Subject: The Beastie Boys

• LAFF 2007: Stuttering to a Close

  After spending the other day at the Landmark, surrounded by bookstore windows advertising the latest upcoming boy-wizard bonanza, I had to wonder if I'm the only one who wants to chant "Har-ry Potter and the DEATHLY HALLOWS! Har-ry Potter and the DEATHLY HALLOWS! " in the style of the Beastie Boys yelling about Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. Hoping readers have the faintest clue what's being talked about here. If not, let's keep moving along. Seated at the free Internet tables in the Red Room pou

  July 1, 2007

• Photos: The Beastie Boys in L.A.

  Tonight, the Beastie Boys play at the Wiltern. Click the image for photos from their sold-out show at the Greek Theater on the 19th:

  August 22, 2007

• Sparrow Love Crew, Detroit Bar, January 7, 2008

  Photo by Jered Scott Five guys, eight chins, one instant party. Long Beach hip-hop dynamo Sparrow Love Crew radiate incredibly positive energy, lyrical choreography and witty verbiage. They own a stage like Donald Trump owns the Trump Tower. Backed by the not inaccurately dubbed “magic hands” of DJ Opi Styles, the four MCs (Devoux, Diggery, Sureflo and Mikey Brixx) diplomatically trade off verses and then chant in unison for rousing emphasis at the conclusion of nearly every bar. Beastie

  January 8, 2008

• CD Reviews

  November 4, 1999

• The 90s Didnt Suck

  December 23, 1999

• The Killingtons/No Motiv/Autolux

  February 10, 2000

• Hella Coachella

  May 8, 2003

• Club Pick: Mute Friday with The 87 Stick-Up kids on Dec. 5

   The only thing better than getting drunk and wild at a live hip-hop show is seeing the performers on stage letting loose just as much as the audience. In the case of The 87 Stick Up Kids, that's hardly too much to ask. Anyone who's partied with the four pack of party animal MCs probably has the sweaty, liquor-stained t-shirt to prove it.You can experience them for yourself at this week's Mute Friday club night at Proof in downtown Santa Ana.Kick your weekend off old-school with a grou

  December 3, 2008

• Check Your Head re-issue out now

  The Beastie Boys' 1992 classic Check Your Head has now been given the re-issue/re-master treatment. Not sure why, as this disc sounded pretty good the last time I listened to it last week, but what do I know?   The new version comes with a total of 36 tracks (the 20-song original album and 16 B-sides and rarities and is available as very modern high-quality DRM downloads and the very old school four LP ultra-deluxe 180HQ vinyl. The latter comes in something described as a cof

  April 8, 2009

• The Beastie Boys and Jimmy Eat World are Following Us on Twitter, Are You?

  OK, sure, it may only be because their Twitter accounts are set to automatically follow people that mention them, and the Beastie Boys Twitter actually has only ever been updated once, but still. It's something!We're Tweeting over here, and be sure to check it out. Not only does it update automatically when this blog gets updated (or, uh, some time relatively quickly after it is), I also do live updates from shows around town. And you can always Tweet @ us if you have a question. Fun, fun stuff!

  April 8, 2009

• Arabian Prince's Electro Legacy Gives Gangstas Something 2 Dance 2-Again

  August 14, 2008

• Torahlarious

  January 10, 2008

• DVDish

  A Bitter End

  November 1, 2007

• Musical Trash Compactor

  The Go! Team Create Funtastic Mash-ups for People Who Don’t Like Mash-ups

  October 18, 2007

• A Week in the Nightlife

  Nerdy garage rock, wiseguy jazz, Binges that purge, Goodfoot turns 9 and Holy Fuck!
  

  September 27, 2007

• Candid Cameras

  July 20, 2006

• Flower of the Desert

  May 1, 2003

• MP3 the Easy Way

  Indie music retail gains momentum online

  July 5, 2007

• CD Review

  The Beastie Boys, The Mix-Up (Capitol)

  June 28, 2007

• Are Your Ears Burning Yet?

