Summary of what could come next:

Album announcement probably in May 2026 with first single & video - [iorr.org] .

The first single could be more of a commercial song (very catchy pop-rock sound) - [iorr.org] .

The opening track of the new album will be 'Rough and Twisted' - [iorr.org] .

The album title could be 'Foreign Tongues' and is expected to reflect the album artwork, which reimagines the famous tongue & lips logo translated into various international languages - [Noise11.com] , [iorr.org] .

The track 'Mr Charm' is said to be more of a ballad - [iorr.org] .

Album release date July 10, 2026 according to the €/£/$ 10.07 price tag - [iorr.org] .

Any other hints?



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Does your turntable have a USB output? If so, can you record it in stereo?

I don’t own any turntables and just helped Ruskafarian to share his photo - [iorr.org] .

The Telegraph UK (April 11):

Their new single is a raucously fun belter that wouldn’t sound out of place on Exile on Main Street. And it’s already sold out

The bad news for Stones fans is that by the time you are reading this, it will have sold out. A rather chaotic global launch via a malfunctioning Cockroaches’ website meant that only a few independent record stores had copies for sale, which were snatched up on the spot as news leaked out on fan forums. It’s not being released online as a stream or download, and there are no plans to make it an official single.

It will, however, appear as the opening track on a new Stones album, set to be released on July 10 and rumoured to be titled Foreign Tongues (a phrase that appears on Rough and Twisted).

The Rolling Stones are back with a pile-driving blues stomp – but good luck finding it (The Telegraph April 11, 2026)

The article is behind a pay wall, but they offer 7 days free trial.

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It has also been confirmed that this new track is the first single to be shared from an as-yet-unnamed Rolling Stones album. The record will be the band’s first since 2023’s Grammy-winning ‘Hackney Diamonds’, their 25th studio album, and set for release in July.

The Rolling Stones return: update on The Cockroaches, new music, and the chances of a 2026 tour (NME April 10, 2026)

Bjornulf



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The Australian band The Cockroaches posted: It’s ok, they can use our name

From [en.Wikipedia.org] : "The Cockroaches were an Australian pub rock band primarily active throughout the 1980s. The band was founded in 1979". But Rolling Stones' El Mocambo was March 4-5, 1977.

I would guess they made approx 1,000 copies of The Cockroaches single. I have seen 2 and 3 digit numbers, but not four digits.

Text book story about how to get a "sold out" product.

I feel sorry for all those who queued in vain.

Bjornulf

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I would guess they made approx 1,000 copies of The Cockroaches single.

This would match with: "The highest number I see on eBay is 936" - [iorr.org] .

They call it ‘scarcity marketing’
It’ll be full-on worldwide ‘foreign tongues’ soon I guess

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To be fair there are lots of places on line where you can hear the new single from X to FB if you search fan accounts who are sharing eg I posted a shidoobee account name a few pages back. I think the whole few weeks has been a lot of fun. It seems to me that it has been aimed at entertaining the hard core fan base and many of the members of this are knowledgable and persistent enough to find the tune in the end , even if you can’t get hold of the actual record. I look forward to the next chapter….

Meanwhile I start getting less excited about it. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's going to keep the thing up till July. It feels more disapointing than exciting. At least for me and may be some others having no chance to listen to the track in higher quality than it apears till now.

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Meanwhile I start getting less excited about it. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's going to keep the thing up till July. It feels more disapointing than exciting. At least for me and may be some others having no chance to listen to the track in higher quality than it apears till now.

exactly, Universal counted it as a flop... I wrote to them

Can anyone that owns the record confirm it sounds a lot better than the rips we're hearing online? Seems to me it's meant to sound distorted, but it's missing some dynamic range.

Of course you can't please everybody but in my opinion this promotone media press campaign was fun and a success.

This made some happy Rolling Stones fans owning a new vinyl collector.

And in the end everybody will be able to access the music when released in a few months.

Lowest posted serial number so far is 004 :


Patrice Trousset - [Facebook.com] .

"Their new single is a raucously fun belter that wouldn’t sound out of place on Exile on Main Street"

is this phoned in lazy journalism or the guy really believes what is writing?

