According to Rolling Stone Magazine Red Hot Chilli Peppers who are currently touring Europe "will launch will launch the North American leg of their I'm With You World Tour in January. Tickets for the six shows listed below will go on sale on December 3rd, with more shows slated to be announced in the coming weeks. The tour will be the band's first full-scale tour of the U.S. in five years."
1/25 Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
1/27 Raleigh, NC - RBC Center
1/28 Columbia, SC - ColonialLife Arena
1/30 Duluth, GA - Gwinnett Arena
1/31 Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
2/03 Memphis, TN - FedEx Forum
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Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, & Guns N' Roses Highlight This Years Rock Hall Of Fame Inductees
On Wednesday the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Guns N' Roses, 1960's Pop Singer Laura Nyro, The Faces, Blues guitarist Freddie King, and 1960's English Folk singer Donovan as the Hall of Fames Class of 2012. The induction ceremony will take place in Cleveland on April 14 and air on HBO.
MTV's Gil Kaufman covered the news on MTV.com. In the article he writes:
"Among those passed over this year were the Cure, Joan Jett, Heart and hip-hip duo Eric B. & Rakim. Acts become eligible for the Hall 25 years after the release of their first single or album, so this year's crop all started releasing music in or before the year 1986.
Led by the mercurial lead singer Axl Rose, GN'R re-invented hard rock with 1987's Appetite for Destruction, which featured such indelible glam-punk hits as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "It's So Easy." The band splintered a decade later amid a clash of egos, disagreement over musical direction and drug issues that resulted in Rose soldiering on alone with a parade of replacement sidemen.
Before their induction was announced, buzz had already begun to build around a potential reunion between legendarily unfriendly co-founders Rose and guitarist Slash as well as the rest of the classic line-up, which included rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. Rose is currently on the road with the new Guns.
The Beastie Boys have been mixing rock, rap, soul, punk and funk for more than 30 years, helping to cross hip-hip over into the mainstream in a major way with their bratty 1986 full-length debut, License to Ill, rap's first #1 album. After providing drunken anthems for a generation thanks to "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To) Party," and "Brass Monkey," they followed up with 1989's head-tripping Paul's Boutique, which set a new standard for artistry in sampling. They've continued to rock the mic over the course of five more studio albums, including this year's Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
Funk-punk lifers the Red Hot Chili Peppers formed in Los Angeles in 1983 and released their self-titled debut the next year. Formed around the core of hyperkinetic singer Anthony Kiedis, high-energy bassist Flea, late guitarist Hillel Slovak and former drummer Jack Irons, the band made a name for itself with a spastic combo of funk, punk, hard rock and hip-hop, graduating from an underground fanbase to worldwide stardom and Grammy-winning albums thanks to such landmark tracks as "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge" and "Scar Tissue."
