I'M WITH YOU

Children are born but a friend dies. A new guitarist arrives as the old one leaves. And a band is reborn after an overdue break. Beginnings and endings. That s I m WITH YOU truly the beginning of a new era for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The 10th album of the Los Angeles band s singular career sees the band refreshed renewed once again working with producer Rick Rubin (their fifth partnership including the last album 2006 s monster STADIUM ARCADIUM two-CD tour de force). It expands the same combination of funk and finesse intensity and tenderness that s made the Peppers essential in modern rock but with a new set of life experiences from the intervening years that coalesced into a dynamically fresh start.