New Beastie Boys action figures available now. Want them? Info here.
Last Thursday, I saw a real Beastie Boy in Belgium. The now 60-year-old MIKE D,
né Michael Louis Diamond, is in the middle of a European tour to promote his
upcoming debut LP Thank You. He made us all hip and hop and chant in chorus.
R.I.P. Adam Nathaniel Yauch / MCA
Daily electricity to load your batteries
25 August 2024
Glam metal veterans MÖTLEY CRÜE (1981–2002, 2004–2015, 2018–present) have recorded an EP, named it Cancelled, and will share it with the world in October.
“It was really great getting in the studio and working on some tracks together. What
started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock. We look
forward to getting back into the studio again soon and writing more new music, as well.”
Press photo
One of the songs is a cover of Beastie Boys‘ smashing 1986 golden
oldie (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) which they already
played live.
MÖTLEY CRÜE
BEASTIE BOYS
MC: Instagram
25 July 2024
On 25 July 1989, yep, already 35 years ago, hip-rap-hop icons BEASTIE BOYS (1981-2012)
released their second, ace longplayer PAUL’S BOUTIQUE. Maybe not their most-known album, but certainly one of their very best. Rowdy, clamorous, mental, inventive & totally wacko, glorious.
Rolling Stone wrote: ” ‘Paul’s Boutique’ named after a Brooklyn store whose radio
ad is tossed in the mix and whose picture graces the cover, surprises from the get-go.
Each track brims with ideas and references too numerous to catalog, veering in new
directions at every verse. The songs are buoyed by the deft interplay of the three voices
and a poetic tornado of imagery.
The Boys’ rap references range from Magilla Gorilla to Dickens, their musical samples
are equally far-flung, including Johnny Cash, Hendrix and Jean Knight’s ‘Mr. Big Stuff.’
The Boys are just being themselves, thrashing about in a reality ignored by too many mainstream white-rock acts.” – Score: 4/5 – Full review here
SINGLE
ALBUM
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R.I.P. Adam Yauch
BB: All Albums
Back in time
31 May 2024
30 years ago today, on 31st May 1994, far-out hip-rap-hop-rock mavericks
BEASTIE BOYS released their 4th scream & shout LP ILL COMMUNICATION.
An artistic and commercial success, hitting the top spot of the US Albums Chart.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Ill Communication continues the formula established on ‘Check’ — home-grown jams powered by live instruments; speedy hardcore rants; and insane rhyme
styles buried under the warm hiss of vintage analog studio equipment. ‘Ill’ maintains the Beasties’ consistency of style, but underneath its goofy, dope-smokin’ antics lies — gasp! —
an artistic maturity that reveals how the Boys have grown since they began as pimply New
York punks making anarchic noise.’
– KEY SINGLE –
– ALBUM –
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A salute to the late great bassist Adam Yauch aka MCA(1964-2012).
BEASTIE BOYS: All Albums
Classic longplayers from the past
7 March 2024
37 years ago today (my God, times flies), on 7 March 1987, fight for your right legends BEASTIE BOYS were the first rap act to have a No.1 album in the US. It happened with their debut LP, LICENSED TO ILL. The longplayer is one of Columbia Records‘ fastest-selling debut records to date.
The origins of rap music go way back to the 40s. In modern times Afro-American artists made it globally famous with their own specific rhyming style. Yet, it was a white rap band that scored the genre’s first number one LP in the US. Yep, rap moved in mysterious ways.
LICENSED TO ILL
19 August 2023
Turn up the heat and feel the beat.
It’s PART 9 of Turn Up The Volume‘s yearly hot summer playlists.
This week 15 punk-rock-pop-dance-psych-and-other-hot-stuff oldies.
TRACK BY TRACK
1. W.L.F. by HAPPY MONDAYS (1989)
2. ‘Feel Every Beat’ by ELECTRONIC (1991)
Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner
3. ‘Thank You’ by THE CHARLATANS (1995)
4. ‘Junco Partner’ by THE CLASH (1979)
5. ‘Door Deep’ by SINEAD O’CONNOR (2005)
6. ‘Original’ by LEFTFIELD (1995)
The Curve‘s utterly cool Toni Halliday
7. ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’ by NEW ORDER (2006)
8. ‘Good Stuff’ by THE B-52’s (1992)
9. ‘I Want To Be Adored’ by THE STONE ROSES (1989)
10. ‘Presidici (Et Chapaquiditch)‘ by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (2022)
11. ‘Now’ by DEXYS (2022)
12. ‘Flame’ by SEBADOH (1999)
13. ‘Untouchable’ by GARBAGE (2001)
14. ‘Slow And Low’ by BEASTIE BOYS (1986)
15. ‘Sour Cherry’ by THE KILLS (2008)
ALL TOGETHER
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See/hear you next week, music junkies
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Back in time
18 July 2023
Hip-rap-hop-rock heroes BEASTIE BOYS topped the UK Albums Charts
with their 5th longplayer HELLO NASTY, on this day 25 years ago.
ROLLING STONE wrote: “Imagine a sonic mix that’s about sixty-five to seventy percent the frenetic, sample-crazy hip-hop eclecticism of Paul’s Boutique and about twenty-five to thirty percent the funk-punk fun of III Communication. The Beasties, as innovative musicians and good citizens, contribute more to the hip-hop community than a lot of MCs.”
Score: 4/5.
Singles/clips: Intergalactic / Body Movin’ / Super Disco Breakin’
– INTERGALACTIC –
– BODY MOVIN’ –
– SUPER DISCO BREAKIN’ –
ALBUM
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R.I.P. Adam Yauch / MCA
BEASTIE BOYS: Website – Facebook – All Albums
Great concert posters from the past
BEASTIE BOYS
Chicago Illinois
13 March 1987
The good old Beastie Boys days.
R.I.P.
Adam “MCA” Yauch, died in 2012 following cancer.
He was only 47
Founding Beastie Boys guitarist John Berry died on
May 19, 2016, aged 52,
4 November 2022
Band: BEASTIE BOYS (1978–2012)
Single/clip: INTERGALATIC
Released: 1998
Score: #1 on UK dance charts
and #6 in the USA
About the clip: Late Bestie Boy Adam Yauch (1964-2012) directed it under
the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér. The storyline revolves around a giant
robot causing destruction by fighting a giant octopus-headed creature in a city
while popping, a parody of, or tribute to, Japanese Kaiju films. Various scenes
are filmed in Tokyo, Japan. Throughout the video, the band wear bright uniforms
of Japanese street construction workers.
Go go go!
BEASTIE BOYS: Bio – Discography
