Latest Release
- 25 NOV 2022
- 1 Song
- Californication (Deluxe Edition) · 1999
- By the Way (Deluxe Edition) · 2002
- Californication (Deluxe Edition) · 1999
- Snow (Hey Oh) - EP · 2006
- Dani California - EP · 2006
- Unlimited Love · 2022
- By the Way (Deluxe Edition) · 2002
- Californication (Deluxe Edition) · 1999
- By the Way (Deluxe Edition) · 2002
- Return of the Dream Canteen · 2022
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Artist Playlists
- The tracks that made this dynamic L.A. funk-rock group a household name.
- Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
- These SoCal hall-of-famers are as eclectic as their list of inspirations.
- Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Compilations
More To Hear
- Chad Smith talks “Tippa My Tongue,” touring, and more.
- Jenn celebrates the band and their album ‘Unlimited Love.’
- Conversation around their album, 'Unlimited Love.'
- The band on "Not the One."
- Jenn celebrates Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik.'
- Mark talks with RHCP drummer Chad Smith.
- The DJ/producer's debut One Mix to celebrate his debut album.
About Red Hot Chili Peppers
“We represent the Hollywood kids/Hollywood is where we live,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers chanted on their 1987 manifesto “Organic Anti-Beat Box Band”, and decades later, these alt-rock icons still embody all that is sunny and seedy about L.A. That dichotomy was baked into their sound from the moment frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael “Flea” Balzary, guitarist Hillel Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons formed RHCP in 1983, fusing Black Flag’s furious punk and Parliament’s horny funk. The band’s berserker bass-slappin’ energy, absurdist humour and strategic placement of tube socks made them college radio’s resident court jesters throughout the ‘80s, but Slovak’s death from a heroin overdose in 1988—and Irons’ subsequent depression-induced exit—forever altered the band’s DNA. The arrival of muscular drummer Chad Smith and wunderkind guitarist John Frusciante helped thrust 1989’s hard-rockin’ Mothers Milk toward gold-record status and, as the alternative revolution raged, RHCP emerged as kings of the mosh pit with 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Majik. But that album also revealed the melancholic nuances of Flea and Frusciante’s playing, providing Kiedis with an emotional outlet to reckon with his troubled past on the blockbuster ballad “Under the Bridge”. Blood Sugar’s multi-platinum success drove Frusciante into a drug-fuelled period of seclusion, during which the band soldiered on with Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro. But a cleaned-up Frusciante returned for 1999’s massively successful Californication, which twisted the band’s funk-rock template into a sobering, sophisticated collection of cautionary tales. They continued their chart-topping, festival-headlining reign well into the 21st century, even after Frusciante left the band again in 2009 to nurture his prolific solo career. The fact that they welcomed him back once more in 2019 only confirms that Frusciante’s artful style is the special spice that gives these Peppers their everlasting zing.
- ORIGIN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1983
- GENRE
- Alternative