
MCA had nothing to prove Adam Yauch always seemed like the coolest guy in the room. He did not resemble a hip hop icon. He was the punk rocker in the Beastie Boys' early days, a billy goat bearded snowboarder in the late eighties/early nineties, a Buddhist and social activist for the remainder of his career, and then a middle-aged hip hop godfather who left before the curtain dropped. Yauch and his mates, Mike Diamond and Adam Horowitz, could have packed [...]
Watch Kid Rock, Travie McCoy and The Roots pay tribute to Rock and Rock Hall of Fame inductees' Beastie Boys.

The 27th annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions took place in Cleveland Saturday night, and while there were a lot of no shows - Faces' Rod Stewart, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, Chili Pepper John Frusciante, and Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose, Dizzy Reed, and Izzy Stradlin - only Axl's absence was booed by fans (according to Rolling Stone ). Duff McKagan, Slash, Gilby Clarke, Matt Sorum, Steven Adler, and Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy (in place of Axl) performed some of GN'R's biggest hits anyway, and we've got some fan-shot [...]
So Guns N' Roses were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend, despite

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2012 was formally inducted on Saturday night. Now, you can watch clips from the ceremony, including performances by Guns N' Roses and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a tribute to Beastie Boys. With Axl Rose choosing to boycott the band's induction, Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy joined the rest of Guns N' Roses for a three-song performance of "Mr. Brownstone", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and "Paradise City". Ex-guitarist John Frusciante was nowhere to be found, but Red Hot Chili Peppers did reunite with [...]