This is the Beastie Boys Kerrang! magazine cover feature from May 2004, just as the trio were about to release their sixth studio album, To The 5 Boroughs. It should have been a quite simple question. Actually, it was a simple question. The Beastie Boys – Adam Yauch (Master of Ceremonies Adam), Adam Horowitz (Ad Rock) and Mike Diamond (Mike D) – are sat in a wooden office on the fifth floor of a Manhattan Brownstone apartment. Their forthcoming album, their sixth, To The 5 Boroughs, is their first for more than five years, their first since 1998’s Hello Nasty. All manner of things have changed in this time. You may have bought your first ever piece of music in this time. You may have little idea who the Beastie Boys are. So the question is a gentle one, to get us all going. Where...
