Beastie Boys’ Mike D adds North American, UK and European dates to his 2026 solo tour and shares new single ‘Crypto’ ahead of debut LP ‘Thank You’
Nearly two decades after the last Beastie Boys concert, Mike D is turning a five-show curiosity into a genuine tour. The Beastie Boys co-founder has expanded his 2026 solo run, adding roughly ten new dates apiece across North America and Europe to the East Coast mini-trek he announced in June. The outing supports Thank You, his debut solo album, due August 28 via Capitol Records, and it arrives alongside a fresh single, “Crypto,” that keeps the record’s experimental streak going. Tickets for the new shows go on sale Friday (July 24) at 10 a.m. local time, with a mailing-list presale starting Tuesday (July 21).
The scale of the jump is the story. What Rolling Stone described last month as a scattershot five-gig run across the Eastern U.S. has become a proper coast-to-coast-to-continent itinerary. After the August 30 kickoff at Boston’s Royale and stops in Washington, Asheville, Atlanta, and Queens, the newly added leg picks up September 20 in Santa Ana and runs through Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, a set at San Francisco’s Portola Music Festival, Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland.
October brings Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and a Toronto show at History before Mike D heads overseas, opening the European stretch at Brighton’s Mutations Festival on October 24 and continuing through Glasgow, Manchester, and London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, with the run wrapping in Belgium on November 5.
Not a Beastie Boys Nostalgia Act
What makes this more than a legacy victory lap is who is on stage and what it sounds like. Mike D performs with a band called Mike D 5D, a genuinely personal unit built around his sons Skyler and Davis Diamond alongside Eddie Ruscha, Will Graefe, and Milo Ruscha, the same players who recorded Thank You with him. This is his first full-length outside the trio since 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, and by every early indication it is not a rap-nostalgia project.
“Crypto” pairs relentless rhythms with a tongue-in-cheek meditation on fraud and greed, Mike D repeatedly asking “Where to go with that greed,” and it follows earlier singles “Switch Up,” “What We Got,” and “True Colors” into a sound built from post-electronic grooves, grinding industrial textures, and hypnotic hooks.
That sonic direction matters for how fans should approach these shows. The surviving public life of the Beastie Boys has largely been archival since Adam “MCA” Yauch’s death in 2012, from the acclaimed memoir to the Spike Jonze documentary, with Mike D and Ad-Rock retiring the group name out of respect. A solo record this deliberately forward-facing reframes Mike D not as a curator of the past but as an artist still chasing new textures at 60.
A Reintroduction, One Room at a Time
The venue choices tell you the pitch. These are theaters, clubs, and festival slots, from the Knockdown Center to Shepherd’s Bush Empire, not arenas trading on Beastie Boys iconography. “It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love, and I have grown to really appreciate in our collaboration,” Mike D said of the album in press materials, and the family-and-friends band makes the sentiment literal.
For longtime fans, the appeal is obvious: a chance to see a foundational figure of the genre in rooms small enough to feel the low end. For Mike D, the expanded tour is a wager that the audience wants the next chapter, not just the hits. On the evidence of the demand that turned five shows into a two-continent run, that bet looks safe.
