STONE TEMPLE PILOTS guitarist guitarist Dean DeLeo is featured in a new interview with ArtistDirect.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Once you started writing and recording again, was it just like old times or was it better?

DeLeo: "It was a little bit of both. It was better because we had the luxury of working out of Eric Kretz's gorgeous studio, Bomb Shelter and we had no producer. Robert and I took on the chore of producing this record. We actually made this record in between going in and out of tour. We didn't have this time constraint, and we didn't have to appease a producer and work under his time constraint. We've had the luxury of working with Brendan O'Brien on all of our records, and he's a busy guy! We'd start a record with him and we would have to finish it by a certain date because he would have another record to do."

Q: Your chemistry with Scott (Weiland) is quite remarkable on this album.

DeLeo: "Thank you! As a songwriter, it's been pretty fulfilling. The vocals are the last thing to go down on an album. We work on that arrangement of the song, musically speaking, and Scott will delve into it. He'll say, 'Maybe we should double this section or move this?' When he comes back with something, it's very fulfilling as a songwriter."

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As previously reported, Stone Temple Pilots fan site Below Empty is streaming a preview of the band's forthcoming single, 'Between The Lines'. Check it out at this location.

STP - singer Scott Weiland, bassist Robert DeLeo, guitarist Dean DeLeo, and drummer Eric Kretz - will release their new self-titled album on May 25th (Atlantic Records).

Stone Temple Pilots tracklisting:

'Between The Lines'

'Take A Load Off'

'Huckleberry Crumble'

'Hickory Dichotomy'

'Dare If You Dare'

'Cinnamon'

'Hazy Daze'

'Bagman'

'Peacoat'

'Fast As I Can'

'First Kiss On Mars'

'Maver'

Stay tuned for further information. More on the band at this location.