Subject: The Beastie Boys

• I Want My MP3

  June 21, 2007

• Radio on the TV: Chamillionaire Debuts New Video

  July 26, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Hall of Fame Nominations a Big Cleveland Steamer

  October 1, 2007

• Give Us a Hand

  October 9, 2007

• SXSW: Lou Reed. Live. For One Song. Lou Freakin’ Reed.

  March 14, 2008

• Beards of a Feather: Rick Rubin to helm ZZ Top session

  May 16, 2008

• Turning The Screw: Jay'Ton, Bushwick, Nas, Akon, Dre, Diddy, DJ Hero, Grandmaster Flash, The Kanye, T.I., Three 6 Mafia, Bubba Sparxxx, and more

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "We Here," Jay'Ton feat. Trae and Yung Quis Wire To Wire: Nas is not a fan of Canada. Akon, who has been quite the spokesman as of late, speaks out about Anti-Gun Violence. I wonder why he never spoke out about throwing kids off stages. Oh, yeah, that's right, probably because of this.

  June 1, 2009

• Turning the Screw: D. Rose, Rap City, Beastie Boys, Marilyn Manson, Paris, Lil Kim, Ice Cube and More

  October 13, 2008

• Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill and the Roots of Alt-Rap

  Beastie Boys, "So What'cha Want" Today is one of those cosmological coincidences so uncanny it may be no coincidence at all: the Beastie Boys' Mike D and Cypress Hill's Sen Dog were both born this day in 1965. (Scorpios represent!) In the late '80s and early '90s, from opposite sides of the U.S., no two groups were more responsible for spreading hip-hop culture beyond its roots in black American inner-city neighborhoods and into suburban middle-class neighborhoods, marijuana-clouded college do

  November 20, 2008

• Rotation

  June 23, 1994

• Crit Picks

  August 4, 1994

• Retro Active: Remembering the Speed Trials Album

  So, just in time for its 20th anniversary, the Beastie Boys' landmark Paul's Boutique album is gonna be reissued in a deluxe, remastered edition. As we all know, the album is masterpiece of sampling technique, unencumbered by the prospect of litigation and emboldened by a true sense of sonic adventure. That, and it will forever and always be the most effective mating call of ballcap-clad dudes seeking drunken last-call liaisons. While this news inspired some doting on the enormity of Boutiq

  January 8, 2009

• Things That Make Us Feel Old: The Year 1989

  "Hey Ladies" As another year begins, record labels start unleashing commemorative editions of classic albums to take advantage of anniversaries of release dates and more importantly, yo' money. We already got wind of the impending Pearl Jam reissues a few weeks back. Now we get word that the Beastie Boys polished up their sampling-as-art opus Paul's Boutique for re-release on January 27. The new edition of the 1989 classic was lovingly remastered by the Beasties, and will include expanded artw

  January 8, 2009

• The Lame and the Great

  December 22, 1994

• Simply Beastie

  May 4, 1995

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Rotation

  September 14, 1995

• Rotation

  July 18, 1996

• Rotation

  July 16, 1998

• Rotation

  September 23, 1999

• Austin City Limits Goes Grunge; Tickets On Sale Today

  Just in time for tickets to go on sale - as in now - leaks have conveniently begun to spring in C3 Entertainment's carefully under wraps lineup for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, scheduled for October 2-4 in Zilker Park. (Don't worry, Longhorn fans: Unlike last year, that's UT's open date.) So far the biggest name being thrown around is Pearl Jam, whose expanded and remastered landmark first album Ten was recently re-released. According to Austin Sound Check, citing an anony

  April 7, 2009

• The Lonely Island: Incredibad

  April 9, 2009

• Unusual Suspects at The Usual

  Trackside bar welcomes amateur karaoke stars — and everybody else

  February 12, 2009

• “Uncle Charlie’s Art Show”

  June 19, 2008

• Northern State, with American Princes

  May 15, 2008

• Molotov

  February 14, 2008

• Galactic

  October 25, 2007

• Miho Hatori

  August 23, 2007

• Hair Today...

