Classic rock fans learned this week via an AP news report that Fleetwood Mac is taking a new approach to releasing music, as the band prepares for a spring tour in 2013 – the first tour by the band since 2009. An excerpt of that report is below.
On its 34-city North American tour, the band will perform two new songs, and it could mean a new album will follow. Or not.
Stevie Nicks recently sang on tracks that Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie worked on, calling the sessions “great.” But Nicks also says she’s not sure where the band fits in today’s music industry.
“Whether or not we’re gonna do any more (songs), we don’t know because we’re so completely bummed out with the state of the music industry and the fact that nobody even wants a full record,” she said. “Everybody wants two songs, so we’re going to give them two songs.”
Nicks said depending on the response to the new tracks — which Buckingham calls “the most Fleetwood Mac-y stuff … in a long time” — more material could come next.
“Maybe we’ll get an EP out of it or something,” Buckingham said.
See the recently announced tour dates at Billboard.com.