I can’t claim that I knew much about Don Cornelius, but it’s always sad when the world loses a creative spirit. His death inspired me to watch old clips, one of which I thought was fitting enough to share. Twice in the middle of their performance of the Paul’s Boutique classic “Shadrach,” the Beastie Boys [...]

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#30: Fishboy – Classic Creeps MP3: Fishboy – Aaron the Afterthought Astronaut I don’t know which I find more impressive: that this album effortlessly weaves witticisms through incredible melody or that the entire album tells a complexly involved story. It’s easy to be dismissive of some pop records, but labels like “simplistic” just don’t stick [...]

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2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here’s fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]

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The Beastie Boys have some insanely great, absolutely classic music videos out there — the zany “Body Movin,” the underrated “Shadrach” and influential “Sabotage” among them — but “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” is up there with some of the best. See the B Boys and Santi get all GI Joe on [...]

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Seems so obvious that Major Lazer would remix the Beastie Boy’s Santogold collaboration “Don’t Play No Game” that I’m surprised we didn’t hear it sooner. I guess they wanted to hold back on releasing it until now so they could promote the June 21 release of Hot Sauce Committee on vinyl. Beastle Boys + Santogold: [...]

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After hours in travel, half an hour in traffic (a miracle!) and a good bit of time setting up the tent and sweating it out in the sun, Bonnaroo 2011 has begun! It’s been a surprisingly smooth start to the day, given the 3 hours of sleep I had last night. I’ve photographed a few [...]

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I loved Z-Trip’s 23-minute Beastie Boys remix so much that I’ll take this goofy video as an opportunity to post about it again. Check out the video and then download the remix.

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Today was fantastic. Spent hours at the Cincinnati Zoo seeing baby animals doing incredible things — it was the baby giraffe’s second day out! — and then ate at a fantastic local restaurant. What should the third part to this great day be? A mix of some of my favorite rappers by one of my [...]

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I know the Beastie Boys’ album is already streaming, but it’s always good to highlight a standout track. Nah Right has “Don’t Play No Game I Can’t Win.” Check out the Beastie Boys/Santogold collaboration Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 is out May 3. Stream the whole thing on Soundcloud

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