  A documentary restyles a misconstrued haircut

  July 31, 2003

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• Git'r Spun!

  Countrified DJ Jester the Filipino Fist is the stand-up comedian of scratchers

  September 29, 2005

• Yiddish Rock

  DJ Hardware and company keep the faith at L'Chaim

  May 12, 2005

• Whitey on the Mike

  The all-time greatest white-boy rhymes

  March 10, 2005

• Rotation

  Handsome Boy Modeling School, Molotov and Rufus Wainwright

  December 9, 2004

• Get Back, Honky Cat

  Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

  December 2, 2004

• Feelings, Nothing But Feelings

  The New York Times misses the point in its attack on "rockism"

  November 11, 2004

• Beastie Boys

  To the 5 Boroughs (Capitol)

  June 17, 2004

• You Ain't Punk 2004

  Saturday, April 10

  April 8, 2004

• Messing with Texas

  Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

  January 15, 2004

• Snapping Rappers

  The right pals send a photographer down the right path

  January 9, 2003

• Downfall 2012, with Pimpadelic

  Friday, November 29

  November 28, 2002

• Money Mark

  Change Is Coming (Emperor Norton Records)

  January 24, 2002

• Playbill

  Soul Brains (né Bad Brains)

  June 14, 2001

• Playbill

  The Bloodhound Gang

  November 30, 2000

• The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

  June 11, 2009

• The Distillery: Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall

  What it do, Rancid? What's crackin', formerly crusty-punk rude boys? Been a long time since we last hang, bros. When Dan Zeller lent me Let's Go during senior year of high school, I knew y'all were onto something special: three-billy-goats-gruff sung scrabbling punk anthems and routs with just a hint of ska. ...And Out Come The Wolves was what really sold me, though, as you found a slightly more commercial sound that brought MTV rotation (for "Time Bomb"), plus a platinum plaque. Our interest be

  July 17, 2009

• Weekend Video Roundup: Beastie Boys and Aerosmith

  No, the Beastie Boys didn't play Houston over the weekend, and they won't be in the forseeable future either. No sooner had C3 Entertainment announced that the Boys would take the 8:15-9:30 p.m. spot on the Austin City Limits Music Festival's AMD stage Friday, October 2 - see the full schedule here, now - than the NYC rappers' PR firm countered with the news that the Boys had canceled all tour dates and postponed the release of this fall's album Hot Sauce Committee, Volume 1 to allow Adam "MCA"

  July 20, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Movie Night at the Mink, Scout Bar Beaumont Shut Down, Yeah Yeah Yeahs at ACL? and More

  Seems the Mink has found an old movie projector and is planning to put it to good use this evening. After a couple of Charlie Chaplin shorts, the bar will screen the superb 2007 documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and even provide free popcorn. "A makeout row can be provided on request," they add. Doors at 7; no cover. The Beaumont Enterprise reported today that Scout Bar Beaumont, the hard-rock hub of the Southeast Texas city's Crockett Street Entertainment District was shut dow

  July 21, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Chamillionaire & Z-Ro, UGK, Slim Thug, Trae Day, Chris Brown, Meth & Red, Diddy, MCA, O.G. Style and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Chamillionaire feat. Z-Ro, "Denzel Washington" Wire To Wire Slim Thugga cut off his braids. Not sure how we feel about that just yet. Check back with us next week. Been listening to UGK's Ridin' Dirty a lot lately. What Bun B does on "One Day," "Murder" and "Pinky Ring" might be the best three-song set

  July 28, 2009

• In Honor of Michelle Obama and "Shortsgate," the Best Ass Songs of All Time

  In a year when the biggest news stories aren't about war or the environment but a mentally unbalanced woman having a litter of children and the death of a creepy pop singer who hadn't put out a decent album in 25 years, it should come as no surprise that so many people would be up in arms about First Lady Michelle Obama's outrageous decision to wear shorts on Air Force One. On a trip to Arizona. In August. Frankly, we wish more Presidential spouses had gone this route (rumor has it Bes

  August 21, 2009