The coming months will be busy ones for Scott Weiland, who has
several projects confirmed or in the planning stages. First up:
"Breathe," a new solo song on Avengers Assemble, the soundtrack to The Avengers out today on Marvel Music/Hollywood Records (the film hits theaters on Friday). "Dana [Dufine], my manager, she sent them the song and they liked it," Weiland said "I thought that it fit the idea – I haven't seen the film yet, but just
thematically, it fit. And I'm happy to be a part of it." Weiland
confirms that there will be another new solo album at some point: "I
always write stuff and record stuff, because I've got my own studio," he
says. But the highly melodic "Breathe" is not necessarily a stylistic
preview of his next disc. "It's probably the most commercial sort of
song, the poppiest song, that I've put out on any of my previous solo
records," says Weiland.
On September 1st, Weiland and his Stone Temple Pilots
bandmates will launch a tour in Hershey, Pennsylvania to celebrate the
20th anniversary of their debut LP, Core. "I'm looking forward
to it," he says. "We're going to play the album in its entirety. I think
it'll be really fun, because the one thing that I got tired of was sort
of playing the same basic set list every night. It was like, 'the
hits.' This way, it's something different, and I think it will be cool."
