Red hot chili peppers

They say 'Californication' is their 'identity'

Watching Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Main Stage reminds us of catching Arctic Monkeys last year second on the bill in Leeds. The whole area is as jam packed as then, with drunken punters stretching right up to the food stalls at the side of the arena.

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The cocks may no longer be in socks but the Peppers remain hyperactive kings of white-boy funk, smack survivors turned mainstream mavericks. Their blend of infantile exuberance and brooding disdain shines in these videos. There's a Busby Berkeley routine for sleazeballs ("Aeroplane"), the definitive punk-junk ballad ("Under The Bridge") and the blood-drenched "Scar Tissue". MTV regulars don't come any more cavalier, or charismatic.

Funk-rock archaeology, with extra tracks and liner notes by Flea

Patti Smith has said that on-off Hollywood lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison could have 'easily' played her and the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in Just Kids, the film adaptation of her own memoir.

Feminist punk collective Pussy Riot have claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin is scared of them, on the eve of the trial of three of their members. The three members of the band - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich - have been in pre-trial detention since March of this year, after they staged a protest against Russian President Vladmir Putin. A court recently ruled that the three women will remain in custody until January 12, 2013, however legal arguments will be heard tomorrow (July 30).

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has revealed that Patti Smith will appear on his new solo EP. In a series of tweets, he wrote that the proceeds to the self-recorded Helen Burns EP will go towards Silverlake Conservatory for Music, the music school he set up in 2001. "I am putting out an EP I made by myself in a couple of days. It is obscure arty mostly instrumental music, except when Patti Smith sings," he wrote. "All proceeds from my Helen Burns EP will go towards the Silverlake Conservatory of Music".