Sound Up! with Mark Goodman and Alan Light
May 12, 2026 · 35 min · 20 segments
On this episode of Sound Up!, Alan and Producer Roger discuss Dua Lipa suing Samsung, Ace Frehley’s guitars going up for auction, and The Beatles announcing their first museum. Plus, reviews of the…
Alan LightHostRoger ColettiHost
So before we get into the news, let's, uh, recap a couple of these events from last week.
I guess let me start with the Stones, uh, event press conference that they had in Brooklyn, USA last week to formally announce the release date of the new Foreign Tongues album, which will be coming out July the 10th.
And Mick and Keith and Ronnie all gathered in a, what used to be a bank building that is now some event space in, uh, South Brooklyn next to Peter Luger's for you, uh, steak enthusiasts out there.
Gathering to answer some questions, talk to, uh, to the fans, and confirm the release date, play a couple of songs.
Play back, not perform, to be clear, a couple of songs off of this album, premiere the new video, and, uh, and, and breeze their way out of there.
Mm-hmm.
I think they did this in Lo- in London, actually, for, uh, the last time around to announce the...
But look, what am I gonna say? At this point, just to be in a room with those guys-
Mm-hmm
... is still pretty fun, just to see them up close and see them interacting with each other.
Brought them out saying, you know, "These guys have been struggling, but they've got a new album, and I think this is the one for them.
I think they're finally gonna break through, and finally we're gonna get a hit from these guys after 54 years." And the stuff that they played, I mean, for, I don't know, Roger, if you listened to...
Mm-hmm.
That's always, they, like, that's my sort of objection limitation about a song like "Start Me Up." To me, that was when it started being, "Okay, we're The Stones doing that stuff that sounds like The Rolling Stones." And this is definitely one of those.
So before we get into the news, let's, uh, recap a couple of these events from last week.
I guess let me start with the Stones, uh, event press conference that they had in Brooklyn, USA last week to formally announce the release date of the new Foreign Tongues album, which will be coming out July the 10th.
And Mick and Keith and Ronnie all gathered in a, what used to be a bank building that is now some event space in, uh, South Brooklyn next to Peter Luger's for you, uh, steak enthusiasts out there.
Gathering to answer some questions, talk to, uh, to the fans, and confirm the release date, play a couple of songs.
Play back, not perform, to be clear, a couple of songs off of this album, premiere the new video, and, uh, and, and breeze their way out of there.
Mm-hmm.
I think they did this in Lo- in London, actually, for, uh, the last time around to announce the...
But look, what am I gonna say? At this point, just to be in a room with those guys-
Mm-hmm
... is still pretty fun, just to see them up close and see them interacting with each other.
Brought them out saying, you know, "These guys have been struggling, but they've got a new album, and I think this is the one for them.
I think they're finally gonna break through, and finally we're gonna get a hit from these guys after 54 years." And the stuff that they played, I mean, for, I don't know, Roger, if you listened to...
Mm-hmm.
That's always, they, like, that's my sort of objection limitation about a song like "Start Me Up." To me, that was when it started being, "Okay, we're The Stones doing that stuff that sounds like The Rolling Stones." And this is definitely one of those.
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