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Beastie Boy Mike D releases his first solo LP 'Thank You'

Mike D rose to fame in the 1980s as part of New York's Beastie Boys, a rap-rock trio who soon tired of poking fun at frat boy humour with hits like "Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" and" Girls". The band quickly moved on thanks to their passion for beat…

France 24

Beastie Boys’ Mike D on his party days of yore: ‘We were young and full of testosterone’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Forty years on from his trailblazing group’s incendiary debut, the New York-born rapper is releasing his first solo record. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about their raucous hard-partying early years, clashing with label boss Russell Simmons, and what he learned from late bandmate Adam Yauch

The Independent UK

What to Stream: Alabama Shakes, 'The Whisper Man,' 'Leanne' and 'Star Wars Zero Company'

New streaming entertainment options are arriving soon, including a film adaptation of “The Whisper Man” and a new album from Alabama Shakes

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Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’

As part of the Beastie Boys, the rapper shot to fame and notoriety in the 80s, before bandmate Adam Yauch’s death saw him withdraw from the spotlight. He returns with a solo album that sees him reckon with greed, mortality – and his past

The Guardian - UK

“I don’t want to say The Beatles cleared it, but somebody at EMI or Apple. So whoever you were that did it, thank you. Thank you, Sir Paul”: Mike D on how the Beastie Boys got away with sampling five Beatles songs on Paul's Boutique

Ahead of the release of his debut solo album, Mike D looks back at the audacious, anything-goes sampling ethos behind the Beastie Boys' magnum opus

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“I remember the three of us thinking that it was an absolute stroke of genius that we'd just come up with the most idiotic idea ever”: Mike D talks about the Beastie Boys’ fallout with Russell Simmons and that hydraulic prop

It was featured on the Licensed To Ill show

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"For really just a long time, it was just way too sad for me to make music”: Mike D on his grief at the loss of Adam Yauch

The ex-Beastie Boy releases his solo debut later this summer

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"I'm releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality." Beastie Boys legend Mike D announces debut solo album Thank You

Listen to True Colors, the latest preview of Mike D's forthcoming debut album

Louder

Mike D live: Gonzo brilliance from a Beastie Boy rediscovering the fun

5/5 Mike D brings his new solo act to 26 Leake Street in Waterloo and shows Beastie Boys never die

Evening Standard

Mike D review – ex-Beastie Boy’s first UK gig in two decades, in a Tyneside bingo hall, is uproarious fun

Teeing up a forthcoming solo album, the rapper doesn’t reheat his old Beastie Boys sound, instead throwing down everything from ballads to Kraftwerk references

The Guardian - UK

"70s metal was definitely the coolest. AC/DC had some fly records, Sabbath had some cool s**t." Ten Beastie Boys songs featuring samples of classic rock anthems

"When hip hop DJs started using those chunky riffs, we started checking out old metal again"

Louder

Beastie Boy Mike D announces first ever solo headline tour

Mike D will kick off his first ever solo headline tour with two nights at a 1,150-capacity London club

Louder

"We thought Venom were excellent. But then they came to New York and we found out that they weren't joking." Why the Beastie Boys were disappointed to discover that British metal legends Venom weren't a comedy band

Venom: unlikely heroes to the New York hardcore community

Metal Hammer

“I decided it would be funny to write a song about how he was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art”: The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

Its legendary DIY video was hugely influential, but few realise that the fury of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage was triggered by real studio pressure

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Louder

"There's loads of Hives in South America": The Hives on making their Back In Black, royal waves, and how the official franchise programme is going

The Hives' Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist on Outkast, the Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones and becoming rock royalty

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“Every single song a single, every single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man”: The Hives big up their new Mike D-co-produced record

Josh Homme also appears on album, due in August with a tour to follow

Louder

The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates

"Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man."

Latin Times

Podcast Host Remains Shockingly Calm After Guest Accidentally Fires Gun Hidden in His Pocket: 'I Guess We Just Made History'

A live podcast featuring rapper 2 Low turned chaotic when a gun discharged in his pocket mid-conversation during the podcast "1 on 1 With Mike D."

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The Independent UK

19 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

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Jake Bugg isn't bothered by fans being on their phones at his shows

Jake Bugg has no issues with fans at his shows using their phones to record his performances.

Louder

Beastie Boys broke open their gold record to play it –only to be confronted by piano covers of Barry Manilow "and some other shit"

Studio shenanigans were fairly standard for the Beastie Boys, but this stunt left them more than a little confused

Metal Hammer

“Listen all y'all it's a sabotage!” How the riotous, raucous and joyously irreverent Ill Communication put the Beastie Boys back on top of the world

Released on May 31, 1994, Beastie Boys' fourth album Ill Communication sounds like the most fun you can have with your clothes on

The Guardian - UK

Rap-rock beasts and drive-by eggings: Beastie Boys’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

Thirty years after the release of Ill Communication, we celebrate the New York trio’s gonzo blend of hip-hop, funk, punk and pop-cultural flotsam

Louder

"They daubed the walls of their hotel in human excrement": Remembering how Britain lost its mind when confronted with the Beastie Boys for the first time

On March 7, 1987, Beastie Boys' debut Licensed to Ill became the first rap album to top the US Charts. Two months later, the trio visited Britain for the first time, and things got wild

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"It's like the universe had this incredible power to affect my ear and make me stay in one place": How an ear infection birthed Licensed to Ill's groundbreaking production and drove the Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin apart

A look back at the Beastie Boys' rocky relationship with the bearded superproducer

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