Califumigation: Flea loses home in wildfire
Red Hot Chili Pepper bass player Flea lost his $4.8m home recently in the wildfire that swept across Malibu.»
Red Hot Chili Peppers News
RHCP: 'David Duchovny is a little thief'
TV sex-drama Californication, which recently began its UK run on five, is being sued by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.»
Floods put dampeners on Reading
Good news for people who like floods – organisers at the Carling Weekend Reading Festival have been forced to close off car parks and camping areas due to yet more of the interfering wet stuff cacking things up for everyone again.»
Reading Festival site put up for sale
The Reading festival could be in line for a change of venue after the current site was put up for sale, according to organisers Mean Fiddler.»
Thousands of Reading & Leeds tickets cancelled
Thousands of would-be ticket-holders for this summer's Carling Weekend, held in Reading and Leeds, have been told that their tickets have been cancelled...»
Internet porn: a lot like scoring drugs, says Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis, singer with mega-popular funk-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers, has compared the world of internet porn to the evil world of evil drugs...»
Chart round-up: Really, who HASN'T heard Eyes Open yet?
Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway...»
Rage Against California: rap-rockers to headline Coachella
That anger's a gift is a given, but the chances of Rage Against The Machine playing this year's Coachella Valley Music (and Arts) Festival, not so. But they bloody well are, y'know...»
MTV Europe Music Awards: winners in full
The veteran synth-rock trio took home the award for the Best Group category at the Justin Timberlake-hosted event in Copenhagen. Recently in the news for totally non-musical reasons sort Madonna was nominated in three categories - Best Pop Act, Best Female and Best Album - yet won nothing...»
Q Awards nomination announced: strap yourself in for a flood of mediocrity!
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
YouTube signs commercial partnership with Warner Music
Popular video-sharing website YouTube (link) has signed a deal with Warner Music Group, allowing the site to show promo videos by Warners artists without breaking any copyright laws... »
RHCPs lead the VMA way
Red Hot Chili Peppers' retarded funk-rock may have been forgotten by all but a few (million) idiots still wishing it was 1991 while watching Point Break on repeat, but their much-repeated formula has wowed those responsible for the MTV Video Music Awards nominations: the LA group are up for seven gongs...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
Tom's not so Petty
American singer-songwriter Tom Petty will not take legal action over the alleged plagiarism on behalf of Red Hot Chili Peppers, as previously reported here...»
Red Hot Chili Plagiarists?
A US radio presenter has accused the Red Hot Chili Peppers of plagiarism, claiming that the band's 'Dani California' single is near identical to Tom Petty's 'Mary Jane's Last Dance'...»
BBC threatened with legal action after RHCP gig
The Beeb could be in the brown stuff following their promoting of a Red Hot Chili Peppers performance last week...»
Ireland's Oxegen Festival filling out
Further acts have been added to the bill for this year's Oxegen Festival, held at Punchestown Racecourse on July 8th and 9th...»
Red Hot Album Details
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced the title and details of their new album.»
Mars Volta add to final Frusciante solo release
Chilis guitarist, John Frusciante has finally decided to stop releasing solo albums.»
Madge and the Chilis take touring honours
Formerly young pop star, Madonna, has been revealed as the biggest touring cash cow of the year.»
More Open Eire Action: Phoenix Festival
Pixies, Chilis, Thrills joined by Groove Armada for Ireland's biggest gig.»
Upcoming DVD Roundup
More bands than ever are jumping on the DVD bandwagon and releasing live performances, promo videos and other such footage. Here's a round up of what's coming up.»
Chili Pepper's Greatest Hits Out November
Chili Pepper's Greatest Hits out November»
Kerrang! Awards: Feeder Win 'Best UK Act' Shocker!
Kerrang! magazine held their annual awards ceremony last night in London. Lots of loud rock bands and long-haired journalists were kept off the streets for the night as the results were announced. And here they are... Best Single: Good Charlotte - 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'»
John Frusciante: Extra Curricular Recordings
John Frusciante has a new solo LP in the pipeline, and a release date of late 2003 has been pencilled in. The untitled work will be finished up and mixed during his breaks on the By The Way tour. Fellow Chilis Chad Smith and Flea helped out, as did friend Josh Klinghoffer who c»
Mars Volta dates added
Experimental jazzpunkwhatever bandits The Mars Volta have added more dates to their live shows this spring. The band, whose members include former At The Drive-In singer Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriguez, are already scheduled to play a short string of dates with the R»
V2003: Headliners Announced
Organisers of V2003, the UK's premier commerical rock festival (where everyone gets loads of free try-outs and perfume supplements and stuff) has announced it's two headiners... They will be Coldplay and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The event will take place on August 16th and August 17»
RHCP release new single, hit 7 figure UK mark
Forty-something SoCal rock legends, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are to release a new single, ‘Can’t Stop’ next month. The track, the third to be taken from their ‘By The Way’ album, will be released on February 3rd, a month before the band hit the UK for a short tour. The activity caps a four-y»
Mars Volta (atdi) VS Chilis
The two afro'd parts of At The Drive-In are touring stadiums already? And working with superstars? Cedric and Omar's band The Mars Volta have nearly finished recording their debut album in L.A. with Rick Rubin who's worked with SOAD, RHCP and RunDMC. We've heard that Flea (RHCP) plays bass on the re»
Red Hot Chili Peppers - new Album, By the Way
Funk Rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers release a new album, 'By The Way' on July 8th via Warner Brothers.
Recorded with Rick Rubin (producer of Slayer and Run-DMC, amongst others), the album features the following tracks...
'By The Way'
'Universally Speaking'
'This Is The Place' <»
Chilis album is go
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have reportedly finished recording the instrumental parts for their new album. The as-yet-untitled album is set for release through Warner Bros. in April. Tentative song titles include: 'Universally Speaking', 'Fortune Faded' and 'Don't For»
Chilli Peppers release DVD and video
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, one of the latest in a string of bands to release a live video and DVD, do so in December via Warner. Titled 'Off The Map', It features 18 songs performed live at a gig in Portland, Oregon, in September 2000 and the DVD version will also feature an additional f»
Tricky Makes it Easy
Bristol musician (how else can you desribe him?) Tricky is set to release his third album and has enlisted a list of collaborators to help him. Titled 'Blowback', it is set for a June 26 release and features contributions from artists as eclectic as Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk (lea»
Foo's and Feeder festival news
Foo Fighters and Feeder to play the V festivals
It's that time of year when festival line-ups are revealed and here is some advance information on who will be playing at V2001 this year.
Faithless and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have already revealed on their web sites that the»
Dani California
Fortune Faded
Universally Speaking
Universally Speaking
Can't Stop
By The Way
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