Vivian Trimble, co-founding member and keyboardist of the New York City rap-rock group Luscious Jackson, died on April 4th. She was 59.
“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved friend and band member Viv on Tuesday,” surviving Luscious Jackson members Jill Cunniff, Gabby Glaser, and Kate Schellenbach wrote on social media. “She had been in treatment for cancer for several years and developed a complication on Monday. We were not expecting this. She was a great friend and a gifted musician and choreographer, but it was being a partner to David and a mother to Nate and Rebecca that gave her the greatest joy. We are devastated beyond words to lose our graceful sister.”
Vivian Elizabeth Trimble was born on May 24th, 1963 to musician parents and was raised between the US and France. After attending Oberlin College, she moved to New York and began teaching Ged classes. Through...
“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved friend and band member Viv on Tuesday,” surviving Luscious Jackson members Jill Cunniff, Gabby Glaser, and Kate Schellenbach wrote on social media. “She had been in treatment for cancer for several years and developed a complication on Monday. We were not expecting this. She was a great friend and a gifted musician and choreographer, but it was being a partner to David and a mother to Nate and Rebecca that gave her the greatest joy. We are devastated beyond words to lose our graceful sister.”
Vivian Elizabeth Trimble was born on May 24th, 1963 to musician parents and was raised between the US and France. After attending Oberlin College, she moved to New York and began teaching Ged classes. Through...
- 4/7/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
“We were as much Monty Python as we were Black Flag,” proclaims the remaining members of one of the greatest hip hop bands ever in Beastie Boys Story, which debuts tomorrow on AppleTV+
Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz fronted live documentary of sorts is 100% aimed for middle age hardcore fans like myself who consider the trio’s Paul Boutique album to be the Sgt. Pepper of hip hop.
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However, if you are not already a member of the tribe, this anecdotal effort directed by longtime band collaborator Spike Jonze may just not capture your fancy.
Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz fronted live documentary of sorts is 100% aimed for middle age hardcore fans like myself who consider the trio’s Paul Boutique album to be the Sgt. Pepper of hip hop.
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However, if you are not already a member of the tribe, this anecdotal effort directed by longtime band collaborator Spike Jonze may just not capture your fancy.
- 4/24/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Even with its two-hour running time, the experience of watching Spike Jonze’s “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story has the feeling of a breezy, intimate, and perhaps too-short trip through the band’s history. Documenting a live event hosted in Brooklyn by surviving members Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, the collaboration is a performed extension of their memoir, Beastie Boys Book. Reteaming with the group, Jonze directs this minimal two-man stage show about three guys who were lucky enough to cultivate and sustain a relationship as best friends for years.
Coming up in an era in which punk and rock converged with hip-hop, the Beasties formed at the urging of the late Adam “McA” Yauch in the early ’80s. With their name an acronym for “Boys Entering Anarchist States in Excellence,” they began playing small clubs with founding members John Berry and Kate Schellenbach. The band achieves...
Coming up in an era in which punk and rock converged with hip-hop, the Beasties formed at the urging of the late Adam “McA” Yauch in the early ’80s. With their name an acronym for “Boys Entering Anarchist States in Excellence,” they began playing small clubs with founding members John Berry and Kate Schellenbach. The band achieves...
- 4/23/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The Beastie Boys, a trio of nerdy Jewish kids from inner New York City, brought anti-establishment punk attitudes to a new generation and changed the shape of hip-hop forever.
Spike Jonze, who directed some of the band’s most iconic music videos including “Sabotage” and “Sure Shot”, helped define their flippant, juvenile brand that, more than three decades after their rapid rise to stardom, is still inseparable from everything Beastie Boys.
But no major pop artist can get ahead without a big dose of luck, and Michael Diamond (“Mike D”), Adam Horovitz (“Ad-Rock”) and Adam Yauch (“McA”) were no different. Befriending an adolescent Rick Rubin just as his favours to the likes of Run Dmc were beginning to pay off, The Beastie Boys gained the producer of a generation and an ally with the sort of connections they didn’t know they needed. But with those new friendships and obvious mainstream potential,...
Spike Jonze, who directed some of the band’s most iconic music videos including “Sabotage” and “Sure Shot”, helped define their flippant, juvenile brand that, more than three decades after their rapid rise to stardom, is still inseparable from everything Beastie Boys.
