The Mother Hips Tap Into ‘California Current’ Album For New Single ‘We Want What We Want’

The Mother Hips announced they will release a new album entitled California Current on September 27 via the Blue Rose Music label. The Northern California-based rock band unveiled “We Want What We Want,” the lead single from their 13th studio album.

Co-founding members Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono decamped with rhythm section John Hofer (drums) and Brian Rashap (bass) to Oakland’s 25th Street Recording earlier this year to record the follow-up to 2023’s When We Disappear. Additional sessions were held at Bluhm’s Forrest Power studio. Longtime friend and collaborator Jason Crosby (Jackson Browne, Phil Lesh) contributed electric piano to California Current.

The forthcoming 11-song collection of original music — which also features a fan-favorite cover of The Kinks’ “This Is Where I Belong” — continues a prolific streak for the quartet. “Starting three years ago, Joe Poletto, the founder of Blue Rose Music, and The Hips set a goal to record and release one album per year,” explained Tim Bluhm. “Of course, it’s not unusual for any record to include songs and ideas collected from years past, but this frequency of releases exhausts stored-up ideas and requires a steady stream of fresh material.”

“Reflecting on what is most important to us as a band, we agree that writing and recording music as much as possible is our top priority,” added Loiacono. A string of three new albums in three years began with the release of Glowing Lantern in December of 2021.

“California Current, as the title suggests, is a fine representation of the state of our art,” said Loiacono. “It’s a distinctly Mother Hips record that bursts with the love, energy, and beauty that California brings to us all.”

Stream “We Want What We Want” to preview The Mother Hips’ California Current: