It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his...

Of all the things that The Real McKenzies will own up to being, the one that they will cop to first and most happily is that they are a Canadian band; it is who the been since forming in Vancouver, BC in 1992, it was who they were when American audiences became aware of the band in the mid-Nineties and it is the calling card that the band has dropped as they've toured the world. The Real McKenzies are as...

Awright, fall in ya worthless junkies an' thieves,How ya keepin' out'ere, ya SWAG-gers (a new nickname fer you junkies? I'm tryin' it out)? How's life where you are? Gettin' a little shaky mebbe?Well, guess what? I gotcher cure right'ere! I big bag o' new SWAG thit'll cure all yer ills. No bullshit, le's get inta it. Dis week, I took a coupla artists ta da cleaners, an' got some prino stuff fer you too. Like, I nabbed jus' a ton...

Marilyn Manson, the man who still makes my mother shudder in disgust well over a decade after she was first subjected to the nightmare-ish visuals of the video for “The Beautiful People,” is back in the saddle and has just released his eighth full length album under the title Born Villain. After a run of mediocre releases and a lack of “shocking” material spanning almost a decade, it seems most of those horrified mothers have more or less shaken off...