All About Jazz — It's hard to feel sorry for Norah Jones: At 31, she's already sold more records than most artists will over a lifetime, and despite her soccer-mom appeal, she's retained a kind of cool-musician cachet, collaborating in recent years with Bright Eyes, ... more info

ContactMusic — BEASTIE BOYS star ADAM YAUCH is calling on twice-daily meditation sessions to help him kick cancer.The Sabotage hitmaker has been battling the disease for the past year... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — At Coachella last weekend, Friday headliner Jay-Z blasted out the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" as his intro music. It got us thinking about Adam "MCA" Yauch, who announced last year that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Maybe... more info

Perez Hilton — Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch was diagnosed with cancer last year, and although Yauch is in recovery, the Buddhist rapper is taking it upon himself to meditate for good health - for the entire world! Wow! Yauch has invited fans of the Beasties to ta... more info

ContactMusic — Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch wants fans to meditate with him to help beat cancer. The 'Intergalactic' hitmakers were forced to put their latest album 'Hot... more info

Pitchfork — Earlier today, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch sent a letter out to the Beastie Boys mailing list asking for help in his fight against cancer. He wrote that he and "a few friends" are holding twice-daily meditation sessions "picturing smashing apart all of th... more info

Totally Fuzzy — JayJay said... # Electric Light Orchestra - Definitive Collection # Duke Ellington & John Coltrane [1962] # V.A. - And The Road Goes On Forever [2CD] # Symphonic Rock - Music of Genesis, Yes, Procol Harum,Pink Floyd,Jethro Tull # V.A. - And The Heav... more info

Pitchfork — Fire up your wallets: tomorrow, April 17, is Record Store Day, the holiday that helps keep the independent vinyl emporiums of the world in business. As in years past, scores of bands and labels are helping out, sending exclusive material to indie sto... more info

Totally Fuzzy — jeffen said... The Alarm - Unsafe Building b/w Up for Murder (1981) Also includes Bob Dylan & The Alarm doing Knocking on Heaven's Door! http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com Deaf, Dumb, Blind said... April Nine - Sandglass (1996) Thanks Fuzzy! http... more info

Metalsucks — In 1992 or so, someone who must have inherited a few oil wells figured that it’d be a good idea to give some of that scratch to the Beastie Boys so that they could publish their own magazine. I don’t think you have to like them as a ba... more info