In 2006 — nearly 20 years removed from their debut, Licensed to Ill, and two-plus years since their previous album, To the Five Boroughs — the Beastie Boys entered the studio with the intent of ...

Rather than sit through whatever some sound guy puts on shuffle all night, fans will be treated to the world-class talents of the groundbreaking DJ instead. Metallica announced the news in a statement ...

If you’re looking for proof positive that persistence pays off look no further than the quest of Mix Master Mike, the DMC World DJ Championship-winning turntablist (in both 1992 and 1993) who’d been ...

Returning to a style dabbled in with 1996’s “The In Sound From Way Out!,” the Beastie Boys will release an instrumental album, “The Mix-Up,” June 26 via Capitol. Returning to a style dabbled in with ...

Now that Bad Brains have built a Nation and returned towering Beastie Boy MCA, a.k.a. Adam Yauch, the Boys have kick started their PR machine, announcing The Mix Up, the trio’s forthcoming album ...

“It took a lot of balls.” Mix Master Mike (né Michael Schwartz) recalls the courage it took to call up the Beastie Boys, who by the late ’90s were bona fide rap superstars, and leave multiple messages ...

In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop, the award-winning turntablist also explains why Beasties initially turned down Rock Hall honor. “I just need to take a little time to get this in check, and ...

We’ve all rocked out to 'Sabotage' and 'Fight for Your Right (to Party)' but New York City’s finest have even harder rocking songs to offer. The 'Beastie Boys Book' comes in at 592 pages with a ...

The West Coast DJ remixes the theme song for Cartoon Network's new series. By Stephanie Chan Mix Master Mike - H 2013 Not only was Mike thrilled to take on the project, certain family members were as ...

Beastie Boys have been casting about for nearly a decade, trying to figure out what to do for their career’s third act. This all-instrumental album feels less like a redefinition than a placeholder ...

The Beastie Boys have sustained their career for more than two decades with word of mouth, so to speak -- that is, the impolite raps that the three New Yorkers deliver with brazen, bratty aplomb. But ...

New York began for me, a Philly schoolboy, the same way it did for out-of-town skaters and college students, graffiti artists, sculptors, stockbrokers, gym teachers, sanitation workers, B-boys, DJs, ...