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James Murphy to Score Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young,’ Starring Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock

Indie darling Noah Baumbach’s (Greenberg, Frances Ha) films have often represented a beautiful marriage of film and music and his latest, While We’re Young, looks to take that relationship even further. Not only will the project reunite Baumbach with LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy, who previously scored the 2010 gem Greenberg, but it will also […]

“We Can’t Make New Music,” Says Beastie Boys’ Mike D

Since the passing of Adam “MCA” Yaunch back in 2012, the future of The Beastie Boys had been questionable at best. However, it now seems written in stone. “We have not been able to tour since “MCA,” Adam Yaunch, died,” said founding member Michael “Mike D” Diamond last week as he represented the group during […]

Beastie Boys Sign Book Deal, To Publish Memoir

The NY Times reported late last night that surviving Beastie Boys members Mike D and Ad-Rock have signed a book deal with Random House subsidiary Spiegel & Grau. The two plan on releasing a memoir that blends oral history with images from pop culture past. This unnamed offering will feature writings from a handful of […]

Ad-Rock Comments On The Death Of Adam “MCA” Yauch

The music world is still in a state of shock after it was discovered that Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch had passed away at the young age of 47. Please read a short message from Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz by simply looking below and let UTG know how the Beastie Boys impacted your life over the […]

EDITORIAL: The Summer The Beastie Boys Changed My Life

This afternoon the world learned that Adam Yauch, otherwise known as MCA of legendary hiphop act Beastie Boys, passed away at the age of forty-eight. I never met Adam, nor knew anyone who did, but he impacted my life forever and I will never forget the time spent enjoying the art he created with Mike […]