The Beastie Boys

Related Search

News Home Navel Gazing Moxley Confidential Ask a Mexican Archives Search OC Weekly Flipbook Weekly Newsletter Get Mobile Hey, You!

Calendar Home Top Picks Submit an Event Events Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Music Home Music Blog Ask Exene Concert Calendar Bars and Clubs Submit an Event Music Newsletter Get Mobile

Restaurants Home Food Blog Find a Restaurant Reviews Menus Deals Happy Hours Dining Newsletter Get Mobile Restaurant Ads

Arts Home Arts Features Theater Trendzilla OC Bookly Arts Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Film Home Film Blog Film Festivals Film Poll 2011 Showtimes Film Newsletter Get Mobile Free Stuff

Best Of Home 2011 2010 2009 2008 Best Of Newsletter Get Mobile Best Of Ads

Promotions Home Promotional Events Street Team Free Stuff Promotions Newsletter Get Mobile Deals

Post an Ad Jobs Real Estate Advertiser Index Deals Deals Newsletter Alternative Healing

MMJ Home MMJ News Ask a Lawyer The Rolling Paper Coupons Dispensary Guide MMJ Newsletter

Blogs
May 7, 2012
DJ Scotty Boy - Yost Theater - 5/5/12
See also: DJ Scotty Boy Takes Us on a Tour of His Favorite OC Spots On Cinco de Mayo, party people pound Mexican beer and tequila shots, and sport around town in sombreros. For those that survived the BBQs and pub crawls, a night out at the club was the best way to keep the party going. We headed t ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2012
KROQ Weenie Roast y Fiesta - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine - 5/5/12
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyColdplayKROQ Weenie Roast y FiestaVerizon Wireless AmphitheaterMay 5, 2012 The Weenie Roast is always a great show for people who just want to be entertained. You sit back, watch the giant platform on the main stage rotate (no waiting time in-between sets!) and just take it a ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Happy Birthday! Five of His Best Collaborations
Today is legendary Reggae/Dub/Ska artist/producer Lee "Scratch" Perry's 76th birthday. Born in Kendal, Jamaica, Perry has been making music for nearly 60 years. Over that time, he's established himself as one of the most influential artists in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub musi ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Happy 25th Anniversary, No Doubt! A Look at the First Show's Venue, Lineup, Flyers and Benefit--And Where Everyone is Now
Twenty five years ago today, No Doubt played their first show at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, opening for ska legends the Untouchables. (They played second among 14 bands.)According to the No Doubt fansite Beacon Street Online (who first published the poster today), the band's official site m ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
Remember Wu-Tang Clan's Terrible Video Game? We Do
In order to broach the subject of musicians appearing in video games, we're legally obligated to mention Rock Band and Guitar Hero in the first sentence, so there. Putting aside those big franchises, several other games have featured musicians in increasingly unusual capacities. Both The Beatl ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
Top Five White Trash Rap Anthems
As Eminem's protege, the Alabama-raised Yelawolf is the latest rapper to tap into a niche you could politely call white trash rap. His debut album on Shady Records, Radioactive, openly embraces his less-than-classy roots, with brags about his body being totally tatted up, rocking "dirty ass jeans ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Beastie Boys Announced as 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Famers
Los Angeles bands Guns N' Roses and Red Hot Chili Peppers top the list of inductees for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced early Wednesday morning. Guns N' Roses, later dubbed "The World's Most Dangerous Band," emerged on L.A.'s rock scene in the mid '80s. Within a few ye ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Happy Birthday Marie Curie! Top Five Songs About Science
There's also a (now-defunct) Marie Curie Band from Gainesville, Fla.It's Marie Curie's birthday today, so raise a glass for one of the most historically notable women in science. In case you don't know, Curie was the first person to score two Nobel Prizes -- one in physics, and another in chemist ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
Kreayshawn Gets Nominated Best New Artist at the VMAs--and Other WTF Moments This Year
I've never agreed with any award-giving body on who gets nominated or gets awards for best this or that, but this year's VMAs are akin to the year Milli Vanilli won Grammys over the Indigo Girls. (The fact that I date myself by remembering this hoopla means I'm really mystified by what's going on ... More >>
Film
July 7, 2011
Members of the Tribe
Michael Rapaport observes the vibe and checks out the scenario
Music
June 16, 2011
Cerebral Ballzy Are Barfing Their Way to the Top
How can you not love a group with a song called 'Puke Song'?
Blogs
April 14, 2011
What's Happening in OC/LB on Record Store Day? Your Handy Event Directory
Since its inception in 2007, the fandemonium over Record Store Day has only grown. Drak, owner of Vinyl Solution in Huntington Beach, expressed his awe of fans last year who flooded into his store "like mice after a piece of cheese. It's amazing." It's no wonder they do--each year on the third Sa ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Rumored Headliners for Coachella 2011
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyArcade FireThe Coachella lineup will soon be announced, but rumors are already circulating about who is headlining this year. We have some theories, but nothing is confirmed as of yet. The guessing game will continue on, and it's encouraged by the festival through many int ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night One at the Gibson Amphitheater Last Night
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklySmashing Pumpkins headlined. For more photos, check out our slideshow here.KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas Night OneDecember 11, 2010Gibson AmphitheaterIt doesn't feel like the end of the concert year until KROQ throws their annual Almost Acoustic Christmas shows at the Gibson A ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2010
