Ever wanted your very own mini-Mike D? Following the huge success of Spike Jonze directed video Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win – in which the Beastie Boys feature as G.I Joe-style action figures, the group has released limited-edition toy figurines to raise money for two childhood cancer charities.
Produced by Nowhere Ltd. and Bathing Ape, the action figures are being sold on the Beastie Boys official website and include three doll stands, clothing, accessories and a two-disk deluxe version of Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sound of Science. But you’ll have to dig deep, a set will set you back $750. The proceeds will be split between the Pablove Foundation and Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
The MTV Video Music Awards are being held in LA on August 28 and have just announced their nominations. Big congrats go to the Katy Perry with a whopping 9 nominations, 30 Seconds To Mars with 3 and Beastie Boys with 2…..
Katy Perry
Video of the Year “Firework”
Best Female “Firework”
Best Pop “Last Friday Night”
Katy / Kanye West – Best Callabo “E.T.”
Best Art Direction ” E.T.”
Best Cinematography “Teenage Dream”
Best Direction – Floria Sigismondi ” E.T.”
Best Editing “E.T.
Best SFX ” E.T.”
30 Seconds To Mars
Best Direction – Jared Leto “Hurricane”
Best Editing “Hurricane”
Best Cinematography “Hurricane”
Beastie Boys
Video of the Year “Make Some Noise”
Best Direction – Adam Yauch “Make Some Noise”
How do the Beastie Boys top that genius first video for ‘Make Some Noise’ aka Fight For Your Right Revisited featuring a stellar cast including Danny McBride, Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly and Jack Black? Why, you get Spike Jones to direct it (who worked on ‘Sabotage’) and transform the Beasties into Team America-esque action figures of course! The video finds Beastie Boys and Santigold pursued by a team of assassins hell bent on the boys’ termination. Over the course of the clip, our heroes make one death defying escape after another, traveling across land, sea and sky as they elude and combat snipers, zombies, sharks and more.
‘Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win’ is the second video from Beastie Boys’ universally acclaimed Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
WARNING!!! This video contains some violence (but they are dolls).
There’s a good reason we’ve been waxing lyrical about the Beastie Boys’ short film Fight For Your Right Revisited. It’s because it’s freakin’ awesome.
The half hour film featuring every film star ever was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beasties’ classic album Licence to Ill and picks up where the vid for their massive 1986 hit, (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) video leaves off. You can watch both the 1986 video and the trailer for the new film now… but I suggest you just sit down in front of Channel [V] today to indulge in the full audiovisual feast.
Ed update: Fight For Your Right Revisited is now available to stream in its full glory online. Behold!
You can pre-order Hot Sauce Committee Part II at Sanity, JB Hi-Fi and iTunes now. The Beasties however have been kind enough to stream the album in full, live at centre court of Madison Sqr Garden… with a sasquatch. Check it out live from New York or in full splendid colour on hotsaucecommittee.com.
We were lucky enough to have an in-office screening of the Beastie Boys short film Fight for Your Right Revisited that was shown at Sundance earlier this year.
Directed and written by the Beasties own Adam Yauch and featuring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and John C. Riley, it delivers BIG TIME. Just imagine every actor you can think of (Will Arnett, Ted Danson, Steve Buscemi, Susan Sarandon, Orlando Bloom, and SO many more we can’t even attempt to list) packed into a funny, rude and sometimes wrong long music video… stay tuned for local screenings later this month.
Listen to the Beastie Boys first single Make Some Noise from their album Hot Sauce Committee Part II which will be out April 29:
You can pre-order Hot Sauce Committee Part II at Sanity, JB Hi-Fi and iTunes from April 13.
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Beastie Boys’ long anticipated eighth album, will finally be released April 29! Hot Sauce… P1 (now Hot Sauce… P2) has been delayed and reinvented over the last 12 months due to Adam Yauch’s recovery from cancer.
After going back and mixing the album one last time, the final sequence of the forthcoming Hot Sauce… P2 has now been confirmed as:
1. Make Some Noise 2. Nonstop Disco Powerpack 3. OK 4. Too Many Rappers [new reactionaries version] (featuring NAS) 5. Say It 6. The Bill Harper Collection 7. Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (featuring Santigold) 8. Long Burn The Fire 9. Funky Donkey 10. The Larry Routine 11. Tadlock’s Glasses 12. Lee Majors Come Again 13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament 14. Here’s A Little Something For Ya 15. Crazy Ass Shit 16. The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine
Preview Make Some Noise below:
The plain facts are: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. The new record will mark Mike “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz and Adam “MCA” Yauch’s first full length effort since 2007’s Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up.
triple j reported that the guys also have a short film coming out that premiered at Sundance this year written and directed by Adam Yauch based around the history of the godfathers of Hip Hop. Yauch is played by played by Danny McBride, while Elijah Wood and Seth Rogen will star as Adam Horovitz and Michael ‘Mike D’ Diamond. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly and Jack Black (!!!) will also take on the roles of the band members during the film, and Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst and Ted Danson all make appearances along with the three real members of the Beastie Boys playing cops…
This MAY just turn out the be the greatest film EVER made.
In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have announced that their latest album Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be comprised of the same tracklisting originally planned for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 (indefinitely delayed earlier this year due to Adam Yauch’s cancer treatment).
The tracks originally recorded for …Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former …Committee Part 1 material. Wait… what?
“I know it’s weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end.” says Adam “MCA” Yauch. “We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we’ve come full circle.”
Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 marks Yauch, Mike “Mike D” Diamond, and Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz’s first full length album since ’07’s Grammy winning instrumentalalbumThe Mix-Up. The new (old) track listing of the album is now as follows:
1. Tadlock’s Glasses 2. B-Boys In The Cut 3. Make Some Noise 4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack 5. OK 6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS) 7. Say It 8. The Bill Harper Collection 9. Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (featuring Santigold) 10. Long Burn The Fire 11. Funky Donkey 12. Lee Majors Come Again 13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament 14. Pop Your Balloon 15. Crazy Ass Shit 16. Here’s A Little Something For Ya
Not sure what the fuss is about? Check out some classic Beastie action!
TheInSound has been keeping you updated on Adam’s recovery from cancer treatment, which last year resulted in the Beastie’s delaying the release of their studio album Hot Sauce Committee until he returned to full health.
In a recent Rolling Stone interview Yauch let us in on some more:
He’s feeling significantly better and “getting my energy back” after the medical treatments, but Beastie fans might have to wait a bit longer for the group’s new disc Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1. “It was really disappointing to have to hold the record and postpone the tour, but doctor’s orders. We may or may not [release Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1] depending on how my health is come September. We want to but we have to play it by ear,” Yauch said.
Riding off the back of the biggest ARIA Awards since Ben Hur (please don’t mention that ARIAs didn’t necessarily operate during the time of Christ), it’s difficult to let the party die down. After all, it’s only 3 weeks til Christmas!
So indeed the good times continue with the news that we (that’s EMI worldwide, not my band) have FIFTY SIX Grammy Award nominations in the whopping one hundred and nine categories – far too many to list, but here are our EMI highlights!
Multiple nominees include our favourite shaggy-haired, bikini-babe-surrounded Frenchman David Guetta (who also produced The Black Eyed Peas’ Grammy nominated album and record of the year), Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Keith Urban and American Classic legend Willie Nelson.
Katy Perry announced the Best Rock Album nominees and discussed the Black Eyed Peas nominations – watch the videos.
And yes, the reason why the Grammy artwork is so cool this year is no other than Shepard Fairey – the man behind THAT Obama / Hope and Obey / Giant artwork – is responsible. OBEY (great music)
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