Return of the Dream Canteen

Return of the Dream Canteen is the thirteenth studio album by the American rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on October 14, 2022, through Warner Records as a double LP and single CD. Produced by Rick Rubin, it was recorded during the same sessions as the band's previous studio album, Unlimited Love, released earlier in 2022.
Recording
The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote and recorded Return of the Dream Canteen during the same sessions as their previous studio album, Unlimited Love (2022). The sessions marked the return of guitarist John Frusciante after a ten-year absence, and resulted in fifty songs being recorded with producer Rick Rubin and recording engineer Ryan Hewitt.
Reflecting on the wealth of material that the band recorded, drummer Chad Smith noted: "We just wrote a bunch of music and wrote and wrote with no time constraints and ended up recording all these songs. We always record more than what comes out on a record, but often they get left in the vault or unfinished or whatever. But we finished them all. We just felt like we had too many good songs to not put out another record. It’s not like a b-sides record or anything like that. Everything felt good and right."
The band sequenced both Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen to become distinct listening experiences from one another: "We thought, 'These  go together here and these go together there and, look, we’ve got two things, both great.'"
Promotion
The band announced the album during their Global Stadium Tour on July 23, 2022 at their show in Denver with pre-sales of the album being made available which included various versions of the album on limited edition vinyl.
The album's first single, "Tippa My Tongue", was released alongside a music video on August 19, 2022. A second song from the album, "Eddie", which was inspired by musician Eddie Van Halen, was released on September 23, 2022."Eddie" was performed for the first time on October 9, 2022 at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. It was the first song from the album to be performed live.