'Beastie Boys Story' documentary kicks off on Apple TV+

The Spike Jonze directed documentary on seminal rap and alternative band Beastie Boys titled Beastie Boys Story is now available on Apple TV+. Based off a stage show where Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond, the surviving members of the trio take viewers through their journey as a teenage punk band and then as beacons of hip-hop in New York under Russell Simmons' Def Jam records. The focus is also on their partner, Adam "MCA" Yauch, who passed away on 2012, effectively ending their run as a band. 

The Apple TV+ exclusive merges archival photos and previously unseen footage of the band coming of age in New York as well as how their meteoric rise almost destroyed them. For Beastie Boy fans, the show is an immersive and comical retrospective of one of the most influential musical acts of the past 50 years and worth watching. 

'Beastie Boys Story' is coming to Apple TV+ on April 24

The two surviving members of the Beastie Boys still have more of their story to tell. And so Ad-Rock and Mike D worked with their old collaborator Spike Jonze on a new live documentary called Beastie Boys Story. The new trailer for the Apple TV+ documentary shows the two Beasties sharing tales about their friendship to an audience at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn last year. The almost three-minute trailer gives us a better look at what the documentary is going to look like.

Beastie Boys Story is supposed to open in IMAX theatres in the US on April 2, but with the current situation surrounding the coronavirus, that might be postponed. It will be coming to the Apple TV+ streaming service on April 24, so if you're a fan, you might want to take note of that date.

Source: Stereogum