The Rolling Stones have announced a new official podcast. Find all the details below.
In the lead-up to the release of their latest LP ‘Foreign Tongues‘ on July 10, the band will launch ‘Speaking In Tongues’, a new podcast featuring interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, narrated by Norah Jones.
The podcast will feature behind-the-scenes insight into the making of ‘Foreign Tongues’ over six episodes, with the band sharing studio techniques, creative influences and their songwriting process.
As well as studio outtakes and never-before-heard new songs, the podcast will also feature contributions from producer Andrew Watt and The Cure‘s Robert Smith and Steve Winwood – who both appear on the new album – and the record’s cover artist, Nathaniel Mary Quinn.
The first episode goes live on June 25. You can check out the trailer below.
‘Foreign Tongues’ is the follow-up to 2024’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’. The full tracklist for the record was revealed last month, with the song titles appearing on streaming devices, but in actual foreign tongues.
The upcoming record will feature guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and the band’s late drummer Charlie Watts, and will include the previously released singles ‘Rough And Twisted’ and ‘‘In The Stars’, as well as a cover of the Amy Winehouse classic ‘You Know I’m No Good’.
Last month, NME went to the album’s launch event in New York City, where the band discussed the diversity of sound on their new album and a country track called ‘Ringing Hollow’. “Keith and I, when we were really young, we both liked country music a lot,” Jagger shared. “We would play it, we’d always liked Hank Williams. You can’t really imitate those people, but we absorbed that style. ‘Ringing Hollow’, which is a love song to America, I didn’t want to express it in a rock way. I thought it was better that we did it in a country way.”
Jagger also spoke about the inspiration for the album, saying: “The thing about this record that I find interesting. And you say, ‘You’ve got nothing to prove,’ but The Stones is a rock band, but The Stones also has the ability to do ballads and country music and dance music, they run in the gamut of all these styles. We’re not stuck in one particular style; over the years, we’ve loved all kinds of music. So, we express that in the way we record and what songs we write.”
Richards added: “It’s quite possible that there’s more in there. And that’s what we’re looking for.”
Jagger also recently opened up about the possibility of a new Rolling Stones tour being announced, and said that he hopes to do some “shows next year”.
Ahead of the release, the Stones have also teamed up with Marvel to launch a special vinyl collector series for the record – with new limited edition artwork featuring Spider-Man, The Hulk, Captain America and more – and also revealed how they ended up working with The Cure’s Robert Smith.
As for Mick Jagger, the frontman surprised fans in Oxford recently by playing an impromptu gig with students at a local pub.