Beastie Boys New CD Coming Soon!

The Beastie Boys are back homie with some phat tracks to massage your eardrums with booooyyyee!!!! Their new album Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 drops May 3 but the boys have been giving fans gifts for the past month including a 30 minute video from the above trailer and yesterday they put a video up of the entire album being played from a boom box in Madison Square Gardens (visit BeastieBoysBlog). I was a bit confused though as to why Part 1 has still not been released and if you want to know the story then read this excerpt from an email they sent their fanlist on October 2010:

In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have verified that their new Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be composed of the same 16 tracks originally slated for inclusion on Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The record (part 2 that is) will be released as planned in spring 2011 on Capitol. The tracks originally recorded for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 material. Wait, what? "I know it's weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end." says Adam "MCA" Yauch. "We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we've come full circle."