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Sober Clubbing Brews Fresh Beat For Singapore Gen Z

Swaying to dance music and TikTok-fuelled pop under a disco ball, young punters are packed shoulder to shoulder while sipping on coffee, their energy powered by pour-overs rather than pints.

International Business Times

Beastie Boys reach out-of-court settlement with Chili’s over ‘unauthorized’ use of ‘Sabotage’

The band sued the restaurant’s parent company Brinker International last year

The Independent UK

“Um, I’ve been wanting to hook up with you maybe on some tracks? I turned my turntables into a wah-wah pedal…” How Mix Master Mike’s answerphone audition grabbed him the The Beastie Boys gig and kicked off one of their best tracks

Thought that the 3 MCs and One DJ intro was some in-studio scam? Nope. That’s the real deal right there

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"I certainly did not imagine that a son of mine would get rich from being obnoxious!" In 1987, the Beastie Boys were portrayed as the world's most outrageous, offensive band, a danger to civilised society. Their parents found it all hugely amusing

"If World War Three was declared tomorrow I'm sure we'd get the blame," Beastie Boys' Mike D once said. His mum Hester told parents not to panic

Louder

“I co-wrote most of everything on the Beastie Boys album”: Rick Rubin on his greatest hits of the ’80s - from the Beasties to Roy Orbison

Plus: his pick for the greatest rock 'n' roll producer of all time

MusicRadar

Beastie Boys broke open their gold record to play it –only to be confronted by piano covers of Barry Manilow "and some other shit"

Studio shenanigans were fairly standard for the Beastie Boys, but this stunt left them more than a little confused

Louder

"I have no technical ability, and I know nothing about music": Solving the mystery of Rick Rubin, the superproducer who says he doesn’t know how to use a mixing desk

How can a producer that's worked with Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash and Jay-Z have no technical ability - and is he a fraud, or a genius?

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“I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, ‘cause now I would be a rich man”: Slayer’s Kerry King on what he regrets about his solo on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn

King reveals how he ended up playing on the Beastie Boys and Sum 41's records

Guitar World

Beastie Boys sue Chili’s over ‘unauthorized’ use of ‘Sabotage’

Adam Horovitz ‘Ad Rock’ and Mike ‘Mike D’ Diamond say restaurant chain used song and spoofed video without permission

The Independent UK

"I came out in that knight costume to God Save The Queen...The Queen died like a week later.” A conversation with Joey Valance & Brae, the duo finally bringing some fun back to hip hop

We talk to the hip hop tag team bringing some much needed silly energy back to rap

Louder

“Bass from the back of my car feels soothing. A Cadillac Fleetwood is what I'm using”: Check out the Beasties’ cool set of wheels

The Beastie Boys reveal their cool Cadillac with the DAT sound system

MusicRadar

“No Anchorman, no Wes Anderson, and no Lonely Island if Sabotage did not exist”: New Vevo Footnotes version of Beasties Boys' landmark vid unleashed

New Vevo Footnotes version of the Beastie Boys Sabotage video

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"They daubed the walls of their hotel in human excrement": Remembering how Britain lost its mind when confronted with the Beastie Boys for the first time

On March 7, 1987, Beastie Boys' debut Licensed to Ill became the first rap album to top the US Charts. Two months later, the trio visited Britain for the first time, and things got wild

Louder

Hi Octane: Sofia Coppola’s starry 90s series feels like a gen X fever dream

Starring Keanu Reeves, the Beastie Boys and Anna Wintour, this hypnotic Comedy Central series shows the Priscilla director’s early talents

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"It's like the universe had this incredible power to affect my ear and make me stay in one place": How an ear infection birthed Licensed to Ill's groundbreaking production and drove the Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin apart

A look back at the Beastie Boys' rocky relationship with the bearded superproducer

Guitar World

“Springsteen taught me how to write songs, but Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi and Sonic Youth taught me how to play those songs I’d learned to write”: Brian Fallon is breaking out the guitar solos for The Gaslight Anthem’s second coming

Brian Fallon and co. bring the noise – and the solos – on their first album since reforming. And they invited Bruce Springsteen along for the ride

The Conversation

How the sounds of 'Succession' shred the grandeur and respect the characters so desperately try to project

HBO’s “Succession” delivered its grand finale on May 28, 2023 – the climax of four award-packed seasons of searing put-downs, nihilistic humor and desperate power plays.

Metal Hammer

Time For Livin': How Check Your Head brought Beastie Boys back from the dead

Released on April 21, 1992, the kaleidoscopic, irreverent Check Your Head saw the Beastie Boys tap into their punk roots, silence haters and become kings of their own ultra-cool universe

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