This week Josh & Trent dive into music from the Beastie Boys, Salt-N-Pepa and JJ Fad.
Tonight at 8PM ET, we will be broadcasting a special Beastie Boys episode of First Person with Josh Madden, commemorating on the passing of Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch earlier today.
It’s the last First Person of 2011, so Josh is sending the year out the best way he knows how… that’s right, with the Beastie Boys. Spend the next two hours “Fight[ing] For Your Right To Party” and picking up some “Skills To Pay The Bills” by hitting play below.
Long known for their relatively epic waits between studio releases, the Beastie Boys surprised fans this spring with the announcement that their new record would arrive a scant three years after 2004’s “To the 5 Boroughs.” But the Beastie Boys are also long known for sudden stylistic left turns, and shortly thereafter, they revealed that the album would consist solely of instrumentals. As promised, “The Mix-Up,” due June 26 via Capitol, goes heavy on the groove, especially the splashing, crashing Meters-inflected funk the band has been consistently serving up since 1992’s “Check Your Head.” But there’s not a rhyme to… Read more »
The Beastie Boys have revealed the tracklisting for their new album The Mix Up. As previously reported exclusively by NME.com, band member Mike D said that the follow up to 2004’s To The 5 Boroughs would be “radically different” to its predecessor and the sound will hark back to the style of 1992’s Check Your Head and 1989’s Paul’s Boutique. No release date has yet been announced, but Mike D also told NME.com he expected it to be out sometime in June. The band are set to perform at the London leg of the Live Earth shows, which takes place… Read more »
Russell Simmons’ drive to make people from different backgrounds more racially aware is picking up steam – with Brooklyn act the Beastie Boys next on his list of star speakers. The rap mogul wants the veteran three-piece act to help sway the Jewish vote, in the same way Jay-Z’s involvement has established a voice in predominantly black New York districts. “I am looking for Beastie Boys to join other prominent Jews in the entertainment industry to film a PSA (Public Service Announcement) confronting racism, (Specifically) Islamophobia,” He tells AllHipHop.com. “The only way to end the madness is to have people… Read more »
Toronto’s ACC was packed to the brim with people of all ages, ready to check out the Beasties. After a stripped-down set by Talib Kweli, The Beastie Boys touched down. Wearing old school uniforms (Mike D rocking archetypal Cazal shades) and hysterically oversized mesh caps, the B-Boys kicked an opening set that never seemed to quit. As bizarre images and camera shots of Mike, Adam and Adam floated around on massive screens, the three were in constant motion, seeming to tag each other as they traded verses. After about 15 minutes of this, they took a moment to catch their… Read more »
Fans of Fox’s primetime series The O.C. will be among the first to hear the Beastie Boys’ new single, “Ch-Check It Out.” The song will be featured prominently on the April 28 episode of the show, in which the boys of the O.C. go to Las Vegas for an impromptu bachelor party and the ladies cook up their own trouble with a bachelorette party back home. “Ch-Check It Out” is the first single off the Beastie Boys’ To The 5 Boroughs, their first album in six years. “Ch-Check It Out” will debut on radio on the 28 as well, according… Read more »
Officials in Suffolk County, New York, have denied a mass gathering permit for the June 7-8 Field Day Music Festival, but the Beastie Boys, Beck, Radiohead, N.E.R.D. and more than a dozen other acts are hoping last-minute negotiations can save the concert. On Tuesday (May 27), health officials nixed the permit after Riverhead Police Chief David Hegermiller announced that his department wouldn’t be able to safely patrol the concert, which is expected to draw 50,000 people to Suffolk County’s Calverton Enterprise Park. On Friday, county officials determined they couldn’t authorize additional police for the show because such an act would… Read more »
The Beastie Boys will perform April 25 at Las Vegas’ House of Blues, in a show that will serve both as a tribute to slain Run-D.M.C. DJ Jam Master Jay and a warm-up for the veteran rap trio’s headlining slot the next night at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Longtime Beasties associate DJ Hurricane will also be on the bill for the all-ages Vegas show, tickets for which are now on sale for $75 and $150. Further details regarding the benefit were unavailable at deadline. It is not known if surviving Run-D.M.C. members Joseph “Reverend… Read more »
