XL Recordings confirm death as De La Soul, Tim Burgess, Flea Of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Drenge pay tribute

The Specials and The 1975 also play (June 14)

Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith have long found themselves near the top of every celebrity-lookalike listicle, and last week, we learned the news that the two would stage a drum-off for charity on The Tonight Show. That drum-off happened last night, and massive credit is due to Will Ferrell for [...]

The band are recording the follow-up to 2011's 'I'm With You'

It’s so tempting to make jokes about this, but it’s also a truly fucked up situation: As Al Jazeera reports, a recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s Guantanamo Bay prison reveals that the CIA has recently used music as one torture instrument among many. The report centers on the Saudi prisoner Zai...