  Surveying the (potential) sound-good hits of the summer

  June 7, 2007

• Priceless Imports

  Miho Hatori

  February 1, 2007

• Scum of the Earth

  Jan. 18-Jan. 25

  January 18, 2007

• This Week in Thirty-two

  The Happening

  January 18, 2007

• Boombaps

  August 3, 2006

• Making It Dance

  May 25, 2006

• Hits!

  December 22, 2005

• Strike Up the Band

  July 28, 2005

• Drinking Mr. Goods Bar

  May 19, 2005

• Letters

  September 23, 2004

• Ill Communicators

  September 9, 2004

• College Admissions

  Take the Kanye West aptitude test

  June 24, 2004

• Mild Thing

  June 10, 2004

• Tuning in, turning on

  January 15, 2004

• Try Everything Once

  May 29, 2003

• Kike on the Mic!

  November 21, 2002

• New Music

  April 25, 2002

• Are-Eye-Pee Are-Oh-Vee

  March 15, 2001

• Glowstick Smackdown

  September 21, 2000

• David Turbow, Singer/Guitarist of Supernovice

  August 31, 2000

• Monsieur Leroc Le Slow Motion Boogie WoogieCornerstone R.A.S./skunk.com

  August 17, 2000

• Letters

  January 27, 2000

• Coming to America

  June 3, 1999

• Pirate Commie Girl

  November 5, 1998

• In This Subway Series, the 1974 'The Taking of Pelham One Two Three' Wins

  June 11, 2009

• More Beastie Boys News

  Remember when I told you how the Beastie Boys 1992 classic Check Your Head was being re-released with all sorts of extra goodies? If not, click here. In continuing with this fine tradition (can something be a tradition after it happens twice? I think so), the trio's 1994 follow-up, Ill Communication, is being given a make over and will be available July 14 (next Tuesday, people). But like everything in these times in which we live, the tunes are ready for your listening pleasure on the Intranets

  July 8, 2009

• Lemme Hear Ya San Diego!!!!

  If you'll drive from OC to Coachella, then I'm assuming everyone's cool with me posting info about the San Diego Street Scene. The 25th annual event takes place Aug. 28 and 29 in the East Village (which is near Big Corporate Baseball Park). This year's lineup is top heavy with hip-hop thanks to appearances by the Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas and MIA. The bill also includes Thievery Corporation, Modest Mouse, Silversun Pickups, Conor Oberst, Busta Rhymes, Calexico, Ozomatli and a whole bunch mor

  July 14, 2009

• Jimmy Fallon: Savior of Hip Hop?

    For some reason, when ?uestlove announced in November that The Roots would cease touring and become the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, there was minor outrage. "Black Thought opening for Jimmy Fallon every night is the cultural equivalent of Miles Davis playing his horn on the subway platform to back up a semi-trained dancing spider monkey," wrote Gawker, while the Huffington Post reported that saxophonist and former Tonight Show bandleader Branford Marsalis advised the gro

  July 16, 2009

• Clipse and the Cool Kids

  August 13, 2009

• MCA...Getting Better

  ​MCA, one third of my favorite band of all time, Beastie Boys, posted a message on the group's mailing list announcing his status. In case you didn't know, the man born Adam Yauch was diagnosed with cancer of the parotid salivary gland. He had surgery, kicked it with the Dalai Lama and is getting better. That's good news for B Boys nerds like me. Seriously, without the Beastie Boys, who the hell knows what sorta nerd I would have turned into.

  October 9, 2009

• Release the Sounds: 'Trick or Treat [Live]', the String Cheese Incident

  ​The last of the String Cheese Incident's famous "Hulaween" concerts, pregnant with epic jams and cover songs, ended in 2004. It was right around the time they started scaling back tours and going on a series of hiatuses. But here it should be noted that although this world renowned ensemble of hippie jam artists aren't making new albums or gigging very much (if at all), they've given fans enough material to last a lifetime. No where is that more evident than the nine-disc monst

  October 28, 2009