Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and more: readers share their...
To commemorate Michael Jackson’s Bad album turning 30 this week, we asked you for other albums from 1987 that still mean something to youThis week marks 30 years since Michael Jackson’s Bad album...
View ArticleDuetting with the dead – even harder than it sounds
Everyone thinks there’s a quick buck to be made repackaging the music of deceased megastars. But what about the estates of artists that don’t want to cash in?Christmas brings with it the usual baubles....
View ArticleNine women accuse playwright Israel Horovitz of sexual misconduct
Horovitz departs from the Gloucester Stage Company as his son, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, issues statement saying ‘I believe the allegations are true’Award-winning playwright-screenwriter Israel...
View ArticleBeastie Boys to publish long-awaited memoir
Announced in 2013, the autobiography will be ‘unlike any other music book’ according to Mike D of the hip-hop trioThe two remaining members of the Beastie Boys, Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam...
View ArticleSelfies! Smoking! Snogging! Why pop stars love a house party
From Beastie Boys to Beyoncé, we explore music videos’ enduring obsession with red cups and riotous shower scenesThe house party has been a pop video staple since the Beastie Boys’ 1986 classic (You...
View ArticleLorde's US tour has flopped – but it might be the making of her | Laura Snapes
The New Zealand star is playing to arenas that are only a third full. But dropping out of pop’s upper echelons may give her the long future she deservesAfter the Grammy awards snubbed Lorde in January...
View ArticleBeats, bucks and bling: the first stars of hip-hop – in pictures
A new exhibition of street shots from the 1980s captures everyone who was anyone in the early days of hip-hop, from Biz Markie to Run DMC and Rock Steady CrewContinue reading...
View ArticleExtract: The Beastie Boys hit London, 1986 - ‘Yauch taught Mick Jones how to...
In this extract from Beastie Boys Book, Adam Horovitz recalls three young rap hooligans on the loose in the UK capital• Read Miranda Sawyer’s interview with Mike Diamond and Adam HorovitzSo… early...
View ArticleBeastie Boys: ‘Being in a band… it’s an absurd comedy’
Between breaks from goofing around, the two surviving members of the band talk about writing a new memoir, their rollercoaster career and coming to terms with the loss of Adam Yauch• Read an extract...
View ArticleBeastie Boys Story: inside the offbeat, heartfelt stage show from Spike Jonze
The visionary director transports a feast of tidbits and anecdotes to the stage with innovation and genuine heartWhen Adam Horovitz, otherwise known as Ad-Rock, was at a 1992 gig in San Francisco with...
View Article‘The public has a right to art’: the radical joy of Keith Haring
Colourful and cartoonish, accessible and political, Keith Haring’s work has never gone out of fashion. But what drove him?• ‘He has changed things’: Keith Haring remembered by those who knew himThough...
View ArticleCassius's Philippe Zdar dies in fall from Paris building
French producer worked for acts including Phoenix, Kanye West and the Beastie BoysThe French DJ and producer Philippe Zdar has died after accidentally falling from a building in Paris, his agent has...
View ArticleBowie's gnome and Dr Dre's hospital: musicians' embarrassing early songs
Pop duo Tegan and Sara have re-recorded their high school songs – and they’re not the only songwriters to have started youngMusic is, for most people, a learning curve. The more you write and play, the...
View ArticleThe week in podcasts: Mortem; Over the Road; The Space Programme
Exploring unusual subjects, from autopsies to the minutiae of long-haul truckingMortem | BBC SoundsOver the Road | radiotopia.fmThe Space Programme | funkidslive.comAn intriguing new series on BBC...
View ArticleBeastie Boys Story review – Spike Jonze and the boys are back in town
Ad-Rock and Mike D host a convivial trip down memory lane in this filmed record of a live show staged in tribute to third member Adam YauchThe release of this documentary coincides with #MeAt20, a...
View ArticleStreaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season
The director’s new Beastie Boys doc is the latest twist in a singular career that ranges from the Oscar-winning Her to adverts and pop videos. What better time to seek out his best work online...It’s...
View ArticleRicky Powell, hip-hop photographer who captured New York culture, dies aged 59
Photographer who documented Def Jam artists as well as Madonna, Andy Warhol and more was known for his longstanding work with the Beastie BoysPhotographer Ricky Powell, who captured images of New...
View ArticleDef Jam: how a new British imprint of the iconic rap label poached Stormzy
Only 6% of music industry execs are Black. That system fails artists, say the founders of 0207 Def Jam, whose uniquely diverse boardroom aims to change the culture – for goodRick Rubin’s initial...
View ArticleRick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book
The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’Rick Rubin, founder of Def Jam Records and the most highly regarded music...
View ArticleKabul to California: how the ‘hip-hop family’ mobilised for young Afghans
With breakdancers, artists and parkourists facing a bleak future under the Taliban, a global network stepped in to help, drawing on the activist spirit of rap cultureA veteran of the hip-hop scene and...
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