Blind Melon

Fix Your MySpace, Weirdos!

Submitted by Jen White on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 5:56pm
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By Jen White (CHARTattack) November 10, 2008 5:56 pm
While at work, I check bands' official MySpace pages like 1,389,582 times a day (but that's just an estimate). I've grown accustomed to the fact that, while MySpace is a wonderful tool, most bands blow the shit out of their pages with awful images and boisterous layouts overriding MySpace's perfectly acceptable default view. Today in particular...
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Blind Melon Lose Singer, Cancel Tour

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 10, 2008 4:46 pm
Count yourself lucky (or unlucky?) if you caught a show on Blind Melon's Canadian tour last month. That may be the last time you see them and their (allegedly) disappearing new singer for a while. Blind Melon have parted ways with singer Trevor Warren and cancelled the rest of their North American tour. In a Nov. 8 MySpace blog entry, the band...
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Time Capsule: Oct. 21, 1995

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 9:53am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 21, 2008 9:53 am
Blind Melon's lead singer, Shannon Hoon, was found dead on the band's tour bus 13 years ago. Hoon, whose drug abuse had worsened in the years leading up to his death, had been on an all-night cocaine binge and did not wake up the next morning. Blind Melon were touring behind their sophomore album, Soup, and were at the height of their fame....
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Blind Melon Tour Western Canada

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 9, 2008 1:10 pm
Blind Melon are heading out on the road for a western Canadian tour. The band reformed two years ago with new singer Travis Warren — who replaced the late Shannon Hoon — and released their first studio album in 12 years earlier this year. Warren, multi-instrumentalist Christopher Thorn, guitarist/pianist Rogers Stevens, bassist/flautist Brad...
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Pumping: Blind Melon - For My Friends

Submitted by The Stereo on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 12:27pm
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) August 26, 2008 12:27 pm
We must be going soft. This wasn't entirely terrible.
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Blind Melon Reforming, As People Apparently Still Care

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By CHARTattack Staff October 19, 2006 6:30 pm
Saturday will mark the 11th anniversary of Shannon Hoon's drug overdose death, but Blind Melon have experienced a rebirth in interest over the past year and recently reformed with a new singer. Glen Graham (drums), Christopher Thorn (guitar), Brad Smith (bass) and Rogers Stevens (guitar) have added former Rain Fur Rent frontman Travis Warren as...
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Unified Theory: Putting Blind Melon To Rest

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By Evan Newman (CHARTattack) January 24, 2001 8:00 am
Five years have passed since Blind Melon lost lead singer Shannon Hoon to a drug overdose, abruptly putting an end to one of the most successful bands of the early '90s. Now, two of the four surviving members — guitarist Christopher Thorn and bassist Brad Smith — are trying to carve their own musical identity separate from their celebrated...
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