The Playboy/ C3 party is one of the best late night SXSW ragers consistently every year. So how do you celebrate year 10? With Jane's Addiction as the headliner. Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, a kilt-wearing Stephen Perkins and returning bassist Eric Avery sampled from their back catalog, opening with the spacey "Three Days." All but four songs were off the LA band's 1988 breakthrough Nothing Sh...
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Perry Farrell & Dave Navarro Reunite. Dave's guitar looks like a rocket ship? True, NYC Fashion week this year has been unbearably boring. Thus far, it's been filled with flowy non-descript spring dresses and B-grade stars making front row (The Hills and Gossip Girl chicks could really learn a thing or too about over-exposure. They're more omnipresent on the NYC streets than those Kanye slit g...
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Original Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery hasn’t played with the band since since their 1991 Lollapalooza tour, 17 years ago. But for one-night, and one-night-only Avery will perform again with Jane’s Addiction at the first-ever U.S. NME Awards being held at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on April 23rd. Jane’s Addiction will be crowned with the Godlike Genius Award for doing “more than
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call me bitter.but youre going down pittsburgh.
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Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins is digging through the vaults with Warner Brothers, in search of some of the band's more uncommon live recordings. He's hoping to find a quality of collection to be packaged as a collector's item box set for release sometime this year. Billboard reported Perkins as saying:"I'm partial to grabbing some live shows - live stuff that I recall being a reall...
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Jane's Addiction aggressively melded avant-garde, funk, metal, and punk sounds with raw sexual energy and became an incomparable force. A Cabinet Of Curiosities celebrates that legacy as a 3-CD/1-DVD boxed set of demos, live performances and rarities that includes 30 unreleased tracks.LISTEN HERE!
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Jane's Addiction fans can look forward to at least one more live show by the band, which is rumored to be reuniting again after breaking up in '91, touring in '97, reuniting in '01 and breaking up in '04. An...
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Ready for some "He said, She said"? Well in this case it's "He said, He said" and its between former Jane's Addiction band members Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro.The boys are finally dishing the details between Jane's Addiction's third split - the one that followed the release of the stellar 2003 album Strays, and not to be confused with their original 1991 split, or their 1997 brief reconcilia...
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So last week, Jane's Addiction did a show at Echoplex (oh, The Slip), and Pitchfork Media recorded it, and it was pretty awe...; no I take that back, it was amazingly awesome!They have a new sound, and yet, it's an old sound...that budding 90s sound that came out of nowhere and influenced the next...who knows how long!There's a bit of a review, and then a bunch of sweet videos; check them out:H...
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It sounds shaky. I'm hoping it will all come together! So far, it sounds like they've tried to record new things, butted heads, but are heading on their way to just play old stuff to recultivate Jane's Addiction.I'm excited for them and hope the best for them!Here's the blog post, dated 02/19/09: http://janesaddiction.silverback.sparkart.net/post/all/note_from_eric
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Jane says, "I'm done with the break up." At least for tonight. The original Jane's Addiction lineup will be performing at La Cita Bar in downtown Los Angeles tonight, October 23rd at 11 pm as confirmed on Dave Navarro's and Eric Avery's blogs. The band plans to play about 10 songs. Billboard.com reports that the bar, which holds about 390 people has sold out of $5 tickets, but if you happen to ...
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It turns out Trent Reznor has been up to a lot more than mocking Chris Cornell on Twitter: The Nine Inch Nails frontman dropped a surprise 6-song ep today, featuring 2 new Reznor-produced songs from NIN, Jane’s Addiction and Tom Morello’s new group...
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Can’t make it to Lollapallooza this year? don’t worry Fuse TV has your back.The music network has announced plans to broadcast all the highlights from the forthcoming festival which takes place this coming weekend, August 7-9 at Chicago’s Grant Park.“Fuse Fest: The Best of Lollapalooza,” will air performances by some of the top acts set to play the bash including the Arctic Monkeys, Kin
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There's still hope.In pictures from this year's Lollapalooza, earlier this month in Chicago, Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro were, as required by rock-guy law,...
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MUSIC NEWS - Jane's Addiction singer, Perry Farrell had to be taken to a local hospital after a gig in Atlanta, GA over the weekend. Apparently, he tore a calf muscle during a performance at the Lakewood Amphitheatre on Sunday night. The rocker ripped themuscle during the first song of the set and limped along through the rest of the show. He stayed on to complete the concert, b
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