Rolling Stone breaks (walnut) bread with the Beastie Boys

From Rolling Stone:

Smoking Section When the Smoking Section was age eight, we knew every word to “Paul Revere,” so it was certainly a full-circle thrill to sit around the kitchen table eating a loaf of walnut bread with MCA, Mike D and AdRock at their Oscilloscope studio in New York. The Beastie Boys (decked out in suits and snap-brim hats, like the Specials) gave us the skinny on The Mix-Up, their dope new instrumental album. “The initial inspiration was ‘Let’s all get in a room and start playing instruments and see what comes out,’ ” says drummer Mike D. Bassist MCA adds, “It wasn’t full-on jazz-odyssey improvising, but coming up with grooves.” Soon, grooves piled up, turning into songs. “It was like, ‘Well, we could add vocals to this,’ ” says Mike D. “But we felt it worked well as its own thing.” They considered including rolling papers in the CD booklet, but no such luck. The beat drops in June. More good news: After dates in Europe, the Beasties will hit the U.S. In many towns they’ll play two nights, the first at a big venue, offering the classic B-Boy experience, and the next go at a more intimate theater, Mix-Up style. Adds MCA, “Shit is funky.”