Beastie Boys’ New Album Due in June
NEW YORK (Billboard) – The Beastie Boys’ next studio album will be released in early June via Capitol, according to an e-mail sent to members of the band’s mailing list.
“We are in the studio finishing it now,” the group said. “We’re putting the final touches on the mixes right now and it will be out beginning of June.”
The as-yet-untitled set is the long-awaited follow-up to 1998’s “Hello Nasty,” which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 3.8 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The pioneering rap trio has made only a handful of live appearances in recent years.
The assets of the Beasties’ defunct Grand Royal label are being sold via a Internet auction site. The imprint shuttered in March 2001.
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