The Beastie Boys and fourteen other artists have been nominated for the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
The rules are simple. In order to be eligible, artists must have released their first album or single at least 25 years prior. Once the nominees are set, it takes at least 50 percent of the voting committee to induct them in.
Amazingly, this isn’t the first year that the Beastie Boys have been eligible. They were also nominated in 2008, because they released their first EP in 1982. (However, their first single–”She’s on It”–didn’t come out until 1985 and it wasn’t until 1986 that their first album, Licensed to Ill, was released).
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 3:49 pm by jordan
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I, for one, am confused with what is going on with The Beastie Boys. Their official website (and Twitter) hasn’t been updated since September 2009, their most recent Facebook post was in April 2010, and don’t even get me started on their Youtube channel.
In the summer of 2009 they canceled their appearances at Lollapalooza and the Oshenga Festival in Montreal because member Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) underwent surgery to have a cancerous tumor found in his left salivary gland removed.
It’s understandable that the band would take some down time, but it’s been almost a year without so much as a peep from them. Even their highly anticipated album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 has been postponed from September 2009 to ???. Fans were told that it would be out late this year, but now rumors are swirling that it won’t be until sometime in 2011.
Back in July 2009, Yauch made a video for the band’s website saying that he needed “to take a little time to get this in check, and then we’ll release the record and play some shows.”
Hopefully everyone in the band–Yauch especially–is doing well and the album and subsequent tour will be coming soon!
Check back soon for more news on Beastie Boys tickets, tour and more.
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 1:09 pm by jordan
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