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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are working on their next project, Flea says
Flea is due to release his very first solo album, the jazz-inflected Honora, this March
Thundercat on getting his start with hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies
Thundercat may best be known as a funk and R&B-oriented bassist – yet, he got his start in thrash metal and hardcore punk
Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career
Głyk also touches on how social media can be used as a democratizing tool for musicians to access the industry
From sleeping in tents to Woodstock, rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’ Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After
The Ten Years After bassist survived Hamburg’s Star-Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a drug…”
“I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie
As a member of Bowie’s band, George Murray cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters
How Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic
Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened
Fred Smith, influential Television and former Blondie bassist, dies at 77
Smith helped define the proto-punk pioneers' sound, and had plans to return to the stage later this year
“A grave miscalculation”: Grammy Awards criticized over Anthony Jackson’s inclusion in rock/metal In Memorium section
Jackson’s longtime manager voiced her disappointment at how the Recording Academy’s tribute was categorized
