Nick Cave explains how his Red Hot Chili Peppers diss became a meme and how he and Flea have since become friends.

There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running ...

I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre” ...

Cave’s comments about the Los Angeles funk-rockers have circulated as something of a punchline for roughly 25 years now.

Cave was asked about the quote in the latest entry for his Red Hand Files Q&A website. He chalked it up to being a ...

Nick Cave has addressed comments he made 25 years ago about US band the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Australian musician said ...

Nick Cave infamously had this to say about the Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the f**k is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” Now, he's ...

In the latest edition of his newsletter, Nick Cave has issued an apology for insulting Red Hot Chili Peppers and talked up his new Flea collaboration.

And the answer is always, ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers’.” Chilis bassist Flea, who also hails from the Australian state of Victoria, responded to the remark in 2006, acknowledging that it hurt ...

In case you were wondering, all is good between Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nick Cave.That, of course, was not always the case.