
Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to enter the studio later this year to record the follow-up to 2006's ' Stadium Arcadium '. Drummer Chad Smith recently revealed to MusicRadar.com plans to begin recording their new album in July. "We have a lot of material, probably about 20 songs," the drummer revealed. "re-production will take a few months, but I'd say by July we'll be laying down real tracks," he added. The new album is set to be produced by Rick Rubin . The [...]

Le cose iniziano a muoversi. I Red Hot Chili Peppers hanno annunciato il loro primo concerto insieme dai tempi della loro momentanea 'separazione' dell'anno scorso. La data è il 29 gennaio del prossimo anno, l'occasione è un live tributo a Neil Young per premiare le sue attività benefiche. "MusiCares 20103 è un gigantesco concerto in onore del cantautore canadese, che vedrà protagonisti gli Wilco, Norah Jones, James Taylor e moltissimi altri artisti, tutti presenti per omaggiare un idolo della loro formazione musicale. Curiosa anche la partecipazione dei RHCP in questo contesto, anche se [...]

The HT family has grown a bit over the course of the year, so we couldn't fit everyone on the deck for last week's BBQ. We had to have the rest of the gang over this week for part two of our discussion of the Best Albums Of The '00s. So, we headed back to the store to pick up a variety of our favorite grillable food stuffs and a few cases of Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPAs for another rousing edition of At The Barbecue . [...]

When Green Day originally made their mark writing songs about smoking dope and jacking off, who would've thought they would become the modern day version of The Who, making ambitious modern rock operas and having the Berkeley Repertory Theater staging a production based on their work ? After all, the original rock operas like Tommy and prog rock bands like Boston and Steely Dan spawned a violent backlash and return to primal rock energy that ultimately led to the original punk explosion of the late 70's, the original inspiration for Green Day. By making these grander artistic [...]