We officially have new music from The Rolling Stones – but not where you’d expect

Thanks to all music sleuths and music-obsessed former journalists, we had a pretty good hunch that The Rolling Stones were teasing new music under the band name The Cockroaches a couple of weeks back. Now we finally have confirmation.

Cast your minds back to last week when QR codes cropped up across the capital with a link to a 90s style digital bedsit, and the enigmatic question “who the fuck are the cockroaches” along with an email sign up. A calendar in the room also hinted that the updates would come on 11th April. Fans were quick to speculate that the enigmatic announcement was linked to the Stones, after they’d teased their latest album Hackney Diamonds in a similar fashion. Also, the moniker ‘The Cockroaches’ has been previously used by the band for secret shows.

Now, when you click on the cockroaches website, the digital bedsit has some new additions, including a t-shirt (similar to the one the man wears in the teaser video), which takes you to a website where you can purchase one for £30 when clicked. Also, and perhaps most importantly, there is a white vinyl sleeve which, when flipped, shows 12 GPS coordinates.

On Friday 10th, a teaser video was shared across Instagram under the same thecockroaches2026 with the caption ‘64 & Counting’, which is presumably a reference to how long the band has been going. In the video, a man wearing a “who the fuck are the cockroaches” teeshirt (a spin on the infamous photo of Ronnie Wood wearing a “Who the fuck is Mick Jagger?” teeshirt), is putting on and listening to a 12-inch record. You can hear a snippet of the record in the video – it’s a bluesy guitar riff followed by a quick snippet of Jagger singing “Do it”.