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  Flea Finally Releasing 'Trippy Freakout' Solo 'Helen Burns' EP

  July 18, 2012 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers are about to unleash 18 new songs on fans, but the band's bassist Flea isn't stopping there. He announced via Twitter yesterday he's finally releasing his first-ever solo record, the one he's been talking about for literally years — and he's going to be doing it, like, now: i am putting out an ep i made by myself in a couple of days. …
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  Red Hot Chili Peppers Releasing Singles Before Record Biz Collapses Around Them

  July 13, 2012 – Throughout their world tour supporting I'm With You over the past few months, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have promised to shower fans with 18 previously unreleased singles before the end of the year. …
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  Funeral for a Friend: Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Brendan's Death Song' Video

  June 29, 2012 – The first day Red Hot Chili Peppers ever played together with new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, as bassist Flea told SPIN a year ago, the L.A. alt-rock funksters had just learned about the death of a close friend. That friend was much-missed author, punk icon, and former SPIN contributor/pithy-quote-provider/letter-writer Brendan Mullen, who died in 2009 at age 60. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012's 5 Most Wrenching Set-Time Conflicts

  June 13, 2012 – Most festivals have two or three stages featuring artists playing at the same time, but this year's Lollapalooza has an overwhelming eight. Since announcing its full lineup in April, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's mega fest has had us biting our nails, waiting to see who will be playing against whom. The moment of truth arrived yesterday, when the fest posted its schedule. …
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  Red Hot Chili Peppers Will Shower Fans In Singles in 2012

  May 31, 2012 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be on the road through the end of November, and they're promising fans some new music to accompany their lengthy arena tour — 18 new singles due out by the end of 2012. Per CoS, frontman Anthony Kiedis told fans at the Chili Peppers' Grand Rapids show Saturday to "keep one eye open" for a "storm of seven-inches coming out over the next six months." Those singles, drummer Chad Smith told a fan the ne …
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  Austin City Limits 2012 Lineup: Black Keys, Chili Peppers, Neil Young, Jack White, 126 More

  May 22, 2012 – Austin City Limits' lineup this year looks a little like an all-star team of other '12 headliners: Red Hot Chili Peppers (who also headline Lollapalooza), Neil Young and Crazy Horse (who also headline Outside Lands), and the Black Keys (who also headline Firefly in Delaware, Osheaga in Montreal, and, sorta, Lollapalooza, though RHCP and Sabbath take the tip-top spots there) lead the pack. …
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  Watch Everyone From ABBA to the Chili Peppers Honor the Beastie Boys This Weekend

  May 7, 2012 – You couldn't step foot in a bar, store, or baseball stadium in New York this weekend without hearing the Beastie Boys. And as members of Generation Yauch continued to reel from the news that Adam "MCA" Yauch had succumbed to cancer Friday morning, the music world stepped up its cover game, adding heartfelt renditions of the group's tracks to live sets all over the world. …
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  SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

  May 3, 2012 – To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. …
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  Chili Peppers So Glad to Be Hall of Famers, They're Making a Covers EP

  April 19, 2012 – Unlike certain other people, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been and still are 110 percent stoked to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend. …
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  Guns N' Roses, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers Join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  April 16, 2012 – No, Axl Rose never showed up for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday night, exactly as he'd warned last week. The Faces didn't play, either, due to Rod Stewart's sore throat, and Adam Yauch's worrying absence meant the Beastie Boys were also among the inductees who couldn't perform. …
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