The Rolling Stones Share New Album Cover, Teasing Announcement Tomorrow
The Rolling Stones’ mysterious marketing campaign for a new studio album continued yesterday with the closest thing we’ve gotten to a proper announcement. On Sunday, the band shared a graphic that will presumably serve as the cover art for their 26th studio album, now more or less officially titled Foreign Tongues. The post is backed with a 10-second clip of a new song and captioned “5/5/26,” with time zones corresponding to 12 p.m. ET.
While rumors have swirled about another Andrew Watt-produced album following 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, the band has significantly ramped up speculation since early April, when wheat-pasted posters in London appeared promoting The Cockroaches, an old Stones alias. That pseudonymous group dropped the limited-edition white-label vinyl single “Rough and Twisted” to record stores around the world two weeks ago, just before billboards with featuring iconic tongue and lips logo and phrases like “Fremmede Sprog,” “Vreemde Tongen,” “Dayuhang Dila,” “외국어,” and “Langues Étrangères” – “Foreign Tongues” in foreign tongues – went up around the world.
Beyond posts to their official channel and in-person encounters, new teases from the Stones’ new project have appeared first on the Instagram account @thecockroaches2026.That burner page posted the same posters seen around London a week before the Stones’ official page, and later shared a pro-shot video of a man, wearing a “Who the Fuck are The Cockroaches” shirt, spinning the “Rough and Twisted” record. Last week, the account shared the same clip from the album’s next single (with a few more seconds), as well as audio that seems to be in-studio chatter between Watt and the band.
