By Edna Gundersen, Elysa Gardner, Steve Jones, Brian Mansfield and Korina Lopez, USA TODAY
By Phil Andelman
Mike D, left, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz, aka the Beastie Boys, will release a 30-minute video for Make Some Noise on Friday.
By Phil Andelman
Mike D, left, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz, aka the Beastie Boys, will release a 30-minute video for Make Some Noise on Friday.
USA TODAY's music staff offers a weekend tip sheet of sound recommendations spanning the media landscape:
VIDEO
The Beastie Boys censored
After a long delay, the Beastie Boys are finally making noise again. On Friday, the 30-minute censored video of Make Some Noise, first single from the long-awaited Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, will premiere online on the websites for MTV, Spike, MTV2, mtvU, VH1, Comedy Central and Palladia. Also known as Fight for Your Right Revisited, the video's five-minute cut is already in wide rotation. The album, out May 3, was originally expected in September 2009 as Hot Sauce Committee Part One but was shelved when Adam "MCA" Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. Yauch directed the full-length video, a comical chronicle of the trio's past, present and future. ? Edna Gundersen
CONCERT
Want Britney's best tickets? Start early
Get those credit cards ready, Britney Spears fans. Tickets for the pop star's Femme Fatale North American tour go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. local time. The star and her scantily clad entourage kick off June 16 in Sacramento and wrap up Aug. 13 in Toronto. Ticket prices vary widely, according to Ticketmaster.com, from $27 for nose-bleed seats to $347.50 for the main floor. She might have jumped the gun a little by misinforming fans that Enrique Iglesias would open up for her, but no matter. She has someone who shares her love of all things stiletto and spandex: Nicki Minaj. "I'm thrilled to have the hot Nicki Minaj join me and Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo will get everyone on the dance floor," Spears says on her website. "Can't wait to take the Femme Fatales on the road." ? Korina Lopez.
DIGITAL ALBUM
The royal download
Couldn't score an invite to William and Kate's wedding service? No worries: Decca Records will make the ceremony ? the audio portion, at least ? accessible just hours after the prince and his bride exchange vows Friday. The Royal Wedding: The Official Album will be available later the same day at iTunes and other digital retailers, featuring performances by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, the Royal Chapel Choir, the London Chamber Orchestra and the Fanfare Team from the Central Band of the Royal Air Force. A physical version of the album, out May 10, will also include a collector's booklet recounting the service through readings, vows and hymns. ? Elysa Gardner
BOOK
Tales of the guitar icons
Before Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, et al., came to be considered guitar gods, they were young guns turning music on its ear. Guitar Player Presents: Guitar Heroes of the '70s (Backbeat Books, $15) takes you back to when they were still ascending to the rock pantheon. The 250-page book, edited by Guitar Player editor in chief Michael Molenda, republishes 40 interviews the magazine did in the 1970s in which Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garcia and dozens of others talked about their instruments and how they squeezed those sounds out of them. Each interview is presented with black-and-white photos, the magazine cover in which it appeared and recommended discs. ? Steve Jones
CONCERT
In tune with Maroon 5, Train
Fans of tightly crafted, highly polished pop-rock get a two-for-one deal this summer. Once Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine wraps work on NBC's The Voice, his band and Train will combine for a co-headlining tour kicking off July 22 in Chula Vista, Calif. The value gets even better with the opening act: Gavin DeGraw opens the tour's first leg, and Matt Nathanson replaces him starting Aug. 28. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday morning. ? Brian Mansfield
