Ah-huh ... hasn't happened yet... but like I've said all along ..people... they are planning on making another record. In fact they've been talking about that pretty strongly before Zip Code started as you will see in this article.

End of the year... Stones plan to go into the studio.


http://www.mojo4music.com/21182/keith-richards-new-mojo-cover-star/

This does not sound correct as there was a South American tour being planned to start in November....so...either the album plans were :

-scrapped months ago
-scrapped...unscrapped...(repeat)
-never decided and Keith is just talking out of his amp again
-MOJO went into super fast mode to get this down and out and there will be a new album
or
-The album is already done with production to be completed at the years end

They should forget the new album & just tour Europe.

Splendid idea Egon!

Aaaaand...it's on again!

Your turn, Gazza...

Various members of the band have 'talked about a new album' pretty much every year since 1997 as I recall. Sometimes even during tours.

In one of those years they actually got around to making one.

Thats why I'm cynical.

I'll take anything about a new album with a pinch of salt until I hear Mick Jagger confirming it. No one else.

Its effectively his band now and has been more and more as the years go by.  Part of the humble pie Keith had to eat in 1989 and again in 2012 to keep the band together as a viable performing unit.

And Mick, more than anyone, is the band member who's responsible for signing off what songs they are going to play every night. Does he really want to spend months working on songs that he'll never sing again after they came out?  None of the 20 or so reworked songs on the Exile and Some Girls reissues (many of whom he'd written fresh lyrics for) got a single airing in concert. Would it be that different a scenario on a new Stones album?

Its not as if they'd be doing a 'tour' behind a new release in the way they used to. We're now in a sort of Never Ending Tour cycle of tour legs of about 15 shows and 2 months and there's no real benefit to them or need for some kind of 'album/tour' concept a la Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge etc.

I dont actually buy into the notion that a Stones album wont sell, as some seem to believe. The last record they made sold over two and a half million copies, which is not shabby at all. And it could have been significantly more had they promoted it better.

With no contractual obligation to make a new record, thats another factor that is somewhat overlooked in terms of motivation. However, they could find some concept like U2 did with their last album (even though U2 are a band who still sell lots of records and whose audience actually KNOWS their new songs) and ram it down the throats of their fans and/or ticketbuyers so that they have no excuse for looking at each other like lemmings when the band dares play something from the current millennium. (remember when Prince gave away copies of his new album with every ticket bought? That would be a drop in the ocean in the overall cost of a Stones ticket)

I will be fucking DELIGHTED if the Stones release another album of newly written and recorded songs. I liked the last one even though I havent listened to it in ages.

I just think its going to take a serious about-turn in the way they have functioned as a band in the last few years for them to even take the idea seriously.  After almost two decades of effectively giving up on themselves as a creative force, are they suddenly going to start being interested in doing something artistic in their mid 70s when there's little financial reward in it (by their standards) and when they've been raking in zillions through the much easier nostalgia market for the last couple of decades?

Big changes potentially in store if thats the case. I'm not so sure - but I hope they're up to a challenge.

As for this :
"What do you think this article and his comments are all about? "

The article (which none of us has read) is a promotional interview for Keith's new solo album. Its not about a Stones album per se.

Put yourself in Keith's position - you're doing an interview for your new record and the interviewer asks you about future Stones projects. What do you seriously think he's going to say ? "We're happy playing warhorses every nigh, making shitloads of money but being creatively bankrupt? "

I just wish they would make a new calender...this 81 calender doesn't even match up with the proper day anymore...

All I want is a new header pic.

Sounds like
Ultimatums IAN.                                                  Life is A Big Bowl of Blueberries .......

I think it's an actual possibility. I suspect Mick Jagger wants to give it a shot (one more...). It's his best hope of doing any work that would be taken seriously, and the Stones do have a following in the streaming world. I don't know how the timing would work though, considering the South American dates. They aren't going to record an album over the holidays. I suppose they could do it like they used to, in more than one shift. I would also guess they would do it in New York.

Big Ian B...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LGoXOPDt8

Ian called the Keef album 4 years ago and he was heckled. Heed him...

it  only took Keith two decades to make his third solo record!!!! he talked about it for how long?

They're doing an EDM album of Taylor Swift covers…