Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Getaway review – funk-rockers rebooted
(Warner Bros)Eleven albums in, and LA’s grizzled funk-rock reprobates are tinkering with the formula. The Getaway is the Chili Peppers’ second album with newish guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and their...
View ArticleLeeds festival review – top marks for Red Hot Chili Peppers at post-GCSE blowout
Bramham Park, Leeds The headliners’ two-hour set inspires multi-generational singalongs while Fall Out Boy and Eagles of Death Metal deliver David Bowie tributesNo longer exclusively a rock festival,...
View ArticleFestival watch – Reading 2016
The Chili Peppers made amends for a previous poor showing as teens from around the country tried to forget about their exam resultsPacked with teenagers celebrating (or attempting to forget) their GCSE...
View ArticleThe best of this week’s music: Michael Kiwanuka makes a monster mobster tune
Elsewhere, The Saturdays’ Mollie King goes solo and Red Hot Chili Peppers are back with some bizarre nonsenseTRACK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers review – funk indestructibles rock their socks off
The Hydro, GlasgowThe age-defying band’s vitality and absurd humour keep them the right side of silliness for handstands and cross-generational singalongsTheir days of doing drugs and dressing their...
View Article'I was high as hell': Flea, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, attacks...
The musician wrote about his drug addiction in Time magazine, and argued ‘it’s hard to beat temptation’ when doctors prescribe opioidsFlea, the bassist in Red Hot Chili Peppers, has laid bare his...
View ArticleReaders recommend playlist: songs mentioning compass points
To the north, south, east and west this week with artists MIA, Frank Turner, Black Sabbath and Warren ZevonHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of stories and...
View ArticleWoman with diabetes awarded £2,000 after gig staff took her drink
Kayla Hanna had her Lucozade confiscated on way into Belfast Red Hot Chili Peppers concertA woman with diabetes has been awarded £2,000 after staff at a concert confiscated her fizzy drink.Kayla Hanna,...
View ArticleRain Phoenix on her new album River: 'My brother has been my guiding light'
Two decades after losing her brother, Rain Phoenix is finally able to share his music. She talks about ‘the wild animal’ of grief – and learning to sing with River on street cornersAfter Rain Phoenix’s...
View ArticleFlea on life before the Chili Peppers: 'I grew up running around naked'
The bassist’s new autobiography lifts the lid on a difficult, violent childhood and a conflicted relationship with Anthony KiedisIn his new memoir, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea recalls a...
View ArticleJack Sherman, former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist, dies aged 64
Band confirms news on Twitter after death of musician who played on debut albumThe former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman has died at the age of 64.The band confirmed the news in a...
View ArticleFlea: ‘There is joy in obsession. But I’m not sure it’s healthy’
The musician and actor, 58, on falling in and out of love with his band, growing from pain, and writing lessons from Patti SmithI’ve always viewed life as an opportunity. That might be to explore or to...
View ArticleGang of Four: 'They made me realise anything is possible'
Guitarist Andy Gill was working on a 40th anniversary album when he died last year. Now famous fans – from the Chilis’ Flea to La Roux – have finished the job, and Damien Hirst has designed the sleeve....
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers sell rights to catalogue of hits to Hipgnosis
Trend of artists selling rights continues, as Kid Creole and the Coconuts also sign dealRed Hot Chili Peppers and Kid Creole and the Coconuts have become the latest artists to cash in on their...
View ArticleRick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book
The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’Rick Rubin, founder of Def Jam Records and the most highly regarded music...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers: ‘People misbehave and make mistakes. They don’t know...
As they reunite for their 12th album, the punk-funk rockers are trying to age gracefully after a youth full of sex and drugs. So why does Anthony Kiedis hang up after a difficult question?If there was...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love review – bloated and self-indulgent
(Warners)The Californian quartet’s latest follows a long line of forgettable albums, even if they do enshrine Southend in a lyricIf Red Hot Chili Peppers’ earlier work was defined by a strain of...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers review – still cooking in late middle age
Old Trafford Cricket Ground, ManchesterThe hits, delivered with astonishing energy by a band in their 50s and 60s, thrill the huge crowd, and even the guitar solos win rapturous applause‘Due to...
View ArticleMo Ostin, US record exec who signed Jimi Hendrix and the Kinks, dies aged 95
Headhunted by Frank Sinatra, the head of Warner/Reprise oversaw classic releases by the likes of Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and PrinceMo Ostin, the US record executive who signed the Kinks and Jimi...
View ArticleDH Peligro, drummer for the Dead Kennedys, dies aged 63
Peligro died from head trauma resulting from an accidental fall at his home in Los AngelesA renowned drummer for rock bands the Dead Kennedys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers has died after an accidental...
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