With Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two due in stores today, we look back to 1998, when the Beasties rode the wheels of steel with 'Scratch.'
By James Montgomery
The Beastie Boys' Mike D in 1998
Photo: MTV News
In 1998, the Beastie Boys had entered a new phase in their career. Buoyed by the success of 1992's Check Your Head and '95's Ill Communication, they had become a respected, downright revered act, the kind capable of doing whatever they want, with whomever they saw fit. They had certainly earned that right, and on their Hello Nasty album, they were determined to take full advantage.
And while we can only speculate how songs like "I Don't Know" (featuring Miho Hatori, then of Cibo Matto, on guest vocals), the Krautrock-indebted "And Me," the jazzy, bossa-nova instrumentals-laden "Sneakin' Out the Hospital" and "Song for Junior" ended up making the cut, we know...
By James Montgomery
The Beastie Boys' Mike D in 1998
Photo: MTV News
In 1998, the Beastie Boys had entered a new phase in their career. Buoyed by the success of 1992's Check Your Head and '95's Ill Communication, they had become a respected, downright revered act, the kind capable of doing whatever they want, with whomever they saw fit. They had certainly earned that right, and on their Hello Nasty album, they were determined to take full advantage.
And while we can only speculate how songs like "I Don't Know" (featuring Miho Hatori, then of Cibo Matto, on guest vocals), the Krautrock-indebted "And Me," the jazzy, bossa-nova instrumentals-laden "Sneakin' Out the Hospital" and "Song for Junior" ended up making the cut, we know...
- 5/2/2011
- MTV Music News
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival is set to run June 17-27 in a brand new location. Oh, it’s still in L.A, but it’s moving across town, from Westwood — where it’s been held the past few years — all the way over to Downtown.
The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.
On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...
The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.
On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...
- 5/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The changing of the guard when summer gives way to fall is a sensory explosion in New England. The clear mornings, mild days and cool nights give you that extra ounce of oomph in your boogie woogie tap shoes. You don't really want summer to fade away completely but no crowds at the beach, better surf, forgotten sweaters and scrumptious cider donuts make the Indian Summer oh so sweet. Here's the September soundtrack so far:
1) Javelin's new Thrill Jockey 12" Release Javelin: Best song "Soda Popinski" this will be used in a new Apple ad sooner rather than later. Trust me.
Here is the new "Video Poster" for their Brooklyn show: Uber-cool
Miho Hatori, Javelin at Market Hotel 09/18 from Mike Anderson on Vimeo.
2) Phenomenal Handclap Band "15 to 20": With shades of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" this video is a quick reminder how groovalicious this band can be when it get's it's funk on.
1) Javelin's new Thrill Jockey 12" Release Javelin: Best song "Soda Popinski" this will be used in a new Apple ad sooner rather than later. Trust me.
Here is the new "Video Poster" for their Brooklyn show: Uber-cool
Miho Hatori, Javelin at Market Hotel 09/18 from Mike Anderson on Vimeo.
2) Phenomenal Handclap Band "15 to 20": With shades of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" this video is a quick reminder how groovalicious this band can be when it get's it's funk on.
- 9/16/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
I make no great secret of my admiration for Taiwanese director Alexi Tan. The man has a simply fantastic eye behind the camera and, in my book, has a fighting chance of becoming one of the leaders of the current wave of Chinese film. Tan has generally been quiet since releasing his feature debut Blood Brothers but he’s back and making some noise once again.
Clothing company Diesel are celebrating their thirtieth birthday this year and as part of their celebrations they have commissioned Tan to create a new short film titled xXx: A Forbidden Love Story. Now, don’t get the fact that this is sponsored by a clothing company give you the wrong idea. This is not a commercial. Tan retained creative control of the project and says that, in many ways, this is a trial run for his next feature, so what we’re seeing here...
Clothing company Diesel are celebrating their thirtieth birthday this year and as part of their celebrations they have commissioned Tan to create a new short film titled xXx: A Forbidden Love Story. Now, don’t get the fact that this is sponsored by a clothing company give you the wrong idea. This is not a commercial. Tan retained creative control of the project and says that, in many ways, this is a trial run for his next feature, so what we’re seeing here...
- 10/7/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
By Aaron Hillis
He's designed scarves for Marc Jacobs and the iconic cover of Air's "Moon Safari" album, directed music videos for Moby, Pulp and Blonde Redhead, helmed two features to date (the Sundance hit "Thumbsucker" and the SXSW doc "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?"), had graphic art exhibitions and commissioned ad campaigns all around the globe, and played with members of Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the short-lived '90s East Village supergroup Butter 08. If people still confuse prolific artist-filmmaker Mike Mills with the R.E.M. bassist of the same name, it's because it's easy to believe the same man could've done it all.
Mills features prominently in NYC gallery curator-turned-director Aaron Rose's "Beautiful Losers," an entertaining doc celebration of the D.I.Y. talent (Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, the late Margaret Kilgallen, et al.) who took part in Rose's titular museum exhibition.
He's designed scarves for Marc Jacobs and the iconic cover of Air's "Moon Safari" album, directed music videos for Moby, Pulp and Blonde Redhead, helmed two features to date (the Sundance hit "Thumbsucker" and the SXSW doc "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?"), had graphic art exhibitions and commissioned ad campaigns all around the globe, and played with members of Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the short-lived '90s East Village supergroup Butter 08. If people still confuse prolific artist-filmmaker Mike Mills with the R.E.M. bassist of the same name, it's because it's easy to believe the same man could've done it all.
Mills features prominently in NYC gallery curator-turned-director Aaron Rose's "Beautiful Losers," an entertaining doc celebration of the D.I.Y. talent (Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, the late Margaret Kilgallen, et al.) who took part in Rose's titular museum exhibition.
- 7/30/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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