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The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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 sine qua non in modern rock, but with a new set of life experiences from the intervening years that coalesced into a dynamically fresh start.

I’m With You was written collectively by the four members – founding singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith (who’s been with the band since 1989) and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer (the new guy, though he’s been a longtime friend of the band and served as second guitarist on much of the Stadium Arcadium tour). The result is the most heartfelt, playful and accomplished album in the band’s career, which is really saying something from the artists that gave us “Give It Away,” “Under the Bridge” and “Californication.”

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Salesforce.com Foundation at Dreamforce

We are pleased to be hosting the third annual UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Benefit on Thursday, September 20. Grammy Award-winning trio Lady Antebellum will headline at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Funds raised through ticket sales will go toward building one of the nation’s best children’s medical facilities. For more information and tickets, visit the website.

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