The Beastie Boys will celebrate this week's release of their new album, "To the 5 Boroughs," with a slew of concert and media appearances, some of which are open to fans. The album is due Tuesday (June 15) via Brooklyn Dust/Capitol.

Tomorrow night (June 14), the veteran rap group will sit with Matt Pinfield for a live satellite radio special that will be heard on more than 50 U.S. radio stations. The trio -- Mike D (Michael Diamond), MCA (Adam Yauch) and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) -- will preview music from the album and take calls from fans during the hour-long "The Night Before the 5 Boroughs" broadcast.

On release day, the group will stage a special performance for an MTV special that will take place at the cable music network's New York studios. Fans on the group's official Web site e-mail list were offered a chance at the 40 available passes to the show that will be the basis for a half-hour program. This is in addition to "$2 Bill" performance taped last week in Las Vegas that will air June 20 on MTV2.

The same night as the New York MTV taping, the group's Web site will be relaunched with new content and the trio will perform on CBS' "The Late Show With David Letterman."

Finally, on Thursday, the Beasties will perform at Washington, D.C.'s intimate 930 Club. Tickets for the show are being given away via radio station WHFSM.

A handful of tour dates in support of "To the 5 Boroughs" began with Friday's performance as part of KITS (Live105) San Francisco's BFD festival in Mountain View, Calif. Yesterday, the group performed during KROQ Los Angeles' annual Weenie Roast festival, which was Web cast on the station's Web site.

Also planned is a June 18 showing at the WPLY (Y100) Philadelphia Feztival in Camden, N.J., and a June 20 set at the WXRK K-Rock) New York Dysfunctional Family Picnic in Wantagh, N.Y. That same night, the group will perform live on Canada's Much Music Video Awards, which will take place in Toronto.

Also on tap are Aug. 7 (Osaka) and Aug. 8 (Tokyo) performances during Japan's Summersonic festival.

The 15-track "To the 5 Boroughs" is led by first single "Ch-Check It Out," which rocketed to a career-best No. 3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in only four weeks and took over the top spot on that chart this week.

"Seventy percent of the album or more is basically us just trying to entertain each other and have a good time," Mike D recently told Billboard. "That being said, it's only natural that there were certain days we came in and couldn't help but be thinking about things that were a lot.

Source: Billboard