The discography of John Frusciante, who is best known as the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, consists of thirteen solo albums, two internet only release albums, seven EPs, as well as two albums with collaborators Joe Lally and Josh Klinghoffer under the name Ataxia and two EPs and five studio albums under the alias of Trickfinger. After recording Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 when he got tired of the growing success of the band.Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 284. He released his first solo album, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, in 1994 on American Recordings. His second record, Smile From the Streets You Hold, was released in 1997 and later taken off the market at his request in 1999. After returning to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, Frusciante recorded Californication with the band and subsequently released his third solo album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, in February 2001 on Warner Music Group.
Red Hot Chili Peppers released By the Way in 2002, with Frusciante taking a central role in the songwriting. Following the album's tour, Frusciante released Shadows Collide with People in 2004; it became his first solo album to influence a music chart and is his only solo album to date featuring Chad Smith. In 2004, Frusciante switched from Warner Brothers to the Record Collection label and released a series of six records in six months. Four of six included collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Josh KlinghofferThe Will to Death, Inside of Emptiness, A Sphere in the Heart of Silence liner notes. and the period produced collaborations with Fugazi members Joe Lally and Jerry Busher, and producer Ian MacKaye, as well as Carla Azar and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
Frusciante began working with Omar Rodríguez-López in 2001 and has since collaborated on many recordings under both artists' names. Frusciante also was considered an honorary member of The Mars Volta from 2002 to 2008, occasionally performing live with the band from 2003 to 2006. Frusciante served as executive producer on Rodríguez-López's first film, released in 2010, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, which was filmed in 2007.
In 2006, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their Grammy Award-winning double album Stadium Arcadium. Frusciante began work on his tenth solo record, The Empyrean, shortly thereafter and subsequently released the album in early 2009. In December 2009, Frusciante revealed that he had left Red Hot Chili Peppers more than a year earlier, during their hiatus. Since then, he has gone on to release 2012's Letur-Lefr EP and Sect In Sgt EP (the latter recorded under the alias of Trickfinger), the full-length follow-up PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, its experimental sequel, 2014's Enclosure, his 2015 album, Trickfinger followed by Trickfinger II in 2017. Frusciante has also gone on to collaborate as Speed Dealer Moms with Venetian Snares, and with Swahili Blonde and Kimono Kult with his ex-wife, Nicole Turley, as well as with Black Knights. He has also released a number of solo tracks on his bandcamp and soundcloud pages. In December 2019, Frusciante again re-joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and their twelfth album Unlimited Love was ultimately released on April 1, 2022 and was followed soon after by their thirteenth album, Return of the Dream Canteen on October 14, 2022. Frusciante continues to release solo albums under his own name and his Trickfinger alias with three new releases in 2020 and two new Speed Dealer Moms EPs since 2021. A four album box set featuring two new Trickfinger albums was released in July 2026.
Solo material Studio albums TitleAlbum notesNotes Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt Label: American Recordings (#68-02) Released: November 22, 1994 Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl Debut solo album. Taken off the market in 1998 at Frusciante's request. Has since gone back into print. Vinyl pressing October 2017 from Superior Viaduct records – black vinyl & translucent red vinyl (with bonus 7" limited to 1,000) Smile from the Streets You Hold Label: Birdman (BMR #016) Released: August 26, 1997 Formats: CD Taken off the market in 1998 at Frusciante's request and remains out of print. Planned for re-release by Frusciante in the future. To Record Only Water for Ten Days Label: Warner Bros. Records (#48045-2) Released: February 13, 2001 Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl First solo release on Warner Bros. Records. Vinyl pressing January 2017 limited to 1,500 copies from Twelve Suns records Vinyl pressing April 2026 limited to 3,000 copies Warner / Rhino Shadows Collide with People Label: Warner Bros. Records (#2-48660) Released: February 24, 2004 Formats: CD, vinyl First album on which Frusciante collaborated with Klinghoffer, and only album with Chad Smith.Shadows Collide with People liner notes. Peaked at #191 on the Billboard Top 200; #11 on Top Heatseekers, #46 on the Official German Album Chart and #53 on the UK Albums Chart. The Will to Death Label: Record Collection (#48800-2) Released: June 22, 2004 Formats: CD, vinyl Peaked at #109 on the UK Albums Chart. Inside of Emptiness Label: Record Collection (#48907-2) Released: October 26, 2004 Formats: CD, vinyl Peaked at #34 on the Independent Albums chart. Curtains Label: Record Collection (#48595-2) Released: February 1, 2005 Formats: CD, vinyl The Empyrean Label: Record Collection Released: January 20, 2009 Formats: CD, vinyl Peaked at #151 on the Billboard Top 200; #7 on Top Heatseekers and #105 on the UK Albums Chart. PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone Label: Record Collection Released: September 25, 2012 Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette Peaked at #99 on the German Official Album Chart. Enclosure Label: Record Collection Released: April 8, 2014 Formats: CD, vinyl, cassette Peaked at #112 on Belgium's Flanders Ultratop chart. Maya Label: Timesig Released: October 23, 2020 Formats: Digital download, vinyl, CD I Label: Acid Test Released: February 3, 2023 Formats: Vinyl II Label: Acid Test Released: February 3, 2023 Formats: Digital download, CD
