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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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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