Released under the Warner label, the double CD holding 28 tracks and an overall play of 2+ hours, appears to offer some good old fashioned value for money. This, however, wouldn’t be the first time, and most likely not the last, that the Chili Pepper’s cram so much tunage into one album – much to a mixed reaction.

Following big hits of the past that we are all so familiar with, Californication, Under the Bridge and Scar Tissue, just to name a few, we await with baited breath to see what the new album offers and if they can live up to their past fan winners.

The first single off the Album, Dani California, lives up to typical Chili Pepper fans expectations. The slap base, string twanging, beat jumping sound compliments the formiddable front man, Kiedis’, vocals nicely. The song itself follows a similar recipe to the other big hitters forementioned.

The other star attractions from the 28 tracks come in the form of ‘Stadium Arcadium’, ‘Tell Me Baby’ and ‘Snow (Hey Oh)’.

The album, with the exceptions of 3 or 4 great tracks, is an average, ‘good’ CD that would sit nicely in anyones CD collection. Hardcore Chili Pepper fans may be left with their musical appetites wetted but still needing more to fulfill them. The length of the album could have easily been cut and still being as good as it currently is.

This is of no discredit to the Chili Peppers who, after 23 years in the music industry, are still churning out fan winning, enjoyable, and generally good music. This, given the somewhat feeble and often volatile music industry, that sees hundreds of singers and bands fall by its wayside yearly, is something to admire and behold.

Lollapalooza 2006 hopes to dwarf Lollapalooza 2004 (which was canceled due to the extremely poor ticket sales). One supposes the last Lollapalooza flop set a bomb off in Perry Ferral’s head to try harder. From the looks of it, he did try harder, because all the hottest bands are all coming to Chicago this summer.

GREAT BALLS OF MUSIC!
The acts include:

the Arcade Fire, the Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, Blue Merle, the Bravery, Cake, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Changes, the Dandy Warhols, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., Digable Planets, G. Love & Special Sauce, Billy Idol, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, the Killers, Liz Phair, Los Amigos Invisibles, Louis XIV, M83, the Pixies, the Redwalls, the Walkmen, Tegan and Sara, the Warlocks, Weezer and Widespread Panic.

An impressive line-up.

Who are the Revolved.net team most looking forward to seeing? The Pixies. Revolved.net strongly recommened listening to the Pixies. If you don’t then you will only regret it. There is not really any band like them and that makes them mighty.

The recent tour was a total cash cow, but then who can blame them since they were never appreciated properly in their own time. We adored them here but they went largely ignored in their native US. But respect has grown more and more since the split in 1991 and now thankfully they are regarded as an influential band. Pickup Doolittle and Surfer Rosa today and see what I mean by “mighty.”

I for one am drawn to this year’s Lollapalooza line-up like a moth to a flame. Visit Lollapalooza.com for more details.