Beastie Boys Finishing Up "Weird" New Album

The Beastie Boys are hard at working finishing up their eighth studio album, the trio's Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) tells EW.com. "It's a pretty weird record," Yauch said, adding that unlike 2007's all-instrumental The Mix-Up, the new LP will feature "a lot of rhyming and playing and sampling — all combined."

"We still have a good time working together. It's fun to be able to reinvent yourself every time," the rapper said. The album is due out in either the summer or fall, with Tad Lock's Glasses — an homage to their tour bus driver's unique glasses — being batted around as a possible album title.

In other Beastie news, the group will take the stage at this year's Bonnaroo. Recently MCA, Ad-Rock and Mike D reissued their epic Paul's Boutique with remastered sound and tons more features. Check out the full story on that album below:

• Beastie Boys Mark 20th Anniversary of "Paul's Boutique" With New Website, Studio Update

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  MUSIC Exclusive Live Chat With Linkin Park and Incubus
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  VIDEOS Exclusive Premiere: Tenacious D's 'Tinnitus'

Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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