Dave Navarro

Five Instruments on the Cusp of Rockstardom

By: Jesse Sendejas Jr. Electric-guitar sales boomed in the 1960s, thanks to Clapton and Hendrix. In the 1980s, synthesizers were popular enough to blow up the likes of A-ha and A Flock of Seagulls. Beck upped the status of two turntables and a microphone, and everyone knows that a band's drummer ge ... More >>

Atoms For Peace - Club Fais Do-Do - 6/14/13

Atoms For Peace Café-Club Fais Do-Do 6/14/13 "This is a rehearsal, right?" Atoms For Peace singer Thom Yorke joked after the band's first song "Default." "You were the lucky ones who got tickets." Since the rumors began about a week ago that the experimental supergroup would be playing a not-so-s ... More >>

Dave Navarro Made Me Cry

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with guitarist Dave Navarro, of Jane's Addiction and Camp Freddy.] 7:47 p.m.: I'm standing in the lobby of guitarist Dave Nav ... More >>

Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro - Avalon - 11/30/11

See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks Onstage Drop in the Bucket benefit Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro and others Avalon 11/30/11 Last night handfuls of heavy musicians took the stage for a worthy cause, Drop In The Bucket, ... More >>

Music Picks: Iggy & the Stooges, Morrissey, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Also, Henry Rollins, Liz Pappademas, Greg Bissonette Quintet

Best Posts of the Week

This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>

Jane's Addiction - John Anson Ford Theatre - 10/3/11

Jane's Addiction John Anson Ford Theatre 10/3/11 Better than...helping your kids with their math homework See also: Jane's Addiction Is Back; Dave Navarro Talks Their New Album and Why He Fucking Hates The Media See also: A Photo Slideshow of Jane's Addiction at the John Anson Ford Theatre "I'm ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Is Back; Dave Navarro Talks Their New Album and Why He Fucking Hates The Media

See also our review of Jane's Addiction at the John Anson Ford Theatre, 10/3/11 Jane's Addiction play the Ford tonight and tomorrow. The venue is an important part of their history. Back in 1989, the band performed seven straight nights there, launching Nothing's Shocking. They also offered a glimp ... More >>

Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)

Jena Ardell​ Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>

Nightranger: REBEL, REBEL(S)

Sweat, Sleaze and Stars: Jane's Addiction Brings Hits, Circus to Hollywood's Roxy

Check out more pictures from the show in Timothy Norris' slideshow, Jane's Addicition @ The Roxy. Jane's Addiction needs to either quit it with last-minute gigs or take up residency in my back yard. For what seemed like the fifth time in less than two years, Perry Farrell and company announced anot ... More >>

More Free Jane's Addiction Tickets for Friday's Surprise Roxy Show Coming Via Facebook

Dave Navarro and Duff McKagan​Yesterday, West Coast Sound got word that the already rumored "fans-only" surprise Jane's Addiction show is indeed going down on Friday night at The Roxy in Hollywood. What's more, Dave Navarro gave away five pairs of tickets via his Twitter account last night, a ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Play Intimate 'Fans-Only' Show at the Roxy in Hollywood on Friday

Jane's Addiction, then​Late last week, Dave Navarro let slip via the Jane's Addiction website that the band will be playing an intimate show "for the fans" at an undisclosed Hollywood venue. Well, that venue's been disclosed. On Twitter about an hour ago, Navarro announced, "I'll be giving aw ... More >>

Nightranger on (Slutty) Summer Reads

Our social calendar has been packed with book signings and their after-bashes recently, some wilder than any club night. Two books in particular are rockin' our reading radar, and not just because both have the word "slut" in their titles. It was the same eve as the Cobrasnake hullabaloo, so we miss ... More >>

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

Last Night: The New Lineup of Jane's Addiction @ Bardot

Gustavo TurnerJane's'n'Roses!​ Historic (i.e., pre-Chinese Democracy debacle) Guns'n'Roses bassist Duff McKagan debuted last night holding the low-end for Jane's Addiction in a small gig at Hollywood club Bardot. The band, dubbed by the fans Jane's Addiction 6.0 or Jane's'n'Roses, sounded hap ... More >>

The Nightlife Before Christmas

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison Highlights His 10 Most Important Cultural Events of the 1970s