Internet albums TitleAlbum notesNotes From the Sounds Inside Label: Self-released Released: 2001 Internet-only release Renoise Tracks 2009–2011 Label: Self-released on Bandcamp Released: November 24, 2015 Formats: Digital download, vinyl (High Low disc of In a Box 2026 set) Internet-only release Collection of tracks recorded from 2009 to 2011. Made available for free on his personal Bandcamp account, alongside other tracks. Vinyl contained 6 of 8 tracks previously released
EPs Title Album notes Estrus EP Label: Birdman Backed with "Outside Space" Released: 1997 Formats: Vinyl EP Going Inside Label: Warner Bros. Records Backed with "Time Is Nothing", "So Would've I", "Last Hymn", and "Beginning Again" Released: March 5, 2001 Formats: CD, vinyl (as bonus tracks on TROWFTD 2026 RSD) The Brown Bunny Label: Tulip Records, Twelve Suns Motion picture soundtrack; Frusciante contributed five songs: "Forever Away", "Dying Song", "Leave All the Days Behind", "Prostitution Song", and "Falling" Released: May 4, 2004 / April 26, 2014 (reissue) Formats: CD, vinyl (bootleg), vinyl (official 2014) limited to 1,000 copies DC EP Label: Record Collection (#48877-2) Backed with "Dissolve", "Goals", "A Corner", and "Repeating" Released: September 14, 2004 Formats: CD, vinyl Letur-Lefr Label: Record Collection Backed with "In Your Eyes", "909 Day", "Glowe", "FM", "In My Light" Released: July 17, 2012 Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette Outsides Label: Record Collection 3 song EP plus one bonus track Released: August 14, 2013 Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette 4-Track Guitar Music Label: Self-released on Bandcamp 6 song EP Released: November 24, 2015 Formats: Digital download Foregrow Label: Acid Test (Absurd Recordings) Backed with "Foregrow", "Expre'act", "Lowth Forgue", "Unf" Released: April 16, 2016 (RSD black vinyl) / June 7, 2016 (CD) / August 12, 2016 (silver vinyl) Formats: CD, vinyl
Singles TitleAlbum/single notesNotes The Special 12 Singles Series Label: GSL Released: physical 2005, digital 2006 7" yellow splatter vinyl single "0=2", "0" recorded in Spring 2003 Later released on the ORL & JF album in 2010 Credited as Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante "Wayne" Self-released: April 7, 2013 Formats: Written and dedicated to the memory of his late friend, former Red Hot Chili Peppers' tour chef Wayne Forman "Fight for Love" Self-released: November 24, 2015 Formats: Guitars, drum machine "Recorded one sunny afternoon in November 2013" Interpretation of a song from the film Casa De Mi Padre by Will Ferrell & Génesis Rodríguez "Medre" Self-released: November 24, 2015 Formats: Recorded in 2008
Trickfinger TitleAlbum notesNotes Sect In Sgt Label: Neurotic Yell Records Released: July 30, 2012 Formats: Free digital download Two song EP of sampled music released under the alias/moniker of Trickfinger The full version of the title track was released for free digitally in November 2015 Trickfinger Label: Acid Test (Absurd Recordings) Released: April 7, 2015 Formats: CD, vinyl, green LPs (2026 reissue) Debut album of acid house music released under the alias of Trickfinger Trickfinger II Label: Acid Test (Absurd Recordings) Released: September 8, 2017 Formats: CD, vinyl, red LP (2026 reissue) Six song mini-album recorded in 2007 (25:54 in length) Look Down, See Us Label: Evar Records Released: March 29, 2020 Formats: digital download Four song EP She Smiles Because She Presses the Button Label: Evar Records Released: June 5, 2020 Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download Trickfinger's third full-length as a six song mini-LP In a Box Label: Acid Test (Absurd Recordings) Released: July 10, 2026 Formats: Vinyl, digital download Four album, 5LP box set that includes reissues of Trickfinger and Trickfinger II on colored vinyl along with two new albums, High Low & Rotation
With Josh Klinghoffer TitleAlbum notes A Sphere in the Heart of Silence Label: Record Collection (#48949-2) Released: November 23, 2004 Formats: CD, vinyl
Ataxia TitleAlbum notesNotes Automatic Writing Label: Record Collection Released: August 10, 2004 Formats: CD, LP First half from the ten track session Ataxia held in 2004. Ataxia is John Frusciante on guitar and vocals, Joe Lally on bass, and Josh Klinghoffer on drums. AW II Label: Record Collection Released: May 29, 2007 Formats: CD, LP Second half of the Ataxia session Released the same day as other albums John appears on, Omar's Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo and Perry's Satellite Party
With Red Hot Chili Peppers
Studio albums TitleAlbum notesNotes Mother's Milk Label: EMI Released: August 16, 1989 Debut album with Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: September 24, 1991 Frusciante left the Chili Peppers during the album's tour in 1992Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 295 Californication Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: June 8, 1999 First album after returning to the Chili Peppers in 1998Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. pp.398–400 By the Way Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: July 9, 2002 Stadium Arcadium Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: May 5, 2006 Final album with the band before his second departure in 2009 Unlimited Love Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: April 1, 2022 First record since his second returning to the band in 2019. Recording for the album began in 2021. Return of the Dream Canteen Label: Warner Bros. Records Released: October 14, 2022
Live, compilation and other albums TitleAlbum notesNotes What Hits!? Label: EMI Released: September 29, 1992 Frusciante plays guitar on songs "Higher Ground", "Knock Me Down", "Under the Bridge", "Show Me Your Soul", "Taste the Pain", "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky" Greatest Hits Label: Warner Bros. Records