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Adam Yauch RIP, Best Coast, Beach House, Cat vs Fish   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, May 07, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

ADAM YAUCH, a/k/a MCA, a rapper and founder of the pioneering and multimillion-selling hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on Friday in Manhattan after a battle with salivary gland cancer. He was 47. The Beasties brand expanded well beyond music: with their own magazine and record label, Grand Royal; with the social activism of Mr. Yauch's Milarepa Foundation, which produced an international series of Tibetan Freedom Concerts; and with work in film, as Mr. Yauch (calling himself Nathanial Hörnblowér) directed Beastie Boys videos and went on to start Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company.  New York Magazine ran a meaty oral history of the Beasties to mark the 25th anniversary of License to Ill.  Pitchfork rounds up video highlights...or maybe you want to listen to Paul's Boutique.

BEST COAST is advance streaming The Only Place.

BEACH HOUSE is advance streaming Bloom.

THE CRIBS are advance streaming In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull.

THE GOSSIP are advance streaming A Joyful Noise.

DR. DOG  drops a new video for "Lonesome."

BIG STAR'S THIRD: How do you perform an album so shrouded in mystery it doesn't have an official title or running order?  Mitch Easter and friends are going to try. (The LP and demos are embedded at trhe link.)

JAPANDROIDS talk to Rolling Stone about surviving a breakup and a perforated ulcer, and covering the Gun Club. 

FRIENDLY FIRES drummer Jack Savidge and lead guitarist Ed Gibson talk to State about their experience during this extensive tour, college prom memories, and their upcoming festival headliner gigs. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to The Age about globe-trotting and more...

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Marvel's The Avengers opens with 200.3 million -- shattering the all-time opening record like Thor's hammer or a giant, green Hulk.  How smashing a smash, you ask? The final Harry Potter's prior record was 169.2 million.  How smashing? Until Spider-man appeared a decade or so ago, no film had grossed 100 million in three days.  Moreover, The Avengers opened overseas before this bonanza, giving it a 641 million worldwide total in 12 days of release.  How did the puny humans do?  Think Like A Man drops to the second slot with 8 million and a 73 million total against a 12 million budget.  The Hunger Games shows with 5.7 million and $380 million domestic against a 78 million budget.  The Lucky One holds in fourth with 5.5 million (48 million total).  The Pirates! Band of Misfits rounds out the Top 5 with 5.4 million and a 18.6 million domestic total against a 55 million budget (though this one raked in big bucks overseas).

LINDSAY LOHAN will not be prosecuted for allegedly committing a hit-and-run in Hollywood in March.And she's not back with Samantha Ronson. But she was spotted with... Woody Allen.

AMANDA BYNES was involved in another hit and run in Hollywood.

KIM KARDASHIAN's lawyer blames Kris Humphries for dragging out his own divorce.

HALLE BERRY's ex, Gabriel Aubry, is asking a judge for a half a million bucks in attorney fees and 20K in monthly child support, a substantial increase in what he is getting currently.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE  has admitted he cannot live down looking like a ‘moron’ during his time as a member of 'N Sync.

MIRA SORVINO and husband Christopher Backus welcomed their fourth child, a baby girl named Lucia, on Thursday in L.A.

DENNIS QUAID's wife has officially withdrawn her divorce papers.

GEORGE LINDSEY, who made a TV career as a grinning service station attendant named Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died after a brief illness. He was 83.

TERROR in the USA: Maryland resident Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, a Pakistani citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, in the "Jihad Jane" case.

FRANCE: An Algerian-born particle physicist at the Cern laboratory, has been sentenced to five years in prison for plotting al Qaeda attacks in France.

GERMANY: Terrorism charges were brought against a Moroccan who headed an al Qaeda cell in Dusseldorf that planned Mumbai-type attacks in Europe.

IRAN said on Friday it will never suspend its uranium enrichment program and sees no reason to close the Fordow underground site. Iranians voted on Friday in a run-off parliamentary election in which allies of hardline Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hoped to complete victory over Pres. Ahmadinejad, a conservative increasingly criticized by the clerical elite.  And Tran isn't even bothering to do their own Photoshoped missile tests anymore.

EGYPTIAN security forces and plainclothed men clashed with thousands of protestors in downtown Cairo on Friday, killing at least one person and leaving hundreds wounded.

AfPAK: As the Taliban kicks off its spring fighting season in Afghanistan, an agreement with Pakistan that would help NATO supply its troops there could be weeks or months away, forcing military leaders to spend two-and-a-half times as much to ship some supplies through Central Asia.

CAT vs FISH: Who you got?

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent tested positive for the plague near San Diego.

A MAN AND HIS MONKEY were busted in a DUI incident. No word on whether the monkey was also drunk.

A LION tried hard to eat a small boy at the Portland Zoo.

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