Red Hot Chili Peppers
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RHCP in Brazil this year?!
Thanks to Flavia for translation and news. Red Hot Chili Peppers and GN’R will play shows in Brazil; RBD announces extra concert. From Folha Online The bands RHCP and GN’R will come to Brazil this year. Still pending to set places and dates of the concerts.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – A Dutch Connection has its North American premiere today!
As some of you have probably seen on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ official website, the documentary which was first aired last year after the show in Nijemegen will be shown again on Nederland 3, VPRO at 19.50 CET. However, there’s much more to it. This stunning documentary is making its USA premiere today, at 2:30 PM at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. It will be shown without Dutch subtitles, entirely in English language and, of course, in a quality much better than ever before. Here’s the author’s own synopsis: When Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante was living the life of a junkie in a tiny appartement in…
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RHCP on MTV’s 4REAL in April
Various celebrities will be featured on a MTV documentary series titled 4 Real which captures the stars embarking to different countries to connect with leaders inspiring change in their nations. The eight part series, which will launch on April 14, will be separate 30-minute episodes. Stars who will be feature don the show include rapper K’naan, M.I.A, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joaquin Phoenix, Cameron Diaz, Eva Mendes and Casey Affleck. The RHCP episode will be aired on 28th April.
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Anna Nalick covers “Breaking The Girl”
On her new EP, Shine, Anna Nalick has covered RHCP’s Breaking The Girl. It’s up to both her and the guys’ fans to decide if this is actually good or it’s as catastrophic as Taylor Daine or (god forbid) All Saints’ take at Under The Bridge; or as hillarous and brilliant as Dick Brave’s take on Give It Away or Richard Cheese’s swing-jazz short version of Suck My Kiss. Here’s an excerpt of the review: Also included is a sparse and piercing cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ track, “Breaking the Girl,†which Nalick strikingly turns on its head. She sticks to Anthony Kiedis’ lyrical point of view, thus…
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EMI to re-release the first four RHCP albums (again!?)
(Many thanks to Lauren for the heads up!) According to AlbumVote, EMI is, oops, doing it again. Red Hot Chili Peppers are to have their first four studio albums re-mastered, re-packaged and re-released on March 24 2008. 1984’s self-titled debut will have five extra tracks, 1985’s Freaky Styley will have four extra tracks and there will be an extra two tracks included on 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. 1989’s Mother’s Milk will come with an extra 6 tracks. According to some other sources, this might be a mixup with the news from 2003, so it’s not 100% sure.
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RHCP are on WishList for Portugese WorldPeaceOne event
(thanks to Ilyk for the news) Portugal has signed on to WP1 and its May 17, 2008 global concert broadcast in Lisbon. The event location, security, police, medical staff, stage, sound, lights, event production and tickets sales are being provided. Concessions, merchandise and local fundraising campaigns will also be included. The country of Portugal has taken a leading role in supporting WP1 and its Ten-Year Global Peace Initiative. In Lisbon, Portugal’s Capital City, localofficials, business leaders and Peace activists are offering to host WP1’s First Annual Global Peace Symposium, sometime in the summer of 2008. As a gesture toward Peaceful Diplomacy and National Security, Portugal’s Government and several large corporations…
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One more blurb on RHCP’s hibernation/hiatus
As Contact Music reported, here’s one more thing Chad Smith said regarding the current RHCP hiatus and, well, it’s up to you to count when they will be coming back to work. “We took a look at each other in September (07) and we were like, ‘You know what? I love you guys, but we all kind of need a break,’ and we all said, ‘Let’s reconvene in one year.'”
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Straight from the mouth of Chad Smith: RHCP back to work soon!
As reported by ultimage-guitar.com, via s-a.com: Chad Smith gave a couple of short interviews at this year’s MusicaRes event, prior to the anual Grammy awards and the one that got the most attention was surely the one about Red Hot Chili Peppers’ further plans; which definitely leaves us an open dor to speculate about the 10th album. Mr. Smith was quotted saying: “We’re just taking a little hiatus, just relaxing. We toured a lot in the last year and a half, so it’s family time, and then we’ll recharge and get together sometime this year and make some more music.” Here’s a little video clip of it, courtesy of Artisan…
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Bits and bites of news from everywhere
Robert Francis A tango/thrash musician Robert Francis is becoming more and more popular in the Los Angeles area and he’s giving free shows at Silverlake Lounge every monday. And why is that interesting? Here’s a quote from a couple of sources to answer that question: His upbringing is another — family friend Ry Cooder gave him his first guitar; John Frusciante gave him lessons; he remembers stealing onstage at age 8 with Harry Dean Stanton and band at the Mint; his sister Juliette Commagere fronts the L.A. band Hello Stranger. This sure makes Mr. Francis a recommendation, you can hear some of his music here. Snow ((Hey Oh)) as a…
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RHCP fanclub adds more action to its MySpace
As it was announced here, all RHCP fanclub members who had filled in their profile and who are, I guess, likeable enough by the staff, have a chance of becoming fans of the week as it’s been a practice for a while, but also a top friend on the band’s MySpace page. So, if you’re interested and are a fanclub member, go on and fill your profile, maybe they’ll select you!
