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The idea is to keep the green alien landing-craft from taking your humans from the ground and changing them into mutants. A mutant... is very dangerous to you.. because he flies faster than you do - and shoots at you!
Such advice and more is given to us on the Beastie Boys' first official studio release since 'Hello Nasty', which was about 6 years ago (and received two Grammys)

Fortunately I already got a chance to look at 'To The Five Boroughs' (due to be released June 15th). I must admit I'm not into Hip-Hop too much, but have always been a B-Boys fan kinda'. So when I first listened to this I thought this almost sounds like their early stuff, even though the beats supposedly completely come out of the computer. This stuff really sounds old-school. My second thought was 'I must have grown out of Old-School.' Their new album is said to be their most political. Okay.. what do we have here. Some obligatory bush-administration-bashing. That's about all politics I could find. The rest is a long (concerned) ode to NYC. Still some cool tracks on this one so ch-check it out.
BTW, something funny happened behind the scenes, when the Boys where at MTV for the premier of their new clip 'Ch-check it out'. They accidentally dissed Eminem. Everyone knows what that means ;-)

While I'm at it. This months absolute favourite is definitely Sonic Youth's nineteenth (!) longplayer 'Sonic Nurse' released today (June 7th). This record rocks. I'd file it together with 'Murray Street' if it weren't louder, more disturbing and distorted. This is what Indie has to sound like these days. Most worth mentioning is maybe that Kim Gordon is back on the mic with fabulous songwriting. In fact all I can say on this album would be praise so I'll rather let you enjoy it without any further influencing words.

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Matthias