NME — Band say they are "thrilled with the results" of collaboration with former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist more info

NME — Self-titled record will be available on July 15 more info

NME — Drummer Chad Smith labels torture technique 'bullshit' more info

Pop Candy — Monday's headlines also include the Chili Peppers and Stephen Malkmus. more info

ContactMusic — Red Hot Chili Peppers star Chad Smith has expressed his disgust at U.S. authorities for allegedly using the band's music to torment detainees at... more info

TMZ — Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith almost threw up in a Malibu parking lot Saturday ... after learning the CIA allegedly used his band's music during a suspected terrorist interrogation.Chad was leaving Coogies when our photog asked for his… ... more info

NME — 'People Forget' is the third song to come from Flea, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López' new band more info

Stereogum — It’s so tempting to make jokes about this, but it’s also a truly fucked up situation: As Al Jazeera reports, a recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s Guantanamo Bay prison reveals that the CIA has recently used music as one to... more info

NME — CIA report reveals terror suspect was subjected to the technique at a black site prison in 2002 more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — "Woke to find out I'm in a new supergroup," tweets Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist Flea. Meanwhile, longtime fans of the aggressively challenging punk outfit At the Drive-In and the thinky hard rock of Mars Volta woke to the news that principles of bo... more info