Stereogum — Faith No More frontman Mike Patton played a special collaborative show with turntable master DJ QBert at The Chapel in San Francisco last night. They were also joined by Beastie Boys producer Money Mark; watch below. more info

Chorus.fm — Beastie Boys’ Mike D talked with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1 about the group releasing a memoir later this year. more info

JamBase — Mike D gave an update on the long-in-the-works Beastie Boys memoir on Apple Music's Beat 1. more info

Stereogum — The two surviving Beastie Boys members, Ad-Rock and Mike D, have been working on a memoir since at least 2013, and though there have been some vague updates throughout the years, not much concrete information has come out. Until now, that is. In a ne... more info

Stereogum — Two years ago, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the movie that rebooted the whole franchise, featured a minor character named after a Beastie Boys album. The Resistance fighter pilot Ello Atsy, named for the 1998 album Hello Nasty, reportedly had the ph... more info

PopSugar UK — Minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi below! We have to hand it to Star Wars: The Last Jedi - the movie really upped its game in terms of celebrity cameos this time around. There's one sequence in the film in particular that features a handful... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The compilation To the Outside of Everything: Story of UK Post-Punk 1977-1981 looks fascinating. Archival releases include Bob Dylan's The Legendary Broadcasts: 1985-1993, Bruce Springsteen's Acoustic Radio Broadcast Collection, and vinyl editions of... more info

CNN Showbiz — Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz says he believes the women who are accusing his father of sexual misconduct. more info

Stereogum — Adam Horovitz, the former Beastie Boy once known as Ad-Rock, is the son of Israel Horovitz, an influential and widely respected New York playwrite with a five-decade career. But a new New York Times exposé collects the stories of many women who clai... more info

Popdose — A killer bass line fed through one of the fuzziest pedals ever invented. A heavy dose of wah-wah on a two-note guitar solo. A powerful organ blast. A video riffing off Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii. And a bunch of lyrics straight out of Buddhist the... more info