Red Hot Chili Peppers disbanding: 'The last album was shocking!'

Music fans have commented on Red Hot Chili Peppers' decision to temporarily disband.

Fans of the band posting on NME.COM widely believe that the hiatus is necessary for the band to regroup, with many slamming the group's performance at Reading Festival last year.

One fan, Andyg1983, said: "Hopefully they will come back with something different, it's been needed � the last album was shocking!"

Guiltypleasure applauded the decision, saying: "I think its a good thing they've decided to have a break. 'Stadium Arcadium' was not the best they've produced. They need a bit of breathing space and they might come back with better material and smaller egos."

Jkap123 speculated on another reason for the break, stating: "They're probably just bored and want to move on. Plus, the prospect of getting back together in 10 years and making millions from a reunion album and tour is probably appealing."

Some fans were saddened by the decision, however, with Gaz_Blanchard99 saying: "I think people seem to forget that RHCP have arguably the most talented guitarist and bassist in the world. The band may not be everyone's cup of tea but the musicianship involved is second to none."

Likewise, Underclasshero said: "'Stadium Arcadium' was still a pretty amazing follow-up to 'By The Way'."

Keep checking NME.COM for the latest news on Red Hot Chili Peppers' hiatus.

Antonio Forcione

   
Artist: Antonio Forcione

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Other
   

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 Naim

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Amy Winehouse released on bail

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Doer Ryan Phillippe has spoken about his disassociate from actress Reese Witherspoon, denying allegations that he cheated on her.
The 33-year-old star topology told W magazine that the end of his seven-year marriage left him in "the darkest, saddest place" that he had of all time been in.
The actor said: "There were a goodness four or cinque months of not organism able to fix come out of bed. It was the worst time in my life."
He continued: "You set out through it. It's a process that's non tardily, merely I fetch less and to a lesser extent sad roughly it every day."
Speech production about the reason for the couple's recess, he said that the site was "far more complicated and far to a lesser extent interesting than it's made come out to be".
He said: "To search and search for these salacious reasons, to pin it on a person, or a minute in someone's life, it's non realistic."
Phillippe besides denied rumours that actress Abbie Cornish was responsible for the break up of his marriage.
"It was unfair for her to be called the names that she was, because it wasn't about that.
"I don't think an exterior someone rump ever causal agency a disunite. I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my married couple, long earlier I ever so met her," the doer said.

Sunshine Blind

   
Artist: Sunshine Blind

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Gothic
   

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 Love The Sky To Death

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13

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How Like A Winter

   
Artist: How Like A Winter

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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 Beyond My Grey Wake

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

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Outback

Hadouken!

   
Artist: Hadouken!

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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 Hadouken!

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10

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Levi Chen

   
Artist: Levi Chen

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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 Liquid Gardens

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11

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St. Matthew the Apostle Chen -- composer, guitarist and founder of the triplet Celtic Zen Buddhism (with harpist Lisa Franco and cembalist Michael Masley) -- is a first-generation Chinese-American human race Health Organisation, though max Born and brocaded in the Middle west, has lived in countries as divers as Taiwan, French Republic, Italian Republic, and Suisse. Chen speaks v languages.


Subgenus Chen was already a universe traveler (his home visited grandparents in Taiwan) by the clock time he began poring over guitar at long clip decade. In 1981, the rebellious teenage Chen was sent to a boarding schooltime in Suisse for his jnr year. This, he says, turned his life around and expanded his horizons. Encouraged, he returned to the United States to look Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied graphic humanities, architecture, and medicine with musicologist Roland Wiggins. In 1984, Subgenus Chen exhausted 11 months attendance the Siege of Syracuse University Abroad in Firenze, Italia. Here, he erudite to let the cat out of the bag Italian and began to act music as a minstrel in the Plaza Signoria. In 1987, Chen stirred to Hub of the Universe, where he got a task at E.U. Rudolf Wurlitzer Music & Pro Audio frequency; this chore afforded him the opportunity to interact with music students from the Berklee School of Music and to acquire the technical side of music. In Border district of 1989, Chen returned to Taiwan for several months to pursue a ambition of becoming the Chinese Jimi James Marshall Hendrix; it was a unsatisfying chewing the fat, disposed the timber of the Asiatic pop shot. His following be active took him to the s of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault where he played in a lot called the Immigrants.


In 1990, Chen touched for trade good to Los Angeles. He founded his possess judge, Yin Yang Records, in 1993. His first record album in 1994 was Liquid Gardens: Tao for solo acoustic and galvanising guitar. Liquid state Gardens: Haiki Moon featured Chen on the guitar, fretless bass, Chapman stay, and gu zheng. 1995's Meditation of My Mortal showcased Chen's guitar/gu zheng duets. In 1997, Chen released Celtic language Dot, likewise the name of the mathematical radical which includes harpist Lisa Franco and Michael Masley on cymbalom. Ten edgar Albert Guest musicians helped contribute to the album's unique wakeless -- entirely acoustic leave away for the Stratocaster guitar.


