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In a clip recently shared to TikTok by Spin, Yauch, Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-rock” Horovitz delivered a blistering rendition of their classic hit "Intergalactic" from the 1996 album Hello ...
Beastie Boys and Chili's settled their lawsuit over the unauthorized use of the 1994 song "Sabotage" in a 2022 commercial. The band sued the restaurant chain's parent company in July 2024 on ...
Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys ...
I got the trees on my mirror so my car won’t smell,” rapped Michael “Mike D” Diamond on the 1980s Beastie Boys cut “Slow Ride.” I don’t know why this line stuck out to me as a teenager, but as the 808 ...
The hip hop group, who first formed in New York in 1979, was composed of guitarist Adam 'Ad Rock' Horovitz, bass player Adam 'MCA' Yauch and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond.
Their parents, however, knew the truth: far from their self-mythologising image as 'the nastiest group in the world', Mike D (Michael Diamond), Ad-Rock (Adam Horowitz) and MCA (Adam Yauch) were ...
In the early days of vinyl records, album covers were nothing more than a safety feature, blank paper jackets meant to protect the fragile content inside. That is, until, designer Alex Steinweiss at ...
This Beastie Boys song was a hit in the late 1980s, but the band didn't love how the people they were parodying enjoyed it a little too much.
The case was filed by surviving Beastie Boys members Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond, along with the executor of the estate of Adam Yauch, a band member who died of cancer in 2012.
The Beastie Boys filed a lawsuit against the parent company of the restaurant chain Chili's, Brinker International, for allegedly using their song "Sabotage" in ads without permission.
The advertisement, the lawsuit argues, intended to evoke the three Beastie Boys members — Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch — and scenes from the “Sabotage” music video.