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8 Defining Beastie Boys Moments That Need to Appear in Ad-Rock and Mike D’s Memoir

By Alison Herman on

Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys, are co-authoring a memoir of their time in one of the most important hip-hop acts of the past three decades. According to the New York Times, the book will be less of a conventional tell-all and more of an “oral history,” complete with a “strong visual component.” It’s not clear exactly what that will entail, but there are some standout moments from the Beastie Boys’ career that fans will no doubt be expecting to hear about in Diamond and Horovitz’s account. Here’s a selection of hot topics the Beasties need to address in their memoir, tentatively due out in late 2015. … Read More

Pop Culture

Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week

By Julia Pugachevsky on

Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this new weekly feature, our editorial staffers each recommend the cultural object or experience they’ve enjoyed the most in the past seven days. Click through for our picks, and tell us what you’ve been loving in the comments. … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we got a peek at the British Museum’s new Shakespeare exhibition. We discovered what our favorite books say about us. We read the best Full House article on the Internet this week. We saw librarian tattoos that weren’t terrible. We learned about Portland’s teacher… Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we practiced 20 pickup lines for the subway. We hoped dictionaries everywhere weren’t offended by the addition of words like F-bomb, man cave, and sexting. We explored a Hezbollah theme park in the Lebanese town of Mleeta. We wondered which Expendables 2 star was the most expendable.… Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Judy Berman on

1. David Rakoff, a frequent This American Life contributor and the author of the Thurber Prize for American Humor-winning essay collection Half Empty, has died at only 47 years old. Read a brief but touching obituary at The Awl.

2. Your daily Olympics Closing Ceremony gossip update: In addition to yesterday’s … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. This memo of pre-prepared responses that Sony Pictures Television sent the cast of Community for dealing with questions from the media about why Dan Harmon got fired is just as awkward as you’d imagine. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

2. Starting tonight at 8pm, The New Yorker will begin tweeting a new… Read More

Music

Campaign to Rename Brooklyn Park for Adam Yauch Hits Hurdle

By Tom Hawking on

In the wake of Adam Yauch’s tragic and untimely death from cancer, we were interested to read that a group of Brooklyn residents have started a campaign to rename a Brooklyn Heights park in his honor. However, according to the Brooklyn Paper, there’s a problem with the idea: the park in… Read More

Books

Literary Mixtape: The Sisters Brothers

By Emily Temple on

If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too. But wonder no more! Here, we sneak a look at the hypothetical iPods of some of literature’s most interesting characters. What would be on the personal playlists of Holden Caulfield or Elizabeth Bennett, Huck Finn or Harry Potter, Tintin or Humbert Humbert? Something revealing, we bet. Or at least something danceable. Read on for a cozy reading soundtrack, character study, or yet another way to emulate your favorite literary hero. This week: the homicidal cowboy brothers from Patrick DeWitt’s recent Booker-shortlisted novel, The Sisters Brothers. … Read More

Music

Watch Kids Reenact “Sabotage” in Honor of MCA

By Caroline Stanley on

The recent death of Adam “MCA” Yauch is something that hit most of us pretty hard here at Flavorpill, so we were happy to come across this wonderful tribute that Portland-based filmmaker James Winters shot with a group of kids over the weekend. While there’s certainly no touching the original, we’re fairly sure that Yauch would have approved of this remake of the “Sabotage” video, because really, what’s not to love about a bunch of adorable children in ridiculous wigs and aviators? … Read More

Music

Timing Is Everything: Beastie Boys Named in Sampling Lawsuit

By Tom Hawking on

Just days following the news that Adam “MCA” Yauch had died of cancer at the tragically young age of 47, AllHipHop.com reported late last night that a hip hop label by the name of Tuf America is suing the Beastie Boys and Capitol Records for copyright infringement in regards to four tracks — two from 1986′s License to Ill and two from 1989 masterpiece Paul’s Boutique. Tuf America is alleging that the group illegally sampled two tracks by an artist called Trouble Funk, and is looking to be compensated for earnings made on the original albums and reissues. Why it’s taken this long for the label to sue is unclear, but their timing couldn’t really have been any worse as far as bad publicity goes — although in fairness, the suit was filed on May 3, the day before Yauch’s death. We’ve included two of the tracks in question after the jump — let us know what you think. … Read More