A couple weeks ago, Red Hot Chili Pepper released “Eddie,” the second single from their upcoming double album Return Of The Dream Canteen (out at the end of this week) and a tribute track to Eddie Van Halen, who passed away in 2020. Last night, RHCP performed at the festival Austin City Limits and they played “Eddie...

Red Hot Chili Peppers release new single, Eddie, inspired by their love for the late guitarist Eddie Van Halen

Red Hot Chili Peppers have a new double album on the way, Return Of The Dream Canteen, their second album of 2022 following this past April’s Unlimited Love. They released “Tippa My Tongue” from it last month, and received the Global Icon Award at the VMAs not long after that.

The band started writing ‘Eddie’ the day after Van Halen died in 2020, with frontman Anthony Kiedis calling the late rock god “one of a kind”The post Red Hot Chili Peppers pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen with emotive new single ‘Eddie’ appeared first on NME.

Red Hot Chili Peppers received the Global Icon Award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. They performed two songs, their recent Unlimited Love single “Black Summer” and “Can’t Stop.”