Beastie Boys: The Mix Up

[YellerDog]

"The Mix Up", a new all-instrumental, rap-free album from the Beastie Boys came out yesterday, anybody had a chance to pick it up yet?

"The In Sound From Way Out!" from a few years back was fantastic, the samples on iTunes seem to be showing that this will be equally good.

Tour dates coming up soon, if you buy the album on iTunes, you apparently get into some kind of "special ticket" club.

[Doc Holliday]

Woah! No Shit?

EDIT: Fuckin' A! Bout fuckin' time! I'm going to the store right now...

[YellerDog]

My local record shop is giving away a 7" single with copies of the CD. I need to get paid so I can buy this....

[Frogacuda]

This is a pretty solid release. Comparisons to The In Sound are justified, but it's got less of a porn funk vibe, more of a jazz fusion thing. Very solid. I hear they're doing a version with vocals that will feature guest vocalists. I wonder what that will be like.

[Doc Holliday]

The difference is that TISFWO was not a new album but a compilation. This is new. This is what I've always wanted.

Here's an excerpt from Rolling Stone:

The Beasties could have knocked out all twelve jams in a lazy weekend in 1992, 2007 or anywhere in between, and the album isn't meant too seriously; Mike D still drums like Meg White's dad. But it's definitely fun to play loud on a sunny afternoon, especially the conga groove of "The Melee," the "See Emily Play"-style psychedelia of "14th St. Break," the stoner fuzak drones of "The Kangaroo Rat" and "Off the Grid." I was surprised to find the rest of the songs were not simply titled "Weedbreak, I-VIII." And despite the Beasties' New York roots, there's no punk or post-punk; if they've heard LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, CSS or any of the young funkateers they keep inspiring all over the world, you can't tell from The Mix-Up. Hopefully, this is only a warm-up for their next big move.

Let us hope, let us hope.

[Tenchimo Dos]

They are playing a show at Red Rocks in August which sold out really fast, so I wasn't able to get tickets. But they just announced they're playing the Denver Filmore the following night. It's headlined as an all instrumental gala ball. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, and there is no damn way I'm missing that filmore show. I've seen them before, but an all instrumental show sounds pretty sweet.

[Advocate]

Shit. I may have to check this out.