Tag: MCA
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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Integrity and liability, or samplers shouldn’t throw stones
Mentioned this before on Twitter and Facebook, but I’ve been ignoring the sample litigation over here which really is the home of such discussions (for me anyway). This article on PolicyMic about the recent Beasties win made me kind of annoyed. Really not sure the Beasties suing people for millions of dollars is the epitome…
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Girls vs Boys: Fair use and advertising
I really liked the Goldieblox advert when I saw it, the attitude, the aim of getting more girls into STEM. I didn’t even think about the backing music much apart from thinking it was a slightly odd but subversive choice as a fun parody of Beastie Boys very misogynistic and not-at-all kid-friendly ‘Girls’. It seems…
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Beastles Is Back!
DROOOOOOOOOOOP! That’s the sound of the Beastles arriving, well probably with that THX style chord from The End mixed in…dj BC has released ‘Ill Submarine’ and mighty fine it is too. Downloady here, and also on Soundcloud (and also proud for Radio Clash to help mirror it – I like thumbing my nose at those…
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Monster Beasties
I heard about this odd piece of news linking the fact that MCA’s will said he didn’t want him to appear in ads at all to the Monster lawsuit. I thought the timing of both announcements to be rather odd – could be just lazy journalism but a lot of the articles linked the two.…
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More bad news – RIP Lloyd Brevett & MCA
(Skatalites – Nimrod which has been completely scrubbed off YouTube. Odd.) Hmm after Nitro Deluxe the bad news keeps on coming, it always comes in threes…one you probably don’t know and the other you do. Of course everyone’s talking about the death of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys – I’m sure as…