(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.

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 used to hearing.

To buy only the particular song, click here and to get the whole album, click here. Enjoy it, as it is really enjoyable indeed.

P.S. Methinks there needs to be a new news category for collaborations only!

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.

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.

(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 111 Minna Gallery for the Choose GOOD Magazine block party on July 15.

Although the final tracklisting has not been confirmed, Pitchfork reports that the rough one will be:

‘The People Tree’ (featuring David Byrne, Chail 2na, Gift of Gab and Z-Trip)
‘Nasa Music’ (ft. E-40, Method Man and DJ Swamp)
‘Way Down’ (ft. RZA, John Frusciante and Barbie Hatch)
‘Hip Hop’ (ft. KRS- One, Fatlip and Slim Kid Tre)
‘Four Rooms, Earth View’
‘Money’ (ft. David Byrne, Seu Jorge, Ras Congo and Z-Trip)
‘Strange Enough’ (ft. Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Fatlip)
‘Samba Hey’ (Portuguese Version) (ft. Seu Jorge)
‘A Volta’ (ft. Lovefoxxx, Amanda Blank and Sizzle)
‘The Ultimate’ (ft. Fatlip and Gift Of Gab)
‘Spacious Thoughts’ (ft Tom Waits and Kool Keith)
‘Electric Flowers’ (ft. RZA and Nina Persson)
‘There’s A Party’ (ft. George Clinton)
‘O Pato’ (ft. Kool Kojak)
‘Whachadoin?’ (ft. MIA, Spank Rock and Nick Zinner)
‘Samba Soul’ (ft. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Obert)
‘I Am God’ (ft. Kool Kojak)
‘Outro’

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:

1. Wish Upon A Dogstar
2. 2Only Love, Let’s Celebrate
3. Hard Life Easy
4. Kinky
5. The Solutionists
6. Awesome
7. Mr. Sunshine
8. Insanity Rains
9. Milky Ave.
10. Ultra Payloaded
11. Woman In The Window

To buy the album, click here and go to SatelliteParty.com to find out more about the band’s members and the other guests. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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 winners of the competition are Diana B. and Nedeljko D. They have been contacted and as soon as they’ve gotten back to me with their addresses, Record Collection Music will send them their CD+T-shirt bundles. Congratulations, guys.

And, let me tell you, it was very hard to pick only two winners among 473 people who have entered the competition. It surprised me that some people never left their email addresses, that some thought the cities they live in were countries and that someone applied four times. That’s not the way to get what you want, it’s aggressive, disrespectful and immature. This is not the last competition on this site, so please be wiser the next time there’s one. OK?

That would be it.