Beastie Boys

Kabul to California: how the ‘hip-hop family’ mobilised for young Afghans

With breakdancers, artists and parkourists facing a bleak future under the Taliban, a global network stepped in to help, drawing on the activist spirit of rap culture

Lizzy Davies

21, Feb, 2022 @8:45 AM

Rick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book

The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’

Laura Snapes

11, Feb, 2022 @6:00 AM

Def Jam: how a new British imprint of the iconic rap label poached Stormzy

Only 6% of music industry execs are Black. That system fails artists, say the founders of 0207 Def Jam, whose uniquely diverse boardroom aims to change the culture – for good

Joseph JP Patterson

18, Jun, 2021 @5:00 AM

Ricky Powell, hip-hop photographer who captured New York culture, dies aged 59

Photographer who documented Def Jam artists as well as Madonna, Andy Warhol and more was known for his longstanding work with the Beastie Boys

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

02, Feb, 2021 @10:21 AM

Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season

The director’s new Beastie Boys doc is the latest twist in a singular career. What better time to seek out his best work online...

Guy Lodge

25, Apr, 2020 @7:00 AM

Beastie Boys Story review – Spike Jonze and the boys are back in town

Ad-Rock and Mike D host a convivial trip down memory lane in this filmed record of a live show held in tribute to third member Adam Yauch

Peter Bradshaw

20, Apr, 2020 @4:00 PM

The week in podcasts: Mortem; Over the Road; The Space Programme

Exploring unusual subjects, from autopsies to long-haul trucking

Miranda Sawyer

23, Feb, 2020 @5:30 AM

Bowie's gnome and Dr Dre's hospital: musicians' embarrassing early songs

Pop duo Tegan and Sara have re-recorded their high school songs – and they’re not the only songwriters to have started young

Michael Hann

25, Sep, 2019 @8:32 AM

Cassius's Philippe Zdar dies in fall from Paris building

French producer worked for acts including Phoenix, Kanye West and the Beastie Boys

Laura Snapes

20, Jun, 2019 @6:26 AM

‘The public has a right to art’: the radical joy of Keith Haring

His vibrant work was always accessible, but he was also a driven, socially minded artist. As a new exhibition opens at Tate Liverpool, we talk to those that knew him

Miranda Sawyer

02, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM