Biography

Kate Schellenbach (born on January 5, in New York City, New York) was a founding member and drummer for Beastie Boys from 1979 to 1984, and drummed for Luscious Jackson until the band broke up in the spring of 2000 and then again when they reformed in 2011.

Schellenbach was also a replacement drummer for the New York all-girl punk band, Lunachicks, and for the New York-based advanced commercial performance group, Hagatha. She's performed on recordings by Beastie Boys, the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray, Dusty Trails, Kostars, 'Clarabell', Buffalo Daughter, The Josephine Wiggs Experience, Ladies Who Lunch, and has performed live with Emmylou Harris, Blondie, Joan Jett and the Indigo Girls.

She's worked as a producer on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Lopez Tonight (2009) and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003). She appeared on-screen on a show first aired on December 4, 2007, playing the bongos with host Ellen DeGeneres.
- IMDb mini biography by: moodle

A founding member of the Beastie Boys and their predecessor, the post-punk band The Young Aborigines, she left the band during the rapid transition from punk to hip-hop in 1984. From 1991 to 2000, she played with the alternative rock band Luscious Jackson and briefly with the punk band Lunachicks.