Jane's Addiction: Last News

Jane’s Addiction and Smashing Pumpkins have teamed up for a performance of ‘Jane Says’ on The Howard Stern Show – check it out below.The two bands are set to head out on a North American arena tour, dubbed the ‘Spirits On Fire’ tour, later this year with support from Poppy – you can see the band’s upcoming live dates and find tickets below.The band’s frontmen, Perry Farrell and Billy Corgan, made an appearance together ahead of the tour on Howard Stern, during which they also brought their respective bandmates along to cover the Jane’s Addiction track ‘Jane Says’.Before the performance, they also joked about potential names for the tour, including ‘Jane’s Pumpkins’ and ‘Jane’s A Pumpkin Now’.See the joint performance below.Tickets for the ‘Spirits On Fire’ tour are available to buy here, and you can see the full list of dates below.OCTOBER2 – American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX3 – Toyota Center, Houston, TX5 – Moody Center, Austin, TX7 – Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL8 – Hard Rock Casino, Hollywood, FL10 – Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN11 – State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA13 – Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT14 – UBS Arena, Belmont Park, NY16 – TD Garden, Boston, MA18 – Capital One Arena, Washington, DC19 – Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY21 – Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA22 – PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA24 – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON26 – Bell Centre, Montreal, QC27 – Centre Videotron, Quebec City, QC29 – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland, OH30 – Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, WINOVEMBER1 – Enterprise Center, St. Louis, MO2 – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI4 – Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN5 – United Center, Chicago, IL7 – Ball Arena, Denver, CO9 – Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA11 – Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC12

Perry Farrell has said in a new interview that he hopes that Jane’s Addiction will record new music later this year.The band are yet to follow up their 2011 studio album ‘The Great Escape Artist’, although they have released a number of live records in recent years, as well as the standalone single ‘Another Soulmate’ in 2013.After previously voicing his hope that Jane’s Addiction would release new material in 2021, Farrell has now suggested that the band could convene in the studio later this year.“With Jane’s Addiction, timelines … well, you never know,” Farrell told Consequence when asked about the possibility of new music.“But what I would love to see … I would love to see us record a couple of tracks this year. Even if it’s two or three tracks … two tracks, I feel two is nice.

Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis have reunited for a live cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’.The two rock acts came together during Navarro’s Above Ground charity concert on December 20 to raise awareness and funds for mental health for people in the music industry under the MusiCares programme.The fundraiser concert featured a number of celebrated rock acts, including Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Slipknot and Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor, Billy Morrison and more.During the show, Dave Navarro was performing a series of songs in honour of Lou Reed’s acclaimed album ‘Transformer’, when Anthony Kiedis showed up and the two performed ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ together.Watch a clip of the performance

Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navaro has explained how he almost joined Guns N’ Roses, but didn’t show up to the audition.Following the break-up of Jane’s Addiction in 1991 and the departure of Izzy Stradlin from Guns N’ Roses, frontman Axl Rose apparently “really wanted” Navaro to join his band.Speaking to the Appetite For Distortion podcast, Navaro explained how they “talked nearly every day about ideas and the way the band could work with me.“At that time in my life though, I just wasn’t present enough to do it,” he added.Navaro then went on to say how he missed his audition to join the band “because I was immersed in my drug addiction and I just simply couldn’t show up in that shape. But it happened the way it happened”.

Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction has named his own band as the most underrated of all time.In a new interview with Classic Rock, Farrell was asked who he considers the most underrated band in history, to which he answered Jane’s Addiction.“It’s because I went crazy and broke the band up at their height,” he said. “I was operating on instinct, and I just wanted to get away from those guys back then.

Perry Farrell has announced details of a new song with his Kind Heaven Orchestra project.The Jane’s Addiction frontman launched the new project with his wife and collaborator Etty Lau Farrell for their 2019 album ‘Kind Heaven’.New single ‘MEND’ is set to be released on May 21, and was co-written by Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who plays on the track alongside The Cars‘ Elliot Easton and David Bryan of Bon Jovi.On the song, which discusses the pain of watching a friend go through hard times, Farrell sings: “I want to be with her again in lovers clouds, my head surrounded/ That’s the only way
, I must see her again so my broken heart can mend.”He added: “I’ve tried to reach through his ribcage and examine the heart of a good friend.