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June 7, 2011

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to return with their first album in five years this August.

The band announced on its official website Sunday that it will release I'm With You, its tenth studio album, on Aug. 30. The set is produced by Rick Rubin, who is also working on upcoming albums by Metallica and Avett Brothers and most recently helmed Adele's 21.

I'm With You will be the Chilli Peppers' first studio release since 2006's Stadium Arcadium, a double album that sold 2.3 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It will also be their first since guitarist John Frusciante officially departed the band for a second time, in 2009. He was replaced by Josh Klinghoffer.

Hmmm, will be curious to hear this. Was gutted when John left, but I really dug One Hot Minute, so it proves they can cut it without him.

Crappy title though. Doesn't sound very inspired.

I really dig these guys, so I'm looking forward. Thanx for the info!

cool news - looking forward to it!

SO EXCITED!!!

Rolling Stone

Exclusive: Inside the Red Hot Chili Peppers' New Album

June 2011

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"There is no question – this is a beginning," Anthony Kiedis, singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, says in his first interview about the band's new album, I'm With You, which is released by Warner Bros. on August 30th. "Yeah, the sun is just coming up here."

Produced by Rick Rubin, I'm With You is the Los Angeles quartet's first studio album since the 2006 double-disk set, Stadium Arcadium. The 14-song record also marks the debut of the Chili Peppers' new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who joined in the fall of 2009 following the departure of John Frusciante.

The latter guitarist had been a crucial writer as well as player on the Chili Peppers' biggest albums, including 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999's Californication. But after he quit, Kiedis and bassist Flea "had this intuitive feeling," the singer says. "We're not really done. We wanted to maintain the Red Hot Chili Peppers if we could do it in a way that upheld historically what we had accomplished.

"There were some interesting conversations," Kiedis goes on, "about do we try to find someone we don't know, or maybe there is somebody right in our own backyard who is the perfect solution." Klinghoffer, 31, was a veteran sideman who had recorded and toured with Beck, PJ Harvey and Tricky, among many others. He was also a friend of Frusciante's, working on several of that guitarist's solo records, and had performed with the Chili Peppers on their last world tour, playing extra guitar and keyboards.

"I felt like I had the experience," Klinghoffer says in his first-ever press interview, sitting next to Kiedis on a couch in the singer's Malibu home. "There was no real adjustment. This is playing music with people I admire and who have been friends for years."

"Josh has not lacked the necessary assertions," Kiedis notes. "His voice is as dominant as any other voice on the record." That is literally true. In addition to playing guitar, Klinghoffer contributed keyboards and backing vocals. He also co-wrote the music with Kiedis, Flea and drummer Chad Smith.

The album's first single, "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," is a hard-pop spin on classic Chili Peppers funk, with a creeping bass line and a marching-disco rhythm in the chorus reminiscent of the late-Seventies Rolling Stones. In fact, Flea likens the rich propulsive interplay on I'm With You – the mix of jamming exploration, textural guitar details and savvy hooks in songs such as "The Monarchy of Roses," "Factory of Faith" and "Goodbye Hooray" – to the classic Stones albums like Exile on Main Street and Tattoo You that he listened to religiously as the Chili Peppers wrote and improvised on new material in 2009 and 2010. "It's about a feeling and a song." Flea says of the connection, "about everyone embracing the moment of the song, not always about the riff."

The Chili Peppers are currently in rehearsals and plan to tour extensively in support of I'm With You. "Forever" is how Flea puts it. "I know when we write mediocre stuff, and when we write good stuff," Kiedis says. "I can't wait to go out and play this."

The track listing for I'm With You is as follows:

'Monarchy Of Roses'
'Factory Of Faith'
'Brendan's Death Song'
'Ethiopia'
'Annie Wants A Baby'
'Look Around'
'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie'
'Did I Let You Know'
'Goodbye Hooray'
'Happiness Loves Company'
'Police Station'
'Even You Brutus?'
'Meet Me At The Corner'
'Dance, Dance, Dance'

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Q&A: Flea on New Chili Peppers Album

July 28, 2011

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On August 30, Los Angeles' alt-funk rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers will end a five-year break and return with their 10th studio album, I'm With You. We caught up with bassist Flea to chat about the band's hiatus, the departure (again!) of longtime guitarist John Frusciante, and how the quartet "found a new side of ourselves" in the process.

