Todd Rundgren Announces New Collaborative Album, Space Force
Feat. The Roots, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, The Lemon Twigs, Sparks and more
Photo courtesy of Todd Rundgren
The one and only Todd Rundgren has assembled a Space Force with musical firepower to spare.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer’s first studio album in five years features The Roots, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, The Lemon Twigs, Sparks, Steve Vai, rapper Narcy, Neil Finn (Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac), Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Frank Zappa), Alfie Templeman, Davey Lane and Thomas Dolby.
Our first preview of the album is opening track “Puzzle,” Rundgren’s collaboration with Belew. The duo have also expanded their 2022 “Celebrating David Bowie” tour.
Space Force follows Rundgren’s White Knight, released in 2017, and is described in a press release as an expansion of that album’s duets concept, “putting him back in the lauded producer’s chair to help bring rarities and never-released material to life.”
During the pandemic, Rundgren, 74, launched his geo-fenced, location-specific Clearly Human tour, a series of virtual shows named in a nod to his 1999 album Nearly Human.
Listen to “Puzzle” (plus a 1982 Rundgren performance from the Paste archives) below, and find the details of Space Force and Rundgren’s upcoming tour dates further down.
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