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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In an unfortunately timed bit of courtroom maneuvering, the Beastie Boys were sued Thursday - a day before the death of founding member Adam Yauch at the age of 47 - over alleged illegal samples on their first two albums "License to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique." The suit, filed by TufAmerica, Inc. in U.S. District Court in New York, alleges that multiple songs on the albums incorporate samples from the Trouble Funk songs "Say What" and "Drop the Bomb. ...
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Beastie Boys guitarist Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz admits he's been at a creative loose end since the death of Adam 'MCA' Yauch brought the band's career to an end
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Beastie Boys: delay release of autobiography until at least 2017
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Ad-Rock says 'there's no way it's going to happen' this year, despite earlier reports the book would come out this year
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Slipknot: Korn and Slipknot Cover Beastie Boys Classic
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Recently the Prepare For Hell Tour rolled into London's Wembley Arena and if you were there, you know something special happened... and Korn is sharing video of it
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Beastie Boys: Rick Rubin Just Annotated A Ton Of Kanye West, Beastie Boys, & Johnny Cash Songs On Genius
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One of the redeeming qualities of community-annotated lyric site Genius is that they sometimes recruit cool artists and behind-the-scenes players to talk about songs that they worked on or that they really love. Case in point: Super producer Rick Rubin recently made a profile on the site and set about adding some background information to [...]
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Cyndi Lauper: Hear Emily Haines’ New GoldieBlox Song “Lightning Strikes” & Watch Her Sing With Cyndi Lauper In NYC
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The toy company GoldieBlox has had a rough year in advertising after being accused of copyright infringement by the Beastie Boys for re-working the band’s 1986 classic “Girls” to convey a more “feminist” message. The company settled the lawsuit and issued an apology to the Beasties, who have alwa...
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