Q&A: Anthony Kiedis

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Taking A 12-Month Break
Published 5/20/2008 by celebritique at Celebritique - The Celebrity and Fashion Critique
... Red Hot Chili Pepper s frontman, Anthony Kiedis , has revealed that the band will take a 12-month break following their last album and world tour, to “just live and breathe and eat and learn new things.”  During an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Keides explains, “We’re disbanded for the moment. We actually took a very long time to make the ‘Stadium Arcadium’ record, because we wrote a lot of songs and then got way too married to them and decided we need it to be a double album. Which was a great experience, but it took forever. It was really a grueling, long haul ...

Anthony Kiedis' new festival - Hot Chip, MIA getting married?
Published 5/20/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... some reason, this is the summer of bands getting married. I ran into that twice. I'm very keen on M.I.A., I think she's a rocking live performer. She wanted to play, she was very into it and it seemed like a great deal and suddenly she's getting married. Same with Hot Chip. They have a real groove; they write good songs and have an interesting personality. Except for the fact that they're getting married. Undone by matrimony, but not really undone. [Rolling Stone] ...

Red Hot Chilli Peppers are “disbanded”
Published 5/21/2008 by Andrei Mihai at ZME Music
Whoa there just for a minute; they didn’t break up or anything, they just decided to take a well deserved break, of at least a year. With the situation being as it is, Anthony Kiedis has taken on a new role as festival curator for Pittsburgh’s New American Music Festival August 8 - 9. Besides that, he took the time to talk to rolling stone, and he definitely has some interesting things to say: “We’re disbanded for the moment … Cooler heads prevailed and the discussion at the end of our last ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers Break-Up For One Year
Published 5/21/2008 at Cinema Blend Music
Red Hot Chili Peppers Break-Up For One Year It’s not easy to withstand the stamina of writing, recording and touring for three major back-to-back albums over the span of nine years, but if any band is capable, it’s Red Hot Chili Peppers. These guys deserve a break – and that they are getting, as Anthony Kiedis revealed during a Rolling Stone interview Monday. "Let's not do anything Red Hot Chili Peppers-related for a minimum of one year, and just live and breathe and eat and learn new things,” Kiedis says of the unanimous decision to disband the quartet. “We kind of started ...

Early buzz: Chili Peppers, 'Runaways,' 'Top Chef' and more
Published 5/22/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... in a matter of hours. Don't leave a girl sitting by the phone -- please drop me a line from 3-5 p.m. ET. Again the number is 1-800-872-4992. Operators will be standing by. Last night I dared to watch American Idol , prayed my future children will like better music than the Jonas Brothers and recovered by reading some comics. Enjoy these headlines while they're still warm: - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have " disbanded for the moment ." - Runaways is heading to ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers take a break
Published 5/22/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
While there's been a lot of buzz this week since Anthony Kiedis said his Red Hot Chili Peppers have "disbanded for the moment," he tells Rolling Stone that he's not just sitting around. He's busy as a new dad and "curator" of a music festival. He says he has recently pulled together Bob Dylan, the Raconteurs and more bands for Pittsburgh's New American Music Festival (sponsored by American Eagle Outfitters) to take place August 8 and 9. As for the Peppers? Kiedis says the gang was "emotionally and mentally zapped' when their tour ended last year and they decided, "Let's not ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers On Hiatus
Published 5/23/2008 by Julia Conny at AbsolutePunk.net - News
... Red Hot Chili Peppers have "disbanded for the moment". Submitted by ACA

Justice NOT Producing Next Red Hot Chili Peppers LP
Published 7/7/2008 by Paul Thompson at Pitchfork Media - Today
... It seemed like strange timing for the announcement, seeing as it's been but a couple months since Kiedis himself broke the news to Rolling Stone that the Chili Peppers were effectively on leave through the next year or so. And strange timing it would have been-- had it been true. According to ...