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Watch the first trailer for Spike Jonze's Beastie Boys documentary
Beastie Boys Story is set to premiere on Apple’s new streaming service this April.
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John Berry, Original Beastie Boys Member, Dies at 52
Original Beastie Boys member and guitarist John Berry died Thursday morning after suffering from frontal lobe dementia, according to his father who confirmed Berry’s death to Rolling Stone. Berry was 52. Although Berry left Beastie Boys in 1982, he is credited as the mind behind the band’s name. In 1978, they were originally a hardcore... <a href="https://variety.com/2016/music/news/john-berry-dead-beastie-boys-adam-yauch-horovitz-1201779316/" title="Read John Berry, Original Beastie Boys Membe
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J.J. Abrams Confirms Name of New 'Star Wars' Character Is Nod to Both Beastie Boys and 'Lost'
When word spread in September that one of the new characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens was named Ello Asty, it didn’t take fans long make the obvious Beastie Boys connection. Director J.J. Abrams is known to be a fan of the seminal rap trio, and to create the moniker for the alien, Abrams appeared to simply drop the first letters of both words from the Beasties’ 1998 album, Hello Nasty (which, it should be noted, includes the single “Intergalactic”). “It is for me,” Abrams said when we a
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Ad-Rock From The Beastie Boys Got Drunk and Failed an Audition for Oliver Stone's 'The Doors'
Somewhere in between releasing the classic hip hop albums Paul’s Boutique and Check Your Head with the Beastie Boys, Adam Horovitz — aka Ad-Rock — began pursuing an acting career. In 1989, he played a young troublemaker from LA in the film Lost Angels, and a year later, he went in to audition for Oliver Stone’s film about Jim Morrison and The Doors. Horovitz gets some redemption of sorts in Noah Baumbach’s upcoming movie While We’re Young, in which he co-stars as, of all things, a sweater-wear