It's been five years since the release of RHCP's last album, Stadium Arcadium. Did you guys plan for it to be this long?

Yeah. It was planned. I initiated that. I just really needed to get away from [the band]. It had come to a point where it felt dysfunctional and not fun. Even though I felt that we made a good record, played good shows, and honored our position in the rock world, I wanted to get away to give the band a chance to survive. Having time off was really good.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC [University of Southern California], which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music. My time away from the band has really made me appreciate it and also realize how much I love [singer] Anthony [Kiedis]. The dude's my brother. I realized how much it meant to me to continue playing with him and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Then guitarist John Frusciante left... for the second time. Why?

It's not any one thing. He just didn't want to do [RHCP] anymore. He really wanted to do what he wants to do on his own, without having to deal with the band dynamic, our band dynamic. I'm grateful for the time John was in the band. It was an amazing time. It was a bonding, creative experience and I'm grateful for it.

Is the new album finished?

Yeah, we're done. It's been such a big process getting it done and I'm very happy with the body of work. It's a real dynamic and new thing. We've found a new side of ourselves.

How so?

Well, first off, the major difference is that John is no longer in the band and Josh Klinghoffer is now the guitar player. While it's nice that Josh was already a part of our family, having made records and joined us on our last tour, he's a very different musician than John. Because of that, the feeling of the music is a lot different. John is a brilliant virtuoso guitar player, who could do whatever he wants on the guitar. It's unbelievable and I'm so fucking grateful for his contributions to the band. But Josh is a subtler textural player who also plays and writes on a lot of different instruments. He's not like this Guitar Hero type.

And that's a total shift from the band's previous songwriting style...

Right. Before, we wrote by jamming together and Anthony would add his parts afterwards. Now it's a much different approach. It took some time, for me particularly being so used to the way that John wrote, to understand the way Josh would interact with what I played. It was like, 'Wait, I thought you were going to come up with that perfect part that interlocks with what I'm doing and boom, it's going to be done.' With Josh, it creeps up on you. He sings beautiful background vocals on this record, too.

How did your time studying music change your relationship to the band?

It made for a big difference in me as a writer. I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. So I wrote a lot for the record on piano. Before I wrote for the band mostly on the bass. On the piano I'm writing chord, rhythm, bass, and melody, so it's a much different input from me. A lot of these songs were translated to a rock band. So we're starting with a song written on a different instrument, then translating it right away. It's a huge difference in the creative process and the end product. It has the violent rocking sound and it's real funky. There are some beautiful, deep songs that can connect to people's hearts. Anthony is singing about some big issues for human beings.

Like what?

About life and death and betrayal and his relationship to the world. It's much more poignant than our other records. Life and death is a major theme. [The album] has a deep heart. Everyone in the band has grown and continued to reinvent themselves and become a better musician, and collectively we did. We were forced to.

Did anything happen to push you guys in this direction?

Yeah. The first day that we ever played together with Josh after taking two years off, we found out that a very close friend of all of ours had died. We started jamming and came up with a song that's on the record, called "Brendan's Death Song," about our friend [L.A. punk icon] Brendan Mullen. We improvised and it happened. It was a poignant moment for us. It was an emotional thing.

And that set the tone for the album?

Sort of. We're the type of band that has ideas about what we want to do and what we're reaching for, but it's really about what happens when we get together in the room. It's about what will organically grow from who we are at the time.

I hear the album is also inspired by African music.

Definitely. We've always all loved African music. Throughout our career we've played some African bits, but we never really captured it right. Josh and I tripped around Ethiopia with a group called Africa Express, which Damon Albarn [Blur, Gorillaz] organized. We saw music every night and jammed with musicians. Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place. So there are a couple African parts on the new songs. One is called "Take Me Home," which has a real African feeling, and there's another called "Ethiopia." I'm really grateful to Damon for bringing me along. It really widened my scope of humanity.

I think that picture of Ethiopia is different from how a lot of people imagine it…

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers -- all kinds of people. I went to this town called Harar and there is a Mosque and a Christian church right next to each other, and everyone gets along.

