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Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Unstoppable Groove of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Three decades and a dozen bandmates later, Anthony Kiedis and Flea have just begun to fight.
By David fricke
Photograph by Terry richardson
"I was afraid," Flea, the bass guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, confesses over the roar of a tour-bus engine. “I couldn’t imagine going out with someone else. It seemed done.” It is the last week of July, and Flea is sitting in the rear lounge as the bus hurtles north from Los Angeles on the Pacific coast highway, up to Big Sur for the Chili Peppers’ first concert in four years. The show is their first in more than a decade without John Frusciante, the Chili Peppers’ brilliant and mercurial guitarist over 15 years and five albums of metallic funk and psychedelicised pop.
Lil Wayne
Return of the Hip-Hop King
From courtside with LeBron to backstage at 'SNL': Riding with Lil Wayne as he reclaimed his crown.
By Josh Eells
Photography by Jonathan Mannion
The processing room at the New York City correctional Institution for Men is about as depressing as you’d expect. Broken payphone, roachy floors, harsh fluorescent lights. There’s a rusty old vending machine against one wall, and along the other, a bank of blue plastic chairs where wives and mothers wait for their men to be released, watching Oprah reruns in shared silence. Presiding over the scene is a blue-uniformed guard, awarning hanging from his Plexiglas partition: no firearms, ammunition, knives, drugs, alcoholic beverages or recording devices permitted on Rikers Island.