Blog: The Smoking Section

Cancer be damned, the Beastie Boys are going to continue making music. When Beastie Adam Yauch indicated in 2009 that he did, indeed, have the disease , all hopes for their album’s 2009 release — which would become 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part II — were instantaneously abandoned. So, too, were hopes for another record chalk full of spit-in-your-face braggadocio, bong rip samples and their all-encompassing boom-bap funk. However, this past spring fully bloomed with the news that the three Brooklynites would be releasing the aforementioned project. Although the whimsicality of Hot Sauce’s [...]