4 Non Blondes are returning to the studio to report a follow-up to Larger, Higher, Sooner, Extra!—their sole, 1992 album and the launchpad for the enduring superhit “What’s Up?” Particulars on the album are skinny—no title has been revealed—however the band has signed to Kill Rock Stars for its launch someday in 2026. The stalwart indie label is partnering with 4 Non Blondes frontperson Linda Perry to launch an imprint, 670 Information, that can co-release each the band’s album and a Perry solo report, Let It Die Right here, which can be approaching an unspecified date subsequent yr.
In a press release about reuniting the band, Perry mentioned in a press launch, “I put my feelers out into the universe. Enjoying some songs with 4 Non Blondes simply appeared like a enjoyable factor to do, in a means it hadn’t prior to now. I’ve been behind the scenes for much too lengthy. I need to step out to be the artist I’m. I’m simply open to all the chances that I’ve created round me. I manifest issues on a regular basis.” She added that the album will embrace a mixture of new songs and revisited older materials.
Rounding out the 4 Non Blondes lineup shall be bassist Christa Hillhouse—Perry’s solely bandmate to be current all through the group’s first part—and two authentic touring members: drummer Daybreak Richardson and guitarist Roger Rocha. (That lineup has reconvened for a handful of reunion tour dates this yr.) Authentic drummer Wanda Day was fired in 1991 and later died of a drug overdose; authentic guitarist Shaunna Corridor left the band in the course of the recording of Larger, Higher, Sooner, Extra! and have become an official member of Parliament-Funkadelic in 2007.
Examine “What’s Up?” at No. 212 in Pitchfork’s rundown of “The 250 Finest Songs of the Nineteen Nineties”:
