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The closest I've come to reaching an understanding with death is this: death is a long echo. It’s deafening at first and as soon as you think the echo has faded, some thing comes along and pings it back into your life. And when death creeps into music it’s like an echo chamber. Maybe it rattles in the rests of Jeff Buckley songs, or lives inside Notorious B.I.G.’s words, or hangs on every Elliott Smith note. Chuck Klosterman tried to write about the mysticism of death in rock 'n' roll in his book Killing Yourself To Live , only [...]

As you might have heard yesterday, Brooklyn, N.Y. officially has one of the best parks in the world: Adam Yauch Park. That's right, the NYC borough renamed one of its parks after the late Beastie Boys rapper, who passed away tragically one year ago today. And during the dedication ceremony, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz gave a moving speech that might leave you feeling choked up if not in tears. I don't blame you if you just listen to the Beasties for the rest of today. Watch the speech below.

Yesterday, New York Parks & Recreation opened the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights, on the same site that the musician, producer, humanitarian and MC used to play as a child. It's a year on from the artist's untimely death from salivary gland cancer and much respect is still being paid to his life and work, who under the moniker MCA along with Mike 'Mike D' Diamond and Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz, founded the legendary NYC hip-hop act Beastie Boys . Hundreds of artists and bands as diverse as Coldplay, [...]

Filed under: News , Music Appreciation Late Beastie Boys member Adam "MCA" Yauch is getting a New York City park named after him. City officials are turning the Brooklyn Heights-area Palmetto Playground into "Adam Yauch Playground." The rapper, who died at age 47 due to throat cancer, actually used to hang out in the park. The local Brooklyn Heights Blog had been advocating for the park name-change and was on hand [...]

This morning, Brooklyn's Palmetto Playground was rechristened to Adam Yauch Park, after the Beastie Boys member who died of throat cancer one year ago tomorrow. In attendance were Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz, Yauch's mother, Beastie Boys manager John Silva, Brooklyn President Marty Markowitz, and several other city officials. Dale W. Eisinger was there to capture the ceremony - his photos are below. Tomorrow marks the second annual  MCA Day , which will take place at Brooklyn’s  Littlefield  on Saturday. Rare photographs and fan art will be on display as members of the Dynamic Rockers and other DJs spin [...]

newsweek : A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy. [ via ]

Hoaxes: We've all fallen for them at one point or another. As technology gets smarter, society moves faster, and the industry burns brighter, substantial facts take up a volley of time that few souls ever embrace. Double checking, for many, is consulting another site or Twitter handle; the thread to sources short, thin, and likely intangible. For the entertainment industry, hoaxes have always existed - after all, everyone wants a good laugh. Rather, they've grown more complicated and harder to distinguish, which means countless troublemakers are cackling these days. Consequence of Sound isn't [...]

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Adam "MCA" Yauch murió a causa de cancer en mayo de 2012. A un año de su muerte, Adam "MCA" Yauch recibirá honores en su natal Brooklyn con dos eventos que se llevarán a cabo este fin de semana. El primer será el viernes 3 de mayo, donde se renombrará el parque Palmetto Playground , donde solía jugar de niño. Ahora este lugar se conocerá como Adam Yauch Playground . El segundo será el sábado, cuándo se celebre el segundo día anual  MCA Day , donde habrá expuestas fotografías desconocidas del rapero, [...]

Adam Yauch de Beastie Boys será honrado a un año de su fallecimiento Este sábado se cumple el primer aniversario del fallecimiento prematuro de Adam Yauch . En su ciudad natal de Brooklyn se harán dos actos en honor a su legado. De acuerdo con The New York Post , el Palmetto Playground de Brooklyn Heights será rebautizado como "Adam Yauch Playground". La ceremonia tendrá lugar el viernes. La propuesta para cambiar el nombre fue impulsado por los fans en las redes sociales, principalmente por la vocalista de Bikini [...]

The New York Post reports that the borough of Brooklyn is about to rename Palmetto Playground, on State Street in Brooklyn Heights, after Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, who died last year . Yauch was a Brooklyn Heights native, and the idea to rename the playground came from a blog post that became a Facebook campaign; it's a rare case of local government officials looking at an internet thing and saying, in effect, "Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good idea." Surviving Beasties Ad-Rock and Mike D are expected to join city officials at a renaming ceremony [...]

Fight for your right to party, kids, as a childrens playground in Brooklyn is set to be renamed in honour of late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch . The hip-hop star passed away at the age of 47 last May, but now the New York park formerly known as the 'Palmetto Playground' will be redubbed the 'Adam Yauch Playground' to mark one year of his death. Adam Yauch Playground would be a much more fitting name since he actually hung out there, and it [...]

This Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Adam Yauch' s untimely passing. In his hometown of Brooklyn, there will be two events honoring his lasting legacy. On Friday, Brooklyn Heights' Palmetto Playground will be renamed to "Adam Yauch Playground," according to The New York Post . The movement to rename Yauch's childhood park was driven by fans on social media, led by Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna.  Beastie Boys bandmates Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond are expected to join city officials at the renaming ceremony. Then [...]

Mike D  y Ad-Rock firmaron un contrato con la imprenta Spiegel & Grau para publicar una memoria de la legendaria banda de hip hop. El libro, que será editado por la periodista  Sacha Jenkins , saldrá a la venta durante el 2015 y, según admitió la propia autora, estará estructurado como "una historia oral" . Asimismo, Jenkins reveló que tenía pensado escribir este libro antes de la muerte de Adam Yauch   y, cuando la terrible noticia [...]

Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys, are co-authoring a memoir of their time in one of the most important hip-hop acts of the past three decades. According to the New York Times , the book will be less of a conventional tell-all and more of an "oral history," complete with a "strong visual component." It's not clear exactly what that will entail, but there are some standout moments from the Beastie Boys' career that fans will no doubt be expecting to hear about in Diamond [...]

Adam Yauch A casi un año de la muerte de  Adam Yauch , los miembros restantes de los  Beastie Boys escribirán un libro sobre la banda, según reporta el periódico The New York Times a través de una entrevista con Julie Grau , encargado de publicar este proyecto, el cual llegará a las tiendas en 2015 a través de Spiegel & Grau , imprenta que forma parte de Random House . Este libro, aún sin nombre, será escrito por los mismos Ad-Rock y Mike D [...]

Michael Diamond (a.k.a Mike D ) and Adam Horovitz ( Ad-Rock ), the surviving members of the Beastie Boys , have signed a deal with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, for a book celebrating the life and times of one of the music world's most influential and groundbreaking bands. The book is as-yet untitled, but publisher is expected to be release the retrospective in the fall of 2015. Spiegel & Grau's publisher Julie Grau told the New York Times that the book deal had been discussed [...]

It has been nearly a year since Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys passed, so it is only right this fantastic animated tribute popped up to pay respect. The video goes along with an upcoming London art show held by artist James Curran that will apparently hold 35 prints that will be up for sale. I assume those 35 prints will have something to do with the art shown during these lovable animations. Proceeds from the event will go to cancer patients. [ via ] You can watch the video below and check out artist James Curran's [...]

With the year beginning to draw to a close, and with only a bare handful os Sundays left for 2012 Slaylists, this week we're turning out attention to those we've lost in 2012. We're talking about the bands that have either broken up or gone on hiatus, as well as the more serious subject of musicians who sadly died at some point over the last 12 months. The first half of this week's Sunday Spotify Slaylist are bands that fall into those first two categories - bands that either finally [...]

Celebrating the official entrance of The Beastie Boys to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

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