Jane's Addiction News

See, Perkins really lives, breathes, and eats drums, drumming, and music, as he's done since he first hit the stage at West Hollywood's Troubadour at the age of fourteen.

They didn't stick around long, only 80 minutes. But the reunited Jane's Addiction didn't even need a full hour-and-a-half to convey one clear message to Sunday's Chevrolet Theater audience - the Los Angeles-based alternative rock band is once again open for business.

Jane's Addiction's reunion tour got off to a rough start for frontman Perry Farrell when he tore a calf muscle during the first song of the group's set May 10 at Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheatre.

NIN/JA played Jones Beach & PNC BAC photos by Zach Dilgard ...the brazenness that once defined Jane's Addiction has leveled off into something rigid and dutiful.

On my list of band's to see before I die, Nine Inch Nails definitely made the cut.

Five songs I'm listening to this week: Deastro, "Parallelogram" Exploding with light, bursting with energy and delivered with a fragile, childlike innocence, "Parallelogram" neatly encapsulates everything Deastro is about.

Some time in the late 90s, Trent Reznor holed himself up in a house near the ocean.

This weekend, legendary pop artist Peter Max, known the world over for his "Cosmic '60s" art, will bring his latest gallery boutique line exhibit to the Sirani Gallery in Squirrel Hill.

JANE'S ADDICTION frontman Perry Farrell will be the featured guest on "The Hour" this coming Wednesday night .

"Some major changes have been made to the lay-out of the [ Sasquatch ] festival.

I'm still trying to understand why. I remember when it was a lowly one-day event.

Some musicians have criticized Twitter for being the "highest form of narcissism," but, over the last few weeks, Twitter users have given thousands of reasons to prove that the microblogging community will overwhelmingly come to the aid of others.

I thought that Jane's Addiction would open up for Nine Inch Nails, with that distinct female voice announcing, Senores y senoras, nosotros tenemos mas influencia con sus hijos que tu tiene , Instead, the sold-out audience stuck around after Trent Reznor and his crew exited after their second-on-the-bill, ostensible farewell-to-KC-fans set.

Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails May 22, 2009 Shoreline Amphitheater Review by Sam Prestianni Photos by Christopher Victorio Better Than: Junkie karaoke... barely.

Thrifty Tunes 05.23.09: Jane's Addiction Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 05.23.2009 At the height of hair-metal's reign, one band dared to put the funk back into rock.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has been booked as a headliner for Birmingham's City Stages festival, completing the lineup for this year, organizers confirmed today.

Nine Inch Nails performs at the Pearl at the Palms Monday night followed by a set from Janes Addiction.

" At 50, Jane's Addiction leader Perry Farrell is nearly 17 years younger than Paul McCartney, who drew a sellout crowd of more than 60,000 to his marathon, 2-1 2-hour performance last month on the opening night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Marcia Ball and the late Clifford Antone won big at the 30th annual Blues Music Awards last week in Memphis.

When bassist Eric Avery joined his Jane's Addiction bandmates in a four-song trip down memory lane at last year's NME Awards, it marked their first live performance together in 17 years.