Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t think much of Chad Smith when he auditioned for the band in 1988. At the time, the group was in a state of flux. Guitarist Hillel Slovak had died of a heroin overdose, ...
There's a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running Los Angeles funk-metal act: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the ...
Chad Smith remembers the night in 2003 when the Red Hot Chili Peppers played for an audience of 80,000 or so amid the rolling hills of the Irish countryside. After a somewhat fallow period in the mid- ...