According to the story found at Soultracks; Red Hot Chili Peppers will be among the collaborators on George Clinton’s new effort, Radio-Friendly, the release date of which is said to be 03rd September 2008. It is not clear whom exactly he’s collaborating with, but guess we can take rough predictions seeing who the other collaborators are.

Other guests will be Sly Stone, Carlos Santana, RZA, El Debarge, Kim Burrel, Shavo Odadjian and members of the P-Funk All Stars.

George Clinton has a way of not only crossing musical boundaries but also generational boundaries. As a result, the musicians on Radio Friendly came of age in different eras and come from different worlds. “I want to get all the young musicians together with all the old school musicians,” George notes. “We need to come together! There shouldn’t be any division in music. Soon as we got Sly and Santana, everyone wanted to get on the bandwagon.”

As quotted on In The Mix.com.au, Pedro “Busy P” Winter could be linked with producing the next RHCP album.

No longer managing France’s most famous electronic music duo, Daft Punk, Busy P’s attentions have no doubt turned towards growing his Ed Banger empire. And, what better way to do that than by getting his biggest signing to date – Justice – to work with one of the world’s most gigantically enormous rock bands?

Apparently RHCP’s frontman Anthony Kiedis has been a fan of Justice for quite some time, using their music as the perfect warm-up before he stages to the stage. For that reason, the rumour that Justice would produce the band could have some weight to it. However the fact we can’t find any confirmation of it anywhere tells us it could just be wishful thinking… at this stage anyway.

You can listen to Busy P’s podcast on datatransmission.co.uk, if you click here.

Fran of RHCP Argentina kindly asked me to pass this on, as there are many people from Argentina visiting this website. So, here it goes:

On Saturday June 21st 2008 at 3 PM, a fan meeting will take place at the Plaza Francia in Buenos Aires. The fans are supposed to meet up at the Recoleta’s cementery door. The organisator advises the fans to bring their fan items and have a good time together.

Please, go to the site itself for information on how to get to the exact place. And have a good time!

Some people (including whoever wrote this) think that there’s no reason to panic. Some others, like NME are pessimistic or they’re just, plain and simple, trying to get visitors and sell their paper. And what do YOU think?

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VH1 Europe will air its RHCP weekend special on 31st May and 01st June from 13 to 16h central European time.

Playing their third decade of music, Vh1 presents a weekend of musical iconoclasm with the masters of improvisation whose style has fused traditional rock and funk with various elements of heavy metal, punk rock, and psychedelic rock. From early success ‘Mother’s Milk’ to ‘Californication’ to their latest Grammy Award winning ‘Stadium Arcadium’ – these boys have continued to reinvent themselves despite band member deaths, drug addictions and unprecedented success.

Cast your vote on RHCP’s future
Gigwise have rephrased the Rolling Stone interview with Anthony and added a little poll about Red Hot Chili Peppers’ future at the bottom of the page. Cast your vote.

Dizzee Rascal is praising John
In this week’s issue of NME, which is out today; talking about Wu-Tang Clan’s new album,Dizzee Rascal is praising John:
“There’s a song on it which samples The Beatles and has John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers playing the riff. He’s fucking wicked.”

RHCP weekend on Vh1 Europe
Next weekend on Vh1 Europe will be dedicated to RHCP, as said here; a schedule is to follow. I will sent another reminder for it next Friday.

*Special thanks to Tom and Bojana for second and third news bit!

…it took a couple of days to find a proper, reliable answer, but here it is. ^_^

Anthony was interviewed by Rolling Stone this week, and here is what he said about the band’s one-year-break, where they are, what they’re doing and what the future holds.

What’s the status of the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
We’re disbanded for the moment. We actually took a very long time to make the Stadium Arcadium record, because we wrote a lot of songs and then got way too married to them and decided we need it to be a double album. Which was a great experience, but it took forever. It was really a grueling, long haul and it followed two other very long hauls, Californication and By the Way. So we kind of started in 1999 with the writing and the recording of Californication and we didn’t really stop until the tour ended last year. We were all emotionally and mentally zapped at the end of that run. Cooler heads prevailed and the discussion at the end of our last tour was, “Let’s not do anything Red Hot Chili Peppers-related for a minimum of one year, and just live and breathe and eat and learn new things.” I was about to have a brand new son. Flea is very inspired to re-up his musical direction and ability and skill and he wants to learn new stuff. John [Frusciante] has been firing away on his own, making different solo projects. And Chad [Smith] joined a jazz band and went to Japan. I’m just home, hanging out with this really cool little kid, learning how to surf. But I’m starting to get just a little bit of a tingle that it would be nice to start thinking about songs and pieces of music. But just pieces.

With a lot of your contemporaries like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails revising how they handle their business, do you see the Chili Peppers doing anything different with distribution when you get back together?
I don’t spend that much time trying to figure out that puzzle. One of my friends is Rick Rubin and he lives around the corner from me. Every now and then I get into talks with him about what’s happening in that world because he’s much more involved and he’s trying to figure it out. I’d rather put my energy towards music itself. It is interesting and it’s wild to see it changing in our lifetime. I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B. I really don’t know what it is and I really don’t even care that much, but my mind is totally open to contemplating something completely different and new than as we knew it in the past. But I’m not worried about being the guy who invents the most unique and dynamic method of distributing music. I figure that’s going to work itself out.

For anyone who’s interested in the whole interview, including information about the New American Music Festival, the whole interview is here.