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Mike D Diogo Baptista/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Nearly 20 years after the last Beastie Boys concert, the group’s Mike D is mounting his first solo tour this summer, backed by a group called 5D, which includes his sons Skyler and Davis Diamond, as well as Eddie Ruscha, Will Graefe, and Milo Ruscha. The five-gig run, all scattershot across the Eastern U.S., coincides with the Aug. 28 release of his first solo album, Thank You.
The tour kicks off on Aug. 30 in Boston and includes dates in Washington, D.C.; Asheville, North Carolina; Atlanta; and one of New York City’s boroughs. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Eastern on Friday, with presales beginning Thursday. Ticketing info is on the Mike D 5D website.
Thank You features 10 songs, including “What We Got,” a heavy psychedelic rocker, pierced by Mike D’s inimitable rapping. Other tunes include the jazzy, more laid-back “Switch Up” and “True Colors,” a trippy mélange of breakbeats, analog synths, and ethereal vocals that change direction toward the end.
