Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline Lollapalooza

Music Gossip

11 Apr 2012

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and Black Sabbath will headline this year's Lollapalooza festival. The trio will be joined at the three-day Chicago music event by a diverse range of acts which also includes Florence and the Machine, Jack…

Red Hot Chili Peppers want to perform with Jimmy

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23 Mar 2012

Red Hot Chili Peppers are trying to convince Jimmy Page to perform with them. 'The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie' group are coming to the Led Zeppelin guitarist's home country, England, in June and hoping he will appear on stage at one of their…

Red Hot Chili Peppers increase morale with new tracks

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7 Mar 2012

Red Hot Chili Peppers increased "morale" by writing new songs while their tour is delayed. The 'Under the Bridge' group had to postpone their US dates from January to the end of this month after frontman Anthony Kiedis injured his foot, and drummer…

Psyche and Wounded Knee share Single of the Month title

Also featuring Martin Creed, Ladyhawke and Estelle

28 Feb 2012

What this world needs is more high-concept ephemera created by actual, proper artists like Martin Creed, who create minute-long folk ditties like ‘Where You Go’ (Telephone) ●●● amidst light switch-flicking their way to the Turner Prize and Scotsman…

Red Hot Chili Peppers postpone tour

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11 Jan 2012

Red Hot Chili Peppers have postponed their US tour. The 'Californication' hitmakers have been forced to delay a string of shows in their home country after frontman Anthony Keidis crushed bone in his foot and had to undergo surgery. They said in a…

Red Hot Chili Peppers promise wild live shows

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1 Nov 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers want to play like a "wildebeest let out of a cage that hasn't eaten in six months" live. 'The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie' group are currently on their I'm With You Tour in Europe and have just announced two huge dates in…

Red Hot Chili Peppers to rock EMAs

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5 Oct 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers are to perform at this year's MTV European Music Awards (EMAs). The legendary rockers are the first act to be confirmed to play at the prestigious event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 6 and they can't contain their…

Red Hot Chili Peppers inspired by Anton Chekov

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30 Aug 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea compares the band's songwriting to the work of Anton Chekhov. The band approach writing with a view to creating "visual pictures" with each of their songs, with bassist Flea taking inspiration from the Russian literature…

Red Hot Chili Peppers always experimenting

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22 Aug 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers feel is it "irrelevant" whether people like their new album, 'I'm With You'. The 'Give it Away' band's bass player, Flea, feels the most important thing for the group is always to expand their musical horizons, regardless of…

Red Hot Chili Peppers' piano songs

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13 Aug 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote music on a piano for the first time for 'I'm With You'. During the band's recent hiatus, bass player Flea enrolled himself in the University of Southern California to study Jazz trumpet, music theory and composition as…

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist brings something 'different'

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11 Aug 2011

New Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer brought "something very different" to the band's latest album, 'I'm With You'. Josh replaced former guitarist John Frusciante in 2008, and bass player Flea thinks as a multi-instrumentalist he…

Flea wanted to quit Red Hot Chili Peppers

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29 Jul 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea wanted to quit the band when John Frusciante left for a second time. The 48-year-old bassist admits he had serious doubts about continuing with the group when the guitarist - who has since been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer…

Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011 UK tour dates

Dublin, London, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham dates in November 2011

26 Jul 2011

Veteran California funk-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced their first tour of UK and Ireland since 2006. They’ll be playing at various venues around the country throughout November, stopping in at Glasgow’s SECC on Sat 12 Nov. This will be…

N-Dubz teaching Red Hot Chili Peppers British slang

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28 Mar 2011

N-Dubz have been trying to teach Red Hot Chili Peppers British slang. The London based hip-hop group are presently promoting themselves in the US, where lead rapper Dappy said he tried to teach the funk band his vernacular. He said: "I had to…

Red Hot Chili peppers' acid trip album title

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21 Feb 2011

The title of Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album is inspired by an acid trip. Anthony Kiedis, who fronts the band, says they are currently using the working title 'Dr Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head', based on…

Preview 2009 - Albums

8 Jan 2009

The start of ‘09 sees a hip hop war brewing, with new records by some of the genre’s heaviest hitters landing on the streets. First we’ve got to survive January, though, and what more uplifting way than with Bruce Springsteen ’s Working on a Dream?

Red Hot Faces

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3 Dec 2008

Red Hot Chili Peppers star Flea is to join The Faces. Guitarist Ronnie Wood has confirmed the band - fronted by Rod Stewart - are already rehearsing for a reunion tour and revealed the 'Around The World' bassist is ready to step in to replace…

Red Hot Chili Peppers

16 Aug 2007

There’s a tenuous logic that argues if an artist is not struggling their art is less vital in some way. There’s a healthy disrespect for careerist attitudes in art, especially among musicians, but there’s a contradiction inherent to the notion that…