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

MP3: Beastie Boys – Sabotage

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

MP3: Beastie Boys – Sabotage

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

MP3: Beastie Boys – Sabotage

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)

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

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)

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

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’

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’

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’