New releases
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I******* stands for Imperium!
This topic contains misspelled album name. Look for the newer news items for an explanation, the album is called The Empyrean, as it’s stated in one of the comments on this. Thanks! What you’re reading as this news update’s title is the word I did not want to reveal to any of you for the past four months, due to respect for Armando Ruiz’s last wish and firmly believing that John did not mean to reveal it to public at that point. In case some of you are still not familiar with the story; Armando was a 20-year-old RHCP and John fan from San Diego and he had leukemia. Two…
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George Clinton And His Gangsters Of Love to hit stores on Tuesday
The Godfather of Funk, “Dr. Funkenstein” George Clinton Bring’s The Doo-Wop Heat On His Brand New CD GEORGE CLINTON AND HIS GANGSTERS OF LOVE. The Tracks you can hear on My Space are the love sexy single “Ain’t That Peculiar” with Sly Stone, El Debarge, RonKat Spearman and Vassal Benford. Plus Pledging My Love and the funky “Heaven” with The RZA. Other special guests include Carlos Santana, Kim Burrell, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also on the CD are members of the P-Funk Allstars including Garry ‘Diaper Man’ Shider, Belita Woods, Kim Manning, Kendra Foster and more. Available at Target Stores on September 16th and available for pre-order on…
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EMI to re-release the first four RHCP albums (again!?)
(Many thanks to Lauren for the heads up!) According to AlbumVote, EMI is, oops, doing it again. Red Hot Chili Peppers are to have their first four studio albums re-mastered, re-packaged and re-released on March 24 2008. 1984’s self-titled debut will have five extra tracks, 1985’s Freaky Styley will have four extra tracks and there will be an extra two tracks included on 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. 1989’s Mother’s Milk will come with an extra 6 tracks. According to some other sources, this might be a mixup with the news from 2003, so it’s not 100% sure.
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John as a guest on Dave Gahan’s new album
So…as we all know Mr. Frusciante’s creativity is endless. As Invisible Movement knows from a few very reliable sources, the new solo album is being mixed; and, in the meantime, there was the collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan and yet another guest appearance on The Mars Volta’s album and. As if that wasn’t already impressive enough, it turned out that John is playing on Depeche Mode frontman’s new album! Hourglass, Dave Gahan’s second solo effort, was released on 22nd October and John is playing guitar on the track number 1, Saw Something. Unlike his playing on the other most recent collaborations, this is clearly living up to the style we’re all…
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An exclusive preview of The Heart Gently Weeps!
This is an update to the yesterday’s news. The Wu-Tang Clan song is actually called The Heart Gently Weeps and, know what’s the best thing? You can hear it live, exclusively on loud.com Just go to loud.com, register yourself an account and then click here to hear the full-length song. And, if you’re interested in the whole controversy regarding the song, there’s a great article on that subject on the MTV website.
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Wu-Tang’s release postponed
The release of Wu-Tang Clan’s newest album, which will feature a song sampling The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps, where John and Dhani Harrison are playing; is postponed for 04th December. Read more about it here.
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John to appear on a NASA album
(As per New Musical Express) Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ singer Karen O, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante, CSS’s Lovefoxxx and MIA are to feature on a new album together. The acts all appear on NASA (North America South America), the band featuring Squeak E. Clean (film director Spike Jonze’ brother) and DJ Zegon (aka Ze Gonzales). Also set to feature on the album are Talking Heads’ David Byrne, Tom Waits, Wu Tang Clan’s RZA and ODB, Spank Rock and The Cardigans’ Nina Persson. The album is yet untitled and has no release date, but it is believed it will be released in the winter. NASA will appear at San Francisco’s…
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John on Satellite Party’s album
The long awaited album by Perry Farrell’s new band, Satellite Party, mentioned in a couple of older news items, is finally out. And, as it was noted before as well, John and Flea are guests on one of the songs. The whole album can be heard on the band’s MySpace page and it has a very nice vibe to it, so listening is more than recommended. This is not the first time John appears as a guest on something by mr. Farrell, as he also collaborated on the title track on the singer’s 1999. album Rev. Here’s the tracklisting: Wish Upon A Dogstar 2Only Love, Let’s Celebrate Hard Life Easy…
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Ataxia’s AWII released today + competition winners
Ataxia’s AWII (obviously short for Automatic Writing II) is out today. If you have not got it yet, by any means, GET IT NOW!. It’s a great album, in this webmaster’s humble opinion it tops AW. 🙂 Note: if you are from one of the countries that appear blocked on the list, you will have to wait for the album to reach your country or to be available from some other online store, such as Amazon (where it’s not available yet, as of now). Also, to everyone who is lucky to have the album already, please send in some reviews, that would be perfect!:) Happy listening! AWII Competition Results The…
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John guest on an Omar Rodriguez-Lopez solo project…again
A little background story: apart from being the guest on all the three studio albums by The Mars Volta so far and appearing as an additional guitarist at their shows every now and then, John was a guest musician on three songs on Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s 2004 album A Manual Dexterity Soundtrack Vol. 1, and they also collaborated on a 2-track special edition vinyl single in November 2005. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s third solo album, titled Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo is due to be officially realised on 29th May, the same day as Ataxia’s AWII. However, that is not the only similarity between these two albums. You guessed, John is working with…
