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

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

Not until their third album ... ‘By the Way’ followed in 2001, and the once-again hit-packed, Grammy Award-winning ‘Stadium Arcadium’ (2006) also kept the Red Hot Chili Peppers flying ...

In a Red Hand Files missive, the Bad Seeds leader explains how he and Flea have become friendly since the diss — and how they even have a new collaboration in the works ...

Red Hot Chili ... new songs," Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote in a statement. "A beautiful bit of chemistry meddling that had befriended us hundreds of times along the way." The band continued ...