Phillip Mlynar

Adam Yauch, R.I.P.

“I was fortunate enough to interview Adam Yauch around the release of the Beasties’ To the Five Boroughs album. For most of the interview we talked about what he considered were the best places to eat falafel in New York City. While enthusing about his recommendations out in Jackson Heights, Queens, Yauch told anecdotes about the day-to-day weirdness and bizarre vignettes of life he saw in the city around him. It seemed apt.”

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Top Five White Trash Rap Anthems

4 months ago 1 note

Hive Five: Tales From the Def Jam Frontline

1. The Beastie Boys Scandalize Madonna’s Madison Square Garden Show
”Madonna‘s Madison Square Garden show in 1985 was one of the most punk experiences I’d heard about in my life. She’s on the Like A Virgin tour; she’s still pretty new but getting big so she’s selling out Madison Square Garden. It’s 15,000 little 12-year-old Madonna wannabes and they’re there with their parents and dressed up like Madonna and it’s just cute and it’s kids stuff. The Beasties come out and opened up the show and they were just foul-mouthed! They were overtly sexual! They didn’t dress up, they dressed down! They were swilling beer — it was really jarring for them to act that way in the context of a Madonna show. It was really kinda avant garde.”

7 months ago

Five Great Jimi Hendrix Samples in Hip-Hop Songs

8 months ago 1 note

The Top Five Rap Cameos On The Simpsons

It’s Luda-Crest! (Plus bonus Beastie Boys vs. Futurama shenanigans!)

1 year ago 1 note

The 10 Best Remixes By Ad-Rock

1 year ago

“well wrigriss please.tten….but i’m 48 and a half….negriss please.”

Interviewing Ricky Powell for the Village Voice was as entertaining, fun, random, and downright dype as you’d want it to be. Although, apparently, I got his age wrong by six months – an issue the oft-anointed “fourth Beastie Boy” addressed in his own inimitable style in the comments section.

2 years ago