The Dust Brothers

The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they're on the outside looking in. Read More

Lee "Scratch" Perry; Walt "Clyde" Frazier; Puma "Clyde" sneakers; Groove Merchant Records in San Francisco; Eddie Harris's Plug Me In ; that you could wear beanies even when it was hot outside; that billy goats had beards; Mike Mills (then just a graphic designer); Spike Jonze (then just a maker of skate videos); how to pronounce "Stuyvesant"; that diaper rash is "funky"; that the egg is a symbol of life, whatever that means; all-time hits leader Sadaharu Oh; Ricky Powell (though I had no idea what he "did"); what a "mullet" was; Ben Davis work clothing ("Union-made"); the situation in Tibet; "'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance"; that I wanted to one day move to New York. When Adam Yauch passed away on Friday after a two-year battle with cancer, it seemed that everyone around me took the loss personally. Read More

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I've never understood why so many — even in the present-day environment of mainstream acceptance for the modern, much more watered-down, commercially acceptable version of hip-hop — still see rap music as a threat. Read More

From Radiohead's "Pop is Dead" and Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and more, 411's Wyatt E. counts down his top 8 examples of music disowned by their creators! Read More

Here we arrive at the culmination of all the Beastie Boys' and the Dust Brothers' insane rhyming and production chops as featured on Paul's Boutique. Read More