L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Perhaps the most lukewarm performance Pop & Hiss caught last weekend at the first installment of Coachella was the Red Hot Chili Peppers' festival-closing set on Sunday night, a true punk-funk-by-numbers operation . more info

411 Mania — In Portland... more info

ContactMusic — The Red Hot Chili Peppers are going to perform for the Dalai Lama. Now those are two phrases you don’t expect to see in one sentence, right? But... more info

ContactMusic — The Red Hot Chili Peppers will follow up their double dates at the two-weekend Coachella festival in California by performing for Buddhist leader the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Special concert coincides with Dalai Lama's visit to Portland. more info

Topix — Two festivalgoers kiss at the Empire Polo Field before the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on Thursday, April 11. more info

The Bay Bridged — Get your layers ready for a summer festival in Golden Gate Park. The lineup for Outside Lands 2013 has been announced. Headliners include Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Nine Inch Nails, and many other notable acts (local and otherwise) fi... more info

Consequence of Sound — Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phoenix, and more more info

CNN Showbiz — The first weekend of this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was blessed by gorgeous sunny weather -- until a sandstorm swept through the desert Sunday night. more info

ContactMusic — The Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out the first weekend of the Coachella festival in California by playing through a desert sandstorm on Sunday night... more info