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"He was very grumpy, ignoring people." Why teenage guitar prodigy John Frusciante walked away from an audition to join Frank Zappa's band before hooking up with Red Hot Chili Peppers

In another universe, John Frusciante might never have joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Netflix Just Quietly Released A New Season Of Its Most Experimental Show

'Love Death & Robots' has always pushed the envelope, and now it's going even further.

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“I’ve gone from having the greatest time of my life, to wanting to kill myself.” An audience with a tired, homesick, and somewhat irritable Red Hot Chili Peppers on the final night of their One Hot Minute world tour

In the summer of 1996, rumours spread that the Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to break up following the conclusion of their One Hot Minute world tour. I was sent to the tour's final show to find out the truth

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“What is this garbage?”: 25 years on, Nick Cave has made his peace with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and reveals what happened when Flea came face to face with a bear…

Get ready for the hair-raising outcome that nobody saw coming, courtesy of Cave’s latest… newsletter?

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“There was no malice intended; it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then.” Nick Cave once famously dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea on a song with “arguably the greatest lyric ever”

“I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre”

Louder

“A pillar of modulation, now more accessible than ever”: After a 3-year wait, Behringer’s affordable clone of John Frusciante’s favorite chorus pedal is finally here

The Boss CE-1 can be heard all over the Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog, and now Behringer’s Chorus Symphony hopes to deliver its all-analog delights to the budget end of the market

Guitar World

FireAid, the massive benefit concert to help LA fire victims, came together quickly. Here’s how

Within days of the devastating Los Angeles-area fires breaking out, a benefit concert was in the works

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"Our motto is always play like you have a big d**k." In 1984, MTV introduced its viewers to Red Hot Chili Peppers, a hot new 'cutting edge' band whose try-hard 'wacky' antics suggested they might also be Hollywood's most insufferable brats

World, meet the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you'll be seeing quite a lot of them in the future, like it or not

Louder

What is FireAid, the LA wildfire benefit concert featuring Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder and more?

FireAid is a star-studded benefit concert organized for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief

The Independent UK

Sting, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform at FireAid Benefit Concert

Sting, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the performers slated to take the stage at a benefit concert for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief called FireAid

The Independent UK

Tony Armstrong: ‘Feral cat tasted like the most delicious rotisserie chicken I’ve ever had’

The television host and former AFL player on his biggest fashion crime to date, Tom Cruise’s ‘undeniably good’ movies and why he loves it when live TV goes wrong

The Guardian - AU

“I irresponsibly generalized that the reason people don’t learn theory is because they are lazy. There is another, better reason to not learn it”: That time John Frusciante wrote in to Total Guitar magazine to share his thoughts on music theory

It was 2006, one hot summer, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero had some things he needed to get off his chest about theory, and why he had learned “immensely” from reading Total Guitar

Guitar World

Busker goes viral covering Red Hot Chili Peppers while having no idea who his audience is

‘Bro has one man listening but still the biggest audience’ said one person

The Independent UK

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers Guitarist Pleads Not Guilty

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer pleads not guilty to misdemeanor manslaughter charge in pedestrian death case in Alhambra, California.

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"I went over to John's house, and he just started sobbing and said he wanted to do it": The story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Flea thinks is the best they ever made

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were unravelling, but they pulled together, kept it together, and recorded their masterpiece album: Californication

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Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony: Star-Studded Performances And Surprises Galore

Experience the star-studded Paris Olympics closing ceremony with performances by Phoenix, H.E.R., Snoop Dogg, and more, culminating in a handover to Los An...

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Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers perform Can't Stop in Los Angeles as part of Paris 2024 Olympic closing ceremony

Red Hot Chili Peppers take part in handover from Paris to Los Angeles –where 2028 Olympics will be held

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Star-Studded Closing Ceremony Wows Audience At Paris Olympics

Experience the cultural richness and star power of the Paris Olympics closing ceremony with a spectacular showcase of music and entertainment from France a...

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Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg Close Ceremony

Renowned artists like Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Snoop Dogg delivered electrifying performances at the Paris Games closing ceremony, setting...

The Guardian - UK

Paris Olympics closing ceremony review – Gallic cool upstaged by LA glitz

Alt-rock hipsters Phoenix put on a likably chaotic closing show, but Tom Cruise and Los Angeles stole the spotlight

Evening Standard

Olympics 2024 closing ceremony LIVE! Tom Cruise, Snoop Dogg and Billie Eilish all star in Paris to LA handover

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dr Dre also perform as the Olympic baton is officially passed over to the USA

Radio France Internationale

Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chilli Peppers tipped to close Olympics

Superstars Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers will perform at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to entertainment magazine Variety.

Guitar World

“I told the guys, ‘Aah, it's just another bassline – I don't really like it.’ But they said, ‘No, no, it's really good – we gotta do it!’” Flea wanted to ditch Give It Away before his Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates stepped in

Rick Rubin persuaded Flea to tone down his original bassline on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1991 hit single

Louder

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

Louder

With the sounds of The Beatles and Beach Boys in their heads, The Lemon Twigs have spent their lives in search of perfect pop: On their new album they may have found it

"We didn't let anything fly that wasn't perfect" - Michael D'Addario on the Lemon Twigs' latest album, A Dream Is All We Know

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