On This Day: Aerosmith Released Music from Another Dimension!
On November 6, 2012, Aerosmith released their fifteenth studio album in the US, their first collection of all-new material since Just Push Play.
Editorial illustration of Joe Perry and Steven Tyler circa 2012. Reference: Reverend Mick man34, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. New composition and illustrated treatment; adapted illustration CC BY-SA 3.0. Source and licence links in the article.
On November 6, 2012, Aerosmith released Music from Another Dimension! in the United States. Fourteen years later, the anniversary marks a specific chapter: the band’s fifteenth studio album, and its first collection of all-new material since Just Push Play in 2001.
New material after the blues covers
There is a distinction worth keeping. Honkin’ on Bobo had arrived in 2004, so this was not Aerosmith’s first studio album in eleven years. The eleven-year interval applies to an album of new material, rather than to all studio recording activity.
Columbia’s original announcement presented fifteen tracks, with Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on guitars alongside Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer. Jack Douglas, Tyler and Perry handled production, with three tracks produced by Tyler and Marti Frederiksen.
The guitar partnership remains the thread
For guitar readers, Perry and Whitford provide the connection between the familiar Aerosmith identity and this later album. The release is a useful listening point for following a long-running two-guitar band beyond its most frequently revisited records.
The band’s own anniversary notice later confirmed the November 6 release date. Here we use the American release date documented by Columbia, rather than assuming every country received the album on the same day.
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Editorial illustration of Joe Perry and Steven Tyler circa 2012, not a documentary image of the recording sessions. Reference photograph by Reverend Mick man34, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. New composition and illustrated treatment; adapted illustration CC BY-SA 3.0.
