Stereogum — Next month, the Beastie Boys Book will be released. It's a memoir compiled by Ad-Rock and Mike D, with contributions from a ton of notable people, and it features rare photos and original illustrations, a cookbook, a map of the Beastie Boys' New Yo... more info

USA Today Music — No one saw this coming: Eminem just released his 10th studio album, titled "Kamikaze." Some panned him for what they say is a Beastie Boys "rip off."             more info

Consequence of Sound — The album's artwork is a homage to Beastie Boys' classic Licensed to Ill. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Music fan and Hollywood bigwig J.J. Abrams has peppered his films with Beastie Boys references and snuck in some music-related cameos in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Now he's launching a record label Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — In 1997, the fourth issue of the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal magazine included a long profile on a Midwestern rapper named Kid Rock. Kid Rock, we learned, had started the '90s as a major-label hope and a protege of former Boogie Down Productions member... more info

Stereogum — Jill Cunniff is a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised. But today the Luscious Jackson frontwoman and founding member is in Los Angeles visiting her brother, who, naturally, works in TV. Like many other Brooklynites (Cunniff currently resides in Park... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "The House that Yauch Built" gives visitors a virtual-reality, interactive tour of Adam Yauch's home studio. Continue reading… more info

Guardian Music — O2 Forum Kentish Town, LondonThey sing about eating tacos and being broke, but Fidlar’s bubblegum energy takes their slacker punk close to genius‘There’s a lot of shoes onstage,” says Zac Carper, gesturing to the discarded f... more info

Core News — “Singer Alice Russell picks three tunes as Resident DJ. Alice has collaborated on tracks from Mr Scruff’s “Music Takes Me Up” to David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s concept album ‘Here Lies Love’. Plus we mine the archives as ‘Hello Nasty�... more info

Consequence of Sound — Before Drake, Migos, or Rae Sremmurd, there were Three MC's and One DJ. more info