Tommy Stinson With Soul Asylum Plot New Studio Album

[FunkyMonkey]

Exclusive: Soul Asylum Plot New Studio Album

First new LP since 2006 from veteran alt rockers should arrive later this year

MARCH 4, 2011

Soul Asylum has performed consistently in the last few years, but the group hasn't issued a new studio album since 2006's The Silver Lining. That should change this year, as the band ? which features longtime members Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy, alongside bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Michael Bland ? say they're getting ready to release their still-untitled 10th studio album.

"I just sent some music out to the rest of the guys," Pirner tells Rolling Stone. "I'm waiting to hear back. At that point, we'll go about finishing up." Song titles for some of the completed tracks include "Gravity," "Into the Light" and "The Streets." And according to Pirner, the completed album should arrive "within the next six months."

The album will likely also include contributions from sometime fill-in bassist Pete Donnelly (who is a multi-instrumentalist and plays with Soul Asylum when Stinson's gig with Guns N' Roses heats up from time to time), and a label should be announced shortly.

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"It doesn't really sound like our old records, and it sort of sounds like hopefully what our next record is supposed to sound like," says Pirner. "The thing that is different is that I've built a little room here in New Orleans, where I've been recording all the vocals in my backyard, and that's a little bit different."

The new set up fits Pirner just fine. "You become more independent in a way that allows you the time and space to do what you need to do without the pressure of using somebody else's money to do it. And I like that scenario, even though I think people have a tendency to worry that I'm just going to disappear and never come back. I'm trying to finish it on my own terms and then put it out."

Tour plans will be decided once the album is released. "The tour model that we grew up on is not so much the model that we have these days, because the tour model we used to have is just shit," Pirner says. "It was terrible. If you look at some of the ways we used to drive around the country, I don't think we could pay for the gas to do it anymore. I don't miss that at all. We don't go out for three months at a time anymore...at least until we put a record out."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-soul-asylum-plot-new-studio-album-20110304

[FunkyMonkey]

Three of the new songs:

Live from Mankato, MN (8/6/10)

Gravity
http://enterthesoulasylum.com/audio/gravity.mp3

Into the Light
http://enterthesoulasylum.com/audio/into_the_light.mp3

The Streets
http://enterthesoulasylum.com/audio/the_streets.mp3

[Mr. Redman]

Awesome! Hope they'll have a release party down at First Ave.

[FunkyMonkey]

Some tour dates:

April 29th   Viper Alley Lincolnshire, Illinois    Showtime 9:15 PM   

May 28th   Mountain Creek Ski Resort Vernon, New Jersey Festival For Humanity
Showtime:2:50 PM with Third Eye Blind   

June 3rd    Teatro Caupolican Santiago, Chile Showtime: 10:00 PM
   
June 4th    Jardin De La Cerveza Arequipa, Peru Showtime: 10:00 PM   

August 4th Feast Of The Blessed Sacrament New Bedford, Massachusetts Madeira Field - Stage 1 Showtime: 4:00PM

[FunkyMonkey]

In the recent interview Tommy did with MPR, he says the new Soul Asylum album is almost done.  And will be released "sooner than later."

[RICHIEGUNZ]

Great, how about a new Gunz album

[FunkyMonkey]

More tour dates for Tommy w/Soul Asylum:

June
10th   Million Dollar Elm Casino   Tulsa, Oklahoma   Showtime 8:00 PM   
12th    State Theatre   Minneapolis, Minnesota   Tornado benefit for North Minneapolis
17th   Montalvo Arts Center - Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre   Saratoga, California   Showtime: 7:30 PM
with dada   
18th   King Cat Theater   Seattle, Washington   Showtime: 10:15 PM
   
July
3rd   Victory Field Rock and Roll BBQ   Indianapolis, Indiana   Showtime: 3:00 PM   
9th   Babes Music Bar Tent Party   Lakeville, Minnesota   Showtime: 10:00 PM   
17th   Nakusp Music Festival   Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada   Showtime: 7:55 PM Approx.
With The Doobie Brothers, Kevin Costner & Modern West, Spirit of the West, The Sheepdogs, Honeymoon Suite, Spencer Davis Group, Canned Heat, and more   
23rd   Sheffield Garden Walk   Chicago, Illinois   Showtime: 8:00 PM   

August
4th   Feast Of The Blessed Sacrament   New Bedford, Massachusetts   Madeira Field - Stage 1
Showtime: 4:00 PM   Discuss

October
16th   Ancienne Belgique Club   Brussels, Belgium   Showtime: 9:00 PM   Discuss

[FunkyMonkey]

I'm looking forward to this.

Soul Asylum Recording First New Album in 5 Years

July 02, 2011

Dave Pirner and the rest of Soul Asylum are moving "full speed ahead" on a new album, which will be the group's first of fresh material since "The Silver Lining" in 2006.
 
Pirner tells Billboard.com that he and the current incarnation of the band -- guitarist Dan Murphy, who co-founded Soul Asylum with Pirner 28 years ago, bassist Tommy Stinson (Replacements, Guns N' Roses) and drummer Michael Bland (Prince', Nick Jonas) -- have been working both in Minneapolis and in New Orleans, where Pirner now resides. "I've been cutting vocals here in my studio, and we've cut a bunch of guitars," he says. "When all four of us are in the studio together, it's pretty spectacular, but you've got to have a big studio, so mostly you're sitting in front of a computer. It's very odd the way the (recordng) approach has been misconstrued with all the digital technology. But it is what it is, and we make it work."
 
Pirner says Soul Asylum's new music "could be loosely categorized as rock," though he hears other elements creeping into the tunes this time. "There's more personality than one would expect in this day and age because the personalities in this band are so strong," he notes. "There is actually some interesting modal stuff happening. I think what I've learned, being in New Orleans and trying to see past the obvious influence of roots music on rock 'n' roll, you start to take really bizarre, subtle detours that are really trying to sneak something else into the language. It's not a box you have to think outside of; it's a box you have to be comfortable with."
 
Pirner says Soul Asylum is "trying to get as much new stuff into the (live) set as possible" during the band's concert dates, while its management is in discussions for a label and/or distribution deal for the album, whose current working title is "Rough Air" but could well change. "The people that are talking about putting it out said they needed six months" for set up, Pirner. "So I said, 'Man, I'm gonna turn this thing in,' 'cause six months is a long time to wait. So I hope it'll be (turned in) within the next couple weeks. That's my plan, at least."
 
This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Soul Asylum's first album, "Made To Be Broken." The group is not doing anything in particular to commemorate that, but Pirner acknowledges that "it really takes you by surprise. It just happens so fast and so immediately, and it's just such a twisted, twisted road that you can't imagine what you've been through to get here. We don't know what we're doing. We never know what we're doing, but somehow we're here, which is kind of surreal -- but that's the way I like it."

http://www.billboard.com/news/soul-asylum-recording-first-new-album-in-1005262152.story#/news/soul-asylum-recording-first-new-album-in-1005262152.story