Flea (Musician)

Atoms For Peace - Club Fais Do-Do - 6/14/13

Atoms For Peace Café-Club Fais Do-Do 6/14/13 "This is a rehearsal, right?" Atoms For Peace singer Thom Yorke joked after the band's first song "Default." "You were the lucky ones who got tickets." Since the rumors began about a week ago that the experimental supergroup would be playing a not-so-s ... More >>

MOCA Web Series Chronicles the Art of Punk

The logo is simple. Four heavy black bars sitting side by side — one up, one down, one up, one down — creating a wave effect: a black flag flying in the wind of discontent. Few logos are as universally recognized and revered as the one Raymond Pettibon designed for L.A. punk legends Blac ... More >>

Coachella's Apocalyptic Finish

The lights on the main stage went dark and Coachella was over. As folks headed toward their cars (and their demolished tents) I went in the opposite direction, to the press tent. A high wind had caused its imitation canvas flaps to buck in the wind. The tent was empty except for me and one photograp ... More >>

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013

With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>

Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions

BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday's entertainment at Chicago's Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just the record h ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11

​See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 15. Pretty Ricky Emerging with their mid-aughts hit "Grind With Me," Pretty Ricky somehow managed to lower the bar when it came to heartthrob groups with baby-oil-smeared chests. It's excellent that they've got great abs, and they certainly ha ... More >>

Punk Rock Dads: Fuck The World? Nah, "For The Wee-ones"

​Forget about the brutality of slam pits, the relentless touring, and the struggle to maintain a viable career in a collapsing music industry. The scariest, most challenging endeavor many punk musicians have is raising a family. In the new documentary The Other F Word -- premiering tomorrow n ... More >>

Fishbone - Bootleg Theater - Oct. 20, 2011

Lina Lecaro Moore gives more. ​See also: The Never-Ending Story of Fishbone Gets Another Chapter with a New Documentary Fishbone Bootleg Theater October 20, 2011 Better than... bands they've influenced like the Chili Peppers and No Doubt. We had actually forgotten about one of our gnarlies ... More >>

Maybe It Should Be Retitled Lost Weekend?

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Top Ten LA Musician Mansions For Sale (Sorry Millionaires: Jack Black Just Snapped Flea's Los Feliz Pad)

Jack Black Buys Flea's House More Musicians Insane Mansions For Sale

Watch: Actress Rain Phoenix Returns to Music with Papercranes' New Video, 'Synapses'

Rain Phoenix makes pretty pop as Papercranes on L.A.'s Manimal Vinyl.​In a brand new video directed by Antoine Wagner (Phoenix's "Lisztomania"), we get a first glimpse at the new record from Rain Phoenix's Papercranes project, via the song "Synapses." The older sister of Joaquin takes a much ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Rancid at The Music Box

Timothy NorrisRancid mosh-pit at the Music Box looking exactly like you thought it would​ [For more exclusive photos, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Rancid @ The Music Box".] Last Friday night the Music Box was stuffed to the brim with the unwashed masses of Los Angeles. Rainbow mohawks, bla ... More >>

"When you're in that state of mind, you'll put your pee-pee in anything": GnR's Steven Adler Talks about His New Autobiography, Overcoming Addiction, Slash's Text Message Obsession, and His Unconditional Love for his "Ginger" Buddy Axl Rose (and Stryper!)

"Axl is a ginger, so he doesn't tan very well": Steven Adler, unmuzzled​No man's danced with "Mr. Brownstone" and dodged death as many times as original Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler, one of the architects of the greatest '80s hard rock album. After surviving "twenty-eight ODs, three bot ... More >>

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

School of Rock

As his two L.A. punk classics get DVD reissues, B-movie legend and mentor to masters Roger Corman takes a victory lap

Day 3: Hannibal Moncrief, Class Warfare, & The Hollow Earth

​ A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no ... More >>

Chicks, Dicks and Kicks

After 17 years, Dragstrip 66 ends its reign over L.A.’s club queendom

Flea to Obama: "Give Me Your Pennies!"

​CNN recently interviewed Flea about his wonderful nonprofit The Silverlake Conservatory. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist gives a moving testimonial to the saving power of music education for children and teens. "I was heading for a disaster, I was on drugs, I was robbing people's houses, ... More >>

Mullen on Music

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

Sisters With Voices: The L.A. Ladies Choir

“I walked in and all these wonderful women were singing, and I just went, ‘Whew, I’m at home.’”

She Pretended To Be a Punk Before You Pretended To Be a Punk

Over the Weekend: Oprah/KFC Backlash, Lebowski Fest, Video Game Girls Burlesque, Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye

Mother's Day may already be a Hallmark holiday but that didn't stop Oprah, KFC and El Pollo Loco from turning it into a full-blown, corporate flame (grilled chicken) war over the weekend. Is nothing sacred? As Gendy Alimurung reported on Saturday, "The latest installment in our continuing coverage o ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye, Receives Stevie Ray Vaughn Award

View more photos in the "MusiCares: Anthony Kiedis, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jones @ Club Nokia" slideshow. Colin Young-WolffAnthony Kiedis at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit"I'm not crying, that's just Iggy Pop's sweat in my eye," joked Anthony Kiedis at the MusiCares fifth annual ... More >>

Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, Daniel Johnston, Ron English Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors at Bergamot Station

View more photos in the Rock, Paper, Scissor slideshow. Timothy NorrisOne in Ron English's series of kids dressed like Kiss This was a really cool weekend for those of us interested in the convergence of music and art, and whether some of the better-known musician/artists can stand alongside maste ... More >>

Byron Allen

In control

Metallica and Scars on Broadway Unload at Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music

Metallica / Scars on Broadway: Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music The Wiltern, May 14. By Paul Rogers Metallica, with Flea, at last night's benefit, simultaneously filling their diapers. (Photo by Gary Leonard) There’s an irony to a benefit show for a school that aims to make music ... More >>

Morello Jam, Smokin' Date, No A-ttitude

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

Bruce Weber Gets Lost Again With Chet Baker

A trumpet legend's funny valentine

Eddie Vedder, Mickey Avalon and Red Hot Chili Peppers at Hullabaloo

Uplifting mofo party

The Right to Die... Onstage!

Between rock and a sidesplitting place with “World’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger

The Night Belonged to (Music) Lovers

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Middle-Aged Bastards and Still Monsters of Rock

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam once again roam the earth

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

Wild Horses

Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye return to celebrate the now-30-year-old debut that changed everything

Live in LA

Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

This Band Could Be His Life

Standing at the load-out with Flea, Rollins and the Evens

High Times

Shake It Like a Camera-Phone Picture

They Will Drink It All

Upchuck the Funk

Sons of the City

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have made an unlikely pop masterpiece by singing bittersweet songs of salvation that could have only been born in L.A.

This Ain't No Juilliard!

Life and violins at the school that Flea built

Slush

Bob Forrest Tells All

"Johnny Depp made me do it!"

Blows Against the Empire