Rock Confidental's Jesse Capps recently caught up with AEROSMITH guitarist Brad Whitford to discuss the band's new album, Music From Another Dimension!. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Before you guys started working on this record it seemed as if Aerosmith was hanging on by a thread. Was that exaggerated by today’s 24/7 social media internet world or was it really that bad?

Whitford: "I’d say it was a little bit of both. We have a terrible tendency to our own failures in communication. Things had been going downhill for quite a bit. We had a tour cancellation back in 2009 with ZZ TOP. And not long after that Steven went to work on American Idol. There was a bit of confusion, to say the least. We weren’t sure how or when we were going to work. The good part was if we did work we had to be a lot more disciplined than we’d been in the past! (laughs) We never really had to work around too many schedules and now we had to. We got back to work about a year and a half ago. We sat down and had our first writing session. Everything seemed to be back to square one. We had a really great time and came up with a bunch of good music. We continued to work around Steven’s schedule and really got to work on our album. Any time he was available he was there. He was there a lot. We started in Boston. We did all our basic tracks there and then moved to LA so it would be easy for him to work. He would work all day in TV world and then spend all night at the studio. We got a lot of work done."

Q: I’d say after being on set for American Idol all day he had plenty of frustrations to work out – and that could have translated into some great rock n’ roll.

Whitford: "Oh yeah. As much fun as he was initially having it started to wane after a while. Aerosmith just became more and more attractive to him! (laughs) You know, to be his entertaining self. Now it’s all over with and we can get back to work. That helped us all to be more disciplined and more organized – something we’ve never been to good at."

Click here for the complete interview.

On November 6th, Aerosmith released Music From Another Dimension! on Columbia Records. It marks the band’s 15th studio album and their first studio album of all-new material in 11 years.

Commentary and audio of other tracks from the album can be found via the links below:

- 'What Could Have Been Love'
- 'Legendary Child'
- 'Out Go The Lights'
- 'Tell Me'
- 'Beautiful
- 'Oh Yeah'

Aerosmith recently released the video for 'What Could Have Been Love'. The clip can be seen below:

A deluxe version of Music From Another Dimension! will include:

- Four live performance videos: 'Rats In The Cellar', 'Train Kept A Rollin'', 'Oh Yeah' and 'Same Old Song and Dance'
- Exclusive interviews with the members of Aerosmith band members
- Three exclusive new bonus tracks: 'Up On A Mountain', 'Oasis' and 'Sunny Side of Love'

Music From Another Dimension! tracklisting is as follows:

'LUV XXX'

'Oh Yeah'

'Beautiful'

'Tell Me'

'Out Go The Lights'

'Legendary Child'

'What Could Have Been Love'

'Street Jesus'

'Can’t Stop Loving You' (with CARRIE UNDERWOOD)

'Lover A Lot'

'We All Fall Down'

'Freedom Fighter' (with JOHNNY DEPP)

'Closer'

'Something'

'Another Last Goodbye'

Check out BraveWords.com scribe Martin Popoff's new interview with Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, in which he discusses the band's new album, at this location.