4 Non Blondes are set to reunite for a music festival in California this May.
The '90s rockers, best known for their 1993 hit "What's Up?", will perform together at the BottleRock Napa Valley festival over the May 23-25 weekend, alongside headliners Green Day, Justin Timberlake and Noah Kahan.
The band's singer-songwriter Linda Perry discussed the reunion on a new episode of The Allison Hagendorf Show, admitting she quite literally said, "hey, what's going on?" to the rest of the band.
“We got this offer [for BottleRock]... and I’m like, ‘Okay, I knew this was coming.’ I want this to happen. I’ve told the universe I want this to happen,” Perry told Hagendorf. “And so it’s coming. So I called up the band, one by one. I said, ‘Hey, how do you guys feel about this?’ And mind you, we don’t talk. But they were excited, and so I’m gonna go hang out with them in San Francisco, rehearse and just dick around. Not really have a plan, but just see how it feels.”
Perry formed 4 Non Blondes in the late '80s along with Wanda Day, Shaunna Hall, and Christa Hillhouse. They only released one album, 1992's multi-platinum Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, before disbanding in 1994 (Dawn Richardson replaced Day and Roger Rocha replaced Hall before the release of their album). They did briefly reunite in 2014 to play a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.
Perry says that it's basically now or never for the reunion to happen.
“It’s not [the right time] and I don’t know when it would [be]. It’s more like, honestly, it’s the right time in my head. It’s the right time in my heart,” she explained. “I’ve been kind of putting that energy out, because I want 2025 to be my year. I want to own this year because I feel like I’ve been planting seeds all over the place and I’m watching my little trees grow.”
While no other dates have been announced, Perry revealed that she hopes to finally release the follow-up to Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, which was finished before they disbanded.
“I’ve been already brewing… There’s a second 4 Non Blondes record that [was] recorded. I’ll leave it there,” she said. “It was pretty decent. [But] I just couldn’t do it. My heart couldn’t do it. I was in a really bad space during that time, because my feelings get hurt so easily. And so I left the band because my feelings just kept getting hurt and I didn’t know how to deal with it.”
Listen to the episode below.