One album nearly made Flea quit Red Hot Chili Peppers, as growing creative tension with Frusciante left him feeling sidelined. Read more here.

Nick Cave explains how his Red Hot Chili Peppers diss became a meme and how he and Flea have since become friends.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' tumultuous history is mirrored by their sometimes great sometimes average discography. But this ...

There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running ...

I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre” ...

And the answer is always, ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers’.” Chilis bassist Flea, who also hails from the Australian state of Victoria, responded to the remark in 2006, acknowledging that it hurt ...

Cave was asked about the quote in the latest entry for his Red Hand Files Q&A website. He chalked it up to being a "troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal ...

And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” Notably ... Around two years after Nick’s comment went viral, RHCP bassist Flea responded with a statement on the group’s website ...

Nick Cave has reflected on his previous “uncharitable remark” about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, admitting he was a “troublemaker, a shit-stirrer”. Now, after being asked to expand on the ...

Cave’s comments about the Los Angeles funk-rockers have circulated as something of a punchline for roughly 25 years now.