Uploading Beastie Boys' never-before-seen live performance on Chappelle's Show to YouTube seemed like such a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yaunch (a.k.a. MCA). That is, until Viacom took down the video for copyright infringement.
To a certain generation of people, the Beastie Boys were as monumental and important as the Beatles, as groundbreaking, as formative, as sweeping and meaningful in their celebrity but also in their music, always the music.
Adam Yauch will be remembered first and foremost for his genre-altering music career, but the artist better known as MCA did much more than that.
We're unsettled to hear that Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, better known as MCA, has passed away at just 47 years old, according to several outlets.
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve may have been an innocuous end-of-year ritual but the show that made him famous, American Bandstand, remains an American treasure.
Among this year's nominees: Joan Jett, Heart, Guns 'N Roses, The Cure, and Eric B. & Rakim
Santigold, Zombies and G.I. Joe's all make appearances
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