Stone reports that...
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GoldieBlox Issues Formal Apology to Beastie Boys for ‘Girls’
By Annie Reuter GoldieBlox, the toy company who have been in an ongoing legal battle with the Beastie Boys over copyright infringement, have issued a formal apology to the band. GoldieBlox posted the...
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Watch Breakdancing Monks Honor the Memory of Adam Yauch on ‘MCA Day’
By Scott T. Sterling In New York City and for Beastie Boys fans around the world, May 3 has come to be known as MCA Day, an annual event that honors the memory of Adam Yauch, one of the band’s founding...
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Beastie Boys Win $1.7 Mil From Monster Energy In Copyright Suit
By Jay Tilles Monster Beverage Company will fork over $1.7 million to the Beastie Boys as a result of using their music without permission. A New York Superior Court jury came to the verdict today...
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Beastie Boys’‘Paul’s Boutique’ to Get NYC Mural for 25th Anniversary
By Philip Cosores On the 25th anniversary of the release of the Beastie Boys‘ seminal hip-hop album Paul’s Boutique, some movement to cement the corner depicted on that album’s cover as part of the...
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Beastie Boys ‘Paul’s Boutique’ Mural Unveiled in New York City
By Courtney E. Smith On the corner of Ludlow and Rivington streets on the Lower East Side, a new mural was completed this weekend celebrating the Beastie Boys. Crafted by Brooklyn artist Danielle...
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Beastie Boys’ Mike D Designed a Multi-Million Dollar Brooklyn Home
By Philip Cosores We haven’t asked Mike D for proof, but we are willing to guess he is licensed to build. As the surviving Beastie Boys continue with their post-Beastie careers (which includes Ad-Rock...
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Beastie Boys’ Mike D Talks About Designing Homes in New Interview
By Philip Cosores As previously reported, former Beastie Boys‘ MC Mike Diamond has been designing homes. Two, in fact. One of them he lives in, and the other one he is selling. Talk about build...
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