Stone Temple Pilots/ex-Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland has told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that STP is working on material for a new album, tentatively due in 2010.

"We've already got 18 songs written. We'll probably whittle it down to the best 12," he said. "But then there'll be a lot of other songs ready for the next record."

He added, "We're working with (producer) Don Was. And if he could make records with the (THE ROLLING) STONES and all their shenanigans ... then he can handle STP."

Don Was was the Stones producer on Voodoo Lounge which was heralded as a return to the Stones traditional sound. I am not really a fan of Voodoo Lounge. He was also producer on Iggy Pop's Brick by Brick, which featured Slash and Duff from Guns N' Roses.

I have mixed feelings about Was, some of his work is good, but others are terrible. But I am excited to hear new STP no matter who the producer is....as long as they don't pull that Death Magnetic shit.