Red Hot Chili Peppers

By Greg Barbrick Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and his Bombastic Meatbats lay down some powerful funk-fusion.

By Bryan Price Last Sunday evening I tortured myself by watching the Grammys. Mainstream rock and roll must really be dead if the best they could do is wheel out the Red Hot Chili Peppers who stumbled through some excruciating and dated sounding rap rock. And it would have been bad enough to sit through The E...

By DJRadiohead There has been enormous furor since a Delaware-based DJ, Dan Gaffney, more or less accused the Red Hot Chili Peppers of plagiarizing Petty.  Gaffney cites not only what he sees as musical similarities between RHCP's "Dani California" and Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance", but also simil...

By Jessa The Red Hot Chili Peppers are currently enjoying success with their new album Stadium Arcadium, but this success could soon be clouded by allegations of plagiarism. Last week, radio presenter Dan Gaffney of Delaware-based WGMD accused the band of ripping off Tom Petty and the Heartbrea...

By Jessa Everybody stop. What the hell is going on? Someone has taken Rob Zombie out of the world of Spookshow and placed him in some happy, clappy, "rock is back" kind of band. Educated Horses is the new Rob Zombie album. Ooh, yes, cower in fear, for the heavily made-up, dreadlocked Zombie has transfor...