Rolling Stones Announce 25th Album Foreign Tongues

The Rolling Stones announced their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, on Tuesday, with a release date set for July 10. The 14-track collection follows their 2023 album Hackney Diamonds and includes the new singles "In the Stars" and the opening track "Rough and Twisted," both now available digitally.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood attended a media launch event for the album in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday afternoon. The band had built anticipation over recent weeks through cryptic teasers. Posters featuring the pseudonym "The Cockroaches," which the Stones have used in the past, appeared in London with a QR code linking to a signup page on thecockroaches.com. Fans who signed up received confirmation from Universal Music, the band's label. This led to a limited white-label vinyl release of "Rough and Twisted." Billboards displaying the band's iconic tongue logo and the phrase "Foreign Tongues" in multiple languages, such as Fremmede Sprog and Langues Étrangères, popped up in major cities worldwide. The band's website added studio footage styled like surveillance video, and a slide puzzle revealed the official artwork, a collage of the members' faces by artist...