I'm with You Sessions

"I'm with You Sessions"
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released	August 10, 2012 – July 23, 2013
Format	7" vinyl, digital download
Recorded	September 14, 2010 – March 18, 2011 at East West Studios in Los Angeles, California, and Shangri La Studio in Malibu, California and 2012-2013 additional work done at JHOC, Pasadena, California
Genre	Funk rock, alternative rock
Length	1:13:17
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Rick Rubin

I'm with You Sessions (also known as I'm with You Singles Collection) is a group of nine singles by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers featuring seventeen songs recorded in contention for the band's tenth studio album, I'm with You (2011). The singles were also be released as a double LP vinyl set, entitled I'm Beside You, in November 2013 and were sold exclusively on Record Store Day.

Produced by Rick Rubin, each release contains two songs featuring an a-side and a b-side and they are available worldwide through 7" vinyl and digital download.

During a Q&A on May 5, 2012, Chad Smith announced through his Twitter page that the album's unreleased songs would eventually see the light of day. On May 27, 2012, Smith said in response to a tweet that, at some point in the next six months, the band would be releasing ten unreleased songs on 7-inch and as digital downloads. Flea followed up Smith's announcement a few days later on May 29, 2012 by stating that eighteen unreleased songs from the I'm with You sessions would be released over the next six months. He also confirmed that the band has been writing new music while touring.

Josh Klinghoffer commented on the unreleased songs by saying "Finding songs that seem to want to join hands with others is a special task that require the right people...and the right songs! Some songs seem to have a lot more of an agenda than others. Some songs play well with others and some songs need more attention and a little extra care. Here are some songs that seemed to want to pair up and take a later train. Keep your eye on them, they're up to something..."

Smith said in July 2012 of the unreleased songs that "We just wanted them to come out because we just really like them. We didn't want them to get lost, so we're gonna put them out, mainly for our fans. They would've waited for the Warner Bros. box set in, like, 2020, if there's even a record company around then. I'm glad they're going to see the light of day because it's an important part of the band and what we were doing at the time." On the sound of the songs, Smith says he finds it "hard to explain" what the first two songs to be release sound like but describes "Long Progression" as "kind of a flowing, kind of midtempo funk". He also stated the band is currently working on new music. "Those are just waiting," Smith said. "We'll go back to those when we start writing again, I'm sure – or not. We're just always trying to come up with new stuff; usually the latest and greatest is what we use, but you never know."

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