VELVET REVOLVER Collaborating With Hip-Hop Producer PHARRELL WILLIAMS

April 4, 2006

Hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams has confirmed to Billboard.com that he is collaborating with VELVET REVOLVER on their sophomore RCA album, tentatively due later in the year. Williams is also working with VR frontman Scott Weiland on a song titled "Happy", which will likely appear on Weiland's second solo album. Williams confirmed the projects with Billboard.com but did not reveal additional details.

Speaking to ABC News Radio at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy bash in February, VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum revealed that VELVET REVOLVER are planning to move in a different direction on their new album, which has the working title of "Libertad".

"Our first album was very aggressive and just in-your-face. and we made it very quickly," Sorum explained. "And this album we just really want to, like, you know, we want to pull it back a bit, groove a little harder, [make it] a little more danceable. We've talked about working with people like Pharrell [Williams] just for the… just to check it out. I mean, it's not rock and roll, but it might be different. Who knows?! I don't know."

"With the first record, it was kind of a feeling out process on a technical level," Weiland told Billboard.com in December. "We were sort of bonded by blood in a sense, because we'd gone through very similar circumstances. On this record, I have a real concept in mind. Because of that, it will be a very album-oriented record instead of a singles-driven record."

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