They're devout about their faith, but they're really tolerant. I was walking down the street with this Ethiopian dude, and he's like, 'Oh f@ck, dude, I gotta take a sh**,' so he just walked up to a random door in this neighborhood, and the residents were like, 'Come right in and use my bathroom.' They don't do that shit in L.A., man. 'Excuse me, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can I take a s**t at your house?'

Speaking of weird sh**, you recently ran a marathon. That sounds painful.

[Laughs] I did that to raise money for my non-profit music school, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It costs a bunch of money to run, so I'm always trying to raise dough. And I read this book called Born to Runand it got me excited about running, and I had never been a runner before. I trained up and ran the marathon -- and it was awesome.

The training was fun and running the marathon was a fucking cathartic, beautiful experience. It was tough, but I like tough! I mean, I'm kind of a pussy as a guy, I've never been in a fight or anything, so not tough like that. But I like pushing my body. I pushed it too hard a couple times and injured myself. But after running for a while things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. It was pouring rain during the whole race -- it was freezing. But it was a blast. If I weren't gearing up for the tour right now, I'd be training for another one.

Do you listen to music while you're training?

Never. I don't like it. It's like my senses are so overwhelmed already, so full. The sound of my heartbeat, my footsteps, running up in this canyon here in Malibu, the birds, the animals, the sights, it's so much already. It's a beautiful thing.

okay, i luv the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing style and the quaility and diverse sound of their music. currently: i've been stuck on the RHCP's cover of the beach boy's song, "i get around." for me, that video is awesome for listening & watching. the way they perform this song is so much fun to listen to.

Flea the bass player strums the hell out the bass lines in this song. In a whole the video showed how strong their take was/is on the song, and how they added their own combined brand of funk to a beach boy's classic. (i'm listening to it now....ain't technology kinda grand? )

when are they on the slated/scheduled to perform on the west coast? gotta set aside the ducats.

check it out : http://www.youtube.com/wa...VYhhF7bRa0

I like about 60% of their catalog, but they went the way of Foo Fighters to me. Cheesy U2 songs with cheesy U2 lyrics and a cheesy old geezer U2 rock vibe. And U2 is just biting their shtick from the Stones. So, no, I'm not looking forward to this album. In fact, I won't even buy it. Shame, too, cuz I loved everything up until Californication - which felt like it had about half amazing songs, and half One Hot Minute bsides/remixes. Sad. For a band so wonderfully talented, drugs has ruined their creativity.

Spinlight said:

I like about 60% of their catalog, but they went the way of Foo Fighters to me. Cheesy U2 songs with cheesy U2 lyrics and a cheesy old geezer U2 rock vibe. And U2 is just biting their shtick from the Stones. So, no, I'm not looking forward to this album. In fact, I won't even buy it. Shame, too, cuz I loved everything up until Californication - which felt like it had about half amazing songs, and half One Hot Minute bsides/remixes. Sad. For a band so wonderfully talented, drugs has ruined their creativity.

I don't know if I would blame their creative sputtering on drugs.

Even though I have grown tired of it, Under The Bridge was inspired by addiction and it is one of their best songs.

They were more exciting when they were high.

I am definitely looking forward to the album. Have been a supporter all the way back to the George Clinton days. Say these guys on a bill with Fishbone, had to be 87 or 88. These guys have been together close to 30 years, sold over 60,000,000 albums, give a great live show, and are cool people. I met Flea on two occasions. Once at a music clininc, and the other at a trade show. Very humble guy. Can't wait.

Isn't the Queen of Rap Kreayshawn directing their upcoming video?

Fight Like a Brave! Don't Be a Slave! The Peppers are funky and great. This should be a good album.

minneapolisFunq said:

Spinlight said:

I like about 60% of their catalog, but they went the way of Foo Fighters to me. Cheesy U2 songs with cheesy U2 lyrics and a cheesy old geezer U2 rock vibe. And U2 is just biting their shtick from the Stones. So, no, I'm not looking forward to this album. In fact, I won't even buy it. Shame, too, cuz I loved everything up until Californication - which felt like it had about half amazing songs, and half One Hot Minute bsides/remixes. Sad. For a band so wonderfully talented, drugs has ruined their creativity.

I don't know if I would blame their creative sputtering on drugs.

Even though I have grown tired of it, Under The Bridge was inspired by addiction and it is one of their best songs.

