The White Mandingos, "Mandingo Rally," And Remembering Adam Yauch

Here is a new video from the hardest working man in showbiz and his two bandmates. Besides an album coming in June, a newly released book about heavy metal and a newly relaunched magazine, Awl pal, ego trip founder, Mass Appeal editorial director and White Mandingo Sacha Jenkins has just signed on to co-write a forthcoming Beastie Boys memoir — one that will deviate from the standard memoir format into what the Times’ Ben Sisario describes as, “a pastiche of voices, images, irreverent humor and pop-culture reference points” modelled after the magazine the group published in ’90s, Grand Royal. In other Beastie news, gather a deep sigh in your chest, because tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Adam Yauch’s sad, sad, much-to-early death. Today, surviving Beastie Boys Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond join Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz in a ceremony to rename Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn Heights, where Yauch grew up, “Adam Yauch Playground.”