ZZ Top planning album with new label

ZZ Top has a new studio album in the works, with producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint through Columbia Records. According to Billboard.com, the trio expects to record something along the lines of "La Grange" rather than the more pop-friendly '80s sound. ZZ Top was on the Warner Bros. label for 20 years, and then moved to RCA in the mid-1990s, releasing their most recent album, Mescalero, in 2003. The trio hope to gain some commercial success by linking with Rubin, who helped revitalize the careers of Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond. The band plans to finish the album later this year.

ZZ Top recently released a concert DVD, called Live From Texas 2007, which debuted this week at Number One on Billboard's Top Music Video chart.

ZZ Top kicked off a European tour on Friday, July 4th in Oporto, Portugal. The group will return to America later this summer to do a batch of shows with Brooks & Dunn.

A small theater tour is in the works for the fall.
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