Tag: "Red Hot Chili Peppers"

Red Hot Chili Peppers : In Love Dying
0 Comments. 169 Views. Posted 13 Feb 2013 @ 1:39pm.
Within the first 20 seconds of listening to this track I was overcome with an overwhelming sense of dread. A subtle and infectious bass line, gentle drum rhythms and despondent key trickles: 'Holy shit! Do I actually like the new RHCP song?'. Oh wait, Anthony Kiedis' voice is now wailing in an almost illegible fashion and the intricate grooves have become monotonous as they continue to drag the... Read More
Q&A: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
0 Comments. 570 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2012 @ 7:43am.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The Red Hot Chili Peppers.   When’s the gig and with who?  Saturday August 4, The Espy Gershwin Room with Feathered Friends and Cat or Pillar.   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? "... Read More
Big Day Out 2013 Lineup
3 Comments. 4,798 Views. Posted 15 Jul 2012 @ 11:52pm.
Ahem. AHEM. Is this thing on? Oh! Very good then. Well, here we go. The biggest name on the Australian festival calendar, the Big Day Out, has finally revealed their lineup for 2013. The 2013 Big Day Out, which marks the festival's 21st birthday, will be the first Australian event since the introduction of the Big Day Out's partnership with C3 - the promoters responsible for Lollapalooza,... Read More
Red Hot Chili Peppers : Brendan's Death Song
0 Comments. 613 Views. Posted 26 Jun 2012 @ 9:56pm.
Lifted from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ tenth studio album, this song is a tribute to Brendan Mullen, founder of a seminal LA punk club called The Masque. While it retains the deftly orchestrated funk style that has defined the Chili Peppers for 20 long years, Brendan’s Death Song is a very sweet tune featuring a collection of simple but affecting lyrics. You can tell they really cared about him. Read More
60 Seconds With... Funk Buddies
0 Comments. 694 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 4:29pm.
  Define your genre in five words or less: New Orleans style-street funk.   So, um... what is New Orleans style street funk?New Orleans is known to most people as the birthplace of jazz. But as pop music took over the rest of the world, the New Orleans street bands were still doing their thing. They evolved too, as they were influenced by ground breaking funk artists such as James... Read More
60 Seconds With... The Funky Brews
0 Comments. 780 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2012 @ 10:31am.
  So then, what’s the band name and who are the members? We’re called The Funky Brews, and we’re a 5 piece band that’s been together for 7 years. Our lineup is Bill Ashworth on beats, Cal Burns on bass, Steph L’Aimable on guitar, Dan Lazner on sax, and Sean Riley on vocals.   What do you think people will say you sound like? We’ve often been described as a hybrid mix between The Red... Read More
Big Day Out 2012 - Ken West
0 Comments. 2,614 Views. Posted 24 Jan 2012 @ 9:33am.
Pacing fervently around the Flemington Racecourse, soon to be home to this year’s Big Day Out with founder Ken West, it’s near impossible not to be swept up within the whirlwind of the festival's astonishingly rich history. Since its inception as a Sydney-only festival in 1992 the self-professed ‘travelling circus’ rapidly evolved into a nationwide extravaganza, underpinned by its devoted and... Read More
Jane’s Addiction : The Great Escape Artist
0 Comments. 1,160 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2011 @ 10:10am.
Is Jane's Addiction the most on again, off again, back on again band in history? They seem to have split up several times only to reform a few years later across the course of their literally decades long career. The last time it happened, in the early to mid 2000s, the result was the excellent Strays album of 2003, which is inarguably the most hard rocking thing they've ever done. Fast forward... Read More
The Fearless Vampire Killers
0 Comments. 1,069 Views. Posted 25 Nov 2011 @ 10:13am.
Two years is a long time in anyone's language. Just ask the four members of Melbourne garage rockers The Fearless Vampire Killers. That's the time it has taken to finally get their debut full length record Batmania out and unto the masses. To say that the guys are relived would be a massive understatement as is clearly evident when I speak to bassist Jacob McGuffie. "I think, it's... Read More
Moroccan Kings : Bullfighters EP
0 Comments. 1,340 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 7:56am.
The diversity and quality inherent in the Melbourne music scene never ceases to amaze. This M-Town based three-piece could loosely be described as alternative rock, although of a very quirky kind. They are certainly putting their own unique bent on the style, and doing it remarkably well. There's a kind of off-kilter funk vibe to their sound, possibly bringing to mind a more idiosyncratic... Read More
