News Summary

• The Beastie Boys ended in 2012, when the late Adam “MCA” Yauch died way too young of cancer.
• Since then, there’s been no music from either surviving Beastie — as Mike D has said, the grief made it too painful to even walk into the studio.
• But Thank You is his first solo album, the sound of a man revitalized.
• Mike D isn’t trying to repeat their music on Thank You — but he is trying to live up to that friendship and everything it meant.