2. Listen to Unlimited Love

Ahead of a super-stacked summer stadium tour. Warner Records, April 1.

The 12th album from veteran L.A. funk-rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers reunites the team behind beloved albums like 1991’s Blood Sugar

Sex Magik, restoring John Frusciante to guitar duties and tapping Rick Rubin as producer. The musicianship is as tight as the songwriting is affecting—the function of a unit that grasps its strengths, then plays to them.