But no major pop artist can get ahead without a big dose of luck, and Michael Diamond (“Mike D”), Adam Horovitz (“Ad-Rock”) and Adam Yauch (“McA”) were no different. Befriending an adolescent Rick Rubin just as his favours to the likes of Run Dmc were beginning to pay off, The Beastie Boys gained the producer of a generation and an ally with the sort of connections they didn’t know they needed. But with those new friendships and obvious mainstream potential,...
- 4/20/2020
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Beastie Boys are real life examples of why you fight for your right to party. They came together on the Lower East Side and conquered Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan before they caught on worldwide.
Their story gets the documentary treatment with Beastie Boys Story, which premieres globally on Apple TV+ on April 24 with the IMAX Experience hitting theaters on April 2.
You can watch the trailer here:
In the live documentary experience, Beastie Boys Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz will tell “intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship,” according to their press release. The documentary was written and directed by their “longtime friend and collaborator, and loud chewer,” filmmaker Spike Jonze, who also produced alongside Grammy winner Jason Baum and Amanda Adelson. The Beastie Boys Story‘s premiere is set to correspond with the 26th anniversary of Ill Communication,...
Their story gets the documentary treatment with Beastie Boys Story, which premieres globally on Apple TV+ on April 24 with the IMAX Experience hitting theaters on April 2.
You can watch the trailer here:
In the live documentary experience, Beastie Boys Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz will tell “intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship,” according to their press release. The documentary was written and directed by their “longtime friend and collaborator, and loud chewer,” filmmaker Spike Jonze, who also produced alongside Grammy winner Jason Baum and Amanda Adelson. The Beastie Boys Story‘s premiere is set to correspond with the 26th anniversary of Ill Communication,...
- 3/13/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
Last October, Beastie Boys’ Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz released the Beastie Boys Book, a 592-page tome detailing the history of the New York hip-hop group and its cultural influence. It was also, in large part, a tribute to the group’s third member Adam “McA” Yauch, who died in 2012 and was the creative force behind many iconic touchstones in the Beastie Boys’ history. Running through the stories of fame, their artistic process, the teenage hooliganism, was the group’s long-lasting sense of camaraderie with each other...
- 4/9/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Before even opening a physical copy of Beastie Boys Book, you already know that Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz are great storytellers – it’s one of the qualities that makes their music great. So it’s no surprise that these nearly 600 pages are jam-packed with hilarious anecdotes about everything from a long-con prank involving a cursed piece of jewelry that Adam Yauch pulled on Horovitz to the guys walking Lee “Scratch” Perry through Greenwich Village’s famed Halloween parade. Beastie Boys Book also offers fascinating first-person accounts of post-punk New York City in the Eighties,...
- 12/26/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
John Berry, a founding member of the Beastie Boys who is credited with concocting the group’s name, died Thursday morning at a Danvers, Massachusetts, hospice, Rolling Stone reports. He was 52. Berry’s father, John Berry III, said that his son had suffered from a worsening case of frontal lobe dementia. Berry played with the group in its formative years in the early ’80s. At the time, the group consisted of Mike Diamond, Adam Yauch and Kate Schellenbach. Berry appeared on the group’s 1982 debut Ep “Polly Wog Stew” but left the group soon after, as did Schellenbach. Adam Horowitz (nom de.
- 5/20/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch has died. The 47-year-old rapper - who was diagnosed with a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node in 2009 for which he underwent surgery and radiation therapy -passed away this morning (04.05.12). Adam - who was also known by his stage name McA - founded the group with Kate Schellenbach, John Berry, and Michael Diamond (Mike D) in 1979 with Berry leaving in 1983 to be replaced by Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock). The Beastie Boys have not performed live since the summer of 2009, and the rapper's illness prevented the group from appearing in music videos for their album 'Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2'. McA didn't attend the Beastie Boys' induction into...
- 5/4/2012
- Monsters and Critics
To mark the sad death of Adam Yauch at the age of 47, here are some examples of the Beastie Boys at their finest – and a chance for you to tell us what McA and the band meant to you
Live on the Scott and Gary Show
Before they became rap's biggest act, the Beastie Boys were a hardcore punk band into Black Flag and Bad Brains. Here, Adam Yauch is on bass while adding to the primeval racket are Adam Horovitz on guitar and Michael Diamond on vocals (with, on drums, Kate Schellenbach, later of Luscious Jackson), ahead of their rechristening (as far as Jews can be rechristened) as, respectively, McA, Ad-Rock and Mike D. The footage is from 1984, from a cable TV programme called the Scott and Gary Show, and includes such never-to-be-revisited early "classics" as White Shadow and Egg Raid on Mojo.
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right...
