The Rolling Stones' New Album: Foreign Tongues

0:00It's May 3rd, this is Music News Today, AI-powered stories shaping the sound. The Rolling Stones just dropped a big hint about their next album, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood each posted a third of the cover art on Instagram Saturday. Put them together and his shows are faces blending into one, with the title, Foreign Tung's Right There. This matches those global ads from April 25th, featuring their iconic tongue logo in different languages. The day earlier, they teased the new song snippet on social media. It kicks off with vocals like Gimme Shelter from 1969, then hits a guitar riff echoing rock in a hard place from Steel Wheels in. 1989, Foreign Tung's is their first full studio album since Hackney Diamonds in 2023, produced again by Andrew Watt, whose work with Ozzy, Osborn, Elton John, and Paul McCartney. Fans are buzzing because this comes after drummer Charlie Watts passed in 2021. The band brought in Steve Jordan on drums, and Keith Richards said they needed to make

1:01a fresh mark. Back in 2023, Mick Jagger told The New York Times, there were already three quarters done with this one. Promotions started early April, with posters for a fake band called The Cockroaches, and old alias they used for surprises. On April 11th, super limited copies of a single, called Rough and Twisted, popped up in stores worldwide, and three days later, the Stones confirmed. It was theirs. While they've got at least ten more songs ready for the album after this, a source says they scrapped unannounced tour plans for 2026. Their last gig was July 21st, 2024, wrapping the Hackney Diamonds tour. Keeps the focus on the music for now.