Beastie Boys have shared a deluxe version of their 2004 LP To the 5 Boroughs to celebrate the album’s 15th anniversary. The expanded digital edition features a handful of B-sides and rarities, as well as remixes by the likes of producer Just Blaze, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, and more. The material is available digitally for the first time. Ch-check it out below.
Beastie Boys announced the release on their Twitter account. “Hello everybody,” they wrote. “To the 5 Boroughs came out 15 years ago today. For the occasion, twelve rare tracks have just been released digitally in addition to the original 15 songs on the album.”
Last month, remaining Beastie Boys Michael Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock) released a mini-documentary on Amazon Music commemorating the 25th anniversary of their fourth studio album, 1994’s Ill Communication. In 2018, Diamond and Horovitz published Beastie Boys Book, a massive tome featuring career-spanning anecdotes. More recently, Mike D and Ad-Rock embarked on a Spike Jonze-directed book tour following the memoir.
Read “Beastie Boys Book Lets the World in on the Trio’s Inside Jokes” over on the Pitch.
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