Live on the Scott and Gary Show
Before they became rap's biggest act, the Beastie Boys were a hardcore punk band into Black Flag and Bad Brains. Here, Adam Yauch is on bass while adding to the primeval racket are Adam Horovitz on guitar and Michael Diamond on vocals (with, on drums, Kate Schellenbach, later of Luscious Jackson), ahead of their rechristening (as far as Jews can be rechristened) as, respectively, McA, Ad-Rock and Mike D. The footage is from 1984, from a cable TV programme called the Scott and Gary Show, and includes such never-to-be-revisited early "classics" as White Shadow and Egg Raid on Mojo.
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right...
- 5/4/2012
- by Paul Lester
- The Guardian - Film News
It's a sad day for the music industry: Adam Yauch, rapper, founding member, all-around beloved musician of the Beastie Boys , passed away on Friday at age 47. Fans and fellow musicians alike were affected by the shocking news about one of the preeminent, longest-lasting groups hip-hop has ever seen. Yauch and Michael "Mike D" Diamond first performed as the Beastie Boys with John Berry and Kate Schellenbach in 1981. The group released eight albums and has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.
Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland in 2009; he was unable to attend the Beastie Boys' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012, spurring speculation that the rapper had fallen gravely ill.
Launch the gallery below to see celebrity reactions on Twitter:...
Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland in 2009; he was unable to attend the Beastie Boys' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012, spurring speculation that the rapper had fallen gravely ill.
Launch the gallery below to see celebrity reactions on Twitter:...
- 5/4/2012
- by Youyoung Lee
- Huffington Post
The Brooklyn-born Adam Yauch, known in the music community as rapper McA in the iconic hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died at age 47 after battling cancer for the last several years. Yauch’s surviving family includes his wife, Dechen Wengdu and their daughter, Losel. Variety confirmed Yauch’s passing as well as his steep decline in health in recent weeks to the extent he was too sick to attend the Beasties' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month. Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys in 1979 with rappers Michael “Mike D” Diamond (a friend from high school) and John Berry and Kate Schellenbach. Berry left the group and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz replaced him. After signing with Def Jam Records co-founder Rick Rubin, Schellenbach left the band and the Beasties took hold as a rap trio and achieved mainstream success in 1986 with their License to Ill album and its...
- 5/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Brooklyn-born Adam Yauch, known in the music community as rapper McA in the iconic hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died at age 47 after battling cancer for the last several years. Yauch’s surviving family includes his wife, Dechen Wengdu and their daughter, Losel. Variety confirmed Yauch’s passing as well as his steep decline in health in recent weeks to the extent he was too sick to attend the Beasties' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month. Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys in 1979 with rappers Michael “Mike D” Diamond (a friend from high school) and John Berry and Kate Schellenbach. Berry left the group and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz replaced him. After signing with Def Jam Records co-founder Rick Rubin, Schellenbach left the band and the Beasties took hold as a rap trio and achieved mainstream success in 1986 with their License to Ill album and its...
- 5/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 5, 2012
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Patty Schemel shares a moment with Kurt Cobain (l.) and his daughter Frances Bean in Hit So Hard.
Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel is a 2011 biographical documentary film that chronicles the to-hell-and-back journey of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole.
Directed and co-written by P. David Ebersole, the movie offers audiences a chronicle of life as a rock star in the 1990s from Schemel’s point of view – at band practice, on the road, backstage, performing in front of millions of people and partying after the gig is through. It also reveals the story of the drug addiction and other problems that consumed Schemel and almost took her life.
The film includes a slew of personal home video footage revealing Schemel’s life offstage with Courtney Love,...
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Patty Schemel shares a moment with Kurt Cobain (l.) and his daughter Frances Bean in Hit So Hard.
Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel is a 2011 biographical documentary film that chronicles the to-hell-and-back journey of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole.
Directed and co-written by P. David Ebersole, the movie offers audiences a chronicle of life as a rock star in the 1990s from Schemel’s point of view – at band practice, on the road, backstage, performing in front of millions of people and partying after the gig is through. It also reveals the story of the drug addiction and other problems that consumed Schemel and almost took her life.
The film includes a slew of personal home video footage revealing Schemel’s life offstage with Courtney Love,...
