Listen: Beastie Boys Return With Organ-Driven Funk on 'Make Some Noise'

Phil Andelman

"Make Some Noise," the first single from the Beastie Boys' long-awaited new album Hot Sauce Committe, Pt. 2 leaked to the internet yesterday, which led the band to share the song on their official Tumblr. The track is anchored by a chunky, overdriven organ part, but the beat is loose and groovy like the best of the trio's Nineties material. "Make Some Noise" will hit digital stores on April 11th and will be available as a seven-inch single on Record Store Day on April 16th.

Click to listen to the Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise"

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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