Rolling Stone — When Mike D phones up Rolling Stone on a Tuesday afternoon he gives a one-word answer as to what he's been up to: writing. "I'm taking a break to call you," he says. The MC is deep in the process of crafting a long-promised Beastie Boys memoir with c... more info

Rolling Stone — Dev Hynes described his third LP under his Blood Orange moniker as something "like my version of [The Beastie Boys'] Paul's Boutique." It's that and plenty more: Opening with a butter-smooth R&B chorale that segues into a poetry-slam jazz collage usi... more info

Rolling Stone — Between 1980 and 1994, Laura Levine photographed more than 500 bands and musicians for outlets ranging from Rolling Stone to influential punk magazine New York Rocker, where she worked as photo editor. Though she shot many live shows, LevineÂÂ... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Finnish band STEVE 'N' SEAGULLS, which shot to fame in 2014 thanks to its bluegrass covers of metal classics, will release its second album, "Brothers In Farms", on September 9 via Spinefarm. The first single, STEVE 'N' SEAGULLS' hillbillified cover ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "I've had backpacks my whole life and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better." Continue reading… more info

NME — ‘I didn’t want to wear another backpack’ he says of fashion range more info

JamBase — Next week, The Claypool Lennon Delirium featuring members of Primus, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger and the Beastie Boys will perform on late night TV. more info

Mercury News, California — DANVERS, Mass. (AP) -- John Berry, a founding member of the Beastie Boys who left the group before it found major label success, has died. more info

Guardian Music — The guitarist, vocalist and occasional Bauhaus heckler has left behind a musical legacy that might be thin on material but helped shaped New York hardcoreYesterday, John Berry, a founding member of the Beastie Boys passed away of frontal lobe dementi... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Founding Beastie Boys member John Berry has died at age 52.  His stepmother, Louise Berry, told the Associated Press that Berry died Thursday morning at a hospice in Danvers, Mass. She says Berry suffered from frontal lobe dementia and had been in... more info