Industry, friends and fellow artists continue to remember and pay tribute to Adam Yauch, MCA, from the Beastie Boys. Beastie Boys creative director, artist Haze, has been invited to the MCA Billboard Project in LA and his ‘Namaste’ billboard just went up at Santa Monica and Vine.
Check out the Shepard Fairey billboards from the project [...]
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When many of us heard about Adam "MCA" Yauch’s passing, we hopped on Twitter to express shock and our condolences. Maybe we pasted an epitaph like “you have to fight, for your right, to party,” so long as it fit within 140 characters.
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Talib Kweli played a new song off his upcoming LP and paid tribute to the late Adam “MCA” Yauch at his recent performance at the Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario....
image via Arrested Motion and FRESHNGOOD Shepard Fairey was asked to participate in a tribute billboard project to show respect and to remember the late Beastie Boy, Adam “MCA” Yauch. Two billboards in Los Angeles, California feature Fairey’s design that include a photo by Glen E. Friedman. image via Shepard Fairey image via Shepard Fairey [...]
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has been memorialized anew around town, this time by none other than Shepard Fairey. [ more › ]
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Shepard Fairey was recently asked to participate in a homegrown project to show respect and remembrance to the late Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys. The project consisted of doing up a few memorial billboards around Los Angeles. Shepard’s contribution features on 2 billboards; one on Sunset at Las Palmas and another on [...]
The influence of Beastie Boys‘ Adam Yauch is still coming to light weeks after his untimely death. The latest comes courtesy of French electro rockers M83‘s new video, “Reunion”, off their impressive 2011 release Hurry Up We’re Dreaming. Directed by Fleur & Manu and produced by DIVISION, the clip continues the story begun in the... More »
Don't let it distract you from the song, but see if you can catch the quick homage.
The good-bye-LCD documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, which is being distributed by the late Adam Yauch's film company, Oscilloscope Laboratories, will screen at theaters across the U.S. on July 18 as a "one-night-only engagement." So far there's only one location per city, so if you were one of
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When I received this album, I played it a lot and loved the fact that the opening track sampled the Beastie Boys. Since then, Adam Yauch has passed away but life and music lives on, and this album is a reflection of not only unity through music, but the unity of hip-hop at its best. [...]
It has been a quiet three weeks for the surviving members of the Beastie Boys, Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock) and Michael Diamond (Mike D) since their third band member and friend Adam Yauch (MCA) passed away, but a time filled with a myriad of emotions.
For Horowitz, who sat down with Rolling Stone to...
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Bloomberg Law has put together a short video about Adam Yauch and the sampling lawsuit filed against the Beastie Boys the day before his death. Though the voiceover guy sounds a little like it's his first time reading the script, the...Show More Summary
David Carr and A. O. Scott look back at the deaths of Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, Adam Yauch and other musicians.
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In the past 24 hours I’ve been asked by no fewer than 5 people if I’d read the interview Adam Horowitz did with Rolling Stone about MCA’s death, so I [...]