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Richard Bienstock “What’s beautiful about life is not always winning,” Perry Farrell says. “It’s getting knocked down and getting back up and then winning. Sometimes, that can be even sweeter.” Farrell, it should be noted, has not lacked for winning moments in 2022. The 63-year-old musician recently saw Lollapalooza through another massively successful multi-day stand in Chicago (not to mention Stockholm, Paris, Buenos Aires and other far-flung locales); conceived, executed and performed at, along with his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, a recurring L.A.-based “immersive theater” experience named Heaven After Dark that he hopes to take international; and unexpectedly reunited his mid-‘90s outfit, Porno for Pyros, for their first full shows in more than 25 years.

Perry Farrell had originally planned for a giant burrito at the first Lollapalooza for all attendees to share, a new book revealed.Last week (March 25), the book Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival was published. The oral history paperback details the ambitious and bizarre conception of the touring music festival by Farrell, who had originally conceived it as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.To promote the book, authors Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock appeared on Rolling Stone podcast Rolling Stone Music Now to discuss the facts stranger than fiction in the book.Beaujour and Bienstock discussed how Farrell aimed for a communal environment at the festival, which was unique at the time for touring around the country, instead of being held at a fixed venue on a string of dates.Part of the experience, Farrell envisioned, was to include a giant burrito meant to be shared by all festivalgoers.

take the stage on the first date for Lollapalooza, a new traveling alternative music festival that the band’s frontman, Perry Farrell, has conceived. There was just one problem.The band’s lead guitarist, Dave Navarro, who had been trying to get clean but struggling amidst the debauched atmosphere of the tour, couldn’t move.“I had gotten too high on heroin,” Navarro recalls in the book “Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival” (St.

Dig out your spandex and hide your daughters because Paramount+ is unleashing the world of ‘80s hair metal.

Paramount+ – check out the trailer below.Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal will be a three-part series, set to be released onto the streaming service on September 17 in the US and a day later internationally.It promises to document the exploits and excesses of bands such as Poison, Skid Row, Def Leppard, Guns N’ Roses, Quiet Riot and W.A.S.P., and it is based on a book of the same name by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock.Watch the trailer for the series here:The show will feature original interviews with Poison’s Bret Michaels, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Skid Row’s Dave “Snake” Sabo, Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt, as well as MTV host Riki Rachtman and Jackass star Steve-O.It is directed by Jeff Tremaine, who also oversaw the Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt in 2019.Bienstock has spoken about what drew him to that particular moment in pop culture, explaining to VWRocks in 2021: “I think that scene on the Sunset Strip was like nothing that had come before and nothing that has happened since. You really get a picture of hundreds of bands out there and just tons of fans and these guys posting thousands of flyers everywhere.

Katherine Turman Metal Edge, the colorful rock magazine whose monthly cover was collaged with photos of Bon Jovi, KISS, Skid Row, White Zombie and Dokken throughout the mid-’80s and ‘90s, is back. Initially published by Sterling, it shut in 2009 due to the waning popularity of both print and the mostly hair metal genre Metal Edge focused on.Metal Edge is now owned by Project M, the company behind other music and culture outlets including Revolver, Brooklyn Vegan, Goldmine, Inked and the Hard Times.At present, Metal Edge will be online only, and they’re kicking off with an exclusive feature on bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue (pictured).

Richard Bienstock “I’m often asked, did I think it was going to be what it became?,” Perry Farrell says before adding with a laugh, “I mean, that’s ridiculous. Of course not! How could I, you know?”The Jane’s Addiction cofounder is of course speaking about his other main creative offspring, the granddaddy of all U.S.