THE BROUHAHA

Many thanks to Michael Love (Beastiemania) for serving us up an interview with DJ Z-Trip. And many thanks to Z-Trip for guiding us through his new Beasite Boys Megamix while driving on the highway in San Diego (worry not, Z-Trip was rockin' the bluetooth).

(Below: What's the perk of having both a Beastie Boys and Z-Trip tattoo on your left arm? Getting to be the cover boy for Z-Trip's new Beasite Boys Megamix, duh.)

For the complete-straight-from-horse's-mouth-megamix link, go here.

Z-TRIP PRESENTS: ALL-ACCESS BEASTIE BOYS MEGAMIX:

http://ztrip.bandcamp.com/album/z-trip-presents-all-access-a-beastie-boys-megamix

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Jim (left) and Prof D (right) form their own committee to oversee the Hot Sauce Committee (which was finally, and triumphantly released today!):

(Above: This picture was taken in the mid-late '90s when Jim claimed that he was an angel and Prof D the exact opposite.)

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Just as mysterious (and glorious) as a yeti-sighting, we track down Mike Nishita, brother of Keyboard Money Mark.

And later, it's Jim's turn to take the Twenty Questions quiz as Rodie plays master griller:

(Above: After scouring the internet, this rare photo from Beastiemania is the only one we could find of the elusive Mike Nishita.)

(Top: Hello Nasty release day in May of 1998. Bottom: TT5B release day in June of 2004.)

(Above: Cool beans, look at the souvenir Money Mark inherited from the Check Your Head era.)

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Makin' some noise about the brand new Beastie Boys' single, "Make Some Noise" (with a special guest):

(Below: The Hose EP...inspiration for HSC, Pt. 2's artwork?)

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May 5:

Cey Adams and Kathleen Hanna signing artwork, while Adrock DJ's.

Not a bad night, eh?

Imagine my excitement when I saw this at Border's!  Alas, this children's book has nothing to do with the Beatie Boys, but you don't have to tell your kids that.  (If the Beastie Boys were pricks, I'm sure all they'd have to do is file a few papers with their lawyer to have this book taken off the shelf.)

I was at the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame this weekend, and this was the only Beastie artifact I came across: Mike D's goggles and dish gloves from the "Intergalactic" video.  (It looks like Mike's gloves suffered some collateral damage from the robot/giant-space-squid fight.)

I also came across this: Chuck D's original sketch for Public Enemy's logo. Part of me thinks it would be cooler if it was just sitting in a junk drawer somewhere in Long Island.

DJ Katanga drops by to talk about Beastie Boys party jams and why he's still angry about the whole Prodigy/"Smack My Bitch Up" drama of the late '90s.

Then, message board legend, Laver1969, flexes his B-Boy muscle and gives 20 Questions a whirl:

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...and the thing is I didn't even know I was going to see it (or who! I was going to see it with):

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Milkit Entertainment sends their star reporter, Phammerz, to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah to give us details on the screening of Adam Yauch's Fight For Your Right Revisited:

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