Red Hot Chili Peppers Working on New Album

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back in the studio as of October 12, 2009. Their next album should be released sometime in 2010, according to Chad Smith.

An excerpt from his interview with SPIN follows ...




What's the status of the new album? You guys have been off for a long time now.
We're going to get together and start writing songs in October.

Is anything already written?
No. We've jammed a few times. I've played with Flea a few times. But I've been gone since April doing the Chickenfoot thing. So in October, we'll start from scratch. The four of us will get in a room and just start playing. That's how it's always worked before. That method hasn't failed us yet.

Do you know who'll be producing the new album?
It's not at the point where we're thinking about that yet. But Rick Rubin's been our producer forever. We love him and he's great. I assume that we'll use him again. But picking a producer is still far off down the road.

Any ideas on when we can expect to hear new music from you guys?
Sometime in 2010 seems realistic. That's what we're shooting for, but it takes a while to get the machinery going with something as big as the Chili Peppers.

New Alice in Chains Song "A Looking in View"

A very dark song. The band sounds fucking incredible. Jerry Cantrell does most of the vocals on this track. The song is 7 minutes long.

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Alice in Chains "Black Gives Way To Blue"

Legendary '90s grunge band Alice In Chians has set Black Gives Way To Blue as the title of its first new studio album in more than 10 years, due on September 29 via EMI's Virgin Records.

The band and producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters) began recording last October at Studio 606 in Northridge, California and recently finished mixing at Henson Studios in Hollywood.

There is not a single album I'm more curious to hear this year than this one. I'm really rooting for these guys to succeed, and I'll be buying this disc the day it comes out. I HOPE it lives up to my expectations.

Original vocalist Layne Staley died of a cocaine-heroin overdose in 2002. This will be their first album with new vocalist William DuVall.

Here they are doing "Again" with their new vocalist, William DuVall, at Rock am Ring in 2006. For the record, I think this guy has a great voice.



And here's "Angry Chair" from Adelaide Soundwave this past February.

Horn > Ocelot

Spoiler Alert!

Phish was in rehearsals all week at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA (The Centrum).

Thanks to some fanatical Phanners we have audio and video of "Moma Dance," "Destiny Unbound," "Horn," "Rift," "Time Turns Elastic," "Backwards Down the Number Line," "You Enjoy Myself," "The Star Spangled Banner," and ... "Ocelot."

Moma Dance
Moma Dance

Destiny Unbound

Horn > Ocelot
Horn > Ocelot

Rift
Rift

Time Turns Elastic

Backwards Down the Numberline

YEM

Horn, Ocelot

Star Spangled Banner
Star Spangled Banner

Rift

Destiny Unbound

YEM

Time Turns Elastic

PHISH "TIME TURNS ELASTIC" AT ITUNES

We're excited to announce the release of "Time Turns Elastic," a new track from Phish's forthcoming studio album, available now for download exclusively at iTunes.

Recorded in New York City, the as-yet-untitled record is Phish's first studio album in five years and its second with producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's 1996 album, Billy Breathes.

The album is scheduled for release on July 28th.

You can listen to the track for free by heading over to the band's official MySpace page.

Song Titles for New Phish LP

Thanks to PHISHPOSTERS.COM

Party Time (working title) is Phish's fourteenth album, scheduled for release sometime in 2009. Phish collaborated with producer Steve Lillywhite on the album, having worked with Lillywhite previously on 1996's Billy Breathes.

The band already has 20 demos wrapped up and will hit the studio with Lillywhite in April to start work on the new album.

Related:
RUMOR: Steve Lillywhite to Produce New Phish Album!
March 2009 Rolling Stone interview with Trey Anastasio Page 1,2,3