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Back on April 01, we got some news from London that on first glance might have been an April Fools prank courtesy of The Rolling Stones, but apparently it wasn’t.
The news about posters popping up all over the city for a band called The Cockroaches elicited memories of the hijinks the band got up to when they were teasing the release of the Hackney Diamonds album in 2023. And now, it seems that it’s real, if a new report from The Times can be believed: they’re dropping new music tomorrow – under the Cockroaches name for some reason.
The Times’ scribbler Will Hodgkinson reports that the Cockroaches record, produced by Andrew Watt, will be the 25th from The Stones album, and they’re already have ten songs underway for number 26. Don’t expect to see them doing any new things live anytime soon. Says a band rep: “The Rolling Stones will play when they decide to, not before. There are no concerts planned.”
The scuttlebutt has it that tomorrow’s drop will be a vinyl-only effort titled Rough And Twisted. It’s described as “classic Stones, with a Keith Richards blues-rock riff and a harmonica solo from Mick Jagger, who sings, ‘You just took me to a flyblown town in the middle of nowhere / The smell was acrid and toxic, couldn’t breathe the air.'”
Love, Dr. Scott James
