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Flea wants to give Red Hot Chili Peppers' debut album another look. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the bassist was asked what he thinks his band's worst album is, and he replied, "I always regret the way we made the first one," referring to 1984's The Red Hot Chili Peppers. "I think the songs are really good," Flea says. "Our band was smoking at the time." RHCP […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump is now suing the writer who sued him for defamation. Trump is accusing E. Jean Carroll of defaming him when, after a jury held him liable for sexually assaulting her but not raping her as she initially claimed, Carroll appeared on television and insisted he did rape her. "In response to that specific inquiry, Counterclaim Defendant disregarded the jury's finding […]

(SAN ANTONIO) -- One year after 53 people, including six kids, were killed in an abandoned sweltering tractor-trailer near San Antonio during an alleged smuggling attempt, the Justice Department announced it has indicted and arrested four men for the incident. Riley Covarrubias-Ponce, Felipe Orduna-Torres, Luis Alberto Rivera-Leal and Armando Gonzales-Ortega were all arrested and charged on several counts including conspiracy and alien smuggling resulting in death, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. […]

Rob Loud/Getty Images for Journey Neal Schon is paying tribute to legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The Journey guitarist shared a video of him shredding on his EVH Striped Series guitar, which resembles Eddie's red striped guitar, but in white. “A little tribute to Ed. It was so amazing to be on Van Halen’s 1st tour with him,” Schon writes in the Instagram post, referring to Journey’s 1978 tour, which featured Van Halen as openers. “I watched him annihilate […]

Courtesy of FX R.E.M.’s 1995 single “Strange Currencies” is gaining renewed interest thanks to its appearance on season 2 of The Bear, and now, the band has released a new video to capitalize on that. The video for “Strange Currencies (Remix)” features clips and behind-the-scenes footage from the hit FX series, starring Jeremy Allen White. It also includes footage from Road Movie, a documentary about R.E.M.’s 1995 tour. Several versions of “Strange Currencies” appear […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Foo Fighters are hopping across the pond in 2024 for a U.K. stadium tour. The outing, dubbed the Everything or Nothing at All Tour, consists of six dates in June. Wet Leg will also be on the bill for select dates. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 30. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FooFighters.com. The tour news follows Foo Fighters' surprise performance […]

Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images We are halfway through 2023 and Pollstar is looking back at the last six months of touring, which have been very good for Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and others.  According to the trade’s midyear report, Springsteen and The E Street Band’s 2023 tour is the second-highest-grossing tour of the year, behind only Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Springsteen lands at two, with a gross of over $142 million, selling a total of 673,277 […]

Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the gruesome University of Idaho murders, according to a new court filing. The filing said, "The State gives this notice based on the fact that it has not identified or been provided with any mitigating circumstances sufficient to prohibit the triers of fact from considering all penalties authorized by the Idaho legislature including […]

Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald A thought-to-be-lost Steely Dan track from the '70s has found its way online for the very first time. According to the Expanding Dan website, the track “The Second Arrangement” was erased by a studio technician in 1979 and thought to be lost forever. But now the family of the band’s late longtime engineer Roger Nichols has uncovered a previously unknown copy. Nichols’ daughters Cimcie and Ashlee discovered the tape, labeled “Second ARR,” in 2011 while […]