Jared Watson of the Dirty Heads: "I Want to Do a Song with Ben Harper Really Bad."
www.myspace.com/dirtyheadsThe Dirty Heads are back in Huntington Beach for a bit after touring with Sublime, but that doesn't mean their massive tour is over; tomorrow, they're performing at the U.S. Open of Surfing with Rome of Sublime, this weekend, they'll be in San Bernardino, and next w ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
Rage Against The Machine at the Hollywood Palladium Over The Weekend
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyCheck out our slideshow here!Rage Against The Machine and Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley BandHollywood PalladiumJuly 23, 2010In 1992, I witnessed some band called Rage Against The Machine open for Pearl Jam at the Hollywood Palladium. It was an intensely riveting perfo ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
Top Five Songs Used In Futurama
If you don't have Comedy Central, you're lucky. Sort of. On the one hand, you haven't been bombarded by grinding repetition of commercials featuring the classic Futurama character hypnotoad. The wonky-eyed frog drones incessantly while a voice commands viewers to watch the new episodes that ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
Is Asher Roth Onto A Good Gimmick Or Just Lazy?
www.asherrothmusic.comRemember when the Beastie Boys asked their audiences to film each other on phone cameras during their concerts and made a movie out of it? Well, Asher Roth isn't asking his fans to just film the footage, he actually wants his fans to create their own music video for his new ... More >>
Music
March 4, 2010
The Dirty Heads Up for Best Hip-Hop, Best World Honors at OC Music Awards
Huntington Beach band tours in April as opener for Sublime with Rome
Blogs
October 28, 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 ... More >>
Film
June 11, 2009
In This Subway Series, the 1974 'The Taking of Pelham One Two Three' Wins
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 ... More >>
Film
May 7, 2009
J.J. Abrams's 'Star Trek' Reboot Is Proof That the Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper
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 ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2009
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 ... More >>
Blogs
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 automatica ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
"Ten" is still "Alive"
Holy shit! Last night I saw a commerical for the deluxe edition of Pearl Jam's debut Ten. I've been on this Earth for a mere 29 years, but suddenly I feel very, very, very old. This re-issue includes a remastered version of the record and a remix done by long-time PJ producer Brendan O'Brien, six bo ... More >>
Music
August 14, 2008
Arabian Prince's Electro Legacy Gives Gangstas Something 2 Dance 2-Again
Holy shit! Last night I saw a commerical for the deluxe edition of Pearl Jam's debut Ten. I've been on this Earth for a mere 29 years, but suddenly I feel very, very, very old. This re-issue includes a remastered version of the record and a remix done by long-time PJ producer Brendan O'Brien, six bo ... More >>
Music
February 14, 2008
Who the Hell Is Clutchy Hopkins? The mystery of a Mojave Desert beat savant
Holy shit! Last night I saw a commerical for the deluxe edition of Pearl Jam's debut Ten. I've been on this Earth for a mere 29 years, but suddenly I feel very, very, very old. This re-issue includes a remastered version of the record and a remix done by long-time PJ producer Brendan O'Brien, six bo ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2008
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” ... More >>
Calendar
November 22, 2007
Saturday - 11/17
“The Science of Gingerbread” at the Discovery Science Center, Glass House Swap Meet, Money Mark at Detroit Bar
Film
November 1, 2007
DVDish
A Bitter End
Music
October 18, 2007
Musical Trash Compactor
The Go! Team Create Funtastic Mash-ups for People Who Don’t Like Mash-ups
Music
September 27, 2007
A Week in the Nightlife
Nerdy garage rock, wiseguy jazz, Binges that purge, Goodfoot turns 9 and Holy Fuck!
Blogs
September 4, 2007
Rick Rubin: Music Biz Savior?
The New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg ponders this crucial matter and concludes that Rubin, the Def Jam impresario/producer (Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash and 17,000 others) who's now employed by Columbia Records, just may be the mensch to prevent this Titanic from ... More >>
Music
April 5, 2007
Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows
More than three decades on, Sly & the Family Stone stand fresh
Music
February 1, 2007
Priceless Imports
Miho Hatori
Music
January 18, 2007
This Week in Thirty-two
The Happening
Film
September 14, 2006
Hardcore Cinema
Bad BrainsLive CBGB 1982
Music
August 3, 2006
Boombaps
KRS-One
Music
January 13, 2005
Live Previews
KRS-One
Music
June 24, 2004
College Admissions
Take the Kanye West aptitude test
Music
June 10, 2004
Mild Thing
Exene Cervenka lightens up on anarchy and embraces punk pacifism
Music
May 8, 2003
Hella Coachella
Exene Cervenka lightens up on anarchy and embraces punk pacifism
Music
October 3, 2002
Chico Suave!
Exene Cervenka lightens up on anarchy and embraces punk pacifism
Music
March 15, 2001
Are-Eye-Pee Are-Oh-Vee
Exene Cervenka lightens up on anarchy and embraces punk pacifism
Columns
November 30, 2000
Mmm-Bop!
Smelly drunks, bad manners. Its all good
Music
March 30, 2000
Our Annual South by Southwest Report
Smelly drunks, bad manners. Its all good
Music
December 23, 1999
The 90s Didnt Suck
Survey says: Many, many great discs produced in past decade!
Music
September 23, 1999
The Politics of Dance
Ozomatli turns protest music on its head
Columns
November 5, 1998
Pirate Commie Girl
A week before Halloween, and all the boys have turned into ghouls
More >>

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Film

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Blogs

Film

Film

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Music

Blogs

Calendar

Film

Music

Music

Blogs

Music

Music

Music

Film

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Columns

Music

Music

Music

Columns

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This