The Beastie Boys seem like a cool band.
I'm not familiar with them; I guess it's before my time. What genre are the Beastie Boys?
I do not know. I just briefly saw something about them on TV.
Now I remember the Beastie Boys. They did famous songs like No Sleep Till Brooklyn and Fight For Your Right to Party. They're kind of punk rock I guess?
I guess I have heard those old songs and didn't know who sang them until now.
The band actually inspired hip hop group Run DMC which I'm a bit more familiar with and you hear their music more often. 
What is some of their music?
Run-DMC
Run-DMC was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell. Run-DMC is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture and one of the most famous hip hop acts of the 1980s. Along with LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy, the group pioneered new school hip hop music. Run-DMC was the first group in the
Boys have another gig that week. What about Run–D.M.C.?" But they were too expensive according to DeMann, and hence ultimately Beastie Boys were chosen. Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz from the band commented: "It's not like any of us knew Madonna that much, but we all used to hang out at Dancetaria [club] so we knew about each other. I don't know why she thought it would be a good idea [to open for her tour], though. It was