Beat Box Bjork/The Beasties Bash Bush.

On her upcoming album Medulla, due out at the end of the summer, Bjork goes acapella (with the aid of The Roots' Rahzel and Faith No More's Mike Patton.)

Found while perusing the five star RS review of the all-new (and very old skool) Beastie Boys album, To the Five Boroughs, which is very much both a post-9/11 ode to NYC and a virulently anti-Dubya album ("Put a quarter in your ass, 'cause you played yourself.") As has been the case since Ill Communication, MCA gets a bit too preachy at times (For example, "We've got a president we didn't elect/The Kyoto treaty he decided to neglect" on "Time to Build," or "Never again should we use the A-bomb/We need an international ban on/All W.O.M.D's gone/We need a multilateral disarm." on "We've Got The.")

Nevertheless, I think the new Beasties project is a success, redeemed by (1) the catchy mid-eighties beats and samples (Check out "Rhyme the Rhyme Well") and (2) the unleashing of the B's perennial secret weapon, the King Ad Rock, who seems to be having more fun in the game than the other two guys by miles. (For example, "Yo, what the falafel/You gotta get up awful early to fool Mr. Furley" on "Oh Word", or when he channels a mean Smooth B on "Crawl Space.") You already know by now if the Beasties are your bag, so if you want Licensed to Ill-era beats with Hello Nasty rhymes, To the 5 Boroughs is worth picking up. But, one word of warning from "3 the Hard Way": "If you sell our CD's on Canal before we make 'em, then we will have no alternative but to serve you on a platter like Steak-umm") Hey, don't say you didn't know.