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Red Hot Chili Peppers announce new album ‘The Getaway,’ share lead single “Dark Necessities”

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks getting new music from heavy hitters that have been dormant for a while. We’ve been gifted with a new Blink-182 song, a new Radiohead song, and now Red Hot Chili Peppers are joining the party with their new track “Dark Necessities.” The song is a funky smooth jam, […]

Die Antwoord Drop Insane Video For “Ugly Boy”

Hot on the heels of their appearance in the new trailer for Chappie, Die Antwoord have delivered a crazy visual for their single “Ugly Boy” that you’ll be unable to shake. You never know what to expect when Die Antwoord decide to release a new music video, but you can almost always bet the visuals […]

Antemasque Release Two New Tracks

In what has become a week of new material exploding onto the internet, Antemasque, The Mars Volta and Red Hot Chili Peppers supergroup, have released two new songs to add onto their continuing newly released material. Featuring Omar Rodríguez-López, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Dave Elitch, and Flea, the band has been consistently releasing their erratic material all […]

MUST LISTEN: Former The Mars Volta Members Reunite To Form Supergroup Antemasque

The on again, off again relationship between guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala is now on again. Setting aside whatever differences surfaced toward the end of At The Drive-In’s 2012 reunion tour and led to the breakup of The Mars Volta in 2013, the pair have now reunited to form a new band called […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea To Voice Character In Disney Channel Cartoon

Flea, legendary bassist and founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers will guest star on Disney Channel’s Sheriff Callie’s Wild West this Friday. The rock star, who is known internationally for wearing nothing but a tube sock onstage during a good portion of the 1980s will be voicing a character named Milk Bandit, a cowboy […]

Atoms For Peace Remove Their Music From Spotify

Streaming is convenient, but it doesn’t follow the ideals of Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, and countless other musicians. As a result, electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace have removed their music from Spotify due to their business model. As Godrich explained via Twitter, “Someone gotta say something. It’s bad for new music…” and it’s “an equation that […]

Atoms For Peace 2013 US & Japan Tour Dates

Rock supergroup Atoms For Peace have let loose a string of touring dates in the United States as well as Japan. The handful of dates show the group traveling through Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and California before heading overseas. View all of the dates right here and let us know if you plan on tickets […]

2013 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced, Rush Finally Make It In

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has often gotten some flack for its inductees; it tends to add rap and disco heavyweights while ignoring tide-and-true rock and roll artists. One artist that this seems to have been happening with over and over was progressive rock gods Rush. Today, Flea from the Red Hot Chili […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Leads Sports Protest

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are famed sports fans, with drummer Chad Smith a fan of all teams Detroit, and the band themselves writing multiple songs that reference their love for the Los Angeles Lakers. Flea, a former USC music student, played the national anthem at a UCLA game recently, and was wearing a shirt […]

Thom Yorke Names Solo Band, Lines Up American Spring Tour

Courtesy of Pitchfork: Thom Yorke’s other band– you know, the one with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Beck/R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Mauro Refosco, and Flea– now has a name: Atoms for Peace. The news comes straight from Thom himself via Radiohead’s Dead Air Space blog. (The more you know: Atoms for Peace was the name […]

Bryan Ferry Works With Jonny Greenwood, Flea, Others

The last time forever-suave former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry released a solo album, it was a collection of Bob Dylan covers, and we didn’t much like it. But Ferry’s forthcoming album looks pretty interesting. Rolling Stone reports that Ferry is currently at work on a new solo album, and he’s lined up an impressive […]

New Thom Yorke Videos Revealed

Last night in Los Angeles, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke debuted his new band with a “public rehearsal” at the tiny Echoplex club. (Their first “official” shows are this Sunday at Monday at L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre.) Backed by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea (who did, in fact, keep his shirt on), Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Beck/R.E.M. […]