Emi Grace and Her Band Flip Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Scar Tissue” Into a Punk Anthem in Just a Few Hours

Musora brought Emi Grace and her band to EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, the same room where the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded ‘Californication,’ and handed them one of that album’s most beloved songs to completely reinvent on the spot. What follows over about 22 minutes is a genuinely compelling behind-the-scenes look at the creative process in real time, the band working through tempo debates, riff rewrites, halftime versus double-time questions, and how far they can push “Scar Tissue” before it stops being recognizable. The answer turns out to be pretty far. The final performance threads the needle between honoring the original and flipping it into something punchier, louder, and distinctly their own, and the process of getting there is as interesting as the result.