Sat 29 Apr 2006
Apple and the Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers Listening Party
Posted by Caroline on Crack under Los Angeles, Music -
Apple stores in the Grove and Third Street Promenade will be hosting listening parties for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album Stadium Arcadium before it goes on sale May 9th.
Personally I haven’t been all that crazy about the Peppers since Mother’s Milk (one of my favorite albums ever), and their newly released single “Dani California” sounds reminiscent of Californication. Not that that’s a bad thing. I just really liked the RHCP when they were all freaky styley and funky. And I can’t imagine what one would do at a listening party, let alone one at a store in the mall. Sit there with your forefinger and thumb thoughtfully stroking your chin and tapping your foot?
At least you’ll be able to hear all 28 songs in one sitting, and you’ll get a FREE iTunes music card good for an upload of “Dani California” just for coming in (while supplies last).
EVENT: Tuesday, May 2 at 6:30pm
The Grove location:
189 The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 965-8400
Third Street Promenade location:
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 576-1011
April 29th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Remember when Anthony Kiedis was hot? Ah, the good ol’ days… Now they’re popular in malls? Do you get to listen to the old songs too? Because I’d love it if someone, void of self-consciousness, sat there with headphones on, loudly singing along to “Special Secret Song Inside.”
April 29th, 2006 at 11:57 am
I KNOW! He was the only guy with long hair I ever liked. EVER.
And I think it’s just for their new album, unfortunately. As for someone void of self-consciousness, I could see G doing something like that ‘cept he doesn’t want to party on someone’s p*! Such a fun song to sing along to though.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:02 am
OMG yeah they suck now. Especially the video for that crap song, which has a very adult contemporary riff…ICK. They went all American Idol…and Kiedis dressing up like Kurt Cobain in the video was sad not because Cobain is dead, but the fact that Nirvana’s sound is legendary, while theirs drifts and fades to obscurity like Salieri to Mozart a la Amadeus. Well I guess it’s not really obscurity, but drifting to the pointlessness of the pointless 2000s.
May 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I stumbled across this page in an image search and I am appalled by the comments. You guys are fucking ditzes who can’t appreciate musical genius, because that’s what all four of the chilis are…musical fucking geniuses. they’ve grown in such a way that not many rockstars can do. Their talent is overwhelmingly apparent throughout the entire double disc, and in my opinion, they just keep getting better. Wow, I hope you guys realize what you’re missing out on in their past few albums. John is unhumanly and amazingly one with his instrument and a real music lover would know this and not have anything bad to say about their progression. Oh well, I’ve enjoyed countless hours of all of their albums, since the early 80s till now and to hear people make fun of anthony for dressing as cobain…first of all, that video was meant as a homage to pay respect to all the eras of rock and their icons. Get a clue before you start dissing people. shit.