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Filed under: The Hit List A musician with a theme song? Don't all artists' songs represent? While that might be the case, so many of our favorite bands rep themselves and reference themselves in their lyrics, we thought we'd take a look at the different strategies performers enlisted to define themselves, describe themselves and make their mark. 'Theme From The Monkees,' The Monkees "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees" states [...]

Filed under: News , New Music Don't expect the Beastie Boys long-awaited album, 'Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1,' before the end of the year. In a new update on the band's e-mail list, Adam Yauch told fans that the disc won't see release until the first half of 2010 and offered a detailed status on his ongoing cancer treatment and recovery. "So I just got back from Dharamsala, India," Yauch wrote. "[I] went over there to see some Tibetan doctors, but as it worked [...]

Filed under: The Hit List Nobody made you go around wearing UFOs and sucking a pacifier after you got smart enough to drop those duds. But despite the pop star high life, musicians don't have the luxury to abandon ship. Fans don't care if a star is misunderstood, or past that particular phase. The audience pays, so the musician plays. Here's how some handled it. Beastie Boys , 'Fight for Your Right (to Party)' [...]

Filed under: News The Beastie Boys ' Adam Yauch is now in recovery after undergoing surgery to address the cancerous tumor in his left parotid gland that he announced last month . Yauch -- aka MCA -- provided an optimistic and appreciative post-op update to fans in an e-mail blast early Wednesday. "So I'm about a week and a half out of surgery now and rapidly recovering from it," Yauch wrote. "I haven't taken any of the pain meds, which supposedly speeds along the healing process, or [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive All Points West kicks off Friday with Jay-Z taking over the spot that was originally meant for the Beastie Boys . And while it's one New Yorker admirably stepping in for another, the festival's founder Paul Tollett tells Spinner that finding a fill-in for the Beasties is a tough task. "It is hard to replace the Beastie Boys because as a band, people identify with them so much," Tollett says. After Adam Yauch's cancer announcement , [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell The Beastie Boys revealed today that Adam Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his parotid gland. The trio will postpone all tour dates and the release of its upcoming album, 'Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1,' as Yauch undergoes treatment. Sitting alongside member Adam Horovitz, Yauch made the announcement in a video clip on the group's official Web site . Yauch said that for the past two months he'd been feeling a lump in his throat like he had a [...]

On their 1986 debut album, 'License to Ill,' the Beastie Boys boasted "If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page " and sampled riffs from Led Zeppelin 's catalog. 23 years and seven albums later, the grey-haired rappers are shifting their sights from a guitar hero to a more mellow but equally iconic legend -- Bob Dylan . The Beasties included some of Dylan's music on the song 'Finger Lickin' Good,' but a new sample they plan to use comes from props Dylan gave the trio on his XM Satellite show, 'Theme [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The Beastie Boys took to Bonnaroo 's main stage on Friday night for a mixed set of old-school crowd pleasers like 'No Sleep till Brooklyn' and full live-instrument assaults like, say, 'Sabotage.' Nothing shocking there. But a big surprise did come midway through the set when the Beastie Boys welcomed Nas to the stage to showcase a new song from their forthcoming album, 'Hot Sauce Committee.' After his sit-in, the Beasties honored a request from [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Austin City Limits has announced the line-up for their eighth annual shindig in, you guessed it, Austin, TX. And the headliners are (you guessed it): Pearl Jam , Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys . If you're feeling deja vu, we're with you on that one -- San Francisco's Outside Lands recently announced those exact three headliners. Additionally, the Beastie Boys are headed to this year's Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza (while Pearl Jam has anchored both of [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Pearl Jam , Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys will headline the second annual Outside Lands, which returns to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, for three days beginning August 28. Other notable performers include Incubus , M.I.A. , Mars Volta , Modest Mouse , Black Eyed Peas and a highly-anticipated set by Jack White 's newest band Dead Weather (featuring members of the Raconteurs , Queens of the [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Who wants to go to Jersey? The All Points West Music and Arts Festival will be coming back to the Garden State this year with an even better lineup than last year's inaugural version. Beginning Friday, July 31st, the three day event will feature the Beastie Boys , Tool and Coldplay as the nightly headliners, respectively. The concert will be held in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, which features views of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. [...]

Filed under: News , Album The Beastie Boys are putting the finishing touches on a new studio album, which is tentatively titled 'Tadlock's Glasses.' Bassist/vocalist Adam Yauch says the upcoming disc -- expected later this year -- has taken the trio in a "bizarre" new direction. "We're tweaking some mixes and we're going to master it in the next couple of weeks," Yauch tells the BBC . "There are a lot of songs on the record and there are a lot of short songs, and they kind [...]

Filed under: News , Campaignwatch Spinner.com : The Beastie Boys will hit the road later this month for a series of select dates as part of their 'Swing State Voter Awareness Tour.' Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Crosby and Nash, Santogold and Tenacious D will support the band... Read more