Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californian Genius or Affront to ACL-goers?

Writers go pro/con on RHCP's third ACL Fest in a decade

"...a chemistry that's there," shrugged Frusciante in 2004 about Anthony Kiedis, Flea, and alt-rock Bonham Chad Smith. "Playing with..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Los Coast Album Review

Samsara (New West)

"...on gospel shakedown "Masquerade" and delivers scattershot rhymes (more Anthony Kiedis than Kendrick Lamar) on the aforementioned "Kitchen Sink."..."

June 14, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Red Hot Chili Peppers

"...music than Ice Cube in his prime. Later, singer Anthony Kiedis remembered the recently passed Tom Petty with, "You..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature

ACL Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Flea and company kill it

"...music than Ice Cube in his prime. Later, singer Anthony Kiedis remembered the recently passed Tom Petty with, “You..."

Oct. 8, 2017 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Saturday ACL Fest Face-Off: Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. Silent Disco

Compare the headliners!

"...Infamous moment: socks on cocks, Anthony Kiedis' tell-all autobiography Scar Tissue..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Libby Webster

SXSW Live Shot: Kelis/Cody Chesnutt

Nina Simone meets Al Green?

"...Atlanta soul embodiment Cody Chesnutt channeled Al Green and Anthony Kiedis out front of a crack soul quartet pushing..."

March 14, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Luv Doc: Sweaty, Half-Naked Humping

To tell or not to tell?

"...wearing an Eyes Wide Shut mask and exceptionally ugly Anthony Kiedis Superbowl meggings (you know, to attract attention away..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback: ACL Mania

The ACL zeitgeist in review

"..."Mother's Milk" nipple tattoos, barbed-wire armbands, and depictions of Anthony Kiedis' rodentlike mustache. With our new friends, who I..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Zilker Park, Oct. 14

"...Flea wore his hair a deep purple. Chief partner Anthony Kiedis went topless. Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, in RHCP since..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Red Hot Chili Peppers

"...Peppers' fifth guitarist is no stranger to Flea and Anthony Kiedis' La La Land, providing backing tracks on much..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Bob Schneider

"...between the bass lines, falters on the frontman's overtreated Anthony Kiedis, but "Peaches" serves up an unabashed earbuds distillation..."

April 15, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Grunge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'Picture book of people with each other'

"...Chilis at Lollapalooza 1992 leave a visual burn, but Anthony Kiedis riding on the shoulder of a temple-sized Samoan..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Music Fest Saturday Reviews

"...Red Hot Chili Peppers, not to mention the frontman's Anthony Kiedis-like footwork around a monkey puzzle chord tree. One..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac

Sheet Music

"...Dennis Wilson, don't disappoint. Like Red Hot Chili Pepper Anthony Kiedis' rippling Scar Tissue, another Hollywood Boulevard of broken..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Stadium Arcadium

The Red Hot Chili Peppers take down San Antonio's AT&T Center

"...You could see Anthony Kiedis standing some 20 feet below the wide, flat,..."

March 7, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

With the proliferation of shows featuring aliens out to conquer the Earth, I thought I would come up with a thought-provoking column. Then I heard the call of George Clinton.

"...Ice Cube, the late Rick James, and Flea and Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...Scar Tissueby Anthony Kiedis, with Larry Sloman..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Me and My Friends

Walking on the wild side with Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante

"...When we made By the Way, Anthony [Kiedis] and I discussed me doing a ton of..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDnds: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy & the Stooges, Devo, Guns N' Roses

DVDnds

"...plenty of 'em, though the cutting cameras jump like Anthony Kiedis. Take a hint from The Who's Isle of..."

April 16, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

John Frusciante

Record review

"...FruscianteShadows Collide With People (Warner Bros.) More so than Anthony Kiedis, Flea, and Chad Smith, the latter two emerging..."

April 2, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Live Shots

"...Who would've believed that more than 20 years after Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary (Flea), and original guitarist Hillel Slovak..."

June 20, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Record Reviews

"...rampaging id. "The Brothers Cup" and "Sex Rap" find Anthony Kiedis at last channeling his hormones into a cohesive..."

June 13, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Opposite Day

Texas Platters

"...by schizophonic guitars, limber drumming, and loads of, as Anthony Kiedis once so eloquently put it, "funky-ass Flea bass."..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Page Two

In such intense and crazed times, film and music of soothe and feed the soul; SXSW 2003 provides plenty to feast on.

"...Matthews, Natalie Merchant, Ken Kesey, Bob Weir, Michael Franti, Anthony Kiedis, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Not surprisingly, it..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar asks, "What's black & white and splooged all over …???" And keep your eyes peeled locally, kids, in the next few weeks, Austin becomes celebrity central.

"...week, security actually stopped Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis from going backstage. "I'm a rock star," snapped..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Frank Erwin Center, May 2

"..."Parallel Universe" opened up into a canyon-sized chorus with Anthony Kiedis' booming vocals as rock-god as they come, and..."

May 12, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...on the same old ball and chain, it's frontman Anthony Kiedis that comes off as most awkward and most..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

The Chase

"...Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Ray Wise, Anthony Kiedis and Flea. Just once I'd like to hear..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov