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AT this week's launch of the Snowy Mountains Festival of Music at Tilleys Cafe & Gallery in Canberra, a feast of flavors was celebrated with the full program and final artist line-up announced for Australia's only music festival in the snow.

When Adam Horovitz and Dave Skilken approached artist Cey Adams to design a logo for their new band, Adams went with something that was edgy.

Some exciting Tuesday afternoon new: legendary downtown paper the East Village Eye and are making their entire 72-issue archive digital and downloadable .

If ever there was an episode of Judge Judy we'd actually watch, it'd start with the words, "James Murphy was staying at my house, at my house ." In a new interview, Ad-Rock claimed that the LCD Soundsystem main man owes him $150. Vulture pinned the Beastie Boys OG down at a screening of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha and attempted to interview him ... (more)

At some point, every enduring musician has to prove his or her worth and silence the doubters.

The Cult have announced 'Electric 13', a worldwide tour that will visit ten UK cities this October.

The surviving members of The Beastie Boys have released a limited-edition selection of watches that will help fund and benefit programs at the Adam Yauch Park, which was dedicated last week.

The surviving members of The Beastie Boys released a limited-edition line of watches on Tuesday to fund programs at the New York park named in honor of late band member Adam 'Mca' Yauch.

The annual Park Slope Civic Council's house tour shows off homes with interesting design elements or historic features.

Beastie Boys member Mike D, known as Michael Diamond on all legal documents, has served over 19,000 free meals to New Yorkers affected by last year's stormpocalypse Hurricane Sandy.

May 6, 2013 - NEW YORK -- DJ Johnny "Juice" Rosado is an award winning and Emmy-Nominated Composer, Producer, Turntablist, Engineer, Musician, B-boy, Graf writer, MC, Educator, Lecturer, and Mentor.

A New York City playground where the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch learned to ride a bike as a child has been renamed in his honor.

"Gratitude" was the motto of the second-annual "MCA Day" in Brooklyn yesterday, and a constant procession of fans came to pay their respects to late Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch on the one-year anniversary of his death from cancer of the salivary glands.

In 2012, Adam Yauch, 47, the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make The Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, died in New York.

On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who died on May 4, 2012 of salivary gland cancer, will be remembered around the country Saturday .

One day before the first anniversary of the death of Adam Yauch, , a park in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed in his honor.

Adam Yauch and co soundtracked my north Yorkshire adolescence and later life in New York.

The cover for the Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs" might as well be the band in an "I Heart NY" shirt, a love letter from Mike D, Ad Rock and the late Adam "MCA" Yauch, who died one year ago Saturday.

A New York City playground where the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch learned to ride a bike as a child has been renamed in his honor.