Beastie Boys

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, February 17-23 02/18/2012

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Todd Clouser's a Love Electric Announces Us Tour Dates to Support "20th Century Folk Selections" 02/15/2012

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Adds Six Backing Groups to the Class of 2012 02/08/2012

MTV Resurrects "Yo! MTV Raps" With Special to Air Feb. 19 01/27/2012

Neil Young Backs Occupy Audio, Announces New Crazy Horse Album 01/24/2012

As the first white rap group of any importance, the Beastie Boys received the scorn of critics and strident hip-hop musicians, who accused them of cultural pirating, especially since they began as a hardcore punk group in 1981. But the Beasties weren't pirating -- they treated rap as part of a post-punk musical underground, where the do-it-yourself aesthetics of hip-hop and punk weren't that far ...more