{"id":650406,"date":"2026-05-06T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:10:10","slug":"the-rolling-stones-announce-new-album-foreign-tongues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650406\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones announce new album, Foreign Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ronnie Wood, from left, Mick Jagger, Steve Jordan and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, during the ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour in June, 2024, in Chicago.Rob Grabowski\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Inside the converted Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn \u2013 built in the 1870s, now the site of luxurious events held beneath stunning Victorian architecture \u2013 the Rolling Stones kept their fans wanting more.<\/p>\n

Earlier Tuesday, the band confirmed that they will release a new record, titled Foreign Tongues, this summer, and dropped a new single called In The Stars.<\/p>\n

Journalists, VIPs and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Odessa A\u2019zion and Lindsey Vonn waited in the echoing hall to witness Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood\u2019s first conversation about the new album.<\/p>\n

To celebrate, they invited comedian Conan O\u2019Brien to host the exclusive announcement event. It was a hilarious choice. \u201cI think this is the one, after years of toiling in obscurity,\u201d he joked about Foreign Tongues, minutes before the band joined him on stage. \u201cThis is their time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foreign Tongues, recorded over the course of a month in London, will be released July 10.<\/p>\n

The Stones\u2019 last album was 2023\u2019s Hackney Diamonds. It was their first album of original material in 18 years \u2013 since 2005\u2019s A Bigger Bang. It was also their first full-length release since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. He appeared posthumously on two of that album\u2019s 12 tracks.<\/p>\n

Foreign Tongues will also include a special appearance from Watts, lifted from one of his final recording sessions before his death. \u201cWe did that in L.A. with Charlie,\u201d said Jagger of the song. \u201cIt\u2019s real fast, a punk-rocker.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album will also feature contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, the Cure\u2019s Robert Smith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 Chad Smith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Paul (McCartney) really wanted to jump in there,\u201d Jagger said at the event. \u201cThere was no intimidation. He wanted to play with the band.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stones also worked with their close collaborators Matt Clifford, drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Darryl Jones as well as Oscar-winning pop producer Andrew Watt (known for his work with Post Malone and Justin Bieber, and the Stones\u2019 Hackney Diamonds, to name a few).<\/p>\n

When something isn\u2019t working in studio, the band said Watt is the one who kicks them in to gear. The room erupted into cheers for him \u2013 including his parents, who were seated directly behind him \u2013 and O\u2019Brien compared the \u201cimmediacy\u201d of the new album to Exile on Main Street.<\/p>\n

The band also spent time detailing the record\u2019s artwork. \u201cLet\u2019s reveal the album cover, I call him Mr. Ugly,\u201d said Jagger, before the cover appeared on the screen above their heads. \u201cHe\u2019s pained by a famous new artist called Nathaniel Quinn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinn, who was seated in the front row, said it was an amalgamation of the band members\u2019 faces and a depiction of their journey.<\/p>\n

Speculation surrounding a new Stones album has been going around for weeks. First, posters appeared around London with the band name The Cockroaches, a pseudonym the Stones\u2019 have used in the past, along with a QR code. The code led to \u2018thecockroaches.com\u2019 and a sign-up page. Once a user had signed up, they received a confirmation message from Universal Music \u2013 the Stones\u2019 label. Representatives did not provide The Associated Press with comment or confirmation at the time.<\/p>\n

Eventually it led to a white label, vinyl-only release of the track Rough and Twisted using The Cockroaches name \u2013 the first true tease of Foreign Tongues, decipherable only by their most dedicated fans.<\/p>\n

Then, in the week leading up to their announcement, billboards with the band\u2019s iconic mouth and tongue logo began appearing in major cities around the world with the words \u201cForeign Tongues\u201d in various languages: Fremmede Sprog, Vreemde Tongen, Dayuhang Dila, \uc678\uad6d\uc5b4, and Langues \u00c9trang\u00e8res among them. Around the same time, the Rolling Stones\u2019 official website was updated to feature video clips stylized to look like surveillance footage of them in the studio.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the band shared a slide puzzle graphic fans believed to be the album artwork, depicting a cartoonish collage of the members\u2019 faces. (They were correct; it was the official album cover.) There was also a short video clip, just 10-seconds long, that appeared to tease a new song.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fantasy about a woman that promises a lot of things and then what happens to you in life, you get involved in these terrible places that she takes you to,\u201d Jagger told The Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s a Blues fantasy, really… it\u2019s fairly amorphous. It\u2019s very much just my unconscious ramblings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wood jumped in and said he used the same guitar he used on Faces\u2019 1971 track Stay With Me \u2013 his project with Rod Stewart \u2013 on Rough and Twisted. \u201cIt was so spontaneous,\u201d he said. \u201cWe even surprised ourselves with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get in the studio, and the guys get together, and you lay out a track, an idea, and you let it take off from there \u2013 you can\u2019t plan all of this stuff,\u201d Richards said of their new material. \u201cYou kind of just have to follow it and hope you come out the other end.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon will host the surviving members of the Stones across three nights this month, NBC announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jagger will appear on Wednesday\u2019s show and Fallon will host Richards on Thursday. Wood will appear on May 13.<\/p>\n

No additional details on whether the band will perform together on the show were immediately released.<\/p>\n

But will fans get to see them perform Foreign Tongues on a new tour? Maybe. \u201cI would love to tour the album,\u201d Jagger told AP. \u201cI absolutely would love to. I hope to do it as soon as that\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ronnie Wood, from left, Mick Jagger, Steve Jordan and Keith Richards of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,341,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-650406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-music","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}