Streets of Rock & Roll

Streets of Rock & Roll was released by Frontiers Records in 2010. Keel had announced its reunion in November 2008 and played its first show back on 31 January 2009 at Club Vodka at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, with Ron Keel, guitarists Marc Ferrari and Bryan Jay, drummer Dwain Miller and bassist Geno Arce. That year the band played festivals including Rocklahoma and M3 and sold out headline shows in Hollywood and Phoenix, and the momentum of those shows set off the writing of new material. The deal with Frontiers was announced in September 2009, when the album was presented as the first new Keel recording in twenty years. Recording began on 18 June 2009 in a North Hollywood studio. Pat Regan co-produced and mixed the album, while Paul Shortino engineered, recorded and produced Ron Keel's lead vocals, which were cut in Las Vegas. Fourteen songs were under way during the sessions, and twelve made the album. Ron Keel credited the reunion's energy for the songwriting, in which he, Ferrari and Jay worked as a team to a degree they never had before. Jaime St. James and Shortino sang background vocals, Renée Keel added a harmony to "No More Lonely Nights", and Regan played keyboards on "Does Anybody Believe", which Ron Keel called the album's power ballad. The album came out on 29 January 2010 in Europe and on 9 February in the United States. Frontiers issued The Right to Rock: 25th Anniversary Edition at the same time, a remaster with two bonus tracks: a remix of "Easier Said Than Done" and a new recording of "The Right to Rock" with voices that fans had sent in over the internet mixed into its chorus. The Japanese edition (KICP 1462) has thirteen tracks, adding "Reason to Rock". Keel's next new song was "Moving Target", which appeared in 2024 on Ron Keel's album KEELWORLD.