Beastie Boys
Kim Gordon's Body/Head & Ad-Rock @ MoMA (pics)
Kim Gordon‘s current band Body/Head continued their marathon of local shows at MoMA last night (11/21), following the IPR benefit they played last week…
Ad-Rock rapping & writing w/ Champagne Jerry, DJing MoMA instead of Kathleen Hanna (whose movie is coming out)
Kathleen Hanna isn’t feeling well, so her husband Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock will be filling in for her as DJ at MoMA’s Pop Rally event tonight (11/21)…
Dave Hill & Phil Anselmo made a show for Adult Swim; Ad-Rock plays bass in Bridget Everett's band who play Joe's Pub (and Outside Lands with Dave Hill)
Who are Bridget Everett & the Tender Moments? To quote the NY Times:Multiply the mouthy, flesh-jiggling early Bette Midler by one hundred, give her the super-plus-size figure and fashion sense of Divine, the John Waters diva, and the manners of a Flintstone, and you’ve got a rough approximation of Bridget Everett, the alt-cabaret star who roared around the stage of Joe’s Pub…
Adam Yauch Park officially open in Brooklyn Heights
(via @ascap_music)
(via @allieharper13)
Palmetto Playground on Columbia Street in Brooklyn Heights was officially rechristened Adam Yauch Park this morning in a ceremony attended by Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz (aka Ad-Rock), Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Frances Yauch, the mother of Adam (aka MCA) who died on May 4, 2012…
Brooklyn Playground being renamed for Adam Yauch; 'MCA Day' on Saturday; Ad-Rock & Mike D writing memoir
In honor of Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, who passed away last year, Brooklyn’s Palmetto Playground on Columbia Street in Brooklyn Heights will be renamed after him…
Flying Lotus lists his top 10 Criterion Collection DVDs; Captain Murphy playing SXSW 2013
Flying Lotus at LPR in October (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Flying Lotus, whose great Until the Quiet Comes has been getting the credit it deserves on year-end lists recently tweeted that he’ll be in Austin this March for SXSW 2013…
Mike D spent his birthday helping out in Rockaway Beach
Mike D & Sam Talbot working a grill in the Rockaways (cheftalbot20)
Thanks to Richard Young for pointing us to this picture of Beastie Boy Mike D helping out on his 46th birthday in Rockaway Beach yesterday (11/20)…
Hurricane Sandy benefits happening at Brooklyn Bowl and The Bell House tonight
To help benefit Hurricane Sandy Relief, Brooklyn Bowl and Oscilloscope Laboratories are teaming up to present a benefit tonight (11/5) at Brooklyn Bowl with screenings of Beastie Boys short film Fight For Your Right Revisited and LCD Soundsystem film Shut Up and Play the Hits with “full concert sound…
Blondie played State Theatre & Capitol Theatre (pics, review)
Anarchy symbols, peace signs, skulls, and other images lit up the high walls and ceilings of Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre last night (10/7) as Blondie came out for their third NYC area show (and final date) of the tour they’d been on since September…
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, ShowYouSuck, The Right Now & more to pay tribute to MCA @ Lincoln Hall
On Monday (7/2) Chicago musicians will join together to celebrate the life and music of the late great Adam “MCA” Yauch with a tribute concert at Lincoln Hall…