Billy Morrison​Editor's Note: For Angelenos, guitarist Billy Morrison is perhaps best known for his work with all-star cover band Camp Freddy, which also features core members Dave Navarro (guitar), Matt Sorum (drums), Donovan Leitch, Jr. (vocals), Chris Chaney (bass). Indie 103.1 fans no doub ... More >>

Interview: Slash Talks LAYN Rocks Benefit Concert, Reveals Surprise Guest Steven Adler

Erin BroadleySlash... not on a jet to Vegas​There's an old photograph in Slash's autobiography of him and actor Charlie Sheen on a private jet, where they're probably headed to Las Vegas. Sheen wears the guitar legend's signature black top hat and mugs for the camera, while Slash, Heineken in ... More >>

Hello Kitty, Rock Star?

Liz OhanesianDave Navarro with Royal/T owner Susan Hancock​ You're at a Hello Kitty party inside a maid cafe and realize that you're standing next to Dave Navarro. What do you do? You ask him who his favorite Sanrio character is. I was expecting him to mention one of the darker characters, ... More >>

Billy Corgan & Spirit in the Sky at the Hotel Cafe: Dave Navarro, a New Drummer, and a Costume Contest

Last night at Hollywood's Hotel Café, Billy Corgan and his Sky Saxon-inspired Spirit in the Sky band -- which featured Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction -- introduced to Los Angeles one Mike Byrne, the 19-year old drummer and newest Smashing Pumpkins member. Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan and Spirit i ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Release $75 Limited Edition Box Set, Reissue Classic Albums on $25 Vinyl

If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>

Indie 103.1 Fallout: What's Next For DJ Paul V and Neon Noise

As of this post, Indie 103.1 is still running the looped announcement about its move to the internet, and for some sick reason I can't stop listening to it. The songs they chose (X's "New World," Sid Vicious' "My Way" and Buzzcocks' "Harmony in My Head," etc.) are good for one, though not as much of ... More >>

Mob Mentality with Jane's Addiction at El Cid, Nov. 20

By Siran Babayan Standing in the shower, thinking, what better way for my friends and I to spend the day than on our feet for over 12 hours surrounded by piss, puke, smoke, booze and the biggest douchenozzles in douchebaggery, with only a glimmer of hope of seeing a fully reformed Jane's Addiction. ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Play El Cid Tonight

If Jane's Addiction really felt bad about fans not being able to get into their recent "surprise" show at tiny Mexican dive La Cita a few weeks ago, why are they doing tonight's make-up gig at an equally small Latin-themed spot in Silver Lake? At this point, shouldn't they just book the Fonda --or t ... More >>

Burning Question at VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off: Big Lebowski or Kingpin?

Steel Panther destroying the red carpet. All photos by Shannon Cottrell. I usually resist working red carpets but on November 13th I braved the corridor of flashing bulbs, pancake makeup and pouty lips for a great cause -- the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl-Off, hosted by actress Holly Rob ... More >>

Nightranger: Thriller Nights Before, During and After Halloween

Steel Wheels, Darling Stilettos and the Boo-Over

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

Super Tuesday

Ed Banging; Ponytail checks out; rock-star mash-up; Lemmy see that

Morello Jam, Smokin' Date, No A-ttitude

Godlike Geniuses! Jane's Addiction to reunite, solve the mystery of "dark matter"

Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Hildegard von Bingen, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag, Manic Street Preachers: the smartest of our breed, humans whose brains teamed with their obsessions to create order where there was chaos, to make sense of this crazy world we live in. Add yet another notch to the totem o ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the NME Awards on April 23. Dave Navarro posted this note on his blog about the reunion. So, yes... As I posted a few days ago, Jane's has been honore ... More >>

Give Me Shelter

Beat Streets

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

Fashion Faux-Tel

And rebels with a cause

Perez Hilton

The queen of all media

Birthday Perez-ants

Sometimes I feel like I need a shower after I read it, but I'm gonna be honest right now and admit that Perez Hilton's gossip blog is a fairly frequent guilty pleasure. Still, I'm just not sure what I think about the guy as a person. I usually love me some chatty/catty gay boys, but sometimes a bitc ... More >>

Grind & Bare It

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Sho' Nuff!

Big Primpin’ Bigmouth Strikes Again Sayonara, Suckas

High Times

Pander's Box

We asked for it; Jane’s Addiction reopened it

Gift Bag of the Dolls

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They'll Always Have Paris

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Perry Farrell's Mystical Musical Tour

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