They were more exciting when they were high.

You're right, but I think that was back when they were primarily still having fun on drugs. Remember One Hot Minute was done in the midst of some serious addiction and that album, while def my favorite of theirs, is not fun at all and is pretty much a big downer. I think by that time they were on the millionth verge of breaking up and the addiction was stronger than before.

I guess that is what happens to rockers. They make some amazing records on drugs and then when the drug takes over, the music begins to completely suffer, and part of the process to get off drugs results in the music being... milquetoast.

Example: Trent Reznor, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, and Billy Corgan all wrote their best material while still in the throes of recreational usage.

Spinlight said:

minneapolisFunq said:

I don't know if I would blame their creative sputtering on drugs.

Even though I have grown tired of it, Under The Bridge was inspired by addiction and it is one of their best songs.

They were more exciting when they were high.

You're right, but I think that was back when they were primarily still having fun on drugs. Remember One Hot Minute was done in the midst of some serious addiction and that album, while def my favorite of theirs, is not fun at all and is pretty much a big downer. I think by that time they were on the millionth verge of breaking up and the addiction was stronger than before.

I guess that is what happens to rockers. They make some amazing records on drugs and then when the drug takes over, the music begins to completely suffer, and part of the process to get off drugs results in the music being... milquetoast.

Example: Trent Reznor, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, and Billy Corgan all wrote their best material while still in the throes of recreational usage.

Let's not forget that those guys are getting old.

These aren't the young junkies that we once loved lol.

Whoever decided to go in the mellowed out direction of their last two albums must have been high on something though.

I saw them live at the target center during their californication tour and it was pure energy. I guess it is hard for me to get into the newer stuff because I will always remember them as the guys who fucking rocked, not a bunch of quiet crybabies.

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The band announced: "Check out our new album cover – officially revealed! Damien Hirst did it for us and we're happy to get this out to ya!"

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Discuss Reasons For Calling New Album I'm With You

July 7, 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers' frontman Anthony Kiedis has said that the band opted to call their new album 'I'm With You as it sums up how they currently feel.

The singer revealed that it was new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer who came up with the name of the record and that producer Rick Rubinhad talked them out of naming it after one of the album's song titles.

Speaking to MTV News, Kiedis said of the album title: "It seems pretty open, pretty apropos to where the band is, what the band's doing, how the record wants to be related to, or related with. It's open, and there's not really a negative connotation. It's inviting."

Kiedis continued: "We thought of calling it a song title off the record, and when I mentioned that to Rick [Rubin], he said, 'That just makes it seem like we don't have enough ideas."


He then revealed that new guitarist Klinghoffer, who replaced longtime player John Frusciantein 2009, had come up with the title.

He added: "Josh showed up one day, maybe a day before there was some sort of deadline for a title, and he wrote ['I'm With You'] on a piece of paper and we all kind of put our eyes on it at the same time and went: 'That is the title of our record.'"

The album is due for release on August 30. The first single from the album, 'The Adventure Of Raindance Maggie', will come out on July 18.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are due to tour Europe in October and December.

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Hear rhe new single, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

Identity said:

Hear rhe new single, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

Thanks for the hook-up Id' ...

This new Red Hot song is...red hot.

Yeah I know, corny, but I like it. Thanks ID!

Red Hot Chili Peppers: 'We wrote 70 songs for 'I'm With You''

July 20, 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has revealed that the band wrote 70 songs for their new album.

The California punk funk band are set to release the album, which will be their 10th studio album, on August 30. The album's first single 'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie', released on Monday (July 18).

Speaking to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Flea also said that the band had chosen tracks that "filled their own space" rather than simply picking "the best ones."

He said:

What was important to us when we put the record together was to make sure that each song filled its own space and was not like another song on the record. We wrote 70 songs, so it's not even necessarily all the best ones that we put on, but just the ones that occupy their own space.

Flea added that people should not take new single 'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie' as a sign of what they can expect from 'I'm With You'.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to tour Europe in October and December.

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Can't believe Flea and Anthony are about to be 50 soon.

That's all? Flea doesn't look a day over 52!

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That's all? Flea doesn't look a day over 52!

I say that because I remember when "Higher Ground" and "Knock Me Down" came out in 1989 and knew they were real young. I grew up with them.