I'm with You
Behind the shambolic splendor of a Red Hot Chili Peppers’ performance is a tightly coiled symbiosis of musicianship. The band grapples with themes of life and death on *I’m With You*, an album born from the ashes of a friend’s fatal overdose. Bringing a subtle style, Josh Klinghoffer has replaced John Frusciante as guitarist, but the band still retains its unmistakable Chili Pepper flavor. The totemic lead single, “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,” soars and bops with magnitude
I'm With You, the first Red Hot Chili Peppers album without John Frusciante since the turgid, Dave Navarro-helmed One Hot Minute, is the work of a band with all kinds of capital to blow but no incentive to do anything differently.
It’s a little strange that the Red Hot Chili Peppers recently entered their fourth decade with their audience (and vital organs, sock-covered and otherwise) still mostly intact. The white-boy frat-funk of the band’s self-titled 1984 debut hardly seemed to herald the arrival of an all-time enduring rock band. But other…
It was only a matter of time. John Frusciante—arguably the most versatile, talented guitarist in “mainstream” rock ‘n’ roll…
Losing John Frusciante for a second time doesn't send the Red Hot Chili Peppers into a tailspin.
With producing guru Rick Rubin once again on board and new recruit Josh Klinghoffer taking over guitar duties from John Frusciante ‘I’m With You’ combines the old and the new to great effect.
Five years since their ambitious-yet-uneven double album ‘Stadium Arcadium’, and it’s all change in the Chili Peppers camp again.
There may be a new guitarist in tow, but it's more of the same from the Chili Peppers, suggests <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong>
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You review: The Chili Peppers release another album. Yeah.