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Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith honors Midwest roots with U. of Michigan music scholarship

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan

The Independent UK

“Whatever magic John brought to the Chili Peppers, I didn’t have that style of magic”: Dave Navarro was the odd man out when he replaced John Frusciante in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But 30 years later, he has no regrets

Emerging from the wreckage of Jane's Addiction, Navarro turned down a spot in Guns N' Roses in favor of a band he felt more of a connection with. The resulting album, One Hot Minute, was polarizing, but the guitarist sees it as a “difficult but valuable” part of his career

Guitar World

“They want their fans to join them on that journey”: Fender is changing the way it approaches signature guitars – and it’s starting with a Japanese pop-rock band named after the Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Chilli Beans Moto Mustang, Lily Cyclone and Maika Mustang Bass are the first Fender Japan signature guitars built in Indonesia – and their beginner-focused spec signals further shifts for the company

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Former Red Hot Chili Peppers Star Begs For Help On GoFundMe To Escape Homelessness

The former guitarist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arik Marshall, “is facing eviction & possible homelessness.”

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John Frusciante and Dave Navarro are the household names, but plenty more guitarists made their mark with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Here’s our guide to all of them

RHCP founder Hillel Slovak created the template, but the seven guitarists who later enjoyed stints in the band all created their own delicate balance of funk grooves and rock aggression

Guitar World

Oasis gave Edinburgh's most ‘ground-shaking’ performance of last 20 years

Oasis provided the most “ground-shaking” performance at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium when they last played there in 2009, according to…

The National (Scotland)

Oasis gave most ‘ground-shaking’ performance of last 20 years – seismic data

The band, who play Murrayfield this weekend, performed at the Edinburgh stadium in 2009 and proved to be a real ‘shakermaker’.

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Rock star offers support to Scots brothers rowing across Pacific

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea is the latest celebrity to endorse the trio.

Evening Standard

"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

Louder

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.

Inverse

“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

Louder

“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?

MusicRadar

“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

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The Independent UK

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

Louder

"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

The Independent UK

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

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The Guardian - AU

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

Guitar World

“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

The Independent UK

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

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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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