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Perry Farrell Makes Raves In Toronto

Tight white jeans, waist size around 30. A bottle of red wine in one hand; a sexy, exotic wife in the other. One-armed push-ups on the guitar monitors. This is what 50 looks like if you're Perry Farrell. The lead singer of Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros and Satellite Party turned 50 on March 29. He zipped in to Toronto on April 9 to for a...
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Perry Farrell

I Read The News Today... For July 26, 2011

D-Sisive has announced that his next album Run With The Creeps will be released on Nov. 1. The concept album about a lonely meat packer's quest for love in the cold, cold city will feature contributions from Colin Stetson, Owen Pallett, Patrick Watson, Fucked Up's Pink Eyes and Karkwa... or probably just Muneshine. There's a teaser video you can...
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D-Sisive

I Read The News Today... For July 21, 2011

Adele, Kanye West and Katy Perry lead the nominees for this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator is also up for an award, and apparently "cried" when he heard about his nomination. Awww. See, guys? Homophobic misogynistis have feelings, too. Gwar's Oderus Urungus used to periodically appear on Fox News' late night Red Eye...
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I Read The News Today... For July 12, 2011

Elbow are getting their own beer. It's an ale called Build A Rocket, Boys!, after their most recent album, and it might possibly be the most interesting thing they've ever done. Maybe the only interesting thing about them. Here's hoping Bud Light isn't more potent. English ale isn't known to be watery and wimpy as fuck. Jane's Addiction's long-...
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I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2011

Tom Hanks' production company is going to make a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot musical, which basically ensures it's going to be the least punk rock thing ever, even with Billie Joe Armstrong starring in it. Thurston Moore is going to be teaching writing classes at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, which is not a fake place...
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Green Day

20 Amazing Album Covers With Boobies On Them (NSFW)

When the Handsome Furs unveiled their totally tasteful (and nsfw) nudie cover art for upcoming album Sound Kapital it gave us a giddy electric jolt. There were pubes! There were deliciously concealed armpits! And most thrillingly... there were BOOBIES! Yeah, that's right. Hoots. Breasteseses. Maracas. Noogies. Gazongas. We're not so dead inside...
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I Read The News Today... For May 12, 2011

Jane's Addiction played Google's I/O 2011 After Hours Party on Tuesday, and you can watch the full set below: Dan Deacon's short film Hilvarenbeek might be the weirdest thing I've seen so far this year, and if you watch it and don't get it, that's probably because you maybe just aren't. supposed. to.MTV Hive presents... an incredibly...
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I Read The News Today... For March 31, 2011

Miracle Fortress is finally releasing a new album. Sophomore LP Was I The Wave?, which is the follow-up to the 2007 Polaris Music Prize short listed Five Roses, is out April 26. Listen to "Raw Spectacle" here. —Secret City Records Holy shitballs: Muse are building a special stage for their appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals this year...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 4, 2011

RJD2 has released a free three-song EP of remixes that also includes the video for "The Glow." Grab The Glow Remixes here. Here's something that makes almost no sense: TV On The Radio bassist and producer Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction. Well... kind of. He's playing bass on their new album. —Spinner Kanye West is doing everything he can to...
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I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2010

Pete (Yawn) Yorn will release a new album that he recorded with Pixies' Frank Black on Sept. 28. That means it has 20 per cent less chance of putting you to sleep. —Paste Ryan Adams now says his new album is not Dio-inspired. Apparently he got some flack from Dio fans over that, saying he was using someone's death for his own benefit. —Paste...
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Pete Yorn (Photo by Jim Wright)

I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2010

Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd was hospitalized on Wednesday (April 28) for unknown reasons, prompting the band to cancel gigs in West Palm Beach, Fla. and Memphis. He reportedly just needs "some rest." —Pitchfork The Cure have offered up a previously unreleased demo of "Delirious Night," a track recorded...
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Former Guns N' Roses Bassist Working With Jane's Addiction

A bassist who used to have an alcohol problem has joined a band who were famous for their own substance abuse difficulties throughout the early '90s. Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan is now reportedly a member of Jane's Addiction, according to fansite Xiola. This is because founding bassist Eric Avery left the band for the second time...
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Jane's Addiction Cancel Australian Tour

Jane's Addiction have canceled their upcoming Australian tour due to drummer Stephen Perkins' recent hospitalization. An unidentified infection was discovered when Perkins noticed severe swelling and pain in his elbow when the band returned to L.A. after several European dates. According to a statement from the alt.rock band's management,...
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Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction At Molson Amphitheatre

Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 2, 2009
Jane's Addiction

The NINJA Photo Challenge

That wicked NIN-JA tour rolled in to Toronto last night, complete with Trent Reznor's forward-thinking blessing to fans that they would be allowed to photograph, videotape or record the shows freely. We sent ace Juno Award-nominated photographer Richard Beland to the show to shoot Nine Inch Nails, Janes' Addiction and Street Sweeper Social...
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