Q&A: Shotgun Funk
0 Comments. 1,102 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 9:35am.
Name/Band: Shotgun Funk Define your genre in five words or less:   Funk Rock   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   "Those guys were fucking amazing, sounded really different! Was like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More but with their own twist".   How long have you been... Read More
Big Day Out 2012 Rumour Round-Up
1 Comments. 4,241 Views. Posted 29 Sep 2011 @ 9:20am.
It's been a long, hard few weeks leading up to the official Big Day Out 2012 lineup announcement (which will finally be unveiled later tonight, with the three headlining acts to be revealed tomorrow morning).    There's been no shortage of rumours flying around, with supposed "spies" and "music journalists" claiming adamantly the acts closing out the festival will include Pearl Jam,... Read More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
0 Comments. 2,786 Views. Posted 25 Aug 2011 @ 9:41am.
It's smoking hot in Hong Kong, but on the 45 th floor of the luxury hotel ensconcing the Red Hot Chili Peppers, it's freezing. In a series of heavy, leather-upholstered chairs sit Michael "Flea" Balzary, one of the world's most recognisable bass players; Chad Smith, the only person I'm aware of who has an equally world-famous doppelgänger (hello Will Ferrel); Josh Klinghoffer, the most... Read More
Red Hot Chilli Peppers : The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie
2 Comments. 2,303 Views. Posted 26 Jul 2011 @ 1:37pm.
The perennial titans of funk rock have managed, yet again, to write an interesting and effective single. Raindance Maggie is an easy going tune with a bouncing bass line and twanging notes of lap steel, cow bell beats and a hearty singalong chorus - a light-hearted, immediately likeable song that illustrates why RHCP have survived for so long. Read More
Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce New Album
1 Comments. 2,975 Views. Posted 8 Jun 2011 @ 3:43pm.
Everyone's favourite band from high school are returning in 2011 with another album which is sure to appease the masses. Is it just me or just Chad Smith really look like Will Ferrell? Huh, probably not important. Anway, announced through the bands official website, the Red Hot Chili Peppers latest release is dubbed I'm With You, and will be released on August 30, 2011. The album has also been... Read More
Arcane Saints
0 Comments. 2,737 Views. Posted 26 May 2011 @ 11:09am.
Arcane Saints founder, singer and guitarist Michael John can't remember the first song he wrote. "But it was probably about how much I hated school," he chuckles. "I got expelled from my first high school for continual disobedience, so I'd write these angry songs about authority. To this day I have a problem with authority and I don't like being told what to do." UK-born and raised in New... Read More
Alain Johannes: Spark
0 Comments. 1,486 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 10:57am.
Nothing compares to the devastation of losing a loved one. The intensity of one’s longing to create a posthumous tribute, though, matches the excruciating pressure to do so in the most dignified light. Alain Johannes’ tribute to his late wife, Natasha Shneider, through his debut solo album, Spark, is incredible. The passing of Shneider in July of 2008 (after a battle with cancer) was a... Read More
John Smith Quintet
0 Comments. 1,907 Views. Posted 1 Apr 2011 @ 9:27am.
With a somewhat misleading name and an interesting line up of band members, Melbourne grunk collective John Smith Quintet have already turned quite a few heads this year. Preferring to be called JSQ of late, the ‘quintet’ is actually a quartet. The band members consist of a father, son and the son’s former teacher, and no, there is no-one called ‘John Smith’. Talk about tongue-in-cheek. “For a... Read More
Eden Krumins aka DJ Cubist
0 Comments. 2,179 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2011 @ 11:06am.
Eden Krumins aka DJ Cubist is a pretty switched on guy. Not only the man behind the Wobble parties, but also a cellist and general music lover music flows through his blood. "I did music at school," he says. "I played cello and did a music degree on that. But I was always into the funkier side of things music wise. Groups like Parliament, George Clinton, Red Hot Chilli... Read More
Coheed And Cambria
0 Comments. 3,045 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2011 @ 11:45pm.
Coheed And Cambria are a band that divide opinion, and defy classification. Fitting vaguely, and for purposes of convenience, somewhere close to the 'progressive rock' genre, yet the New York natives take their sound into stranger and more varied territory than that. Drawing influence from such classic rock/classic prog sources as Rush, Led Zeppelin and Queen, they also throw some... Read More
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