Jane's Addiction

Serious Drinking: My Sherry Amor

As a wine, as a beverage, even, fino sherry seems like it comes from a place that time forgot. The lightest and driest of all sherries, it's as if that strange, inimitable beverage from a hot corner of Spain has been created miles from any other wine or spirit, bred in isolation until it bears no re ... More >>

Jane's Addiction, Black Keys, Mumford & Sons - KROQ Acoustic Christmas - 12/11/11

Timothy NorrisThe crowd​Jane's Addiction, Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Foster the People, Florence and The Machine and others KROQ Acoustic Christmas, Night Two Gibson Ampitheatre 12/11/11 For the second night of its 22nd Acoustic Christmas extravaganza, KROQ put on a strong show featuring bo ... More >>

Drinkify: A New Site Pairs Music and Drinks, or Guns N' Roses, Bourbon Red Bull

​Seven months ago, we wrote about Hot Knives and the duo's scientific approach to pairing music and beer. The two local chloggers (chefs bloggers) stuck to craft beers, which prompted Jonathan Gold to chime in with a comment: "I like craft beers and handmade bitters as much as the next guy, ... More >>

Fish Tale: The Never-Ending Story of Fishbone Gets Another Chapter with a New Documentary

Steve Appleford​The oracle came to Angelo Moore in 1989. It was during a tour with his band Fishbone, as they waited to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in the misty, early morning hours. Moore suddenly found himself face-to-face with the great bluesman B.B. King, who had a profound message for ... 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 >>

The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll Review

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Covers Joy Division At MusiCares MAP Fund Show

Lina Lecaro Dave Gahan feels it at Nokia.​Happy Birthday Dave Gahan! The Depeche Mode singer turns 49 today, but he came frighteningly close to never seeing this milestone. Fifteen years ago, he in fact died from an overdose at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood and was brought back to life ... More >>

Lollapalooza Lineup: L.A. Bands Make a Strong Showing!

​ Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Will Give You a Brand New Song in Exchange for Your E-Mail Address

"Give us your e-mail, we'll give you a brand new song!": Jane's Addiction​ As people download/share/remix/reload/etc. all forms of music in a crowded market for your attention, what's a big '90s band to do? How can they compete with "FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY EVERYBODY IS LOOKING ... More >>

Miller's Time

Top 5 Edible Rider Requests By Los Angeles Bands

robert_rex_jackson/flickrJane's Addiction. Ginger gives you wings. ​ Anyone who has wasted an afternoon at work bouncing around The Smoking Gun's collection of hospitality riders -- an artist's list of demands, like towels, booze, food, guest tickets -- understands that musicians can be fair ... More >>

Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking": The Word Cloud

​ Hey gang--guess what popular West Coast Sound feature is back? The Word Cloud! The 'Cloud has been M.I.A. for a few months, but we're restarting this Friday tradition with a great one--as per usual very suitable for making stencils and T-shirt iron-ons. For those of you with memories oblit ... More >>

Urban Nomad: Aldo from Maldita Vecindad Talks Collectivism, Jane's Addiction at SmokeOut Festival

Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>

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 >>

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: Gamer Gauche

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 >>

Live in L.A. Tonight: Pacha Massive, the Hold Steady, Jane's Addiction, Dosh, Two Door Cinema Club

​No matter whether you regard Cinco de Mayo as a meaningful holiday or a beer company-sponsored excuse to get loaded, it's a good day to get your bilingual on. Spaceland's lineup tonight plays right into that: NYC's hybridizers of dub, electro and Latin rhythms Pacha Massive headline, supporte ... More >>

GnR's Duff McKagan Confirms 'Association' with Jane's Addiction, Also Visits Silver Lake and Feels Validated by Hipsters

"Yes, you ARE my monkey!": Self-confessed "dork" McKagan​In case you didn't know, former Guns n Roses' bassist Duff McKagan has a sorta regular column that runs in our sibling publication the Seattle Weekly. Yesterday McKagan granted an interview to his editor there explaining why he had been ... More >>

Sweet Jane O' Mine?: GnR's Duff McKagan Rumored to Be Joining Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction's (Perhaps) New Bassist Duff McKagan and Significant Others​The Jane's Addiction fan community -- a dedicated lot if there's one -- is trying to digest a persistent rumor that has emerged from Perryland this past weeked: bassist Eric Avery is out and (shocker!) Guns n Roses' D ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails, Health, Gary Numan, Eric Avery, Mike Garson Cover Gang of Four's "Anthrax"

Here are Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery and HEALTH doing Gang of Four's "Anthrax" at the Fonda on Tuesday night. Have a good weekend.

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... 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 >>

Jane's Addiction To Do Secret Show at the Echoplex This Monday

Kevin Bronson at Buzzbands is reporting that Jane's Addiction will be doing another one of its secret shows, this one Monday at the Echoplex. (Finally, the band is playing a space not so tiny that only friends and familiy can attend. The previous two recent gigs have been at La Cita and El Cid, an ... 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 >>

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

Last Night: La Cita Ditches Ranchero Music for Jane's Addiction Original Lineup (Video)

Like most of you, last night I missed the super-intimate Jane's Addiction show at La Cita. I don't know what your excuse is but mine is that I was busy taking photographs of Amy Sedaris getting all Edward Scissorhands on a fan's tresses during a Barnes & Noble book signing. Lucky for us, Buzz Bands ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Play Tonight at ... La Cita???

NME.com is reporting that Jane's Addiction is reforming with the original line-up tonight at La Cita downtown. Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny place. Good luck with that one. Will Perry's head even fit in there?

RIP GIDGET GEIN- Local artist & former Marilyn Manson bassist found dead

The details are still sketchy, but close friends of musician and artist Gidget Gein (aka Brad Stewart) tell us he was found dead yesterday of an apparent OD in his home in Burbank. Considering his macabre sensibilities, we'd hoped this was some kind of goth stunt, but calls to the LA Coroner today c ... More >>

5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

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 >>

Aaron Cohen: Sex Slaves, Drug Trade and Rock n' Roll

In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought he’d seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar.

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

The whole shootin' match

So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperate for anything to keep me awake through a set by Aqualung. (Aqualung are one of these tragically earnest Nic Harcourt bands. They are attempting ... More >>

R.I.P. Pirate Radio

The Prix

Local bands, man

Local Bands, Man

Viva K

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Pander's Box

We asked for it; Jane’s Addiction reopened it

Up in Smoke

Edited by Kateri Butler

Perry Farrell's Mystical Musical Tour

The hedonist at 42

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Slush

Edited by Kateri Butler