Beastie Boys Get "Political" On Next Album
Published Friday, 24th October, 2008 at 2:32 PM
The Beastie Boys are getting political on their next album, which is coming out in 2009.
One third of the rap group, Ad-Rock, tells Billboard of the new LP: "We hope to have it out sometime next year. It's a lot of vocals, a lot of words - very wordy."
"And it's political, depending on what you call political. You know, if toilet talk and fart jokes are political, which they can be, in that sense yeah, very."
Besides the album, the Beastie Boys are also preparing for their 'Get Out And Vote' tour, that begins on Monday October 27. The tour aims to encourage people to vote in the US presidential election.
"70 million people is a lot of people to not vote. So this all happened really quick, like a month or so ago and within the past few weeks, literally," says Ad-Rock.
"We were just stressing on what to do and then we were like, 'We're a band and we play shows, so let's go to these swing states'. We thought it would be a good idea to get people to vote."
