"It's heavy, but it's emotionally heavy with lots of beautiful melodies," Anthony Kiedis told Q magazine this month. Red Hot Chili Peppers' new record, Stadium Arcadium, is rumored to be released around March or April, though with several online release calendars citing it to be May 8th in the UK and May 9th in the USA.
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We all contributed equally,"
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That hasn't always been the case in the past." Hardcore fans may remember guitarist John Frusciante was pursuing melodies, synths, and new ways of making chord progressions before their last album (which had a mixed reception between both critiques and fans),
By The Way.
Anthony Kiedis also told NME magazine that their next single would be "Dani California", taking the character from the song By the way. NME spelt it "Danni", but Anthony spelt it "Dani" with the original song; but either its mostly a mundane detail. This single will be about the character's downfall, and could be expected to be released before the next album.
The Peppers also have a DVD slated for January 31st, 2006 on amazon.co.uk's and play.com's release calendars, entitled "Red Hot Chili Peppers: Woodstock And Beyond". Play.com's description tells us it will be a DVD about their performance with past-RHCP guitarist Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction, Camp Freddy) at Woodstock 94, not current gutiarist John Frusciante's at 99. "And beyond" may also come into play.
In both Q and NME articles, Anthony spills about how they originally wanted to release 3 albums; but then realized that the 3rd would come out almost 2 years from the first and it wouldn't be as worthwhile. Stadium Arcadium will feature 25 songs (neither of the new songs from Live at Hyde Park will be on). Several of the new songs are circulating in bootleg circles, notably Tell Me Baby, Desecration Smile, Ready Made, and For The 21st Century.
