I love the Beastie Boys!  Most people first became familiar with them from their 1986 album Licensed to Ill which contained the hugely popular first single “Fight For Your Right (to Party).”  They followed it up with several albums (including 1994’s Ill Communication which featured “Sabotage,” one of my favorite videos of all time).
When the group released Hello Nasty in 1998, it went straight to #1 in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden and did very well elsewhere in the world.
The effort garnered them two Grammy Awards in 1999 for “Best Alternative Music Album” …read more

Adam “MCA” Yauch recently announced that his doctors found a cancerous tumor on his left salivary gland and lymph node and, since then, he’s had surgery to remove the growth.  The group had to cancel all of their upcoming promotional tour dates for their upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, which will be released on September 15, 2009.
The group might have missed the All Points West festival in New York City last weekend but the other acts showed that the Beastie Boys were never far from anyone’s mind with Coldplay’s Chris Martin playing “(You’ve Got to) Fight For Your …read more