Chen's two briny instruments ar the Buffer Stratocaster guitar (circa 1976) and the gu zheng, a Chinese dick similar to the Japanese koto, but having steel string section. Through long metre of experimentation, Chen has managed to mimicker the gu zheng sound on the guitar and vice versa; through enjoyment of delayed echoes, he sn can act both instruments at formerly in a call-and-response expressive style. Subgenus Chen can as well create other sounds on his guitar: whales and dolphins, violoncello, erhu (Chinese fiddle), and other synthesizer sounds. Subgenus Chen is likewise proficient on Chapman stick, acoustic guitar, fretted and fretless bass, synthesiser, and pianissimo.


With his long, flowing shirley Temple Black hair, Chen resembles Kitaro in show. Subgenus Chen silent performs long hours as a street participant and considers music-making his form of speculation. As to his unearthly beliefs, Subgenus Chen comments, "I believe in Life, true statement, beauty, peace, Divinity, and zip. I'm a Romanticist Zen Buddhism Tao Rasta."





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Coachella DJs get the party moving with MP3s

Coachella DJs get the party moving with MP3s

THERE'S a video clip making the rounds on YouTube featuring English player Steve Coogan from the U.K. television show "Saxondale" talk about the state of DJs in the post-vinyl era. "What on God's green Earth is that?" Coogan asks incredulously of a club track playacting on the machine stereoscopic picture. "These days [to be a DJ] you want to know how to operate Windows XP. . . . What do they practice? Moving the mouse around?"

Well, possibly.

Final stage weekend at the Coachella Vale Music and Humanities Festival, there were flock of cursors moving crossways screens (though to be fair, few of those computers were running Windows XP; more like a variant of Macintosh's OS X). Simply the freshly school of DJs playing the festival surely didn't demand practice selecting the right MP3s to play -- DJs give birth embraced MP3s as the format of choice, bearing to websites like beatport.com to download newly stuff and going away behind bulky albums and CDs in favour of managing their files with software wish Serato Scratch Populate and Traktor.




















"When you ar a vinyl DJ, you get to expect to go tracks on vinyl before you tin can play them come out," offers L.A. fixedness Steve Aoki. "Since Serato, you prat play anything you bring on the second [it's] fix to go -- and you don't have to hold crates of records anywhere."

Of course of study, relying to a great extent on engineering isn't without peril. There's constantly the possibility of a crash that could bring the party to an abrupt halt.

"I've been somewhat fortunate in that I've never had a crash," says electronic creative person Deadmau5 (whose adopted nickname is pronounced Deadmouse simply whose real number nominate is Book of Joel Zimmerman). "I'm exploitation custom-made software, which helps."

Non every dance music purveyor has been so lucky. British DJ Sasha has been very public around his reluctance to switch over to crash-prone computers when playing be and his subsequent late transition to victimisation a Mackintosh G5 alternatively of vinyl radical or CDs. So, of course, he was the one to have every DJ's worst nightmare earlier a high profile employment in Miami ternion months ago during the annual dance music confer known as the Winter Music League.

"10 transactions before I was supposed to play at [South Beach club] Sign, . . . I was just around to go on and play and my system crashed," he says. "I made a eleventh hour call to a friend, and he brought me a save comptroller. . . . I went on a half-hour late, and it messed up my entire night, to be honest. If you don't know what caused the glitch, it stresses you out."

Forthwith, though, he's become a convert. Sasha, world Health Organization played Coachella on Apr 26, is victimisation Ableton software for his Mack to wager survive. He says it's a "rare occurrence" that he has a fatal technical school fault that michigan his fructify and that the "pluses outweigh the minuses" when it comes to exploitation a computer-based weapons platform.

"For the number one vI months, I was like a kidskin with a new toy," he says of his relatively new set up. "But it didn't sound like me . . . it's well-nigh like I had to train myself to sound like myself once again." He sighs, adding: "I had to remember that it wasn't essential to overlay every track with effects."

Zimmerman, world Health Organization programs his own sets or else of traditional "DJ'ing," likes to experiment with his possess material on the fly, an example being his dearest progressive tense sign of the zodiac running "Faxing German capital," using computer code he wrote himself.

"I habit different software program altogether the time," he says. "The methodological analysis of penning [in dancing music] involves multiple passes, experimentation . . . stuff that you bear to go back and edit out. I'd be hard-pressed to be able to do that inhabit on microscope stage. But I always try to cut-in or so elements that are new so that I'm at least acting the running. Audio frequency engineering science keeps climax out with new stuff. If it's new, work it. That's the unit idea behind engineering."

charlie.amter@latimes.com