- 4/19/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Patty Schemel is best remembered as the drummer of the alternative rock group Hole, fronted by erstwhile alt-queen rocker, now-notorious loudmouth Courtney Love. For top level context, Schemel laid the thunderous beat on both of Hole’s most popular and well-known records, including 1994’s Live Through This, which was released just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home. This is all well-documented. What only the most hardcore of rock aficionados will remember was that Schemel’s drum parts on 1997’s follow-up record Celebrity Skin were replaced by a session drummer at the behest of producer Michael Beinhorn (knob-twiddler for records like Soundgarden's Superunknown, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Mother's Milk and Grave Dancers Union by Soul Asylum).
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
- 4/10/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Star-studded film is packed with nods to the Beasties' past and present.
By James Montgomery
John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Jack Black in the "Fight For Your Right Revisited" video
Photo: Capitol Records
By now, you've probably watched — and subsequently re-watched — the Beastie Boys' new "Fight For Your Right Revisited" film, which premiered at midnight Thursday morning (April 21) on MTV2, mtvU, VH1 Classic and Palladia.
In theory, it's a tongue-in-cheek retrospective on the Beasties' early License To Ill days, picking up where their sublimely stoopid "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" video left off, following Mike D, Ad-Rock and McA — as played by Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride, respectively — on a drunken spree that culminates in an epic dance battle against their future selves (John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Jack Black, just in case you're keeping score at home). But really, it works...
By James Montgomery
John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Jack Black in the "Fight For Your Right Revisited" video
Photo: Capitol Records
By now, you've probably watched — and subsequently re-watched — the Beastie Boys' new "Fight For Your Right Revisited" film, which premiered at midnight Thursday morning (April 21) on MTV2, mtvU, VH1 Classic and Palladia.
In theory, it's a tongue-in-cheek retrospective on the Beasties' early License To Ill days, picking up where their sublimely stoopid "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" video left off, following Mike D, Ad-Rock and McA — as played by Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride, respectively — on a drunken spree that culminates in an epic dance battle against their future selves (John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Jack Black, just in case you're keeping score at home). But really, it works...
- 4/21/2011
- MTV Music News
When most think of rock docs, it’s likely VH1′s award-winning Behind the Music pops into their mind. Blending a featured band’s comprehensive history with a fast-paced narrative and popular music, it was a documentary series that was accessible and entertaining to the ardent fans and newbies alike. P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard is not so inclusive, favoring a storytelling method that assumes the film’s audience will be devotees of the bygone grunge age – or at the least deeply fascinated by Kurt and Courtney. Anyone else might struggle to follow the film’s tenuous thread.
Hit So Hard focuses on the roller-coaster-like life story of drummer Patty Schemel, an outcast turned struggling artist turned rock star turned literal crack whore turned mentor. It’s a compelling tale and Schemel is engrossing as she openly reveals her highs and lows with a self-deprecating sense of humor and utter lack of self-pity.
Hit So Hard focuses on the roller-coaster-like life story of drummer Patty Schemel, an outcast turned struggling artist turned rock star turned literal crack whore turned mentor. It’s a compelling tale and Schemel is engrossing as she openly reveals her highs and lows with a self-deprecating sense of humor and utter lack of self-pity.
- 3/28/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Director: P. David Ebersole Writers: P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes Featuring: Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Gina Schock, Kate Schellenbach, Kurt Cobain, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Nina Gordon, Patty Schemel, Phranc, Sarah Vowell Some of you might be asking the same question I asked myself when I first received the press release for Hit So Hard: The Life & Near‐Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel -- why would I want to watch a documentary about the drummer of Hole? Nothing personal about Schemel, but she is not the first person who comes to mind when I think of Hole. Knowing absolutely nothing about Schemel, I figured that it would not hurt anything for me to give Hit So Hard a chance. Full Disclosure: I am not a fan of Hole (I am more of an early Nirvana -- Bleach and Nevermind -- man myself), so I am probably coming...
- 3/16/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Anybody who listened to Hole during their peak knows that the band was dominated by frontwoman Courtney Love. Her personality was so outsized and her voice so big and distinct that there was little room for anybody else in the band to really shine. But Hole were an incredibly efficient rock machine, and a lot of that was because of the savage precision of drummer Patty Schemel. Drummers tend to get short shrift in any band (save for iconic singularities like Keith Moon, John Bonham or Neil Peart), so it's about time that one of the more talented members of the time-keeping fraternity gets the attention she deserves.
That attention comes in the form of "Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel," a documentary about Schemel's life and career behind the kit. The film, which borrows its title from a song from Hole's 1998 album Celebrity Skin,...
That attention comes in the form of "Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel," a documentary about Schemel's life and career behind the kit. The film, which borrows its title from a song from Hole's 1998 album Celebrity Skin,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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