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Kathleen Hanna, Adam Horovitz, Cheap Trick Added to Joan Jett Tribute Concert
This year’s Little Kids Rock Benefit concert has just added a few more artists to an already packed bill. The event, which will pay tribute to Joan Jett, recently announced that Cheap Trick, Mike Ness...
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New Politics Share Live Cover of Beastie Boys’‘Sabotage’: Watch
By Philip Cosores As far as party-starting, crowd-pleasing anthems go, pretty much anything by the Beastie Boys is a smart choice. But, “Sabotage,” given its association with the iconic Spike...
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Long-Lost Beastie Boys’‘Too Many Rappers’ Video with Nas Unearthed: Watch
How many rappers is “too many?” Well, if you ask the Beastie Boys, it is apparently four, as the title for a previously released collaboration with Nas is indeed titled “Too Many Rappers.” Now, the...
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Beastie Boys Win Sampling Lawsuit Over ‘Paul’s Boutique’
Robin Thicke couldn’t best the Marvin Gaye copyright lawsuit, but the Beastie Boys have won the case against their landmark album, Paul’s Boutique. What pushed judgment in their favor? A technicality....
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Ad-Rock Thinks Iggy Azalea Is Awful, But Kanye West’s Totally Alright
Like everyone else, Ad-Rock has an opinion on Iggy Azalea. But unlike everyone else, the Beastie Boys member is actually in a prime position to address the controversial Australian rapper considering...
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Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz Gives Advice to Teenagers
By Philip Cosores Adam Horovitz is probably best known as one-third of the Beastie Boys (Ad-Rock), but also has a role in the new Noah Baumbach film, While We’re Young. And, like any good actor or...
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Radio.com Minimation: The Beastie Boys’s Fleetwood Mac Debate
By Brian Ives On Minimation, we comb through the CBS Radio interview archives and animate interviews with legendary artists. In this interview from 2007, the Beastie Boys take on the timeless debate...
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The Beastie Boys’ Secret Ties to ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
By E. Parker From a galaxy far-far-away, comes theories that are far-far out. Or are they? This time, Star Wars fanatics and Beastie Boys aficionados are making connections between a character from the...
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Beastie Boys Musical Coming to London Theatre
By Amanda Wicks U2, Elton John, Abba and more have lent their musical talents or songs to the theater. Are the Beastie Boys about to join that list? Kind of. An unauthorized musical tale of their...
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Beastie Boy Mike D Discusses Meek Mill/Drake Beef on ‘I Am Rapaport’ Podcast
By Brian Ives for Radio.com On the latest episode of the Play.It podcast I Am Rapaort, host Michael Rapaport interviews Michael Diamond, aka Mike D of the Beastie Boys in a freewheeling, nearly...
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5 Songs With Lyrics That Have Fooled Us All
One of the best parts about listening to music is connecting with an artist through their lyrics. Songwriters can come up with their lyrics from a countless number of inspirations (ex: falling in love,...
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Happy 30th Birthday To Beastie Boys ‘Licensed To Ill’
Beastie Boys classic record was released 30 years ago today. Much like LIVE 105, Licensed To Ill is now in its dirty thirties. It was 1986 and LIVE 105 was a new station, Ronald Reagan and Soviet...
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Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz Appears at Rally at Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn
By Brian Ives On Friday (November 18), swastikas were found spray painted in Brooklyn’s Adam Yauch Park, a park dedicated to the late Beastie Boys’ MC/bassist. Underneath the swastikas: a message that...
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10 Bay Area Shows We Were Lucky To Catch 10 Years Ago
2007 was already a full decade ago and wow, what a year that was when it came to big Bay Area concerts. Hopefully you were fortunate enough to make it out to several of these huge gigs 10 years ago....
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Metallica Adds Bay Area DJ Mix Master Mike To North American Tour
By Hayden Wright (RADIO.COM) – Metallica’s North American tour kicks off May 10th and features Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat and Gojira. The masters of metal have just announced another excellent addition...
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The Beastie Boys’‘Check Your Head’: A Look Back at their Genre-Smashing Classic
By Brian Ives Friday (April 21) the Beastie Boys’ third album, ‘Check Your Head,’ turned 25. Following the insane success of the Run-D.M.C.-styled album of 1986’s ‘Licensed to Ill‘ and 1989’s...
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Watch The Beastie Boys’‘Sabotage’ Video Starring Muppets
By Abby Hassler The Beastie Boys released their iconic Spike Jonze’s directed music video for their rap-rock track “Sabotage” in 1994. The original video was an action-packed spoof of 1970s crime...
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Beastie Boys’ Mike D is Now a Wine Sommelier in Los Angeles
By Scott T. Sterling Clothing lines, magazines, filmmakers—there hasn’t been much that the Beastie Boys haven’t done and done well over the years. Now, Mike D (AKA Mike Diamond) is set to take on...
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Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock Supports Women Accusing Dad of Sexual Misconduct
By Scott T. Sterling Nine women have come forward to accuse his famous playwright father of sexual assault, and Beastie Boys member Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz has placed his support clearly with the...
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Beastie Boys Memoir To Be Released In Fall 2018
By Maura O’Malley Nearly five years ago, it was announced that Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Ad-Rock were beginning work on a memoir about the group. Initially, the plan was to release the book back in...
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