The Beastie Boys will be releasing two editions of their forthcoming full-length, The Mix-Up. As we reported earlier, the regular edition will be an all-instrumental album with absolutely no vocals. Well, the band has a second version of the album in the works, this one complete with vocal collaborations with other artists and remixes. In a recent interview with AOL, Mike D. commented:
We just made our list so we have to see who says yes and who likes us and who hates us...It's tricky because we have producers and performers on there, but we have M.I.A. We're big fans of hers. She's on the A-list. Mark Ronson is hopefully doing something with somebody, but I'm not at liberty to say because that's up to him. We played some shows in Australia with Snoop Dogg and we had a very nice time with him so we're hoping to do some stuff with him some time.
The band also addressed rumors of the band playing two shows per city on their upcoming tour to promote the new album. Here's what D. had to say:
The idea was that in certain cities, certain select gala cities, we're going to do a slightly bigger show that's more like our usual show. We'd be playing a lot of hip-hop and also some [instrumental] songs and mixing it all up. And then, if we have time, in the same city, [we'd] play a smaller place like a little theater and play a show that's mostly like the flip of that that's mostly instrumental.
