Beastie Boys
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Cultural Cannibalism
Concerns about remix culture’s critical mass.
Ours is an age of cultural cannibalism. We have rather suddenly gained very convenient access to nearly the whole of human history’s significant creative output, and we are remixing it with careless abandon. We have introduced The Beatles to Jay-Z, Jane Austen to George Romero, and Abraham Lincoln to Bram Stoker. If something gets a modicum of attention online, it can count on being Photoshopped, captioned, auto-tuned, GIF’ed, pickled, bronzed, or arranged for ukulele and… See more →
2012 US Air Guitar New York Regional
There are two things that make New York City one of the toughest markets in US Air Guitar:
- The staggering amount of top tier talent, both local and imported, and
- The Daily Show’s Jason Jones, whose commentary has reduced all but the most thick-skinned competitors to quivering heaps in the backstage bathroom.
Alongside ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner and music biz free agent Leigh Lust, Jones returned on Thursday night to his perch in the… See more →
145 Beastie Boys tracks in one day, almost everything they ever recorded. Don’t say I didn’t give you a sendoff, MCA. last.fm/user/cowpiesur…
Spun it all chronologically from License to Ill through Hot Sauce Committee, then Some Old Bullshit to finish on a youthful, cyclical note.
Some of my friends on Rdio are currently listening to stuff that is not Beastie Boys, and I am confused.
It is a fittingly gray day in Brooklyn. Rest in peace, MCA.
