Red Hot Chili Peppers To Debut New Song
By Radio.com Staff
(RADIO.COM) – Before their performance at this year's BottleRock Napa Valley, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will release a new single titled "Dark Necessities" Thursday, May 5th according to a tweet by the band Monday morning. According to sources close to the band, more information will be revealed Thursday after the song has been released.
New song Thursday. pic.twitter.com/4RS7AN6dzk
— Red Hot ChiliPeppers (@ChiliPeppers) May 2, 2016
Excited fans instantly took to social media to discuss possible directions the song could take given its name. One fan joked that "It's just a funky cover of Bear Necessities," referencing the similarity in title to the classic Disney song "The Bare Necessites," from the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book.
The Chilis most played a benefit concert Friday at The Shrine in Los Angeles, but according to attendants, the band didn't play any new music so the forthcoming song remains a mystery. If in fact "Dark Necessities" is indeed from a new album, it'll be the band's first full-length since 2011's I'm With You.
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