Red Hot Chili Peppers to start recording new album in September

As drummer Chad Smith declared, the band will start recording their new album in just a few months – in September. “We’re probably looking at getting together in September and getting on a roll and starting to write songs for the next record,” Smith tells Billboard (via NME). “We always have little ideas percolating in jams and rehearsal warm-ups and soundchecks and gigs.” Asked about the writing process, he added: “Sometimes we bust into stuff…

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Red Hot Chili Peppers released new song: In Love Dying

Source Red Hot Chili Peppers released the song In Love Dying, which is one of the 18 songs which are going to be released one by one on their official website. Their latest album, I’m With You, which was released in 2011 is available for download (not free of course) here. The song was actually recorded on a vinyl: As the song is just over eight minutes long, the 7″ vinyl will…

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If possible, RHCP just got cooler: they played chess with the world No. 1

Well to be honest, this is not quite news, as it happened about a year ago, but even searching, I couldn’t find any English media coverage about this – except for a Norwegian newspaper. So after a half an hour talk with a friend of mine who studies in Norway and a hefty chunk of Google Translate, I managed to figure out what was happening. The world No. 1, Magnus Carlsen, was in Rio, where…

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Getting Over A Band Break-Up

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Source: www.21st-apothecary.com Being in a band is very often a losing battle. Some bands never taste success, failing to perform a single gig before their career’s inevitable collapse under the strain of a heterogeny of big personalities with small tempers. And often, these types of bands can be seen from a mile away, each character precious about his or her contribution to what little music is produced from them, and almost always, it speaks through…

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John Frusciante: ‘The Empyrean’

Artist name: John Frusciante Album name: The Empyrean Label: Domino Records Gender: Experimental Rock/Psychedelic Rock Release date: January 20, 2009 ZMErating: 9.5/10 Website: JohnFrusciante.com If you’ve listened to any of his solo work, you know that it’s got little to do with what he’s doing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Still, this is by far the most different style he’s ever gone for, and it suits him like a charm. It’s a mix between…

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Live Earth: London full coverage

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] London, the biggest concerts in terms of names in my opinion, started a mid-day at the fabulous Wembley Stadium.The Festival’s openers were a group of all stars drummers, composed by the likes of Taylor Hawkins from the [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag], Chad Smith from [tag]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/tag] and Roger Taylor from [tag]Queen[/tag] all backed up by a orchestra of drummers titled SOS Allstars. Their performance was overwhelming, with extraordinary drumming, while images and clips…

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