Troy Van-Leeuwen: Last News

Jane’s Addiction have announced that Josh Klinghoffer will join the band for upcoming shows, standing in for guitarist Dave Navarro who is still contending with the symptoms of long COVID.Navarro previously revealed last September that he was still feeling “very fatigued” after contracting COVID-19 in late 2021. As a result he didn’t take part in Jane’s Addiction’s co-headline tour with The Smashing Pumpkins last autumn, with Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen standing in for those shows.In a new post to social media, the band confirm that Navarro is still not in a position to return to the stage.

Dave Navarro has some bad news to share with fans looking forward to seeing him on tour with Jane’s Addiction this fall.

Dave Navarro will be noticeably missing from Jane’s Addiction upcoming tour.

“Spirits on Fire” tour kicks off Sunday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and wraps Nov. 19 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro will sit out the band’s forthcoming tour with Smashing Pumpkins, as the musician is continuing to suffer from the effects of long COVID.In a message to fans posted on the band’s social media, Navarro confirmed he will not be performing on the tour, as he is still experiencing a “continued battle” with long COVID he has been fighting since December of last year.The guitarist said that while he had hoped for a full recovery by the time the tour started in Dallas this weekend, he is still “very fatigued” and, as such, “will not be able to join this leg”.Navarro added that he was particularly “gutted” about not being able to take part in the tour as original bassist Eric Avery has returned to the fold and the tour would have seen the band’s original lineup reunite. “That will have to wait until I am recovered,” Navarro said.Filling in for Navarro will be Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, whose other projects have included Failure and A Perfect Circle.

Hayley Williams and Maynard James Keenan are among several artists to feature in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary centred on Failure.The as-yet-to-be-named documentary has been in the works since 2018, when the cult alt-rock outfit asked fans to send them live footage of themselves from the ’90s.Yesterday (March 31), Failure released a seven-minute extended trailer for the film, which includes talking head snippets of Paramore frontwoman Williams, Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Keenan, Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe, Butch Vig of Garbage, Troy Sanders of Mastodon, actors Jason Schwartzman, Margaret Cho, Troy Van Leeuwen and more.Interspersed with video clips of some of the band’s best-known songs – ‘Stuck On You’ (1996), ‘Another Space Song’, ‘Counterfeit Sky’ (2015) and ‘Hot Traveler’ (2015) to name just a few – each artist talks about how the music of Failure impacted their own work, Failure’s relationship with one another and more.Check out the clip below:“A lot of guys from my era were like ‘Ah, this is bullshit’,” Lee can be heard saying. “I never saw it like that.

Gone is Gone have released a new single, ‘Everything is Wonderfall’ – you can listen to it below.The supergroup, featuring members of Mastodon, At the Drive-In and Queens of the Stone Age, were formed in 2016 and returned back in December with a new single, ‘No One Ever Walked On Water’ – their first new music in almost three years.Made up of Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders, At the Drive-In drummer Tony Hajjar, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, as well as multi-instrumentalist Mike Zarin, the thunderous new song features vocals from Sanders along with a spoken-word section.You can listen to the new track below:Speaking to NME in 2016 about their group ahead of the band’s debut E.P.