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Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty

by Richard Elliott

[30.Oct.09] :. If Hello Nasty seems less unusual than it did on its appearance in 1998, its inventiveness should not be overlooked.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs in for Beastie Boys at Lollapalooza

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.Jul.09] :. CHICAGO — The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were named new Lollapalooza headliners Tuesday to replace the Beastie Boys. Texas-based promoters C3 Presents moved quickly to secure an Aug. 8 headliner for the...

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Beastie Boys: Check Your Head

by Sean Murphy

[29.Apr.09] :. At first the Beastie Boys were brats, then they were bratty; with their third album Check Your Head they dropped an ebullient bomb that is both heartfelt and soulful.

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Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Chris Gaerig

[20.Feb.09] :. Aside from a sharpened sonic feel, the 20th Anniversary Edition of this '80s classic is lacking in extras.

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Beastie Boys classic ‘Paul’s Boutique’ gets re-release

by Sarah Zupko

[4.Feb.09] :. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Beastie Boys critically acclaimed Paul’s Boutique. This is the album that gave us “Shake Your Rump”, “Egg Man” and “Hello...

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Rebels Wit Attitude: Beastie Boys

by Iain Ellis

[14.Dec.08] :. In this excerpt of PopMatters' new book Rebels Wit Attitude, Ellis discusses how Beastie Boys were not afraid to play the enemy within, often mocking the macho strutting of harder rappers.

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E.S.L.: Eye Contact

by Chris Conaton

[28.Aug.08] :. A band that consists of piano, cello, violin, and drums. An all-female group unafraid to cover Neil Young and the Beastie Boys. A song that compares a lover to Secretariat. E.S.L. is all of these things.

 

It Ain’t No Joke

by Dan Nishimoto

[1.Apr.08] :. Hip-hop, like most other arts, intentionally pays humor less mind because, hey, it's not supposed to be taken seriously! But seriously.

 

21 years later, Beastie Boys are still rocking steady

by Brian McCollum [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[25.Sep.07] :. And to think the world was ready to dismiss them as disposable one-hit wonders. Two decades after concocting a rap-rock Reese’s Cup, and serving it up with a slice of Gen X pop-culture savvy,...

 

Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up

by Mike Schiller

[26.Jun.07] :. Beastie Boys duct-tape their mouths shut and come up with a competent palette-cleanser-slash-chillout album.

 

Beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs

by Jason Thompson

[23.Jun.04] :. Back in 1989, the Beastie Boys released the best rap and hip-hop album ever, the masterpiece Paul’s Boutique. At the time, it was roundly ignored because it wasn’t Licensed to...

 

Beastie Boys

by Mike Prevatt

[21.May.03] :. With most of the acts on the Coachella marquee, you knew what you were going to get. The White Stripes and Blur were going to play songs from their new albums, the Hives were going to...