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Yauch estate: Beastie Boy’s music banned from advertising

A will filed this week by relatives of the deceased hip hop artist Adam Yauch, formerly of The Beastie Boys, forever bans his work from being used in corporate advertising. In other words, don’t ever expect to fight for your right to wear Levis. ‘Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event…

Nancy Pelosi pays tribute to Adam Yauch

Former Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement on Saturday evening paying tribute to musician and activist Adam Yauch, according to a post at Talking Points Memo. Yauch was a founding member of seminal rap and rock group The Beastie Boys who shed his party-boy image…

Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch dies at 47

Adam Yauch, a founding member of pioneering rap and rock group the Beastie Boys has died at the age of 47, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Brooklyn-born performer, who was known to fans as “MCA,” was diagnosed with cancer and treated for tumorous growths on his partoid gland and a…