This article was originally published in the May 2006 issue of SPIN. Two years ago, Red Hot Chili Peppers went to Europe to play in front of the largest crowds of their 20-plus-year career. After surviving numerous personnel changes, drug problems, erratic recordings, relationship dramas, and assorted crises that have broken up countless bands, the Peppers […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ first album in six years (and first with guitarist John Frusciante in 16 years) is out in less than a month. Today, the veteran rockers shared “Poster Child,” the second single from Unlimited Love, which sounds exactly what you’d expect a traditional mid-tempo Chili Peppers song to sound like. The Chili Peppers […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers are back. A little over two years after announcing they reunited with on-again, off-again guitarist John Frusciante, the alt-rock veterans unveiled their first new song since 2016 and there’s an album to boot. Titled Unlimited Love, the record is out on April 1 and sees the band reunite with producer Rick […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Eagles, Radiohead and more have donated items to a charity auction through eBay. Eagles fans can bid on an acoustic guitar from 1999’s The Millennium Concert at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, signed by the whole band; Radiohead fans can get their hands on an In Rainbows vinyl/CD box set, signed by […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers are up to … something. The band posted a cryptic video across their socials this morning. Flea wrote: “Been nurturing the feral animal for quite a while, it’s about time to set her free.” If new music is on the way, it would be the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first new […]
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to […]
“There’s the thing with the Chili Peppers: We put socks on our dicks, and we’re never going to outrun it,” Flea told GQ in 2019. “People are always going to think of that. I feel that ultimately the measure of art that we or I created, as good as it is, over time will stand […]
The Red Hot Chili Peppers will embark on a stadium tour starting June 2022, back again with guitarist John Frusciante. The U.S. leg begins in July 2022. The band announced the huge tour in a hilarious, Saturday Night Live-style video. Check it out below: [embedded content] Frusciante plays himself and visits the local news station […]
I walked into Rhino Records in New Paltz, New York on September 24, 1991, with one mission in mind: copping the new cassette by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. After months of reading about the band working on the follow-up to their 1989 breakthrough LP Mother’s Milk with Rick Rubin, the time was finally nigh. […]
This article originally appeared in the April 1996 issue of SPIN. “Los Angeles is my favorite city in the world!” declares super foxy Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro, offering as proof of his conviction the city’s name tattooed on the back of his neck. “I would never live anywhere else.” Navarro, drummer Chad Smith, […]