Red Hot Chili Peppers

Music Fests Like Coachella Drive Concert Sales to New Heights

Who Decides What Rock is "Classic Rock?"

Not everyone has the luxury of having an auxiliary jack in their car stereo. With the amount of leaks, holes, and weird noises coming from my engine, I'm lucky my beat up truck still runs period. I can't be asking for a decent stereo. So my commuting music consists entirely of FM radio, which is sti ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Teach It's Okay For Tastes to Change

The 10 Coolest, Scariest, Freakiest Songs About Heroin

See also: 10 Songs About Cocaine See also: 15 Songs to Light Up to on 4/20 Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. It's in many ways the enduring holy trinity of pop music. Like it or not -- we're not advocating anything -- drugs are responsible for lots of great songwriting. So every Friday in August, we' ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our January 19 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. • What's up with MY103.9's format? • Why did Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel their tour? • What does Wilco ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Reschedule Concert Dates, Including Upcoming Glendale Show

If you've ever seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers live and in concert, no doubt you've witnessed lead singer Anthony Kiedis bouncing around the stage like a silly little freak. Thanks to a recent foot surgery (which involved removing a crushed sesamoid bone and repairing a detached flexor tendon), the 4 ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Coming to Arizona; Is Coachella 2012 Next?

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, now featuring Anthony Kiedis as Machete ​Those speculating about Coachella 2012 (I for one would love to see Refused, but a reunion would ruin the whole breakup, and if Tom Waits is indeed playing, I'll probably soil myself) should take note of the little logo at the ... More >>

What's Selling: Zia Record Exchange Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. It's not very surprising that Lil Wayne and the Red Hot Chili Peppers topped the sales charts at Zia Record Exchange last we ... More >>

Songs Glee's New Season Should Feature

Oh, Rachel, you obnoxious overachiever.​Gleeks will rejoice on Tuesday, September 20 as Finn, Rachel, and the gang return for the third season of Glee. After two years of hype, I decided to check the show out for myself. I couldn't get past the first season. The show could be decent if it w ... More >>

What's Selling: Hoodlums Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth​ Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. Well the Red Hot Chili Peppers certainly didn't waste any time jumping to the top of Hoodlums' li ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Follow Foo Fighters' Footsteps, Releasing Album Performance in Movie Theaters

​Going all out and bringing their concert experience to their fans in the Foo Fighters' style, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' will be streaming a live performance of their entire upcoming album I'm With You, according to Consequence of Sound.The live concert will be screened across the country fo ... More >>

Happy Birthday, MTV: 30 Videos to Celebrate 30 Years

I want my MTV back​Music Television turns 30 today, but the network doesn't look a day over 16 and Pregnant. Well before MTV started exploiting the incredibly difficult lives of irresponsible teens expecting a first child and balancing high school algebra, the Viacom-network played music vid ... More >>

Rebecca Black Releases Crappy But Not As Bad Second Single and Video, 'My Moment'

​Rebecca Black is back, according to Rolling Stone.Thankfully her new song and video, "My Moment," isn't as bed as her mess of a first single, "Friday."The new song is essentially about the last song. She's sticking it to the man and addressing her haters by rubbing it in her face that she's going ... More >>

Inmate Divulges Details About the Identity of the Notorious B.I.G.'s Murderer

​A Chicago inmate has come forward with information about a man who might have been Biggie's murderer, according to the Fab Life.Clayton Hill, the inmate, has said that Nation of Islam member Dawoud Muhammad was the hit man who shot and killed the Notorious B.I.G.Muhammad "stated to me that he was ... More >>

Katy Perry Features Rebecca Black, Hanson, Kenny G and Glee Stars in New Video For 'Last Friday Night'

​Katy Perry features a handful of stars in her new music video "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", according to MTV News.In the brand new video, Perry throws a kick ass '80s house party at her home with the help of party co-host and my homegirl Rebecca Black, house band Hanson, and sax master Kenny G, ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers to Drop New Album I'm With You August 30

​The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back with their 10th studio album, which is also the first album they will have released in the last five years, according to Spin.The band's upcoming album, titled I'm With You, is officially scheduled to drop on August 30, per an announcement on the Red Hot Chili P ... More >>

X Japan Leader Yoshiki Launches Celebrity Auction to Benefit Japan's Earthquake Recovery

Photo by NishiokaYoshiki​To a music fan, there's nothing like having a unique piece of memorabilia from their favorite artist -- for example, an autographed guitar, or maybe the mandolin that Ministry used on three world tours, or Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis' MTV Europe Award. To a ... More >>

Flavor Flav Chickens Out, Closes His Restaurant

​After too many disagreements with his restaurant manager and some trouble with bouncing paychecks, Flavor Flav's fried chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa has closed, according to Pollstar.First and foremost, Flav claims that restaurant manager Nick Cimino "isn't running the business right," whic ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Upcoming Album Gets a Title

​The Red Hot Chili Peppers have proudly announced the title of their upcoming album, which was influenced by something one of the Anthony Kiedis' friends said while on an acid trip, according to NME.Dr. Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head is currently set to b ... More >>

Mark Your Calendars: Festival Announcements Galore

Feather headdresses were the hot accessory of 2010 music festivals.​While music festival season is pretty much wrapped up for the year up, there's still plenty to get excited about since next year's festivals are being planned.Announcements have been rolling out one after another this past week. B ... More >>

Please Don't Call Chickenfoot a “Supergroup”

Woodstock '94 Started 15 Years Ago Today

Fifteen years ago today, Generation X arguably reached it's zenith, as Woodstock '94 began in Saugerties, New York.Upstate locals 3 kicked things off on a Friday that also saw Blues Traveler, Collective Soul, Ice T, Live and The Violent Femmes. Tomorrow, August 13, was when the big guns of the day c ... More >>

"Phoenix Noir" Book Includes Fiction From Current and Former Arizona Republic Writers

Arizona Republic readers don't usually get to see this side of investigative reporter Robert Anglen's writing talent: She straddled his lap, backlit by purple neon, grinding as the Red Hot Chili Peppers caterwauled about Californication. Her face was so close he could taste butterscotch f ... More >>

Coachella Artists Start Leaking

The first batch of bands for the hottest music festival around, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, has been leaked. Confirmed Artists: the Killers, the Airborne Toxic Event, the Bug, Buraka Som Sistema, Crystal Castles, Drop The Lime, Fleet Foxes, Flying Lotus, Girl Talk, the Hold Steady, ... More >>

Weezer

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Perfect 10th

Axis/Radius celebrates a decadent decade

Gojira

Big Tex and the Blazin' Pintos

Stomp on down

Pepper

Turn it up

Top 10 selling CDs at Circles Discs and Tapes, 800 North Central Avenue

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Feel the benefit

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This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Mars Volta

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Puppet Masters

Adult audiences give puppets a hand

Fishbone

Eclectic Band Casts Wide, Nets Little Appreciation

Go, Fish

Tricky

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Dready Metal

Unlike their North American counterparts, Jamaican rappers are incorporating heavy metal into their material, with some amazing results

Locals

Blood on the Tracks

Four years after quitting the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante embraces his demons

Cat-Scratch Fever

7 Year Bitch sharpens its nails on Gato Negro

Peppers and Brimstone

Recordings

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Beat Crazy

Tone Def just may be Phoenix's funkiest foursome. Why isn't everybody dancing?