worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
The whole oral history is fantastic, with observations from Thurston Moore, Molly Ringwald, Rick Rubin, Run, DMC, Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains), Tabitha Soren, Kate Schellenbach and Chuck Eddy, among others.
Say It.
Oh yes. I heard a little bit of this in Fight For Your Right Revisited and was more than a little turned on.
Make Some Noise
This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. Enjoy
Mike
While the rest of hip hop insists on telling you how they party, Beastie tracks continues to be a party.
dj BC and The Beastles - Buildin’ My Life
from Let It Beast
Beastie Boys - Body Movin’
Are Beastie Boys music videos good enough to warrant a two disc Criterion Collection set?
Absofuckinglutely.
It’s a great set, with multiple angles and multiple audio tracks containing remixes and acapela versions.
Beastie Boys - Root Down (Free Zone Mix by the Prunes)
from Root Down EP (1995)
Let’s Eat Carrots Together
My first and only continuous mix. It’s about nine years old and incorporates tracks from:
- Massive Attack
- Tricky
- Gorillaz
- Bowery Electric
- Sofa Surfers
- Beastie Boys
- P’taah
- Miles Davis + DJ Cam
- Wagon Christ
- Tortoise
- Cibo Matto
- Deltron 3030
- The Roots w/ Erykah Badu
- Handsome Boy Modeling School
It’s 55 minutes long and can be downloaded here.
Beastie Boys - Finger Lickin Good
from Check Your Head
As great as Paul’s Boutique was, both for the band and for hip hop, I think Check Your Head was the first record that painted an accurate picture of the Beasties. It showed us what they were capable of. Their DIY/punk aesthetic came through for the first time. And it was just all over the place. It’s the record that solidified their status as an anomaly, and for reasons that go far beyond the color of their skin. As was also true of Public Enemy, the entirety of their influences and their output was just so different from everything else that it couldn’t help but influence the next 20 years of music.
For more about Check Your Head, consult your local library. Or just grab the band’s full-album audio commentary here.
The Scott & Gary Show was a public access show in New York City in the 80s. For their 1984 Valentine’s Day show, they had on the original 4 members of the Beastie Boys: some rowdy teens making a name for themselves around town. This is that show.
(via punknews)
That’s Kate Schellenbach, later of Luscious Jackson, on drums. Here’s what I believe is The Beasties’ most recent televised performance.
Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC
Nobody stokes my NYC pride like the Beasties.
(via @sarahmaclean)
Jay-Z (covering Beastie Boys) at All Point West Music Festival.
Nice high quality audio and video of the Jay-Z/No Sleep Till Brooklyn performance that’s been making the rounds.
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New Music! Beastie Boys (feat. Nas) - “Too Many Rappers”
First single off the Beasties upcoming studio LP, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1 — their first to feature vocals since 2004’s To the 5 Boroughs — presently slated for release September 15, 2009.
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I like the cover art.
