--- title: Red Hot Chili Peppers Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefit description: Both Vampire Weekend and Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced that they'll be playing in support of the Vermont senator canonical: https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T21:46:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:30:17.160Z article:section: Politics og:title: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefits og:description: Bernie's got support from the rock gods og:url: https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcb29f32ecd56fb4/69887aeae20a87df81a8f3fb/red-hot-chili-peppers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the 4th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los Angeles. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefits twitter:description: Bernie's got support from the rock gods twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcb29f32ecd56fb4/69887aeae20a87df81a8f3fb/red-hot-chili-peppers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefit Concerts by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 27, 2016 9:46 PM UTC  Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the 4th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los Angeles. Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the 4th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los Angeles.Christopher Polk—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 27, 2016 9:46 PM UTC Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders got some support Wednesday from high-profile rockers: both Vampire Weekend and Red Hot Chili Peppers [have announced](https://www.instagram.com/p/BBDic-aGt8v/) that they’ll be playing in support of the Vermont senator. The Red Hot Chili Peppers announced on Twitter Wednesday that the band would play a “Feel the Bern” benefit concert in their hometown Los Angeles. RHCP bassist Flea wrote in an Instagram post that the band offered to pay for the venue, but Sanders refused. The New York City-based Vampire Weekend will head to Iowa this weekend, minus founding member Rostam Batamanglij, also to play in support of Sanders. This will be the group’s first live concert since August 2014\. Frontman Ezra Koenig confirmed the date on Twitter Wednesday and offered the show’s final roster, which will include Dirty Projectors’ lead singer Dave Longstreth. > [](https://twitter.com/arzE/status/692392784519630850) Joining Vampire Weekend at the University of Iowa Field House is Killer Mike, the Atlanta-native and rapper who filmed a YouTube series interviewing Sanders, and indie band Foster the People. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/"},"headline":"Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefit Concerts","datePublished":"2016-01-27T21:46:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:30:17.160Z","description":"He's got support from the rock gods","url":"https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcb29f32ecd56fb4/69887aeae20a87df81a8f3fb/red-hot-chili-peppers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcb29f32ecd56fb4/69887aeae20a87df81a8f3fb/red-hot-chili-peppers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the 4th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los Angeles.","caption":"Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the 4th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 10, 2015 in Los Angeles.","creditText":"Christopher Polk—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4196756/bernie-sanders-red-hot-chili-peppers-vampire-weekend/","name":"Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend Will Play Bernie Sanders Benefit Concerts"}}]}] ```