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Of course you can't please everybody but in my opinion this promotone media press campaign was fun and a success.

This made some happy Rolling Stones fans owning a new vinyl collector.

And in the end everybody will be able to access the music when released in a few months.

What are you writing, are fans selling these CDs for $1,000 on eBay in such numbers?

The time clock has changed...


10.07

Release date.



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7 minutes past 10
Ie 10 July

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The time clock has changed...

They made another update of [TheCockroaches.com] website on Sun, Apr 12 2026, 08:59 GMT.



Fits the €/£/$ 10.07 price tag.

Some of the comments I’m seeing online are interesting - people feeling as though they’ve been shafted, or that the band are “mistreating” loyal fans. From my perspective, it was a limited release with a fun marketing campaign behind it. Some people would be lucky enough to get a copy, some wouldn’t, and that’s all part and parcel of the limited release. You can’t always get what you want, and all that…

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Some of the comments I’m seeing online are interesting - people feeling as though they’ve been shafted, or that the band are “mistreating” loyal fans. From my perspective, it was a limited release with a fun marketing campaign behind it. Some people would be lucky enough to get a copy, some wouldn’t, and that’s all part and parcel of the limited release. You can’t always get what you want, and all that…

Why do you do such a big marketing campaign and then have a supply that is absurdly small in comparison to the demand of the fan base?

I can absolutely understand everyone that’s disappointed and I am one of those.

Hoping for a good quality needle drop, not those smartphone recordings that we have right now

Rough and Twisted

The sound recorded by my iPhone but has a stereo quality.

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From my perspective, it was a limited release with a fun marketing campaign behind it.

Yes – but if you didn't get your hands on the record or had been waiting for the album announcement, then this was rather disappointing.

Some record stores in major cities across the world had just 4-6 copies of The Cockroaches white label single on sale. The records were distributed with "SOLD OUT" posters.

Denmark had may be 25-50 copies in total shared among the five stores there, the only country in the Nordic region having the single.

I think it is abose of loyal fans to have them travel for hours, and queue for hours, just to find out the records are already on sale on eBay at $500 - $1500.





Bjornulf



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Can't understand how anyone thinks this is okay. Yeah we're all entitled to opinions but clearly this was an intended slap in the face to serious fans. Which by the way if it wasn't for us I doubt there would be any interest. It's our energy and experience that brings people in. Don't believe for a minute there are 20 year olds standing around talking about a band of people 4 times their age on their own. There's influence by us, their parents and grand parents. Stones Inc. should do the right thing and send us the file in CD quality. It's one song, U2 just gave away 12 in two EPs. Shouldn't hurt them.

Dense production. Green bullet mic?

Yesterday I called the store in Washington DC that was indirectly indicated on the Cockroaches website but I was told that the store was closed like gone. Anybody in DC was able to score the new stones vinyl yesterday?

They changed the time on the clock from 1:41:36 PM to 10:07:01 AM but kept the date as April 11th. If the release date for the album is July 10th, why keep the April 11th date on the clock, and why change it to AM?
I have no answers.

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Some record stores in major cities across the world had just 4-6 copies of The Cockroaches white label single on sale. The records were distributed with "SOLD OUT" posters.

Denmark had may be 25-50 copies in total shared among the five stores there, the only country in the Nordic region having the single.

I think it is abose of loyal fans to have them travel for hours, and queue for hours, just to find out the records are already on sale on eBay at $500 - $1500.

Those „sold out“ posters show that it was part of the strategy to leave loyal fans empty handed. This strong misfit between supply and demand was no accident but consciously planned. I think it’s fair to be disappointed or even angry about that as a fan.

Did you at least get one Bjornulf?

The location coordinates were misleading in that other locations beyond those had copies. Turns out BullMoose Keene NH 30 minutes from home had at least one.

I called them Friday night and the person I talked to had no idea, on Saturday I talked to the guy in the know and he had details. I don’t live and breath at record stores like I used to and it makes it tougher to get on the inside. Plus Bull Moose is fortunate to be categorized as small market but not like the great stores of the past…..they never got Black and Blue deluxe