Rolling Stones tease music from first studio album in over a decade
You can't always get what you want. Other times you get a brand-new Rolling Stones album, which the band teased with a short clip on Twitter.
The Stones haven't released a new album since 2005's A Bigger Bang, but they've been touring steadily. Keith Richards confirmed the band was recording the follow-up record last year, and now it seems that new music from the band is imminent.
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The band has previously talked about being inspired by the blues for their new material, and based on the clip, they seem to have stuck with that direction for the album.
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"They really sound authentic. We went in to cut some new songs, which we did. But we got on a blues streak. We cut 11 blues in two days," Ronnie Wood said at an opening of a Rolling Stones exhibit in London earlier this year. "When we heard them back after not hearing them for a couple of months, we were, ‘Who’s that?’ ‘It’s you.’ It sounded so authentic."
A video they uploaded earlier this week suggested that new music would be released on Oct. 6.
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According to an interview producer Don Was gave to French publication Le Figaro, Eric Clapton joined the sessions and the album should be out in December.
The Stones' next scheduled gig is at the Desert Trip festival, which will take place in Indio, California, from Oct. 14 to 16, and feature fellow nobodies like Paul McCartney, the Who, Bob Dylan, Roger Waters and Neil Young.
Next month their concert documentary, Havana Moon, detailing their historic show in Cuba earlier this year will premiere on Netflix on Nov. 11.
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Tricia Gilbride was a Reporter for Mashable Watercooler. Tricia focused on the intersection of celebrity culture and the Internet. Previously, she worked as a fashion writer and a social media manager. She also edits Women-Artists.org, a blog and annual print publication, and looks exactly like her cat.
