Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition)

BEASTIE BOYS Hip-hop’s first headphone album gets remastered, reissued and reimagined By 1988, the Three Hip-Hop Stooges in the Beastie Boys—Adam “MCA” Yauch, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, and Michael “Mike D” Diamond—had already accomplished much in their short careers. They’d started out as a punk band (The Young Aborigines), opening shows for the likes of Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys. They released the first rap album (1986’s Licensed to Ill) to go to #1...

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