Blog: Pretty Much Amazing

Let's start off with the Beastie Boys. The boys are finishing up their 8th studio album, and its apparently shaping up to be a "pretty weird" one, says lead rapper Adam Yauch. Far from their all-instrumental album The Mix-Up, this one includes "a lot of rhyming and playing and sampling - all combined." It should be pretty cool...thanks to Entertainment Weekly for the heads-up. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new album was prematurely evaluated over at Stereogum , and they seem to like it. A lot. Judging from the first two singles, [...]