Red Hot Chili Peppers

On their seventh album, Californication, the Red Hot Chili Peppers take up where Blood Sugar Sex Magic left off -- with one foot firmly planted in the mainstream and the other in a frat house. While this may irk longtime fans wistful for the band's Freaky Styley days, the Grammy-nominated Californication certainly is one of the band's best.

Let's keep it real: white boys do not have to be funky; they only have to rock, and that the
Red Hot Chili Peppers do quite wickedly, thank you. Historically, though, RHCP albums
have been long on sock-it-to-me passion but short on the songcraft that made their hero
George Clinton's most acid-addled experiments lyrically haunting and melodically
infectious. Up until this new Peppers joint, Californication, that is. For Lord kno... More >