Adam Yauch

TASTES LIKE TEEN SPIRIT: These Two Rockers Are Inspiring New Cocktails

David Moye | Posted 05.21.2012

David Moye

The music of Kurt Cobain and Adam Yauch has inspired some San Diego mixologists to create cocktails designed to be paired with their music.

Whitney Houston Tribute At 'Billboard Music Awards'

Posted 05.29.2012

There were several tributes to fallen musical icons on "The 2012 Billboard Music Awards" (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on ABC), including an impromptu moment of si...

WATCH: Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Honored In NY Senate

Posted 05.16.2012

Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch was officially honored by the New York State Senate this week. Young Senator Daniel Squadron, who represents Yauch's ...

LOOK: 'Solid Gold Hits' Showcases Old Photos Of The Beastie Boys

Posted 05.15.2012

Following the untimely death of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, many retrospectives and tributes on MCA and the Beastie Boys have popped up. But one such exhi...

WATCH: Adorable Kids Pay Tribute To MCA With 'Sabotage Remake

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.15.2012

Countless musicians -- from Coldplay to the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- and celebrities have paid tribute to honor Adam "MCA" Yauch, the late Beastie Bo...

Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part Two

Randy Taran | Posted 05.11.2012

Randy Taran

I look at music like it's a form of communication. In some ways it's more abstract than having a conversation or writing a book. I think that's really the key.

Adam Yauch's Work in Tibet More Important Than Ever

Kyle Scott | Posted 05.10.2012

Kyle Scott

When Adam Yauch died, his family and friends lost someone they loved. The rest of us lost someone we knew of and whose work we loved. The Tibetan people lost one of their most high-profile supporters in the U.S.

Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One

Randy Taran | Posted 05.10.2012

Randy Taran

"Everything we do affects other people. Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up."

Open Letter to the Miami Radio Stations

Joanna Popper | Posted 05.10.2012

Joanna Popper

Why have Miami Radio Stations not played any Beastie Boys songs since MCA died May 4?

MCA's First Line In Every Beastie Boys Song, College Humor's Tribute (WATCH)

Posted 05.09.2012

College Humor's tribute to MCA is a must-see for any big Beastie Boys fan. Adam Yauch's death was confirmed last week with a statement posted on th...

Michael Hogan

Run-D.M.C. Member's Awesome MCA Memory

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Hogan | Posted 05.09.2012

At last night's gala benefit for The Moth, a non-profit dedicated to the art of storytelling, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels shared a few memories of Adam ...

I Take "The Pollywog EP" On Consignment From Adam Yauch, I Play In A Band With Richie Teeter

Binky Philips | Posted 05.09.2012

Binky Philips

I won't take up too much of your time here. Just had a few thoughts on Adam "MCA" Yauch... and Richie Teeter. We lost Richie Teeter about 3 weeks before we lost Adam. F**king cancer!

Beastie Boys Hit With Big Lawsuit

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.08.2012

Today in really unfortunate timing: The Beastie Boys have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over samples used on Licensed to Ill and Paul...

Cazwell And The Lady Tigra Remember Adam Yauch

Reggie Cameron | Posted 05.08.2012

Reggie Cameron

I caught up with SPORK collaborators Cazwell and The Lady Tigra as they reflected on Yauch's/MCA's career and the role he's played in their lives.

"A Flow Master in Disaster With a Sound That's Gone" - Adam Yauch

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.08.2012

Salvatore Bono

Yauch was not only a musical pioneer with Beasties; he was an activist and humanitarian. Wherever there was injustice, there was Yauch, wherever there was a voice to be given to the voiceless, there was Yauch.

Yauch Rocked: Raised by the Beasties

A-Trak | Posted 05.08.2012

A-Trak

There is usually one band you can look back on and think "these guys raised me, they remained the definition of cool throughout the years, I wanted to be like them and studied everything they did." For me, and for many others across generations, that was the Beastie Boys.

RIP MCA: Looking at My Gucci, It's About That Time

Joanna Popper | Posted 05.08.2012

Joanna Popper

At my 20th high school year reunion, the Beastie Boys brought us back to our raging, hormonal innocence where we learned that it might be okay to be ourselves because the Beasties were doing it.

Mets Pay Tribute To Beastie Boys' MCA

The Huffington Post | Chris Greenberg | Posted 05.07.2012

Just because a Beastie Boys track will always be more likely to name check John Starks than John Olerud, doesn't mean that the Knick are the only team...

Adam Yauch, You Were the Cheese, We Were the Macaroni

Summer Pierre | Posted 05.07.2012

Summer Pierre

When I heard that Adam Yauch had died, it was like learning that one of the guys I went to high school had died. I honestly had not listened to a Beastie Boys album in a few years, but they were one of those bands that inhabited my life.

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock Reaches Out To Fans After MCA's Death

Posted 05.07.2012

Beastie Boys member Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz has reached out to fans in the days after the passing of bandmate Adam Yauch, thanking them for their love...

The Beastie Boys and Interdependence: Adam Yauch's Civic Courage

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.07.2012

Benjamin R. Barber

As we remember Adam Yauch and his pioneering musicality, we should also acknowledge his pioneering civic courage -- his identity as a punk musician and rapper for whom citizenship was a natural expression of art, and interdependence a necessary concomitant of citizenship.

WATCH: Red Hot Chili Peppers' MCA Tribute

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.07.2012

Coldplay wasn't the only act to honor MCA at a high profile concert last this past weekend: The Red Hot Chili Peppers also covered the Beastie Boys' m...

Madonna: Adam Yauch Was One Of A Kind

AP | Posted 05.05.2012

NEW YORK — Madonna says Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys rapper who died Friday, was one of a kind and that the group was important to her musical h...

Remembering Adam Yauch

Tenzin Dorjee | Posted 05.07.2012

Tenzin Dorjee

I met Adam Yauch only once. It was during a bathroom break, which came at the end of a heated session in a Tibet-China conference at Harvard in 2002. We greeted each other in Tibetan.

Celebrity Deaths Take Over Twitter

The Huffington Post | Kiki Von Glinow | Posted 05.04.2012

With less than a kernel to go on, entertainment reporters began chasing a piece of foreboding bait dangled by Carson Daly Friday afternoon: "Praying t...