‘It Took A Lot of Balls’: How Mix Master Mike Helped Make the Beastie Boys’ ‘3 MC’s and One DJ’ a Hit
It took a lot of balls.” Mix Master Mike (né Michael Schwartz) recalls the courage it took to call up the Beastie Boys, who ...
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The ’90s produced a lot of great music, but we never want to hear these 8 songs again
The ’90s were a bountiful time for new music: the explosion of genres like grunge, Britpop and gangsta rap, plus the emergence of underground scenes like shoegaze and neo-soul. But the decade ...
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Nasty Nes, Seattle rap pioneer who discovered Sir Mix-A-Lot, dies at 63
The Seattle hip-hop community lost one of its most influential early ambassadors last week: “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez died Saturday in Los Angeles, his widow, Llola Rodriguez, announced the ...