New Chili Pepper Album August 30th!!!

[tlongII]

Red Hot Chili Peppers will release their new album, I'm With You, on August 30, 2011, according to bass player Flea.

Flea was unable to contain his excitement when he announced the title and release date on Twitter, writing: “I'm With You August 30th!!! whahoooooo!!! yip! yippeeee!!!! whaaaaaaa!!!!!!! yes y3es ys ye s yes yes yeyeyeye yes yes yeslovelovelove.”

The album was originally rumored to be titled Dr. Johnny Skin’s Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head. It was produced by the legendary Rick Rubin (Slayer, Metallica, Johnny Cash), and the first single, "The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie," will be released on July 18.

The album is the first to feature former Warpaint guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who stepped in after John Frusciante quit the band in 2009. Klinghoffe collaborated with Frusciante on several of the latter's solo discs, and was along to provide additional guitar, keys and backing vocals on RHCP's Stadium Arcadium tour in 2007.

[CubanSucks]

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[CubanSucks]

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[SourCandy]

I liked all the albums so far, however I still have that fear. That fear that one day one day..

[redzero]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are kinda stale now. Anthony Kiedis needs to die in a fire.

[4>0rings]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are kinda stale now. Anthony Kiedis needs to die in a fire.
Fuck you!

[redzero]

Fuck you!

No Frusciante = more shitty albums.

[baseline bum]

Goddamnit, it's not the RHCP without Frusciante.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Dude's lucky to be alive.

I don't really care for these guys, but I dug Dave being in the group.

[spurs_2108]

I'm excited! Can't wait.

[Fpoonsie]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are kinda stale now. Anthony Kiedis needs to die in a fire.

[tlongII]

I'll definitely give the new album a listen. They have a unique sound.

[Fpoonsie]

I'll definitely give the new album a listen. They have a unique sound.

A bad one, but I'll grantchoo, it IS "uniquely" them.

[Peligro!]

Goddamnit, it's not the RHCP without Frusciante.

This. Bank on this being the worst album since one hot minute...save your cash and go buy one of frusciantes many solo albums...

[ohmwrecker]

::yawn::

[thispego]

All their songs sound the same. Never thought they were anything special.

[circ]

Dude's lucky to be alive.

I don't really care for these guys, but I dug Dave being in the group.

^>one hot minute is so gooot

[DMC]

I hope no one buys this for me like last time. Else, like that one, I would just give it away give it away give it away now.

[redzero]

All their songs sound the same. Never thought they were anything special.

You must not have heard that song where Anthony Kiedis sings about California.

[CuckingFunt]

Californication was their last decent album. BloodSugarSexMagik was their last good album.

[baseline bum]

Californication was their last decent album. BloodSugarSexMagik was their last good album.

Sir Psycho Sexy alone makes Blood Sugar a great album.

[redzero]

Sir Psycho Sexy alone makes Blood Sugar a great album.

The last part of Sir Psycho Sexy is the best thing RHCP ever did.

[CuckingFunt]

The last part of Sir Psycho Sexy is the best thing RHCP ever did.

"Breaking the Girl" disagrees.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

you must not have heard that song where anthony kiedis sings about california.

crofl

pwnt

Sir Psycho Sexy is like a bajillion times more powerful than Breaking The Girl after time has passed. Maybe its the radio play that BTG has got over the years, but Psycho Sexy was a game changer. Still holds up.

[Jelloisjigglin]

Goddamnit, it's not the RHCP without Frusciante.


Precisely. Not too stoked about this one...We'll see.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

IMO RHCP has been running on fumes for a while even before Frusciante left.

But I'm a big fan of 95's One Hot Minute, so I refuse to believe a band with Flea necessarily sucks without John.

[badfish22]

I was unaware that John isn't with them anymore. Without Frusciante they are a very average band.

[CubanSucks]

I was unaware that John isn't with them anymore. Without Frusciante they are a very average band.

So what? Without Roger Waters Pink Floyd was a very average band. Doesn't mean they sucked or RHCP will

[Kai]

Hell yeah hopefully Klinghoffer brings the goods.

[baseline bum]

"Breaking the Girl" disagrees.

Great song, but Sir Psycho Sexy was Isaac Hayes meets Parliament.

[redzero]

So what? Without Roger Waters Pink Floyd was a very average band. Doesn't mean they sucked or RHCP will

Pink Floyd did suck without Waters, just like RHCP suck without Frusciante.

[tlongII]

How can you say RHCP sucks without Frusciante when you haven't heard their new album yet?

[tlongII]

RHCP basically invented the "punk funk" genre.

[CuckingFunt]

How can you say RHCP sucks without Frusciante when you haven't heard their new album yet?

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[tlongII]

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Yah, but that was Navarro.

[ohmwrecker]

I refuse to believe a band with Flea necessarily sucks without John.

Flea is awesome, but Kiedis is the one that keeps me from being a fan. He is easily one of the worst singers/lyricists of his generation. Their best stuff is definitely with Frusciante. It shouldn't be up for debate.

[CubanSucks]

Klinghoffer > Navarro

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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.

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"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."