Beastie Boys Announce Obama Benefit Shows

All dates & cities on their 'Get Out & Vote Tour':

10/28 Richmond, VA
11/1 St. Paul, MN
11/2 Milwaukee, WI

For further info, head here.

MP3: Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

Sharon Jones & Beastie Boys Nominated For Jammy Award

The nominees for album of the year are:

Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Sharon Jones - 100 Days...
Keller Williams - Dream
Galactic - From The Corner...
Page McConnell - Page McConnell
Moe - The Conch

View all other categories here.

MP3: Sharon Jones - 100 Days, 100 Nights

Retro Clip: The Beastie Boys Visit Arsenio Hall, Circa '92

Watch a classic performance of 'So Whatcha Want?' (with Cypress Hill) below.


MP3: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Beastie Boy Pioneers Oscilloscope Pictures

Reuters reports: *Adam Yauch, of hip-hop group Beastie Boys, is launching Oscilloscope Pictures, an independent film distribution & international sales company. Former ThinkFilm vice president David Fenkel will run the unit, an arm of Yauch's music & film production outfit Oscilloscope Laboratories. Yauch and Fenkel plan to acquire narrative & documentary features from festivals for release in the U.S. & provide funds to complete & release unfinished films.*

Read the rest of the article here.

MP3: Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble (Krhymez Remix)

Leonard Cohen & Beastie Boys Nominated For Hall Of Fame

Uncut reports: *Leonard Cohen and The Beastie Boys are among the artists nominated for entry into the US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this year. Madonna, Chic and John Mellencamp are also among the nominees, of which five will be chosen by over 600 music experts. Artists are eligible for entry 25 years after their first recording. Musicians who entered the Hall Of Fame last year were REM, Grandmaster Flash, Van Halen, The Ronettes and Patti Smith.*

The nominees include:

Leonard Cohen
The Beastie Boys
Donna Summer
Madonna
John Mellencamp
Chic
The Dave Clark Five
Afrika Bambaataa
The Ventures

MP3: Leonard Cohen - Jazz Police

Beastie Boys Hope To Work With M.I.A. & Jarvis Cocker

Billboard's got the dirt: *The Beastie Boys are moving ahead with plans for a vocal version of their latest album, the all-instrumental "The Mix-Up." Adam "MCA" Yauch tells Billboard.com the trio is "talking to some different artists who might do kinda like remixes and put vocals on it, so it wouldn't be us doing vocals on it. It would be kind of like a different version of the album, with a bunch of people guesting on it." Among those in the loop, according to Yauch, are M.I.A., Lily Allen and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker -- "a bunch of British people," Yauch notes with a laugh. "It'll be interesting to see what they do with the stuff." That might not be the only outgrowth of the "The Mix-Up," which Yauch, Mike "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz released in June. Yauch says the Beasties have an idea for a visual version of the album as well, incorporating images from the group's touring to support "The Mix-Up." "We've been traveling with a Super 8 camera," he reports, "and a lot of times we'll just make something. While we were in Singapore we filmed stuff, and in Australia and different places. We're talking about cutting it together into a full-length film that kinda goes the length of the album."*

Read the rest of the article here.

MP3: Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want? (Remix Featuring Cypress Hill)

Beastie Boys Crave Your Dead PDAs

Mic To Mic reports: *Some small print on the Atlantic City promo poster caught my eye. For the U.S. shows, Beastie Boys are participating in a green project with Reverb, a non-profit organization that educates and engages musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability. The specific project Beastie Boys are supporting is one in which fans are asked to bring their old cell phones, PDAs, and related gizmos to concerts to recycle. As an incentive -- as if you need something more than a desire to save the earth! -- fans who bring in items to recycle will receive a coupon for a free Beastie goodie that can be redeemed online.

Additionally, $1 from every Beastie Boys concert ticket sold goes to a Reverb ecofund, which supports the organization's educational efforts and funds local nonprofit organizations in the cities in which the Beastie Boys perform.*

Kudos, Beastie Boys. The pioneers will be performing at Live Earth London later today.

MP3: Beastie Boys - Root Down

Beastie Boys Release Album Cover & Tracklist For 'The Mix Up'

Tracklisting:
1. B For My Name
2. 14th St. Break
3. Suco De Tangerina
4. The Gala Event
5. Electric Worm
6. Freaky Hijiki
7. Off The Grid
8. The Rat Cage
9. The Melee
10. Dramastically Different
11. The Cousin Of Death
12. The Kangaroo Rat

The LP will be out this June. The guys are claiming that the album is 'all instrumental' but I have a strong feeling they're duping us.

Old-school BB MP3: 'Root Down'

Beastie Boys Have An Announcement For You (And It's Gonna Be Sick!)

And here it is, posted today by the middle-aged guys BOYS on their official site.

hi...here's a few things you might wanna know about..

1. we have a new record coming out
2. it's gonna be sick
3. we're playing a bunch of shows this summer
4. they're gonna be sick
5. we're gonna play some instrumental only shows also... (you know.. drums.. bass.. guitar.. keyboard.. percussion..)
6. better call your doctor..cause they're gonna be sick
7. it's gonna be a gala event
8. we're changing up the website...sick
9. got new gear coming soon...again...sick..
10. go see a tailor and get tapered up...

see you soon....beastie boys

For those tour dates check BeastieBoys.com.

Beastie Boys Prepare To Disappoint

Mike D said it himself! In a recent interview with The Age, he declares that they are working hard on the new album (their first since '04's halfway decent, To The 5 Boroughs) and that it "is actually really different".

Doesn't sound promising, right? Well, he explains further...

"[Fans] can expect to be disappointed, they can expect to be angry at us." If it's any consolation, he concludes the interview by telling us that there's still plenty of work that needs to be done and that he doesn't want to 'describe it too much because whatever I say might change'. Hmm... I just hope they are not going the new-rave route.

MP3: Beastie Boys - Root Down

You Shot What?

Oh yes, you shot THAT.

The first-ever Beastie Boys concert music DVD and 2006 Sundance Film Festival smash hit Awesome; I F*ckin’ Shot That! debuts July 25, 2006 from THINKFilm. Directed by band member Adam Yauch (credited as his nom-de-film Nathanial Hörnblowér), the groundbreaking music DVD from the iconic multi-platinum band, whose top-of-the charts success spans 20 years, is the first of its kind in the music DVD genre: a feature-length film shot by fans for fans.


It is loaded with over 2.5 Hours of Special Features including:
• Full-length Alternate Angle of Multi-Camera Grids – Watch the film from the perspective of many cameras at once
• A Cappella Vocal Tracks – Listen to the complete concert with the sound from MCA, Adrock and Mike D’s mic’s only
• Special “Hidden Detours” Feature – Watch the film with the option of taking detours throughout the concert with some of the camera operators
• Band Commentary
• Oh yeah, and the movie trailer with the cool Hollywood voice-over
• Short Film “A Day in the Life Of Nathanial Hörnblowér,” starring comedian David Cross (Arrested Development)
• World Tour Intros and Shout Outs
• Plus, more surprises…

Ch-ch-check it out!