In an interview with the BBC, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has stated that when working on their upcoming album ‘I’m With You’, the band wrote seventy songs for consideration. With regards to only a mere fourteen of those making the final cut, the bassist says: “What was important to us when we put the record together was to make sure that each song filled its own space and was not like another song on the record. We wrote 70 songs, so it’s not even necessarily all the best ones that we put on, but just the ones that occupy their own space.”

The final track listing for ‘I’m With You’ (UK release, 29th August) is as follows:

1. Monarchy of Roses
2. Factory of Faith
3. Brendan’s Death Song
4. Ethiopia
5. Annie Wants a Baby
6. Look Around
7. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
8. Did I Let You Know
9. Goodbye Hooray
10. Happiness Loves Company
11. Police Station
12. Even You Brutus?
13. Meet Me at the Corner
14. Dance, Dance, Dance

Alternative rockers Bush are to release their first album in ten years this coming September.

The British band, who hit the big-time in the US before becoming famous in the UK have been working with producer Bob Rock, whose previous credits include Aerosmith, Motley Crue and Metallica.

‘Sea of Memories’ is due out on September 13th. As yet, no final tracklisting has surfaced.

Cult reggae figure Little Roy has cut an album of Nirvana covers.  ‘The Battle For Seattle’ features old-school reggae renditions of ten Nirvana tunes and was recorded on analogue equipment for a more authentic early 70s reggae sound.

Little Roy has worked sporadically since the late 60s.  His biggest success was in 1969, when he topped the Jamaican charts with ‘Bongo Nyah’, the first song to be sung directly about the Rastafarian movement.  A follow up in 1970, ‘Don’t Cross That River’ was recorded with producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and featured musical assistance from the legendary Wailers.

‘The Battle For Seattle’ is released via Ark Records on September 5th 2011.

The tracklisting in full:
Dive / Heart Shaped Box / Very Ape / Come As You Are / Sliver / Polly / On A Plain / About A Girl / Son of A Gun / Lithium 

Listen to ‘Sliver’ and ‘Dive’ by clicking below:

Dutch symphonic metallers Epica are back in the studio beginning work on their as yet untitled fifth studio album.  Production is handed by Epica’s regular producer Sascha Paeth.

The completed album will be released by Nuclear Blast and is expected to be finished in time for a March 2012 release.

‘Oceana’, the seventh solo album from Derek Sherinian (Planet X, Black Country Communion, ex-Dream Theater) is due to be released on September 5th 2011.

Produced by Sherinian and world famous session drummer Simon Phillips (Toto, Jeff Beck), the album is said to be “heavily inspired by vintage Jeff Beck“.  Guests include Steve Lukather, Tony MacAlpine (who previously worked with Sherinian in Planet X) and Black Country Communion’s Joe Bonamassa.

The final tracklisting in full:

Five Elements
Mercury 7
Mulholland
Euphoria
Ghost Runner
El Camino Diablo
I Heard That
Seven Sins
Oceana

Read a review of ‘Black Country Communion’ here.
Read a review of ‘Black Country Communion 2’ here.