Singer/guitarist Chris Robertson and guitarist Ben Wells of Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY have announced the release of their latest EP, 'Celebrate,' which dropped digitally in March via Mascot Records.

The six-track EP features an inspired cover of SIMPLE MINDS' 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' with Tyler Connolly of THEORY OF A DEADMAN.

In a new interview with Crews of Q92.9, Springfield's Rock Station, Robertson said: "I think more than anything, it was just the way we all as humans in society now consume the arts, whether it be a movie whatever, music.

It's all so fast.

It was just, like, 'Let's try something different this time.' 'Cause it's the weirdest thing in the world — you put out a record, the record's out for two months, and people are, like, 'When are you guys putting out new music?' I'm, like, 'We just did that.

You got 13 new songs.'" Ben Wells added: "The goal from the get-go was to do a full album, but divide it in half.

So, like EP one, it is out, and then just here in a week or so, we're gonna start recording EP two and then put that out.

So, like Chris was saying, we're never gonna really stop.

We're just always gonna have something new that will be out, and it allows us to go out and be on the road and not take five months to do this.

You work on 12, 13 songs, and then a couple of them get released [as singles], and then, like, people are like, 'When's the new music?' And it's, like, 'Man, have y'all listened to the rest of the album yet?' They can really live with six or seven songs and really get used to those and love those." 'Celebrate' was produced by BLACK STONE CHERRY and recorded at High Street Studios in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

The band previously released its eighth overall album, 'Screamin' At The Sky,' in 2023, and dropped 'This Is Black Stone Cherry's RSD Album.

The Band Really Likes It' for Record Store Day last year.

BLACK STONE CHERRY is set to play a series of U.S.

shows in July before launching the 'Wild Cherry' tour with BUCKCHERRY in August."