From Spinner.com:

Beastie Boys' Mike Diamond Backs Sonic Youth '100%'
Benjy Eisen

Throughout their 27-year career, icons Sonic Youth have had plenty of hits ... just not chart-toppers. So, to help them select their finest, certain well-known Sonic Youth fans were each asked to name their favorite. The Beastie Boys' Mike Diamond chose '100%' and tells Spinner that he picked it because it's "just a great song." The track will appear on Sonic Youth's 'Hits Are for Squares,' a limited-edition CD available only at select Starbucks and online at www.starbucks.com, beginning June 10.

"It's got all you could ask for in a pop song: interesting, dark, and yet celebratory subject matter. Dual guitar solos. A great vocal from Thurston. And a fine Steve Shelley drum break," Diamond says. "The video is heat, too!"

Other famed fans who contributed to the selection process include Beck ('Sugar Kane'), Radiohead ('Kool Thing'), Flaming Lips ('Expressway to Yr Skull') and Eddie Vedder ('Teenage Riot'). Not all Sonic Youth fans are rock stars though -- thus, writer Dave Eggers, comedian David Cross and filmmaker Gus Van Zant each got to pick one for the team.

Ricky Powell has teamed up with Goodspeed, a Japanese graphic t-shirt company, to offer some of his classic photos of the Beastie Boys and other artists on limited edition t-shirts. Choose from the following Beastie Boys designs (click to enlarge images):

Beastie Boys, May 1986


Beastie Boys in San Diego, 1994


Beastie Boys in Los Angeles, 1988


Beastie Boys on Soul Train, 1987

The t-shirts will be available to purchase at Graphy-t.com. A note at Graphy-t.com states the Ricky Powell stock is not yet available. (We'll keep on eye on availability.) Other shirts in the same line are priced at approximately 6000 Yen (US$57), so you can expect to pay something similar to that for the Powell tees.

• Related post: Ricky Powell's wearable art

We've been slacking a bit at M2M due to the holiday and one of us graduating from school. (CONGRATS, KLEPTO!!) It's Beazley catch-up time!



Last week, Adam Yauch announced the first film to be distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures in the first-ever Oscilloscope Laboratories e-newsletter, reprinted below:

23 May 2008

hey, so you actually signed up for the oscilloscope laboratories newsletter! nice, i didn't know so many people would sign up.

so here's the skinny; we will be releasing a film called FLOW later in the year. click here to check out our very professional press release.

also, "gunnin' for that #1 spot" first wave will hit theaters on june 27th, (the day after the NBA draft) then more cities will be added after that. dan will put more specific info about what theaters on what dates below....

talk to you soon,
yauch

Opening Theaters for Gunnin' on June 27th:

New York, NY - AMC Empire 25
New York, NY - AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9
New York, NY - Loews Village East
Phoenix, AZ - AMC Arrowhead 14
Phoenix, AZ - AMC Deer Valley 30
Phoenix, AZ - AMC Mesa Grand 24
Los Angeles, CA - AMC Magic Johnson Crenshaw 15
Los Angeles, CA - AMC 30 at the Block
Los Angeles, CA - AMC Santa Monica 7
Baltimore, MD - AMC Owings Mills 17
Portland, OR - Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
Philadelphia, PA - Ritz at the Bourse

If you haven't already signed up to receive the Oscilloscope Laboratories e-newsletter, go here to do so. Please note that there is no longer an intelligence test associated with signing up for the e-newsletter as there initially was.

To learn more about Flow, visit the film's official web site.

The official trailer for Yauch's film, Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, is now available for your viewing pleasure.

The trailer, as well as an update on the theatrical release of the film (with news of swag and ticket give-aways to the New York premiere of the film on June 25!), was posted on the Gunnin' Facebook page. Non-Facebook members can read about it at Oscope Archive.


Horovitz Senior and Junior. Photo by Chris Leary

On May 21, Adam Horovitz hosted an invitation-only event at Manhattan's Westside Theater for the New York Playwrights Lab, an organization founded by his father, playwright Israel Horovitz. The event, titled "Ex-Lovers," was performances of 8 ten-minute plays written by members of the Playwrights Lab.

The invitation noted there would be a "special celebrity-guest host." Special, indeed! "Ex-Lovers" was billed as "sexy, provocative, upsetting, and very, very funny." Sounds like Mike D's cup of tea!

The younger Horovitz told the New York Observer, "I'm 41, and my whole life I've been going to see his plays...[The lab is] just all these writers, and they keep in touch and they work every week; it's friends together being creative. Its reminiscent of writers' salons and shit. People don't really seem to do that anymore. It's cool."

See more photos from the event at Gettyimages.com.