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"I respond to what's happening around me," he said. "Steve Shelley was telling me the other night, 'This next one needs to be really good,' and my hope is that it will be. But it's going to be what it's going to be. Different things are happening in my life now, so there is no doubt that it will be a very different album."
The 48-year-old singer also looked back on a calendar year to remember.
"2014 was great, but I'm working on my taxes now and looking back at how much I spent is hurting," he said. "But lots of good shows with a great band that sometimes included two drummers. I really liked singing Christmas songs in November/December. We were having guest singers and guest drummers on stage, and that was great. I was singing a lot, too, without guitar, and that was freeing."
SKM has a whole bunch of tour engagements left to play this year, including one Monday night, Jan. 26, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The current schedule will take him through a June 3 show over in Leeds, England.
Check out his August performance of "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" at the Pitchfork Music Festival:
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