Beastie Boys Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz expressed their immense grief over the loss of bandmate Adam "MCA" Yauch in online statements days after the musician and filmmaker's death on May 4, but the surviving members of the group have shared more specific memories of living and working with their friend of three decades in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Asked to explain where Yauch, who died at age 47 after a three-year fight with salivary gland cancer, fit into their creative process, both men say MCA was the force that challenged them to experiment and see things from different perspectives.

Mark Cuban has sold a company for a billion dollars, won championships with the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and shown his business acumen on ABC’s Shark Tank, but the cable TV channel he launched in 2001, HDNet, hasn’t grown as he hoped in audience, profits, programming or carriage on cable systems.

BET Awards viewers will be watching the Throne. Kanye West and Jay-Z's collaboration has five nominations at this year's ceremony, including Best Group, Best Collaboration and two nominations for Video of the Year ("N***as in Paris" and "Otis"). (West earned solo nominations for Best Director and Best Collaboration, giving him seven overall nods.)

Organizers say the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has found a home in midtown Manhattan.

What would American slaves have called a Quarter Pounder with cheese? The first footage from Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained doesn’t answer that question. But in many ways, the ten minutes of brief scenes – first unveiled Monday to a gathering of journalists at the Majestic Hotel in Cannes – suggested that the movie, which the Weinstein Company will release Dec. 25, will be quintessential Tarantino.

Philadelphia has more than Bruce Springsteen concerts to look forward this summer. As previously announced, the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made In America festival in Philly is on for Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 1-2), and today the lineup’s been released.

David Lee Roth posted a video this weekend explaining the mysteriously postponed dates on Van Halen's tour.

Adele had another one of those nights at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, taking home a whopping twelve awards including Top Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album during an evening of scorching performances by the likes of Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, a tribute to the late Whitney Houston, and a once-in-a-generation Icon Award for Stevie Wonder.

Robin Gibb, who along with his brothers Maurice and Barry made up the Bee Gees, has died at age 62, according to a statement from his spokesperson which cited Gibb’s “long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery.” Gibb reportedly spent a week in a coma last month, after announcing he’d been fighting colon and liver cancer in an article in the London newspaper the Daily Mail.

Who is Don Draper? That's the eternal question on Mad Men, but could the answer be as simple as "Zou Bisou Bisou"? As Don's sultry new French-Canadian bride, Megan, Jessica Paré has been knocking everybody's socks off all season. In the premiere episode alone, she throws Don a surprise birthday party with a French-pop serenade, right before the most erotic rug-cleaning in TV history. "She's a character of light in a landscape of really dark people," Paré says. "Everybody in the ad world is so sarcastic and sardonic. That makes her the weird one." But she has one thing in common with the other ladies in Don's life: "A little bit of a naughty sexual habit."