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While The Rolling Stones are keeping quiet about this Saturday’s “white label” vinyl release of their new song “Rough and Twisted” under their alias, The Cockroaches, they are providing clues as to where you can buy it.
If you go to TheCockroaches.com, you will see in the lower left hand corner a white label album. If you click on that, the album enlarges, and in the upper right hand corner of the cover is a link that says “flip.” Click that and the album flips to reveal a list of 37 coordinates for independent record shops across the country.
While it doesn’t name the shops, a little bird told that one of the shops who will be carrying the vinyl is Down in the Valley in Golden Valley.
“Rough and Twisted” is off their forthcoming and 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues. The first single, which may be a different song, will be out in May. There’s also talk of their staging “listening events” for the album before it’s released in June.
Foreign Tongues, produced by Andrew Watt, is the follow-up to 2023’s Hackney Diamonds. It contains songs recorded last year as well as tracks left over from the Hackney Diamonds sessions.
In the late ’70s and ‘early ’80s, the Stones billed themselves as The Cockroaches or Blue Sunday and the Cockroaches when they played surprise shows in Toronto (1977), Atlanta (1978) and Worcester, Massachusetts (1981).
