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EXPLAINED: Jane addiction person - The Real Truth

"Some of us were getting sober and cleaning up, others were not. It's a recipe for disaster": The chaotic story of Jane's Addiction's Ritual De Lo Habitual, the debauched masterpiece that changed music

Forget Nirvana’s Nevermind – it was Jane’s Addiction's game-changing second album Ritual De Lo Habitual that ushered in the alternative rock decade

Metal Hammer

"Anthony Kiedis and Flea showed up wearing dildos." The night Jane's Addiction played a freaky private Halloween party for a debauched Hollywood legend

Mexican voodoo plus pagan witchcraft plus giant pythons plus Jane's Addiction? Where was our invite Perry?

Louder

“We wanted this record to sound like it was from outer space.” How LA’s freakiest band Jane's Addiction kickstarted a rock revolution with the game-changing Nothing's Shocking

With their 1988 album Nothing's Shocking, Jane’s Addiction ushered in a new kind of rock music

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"If you're looking for a killer soundtrack to summer 2026, you just found it." Genre-fluid disruptor Ecca Vandal fulfils all her promise on the swaggering Looking For People To Unfollow

The Limp Bizkit-endorsed Ecca Vandal smashes it on her second album

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 19-25 includes Barbra Streisand and Dev Patel

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of April 19-25 include actor-singer-director Barbra Streisand, wrestler-turned-actor John Cena and singer-TV personality Kelly Clarkson

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 29-April 4 includes Mark Consuelos and Natasha Lyonne

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of March 29-April 4 include actor-TV host Mark Consuelos, country singer Thomas Rhett and “Law & Order” actor Christopher Meloni

The Independent UK

“Other bands flirted with the dark side. Listeners just knew these people were living it”: Jane’s Addiction represented a new form of prog when they stopped traffic with Nothing’s Shocking

Authentic and challenging, the quartet shaped the music of a decade with their major-label debut

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“It taps into yearning for a place beyond, a place of love, for me to speak my mind and be myself”: Flea teases his first solo album with a seven-minute jazz rave single

The video is directed by his daughter

MusicRadar

“I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness

A year before Nirvana broke out with Nevermind, Alice In Chains Seattle’s grunge scene on the map

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Skate Reveals Updated Soundtrack for Season 1

New tunes!

Operation Sports

Fleetwood Mac fans whipped into frenzy as band stir reunion rumours with cryptic social media posts

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham sparked speculation that they’re ‘getting the band back together’

The Independent UK

Connie Francis death: ‘Pretty Little Baby’ singer dies, aged 87

The singer, who was a prominent star in the 1950s and 1960s, had recently been hospitalised

The Independent UK

Perry Farrell sues Jane's Addiction bandmates hours after they sued him, claims he's victim of a "years-long bullying campaign"

Perry Farrell is suing his former bandmates for assault, battery, infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract

Louder

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 23-29

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of March 23-29 include actor Jessica Chastain, gossip blogger Perez Hilton and dancer Val Chmerkovskiy from “Dancing with the Stars."

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Guitar World

“We were out to satisfy our animal instincts onstage. I think we spent $40,000 on gear that we smashed on Lollapalooza”: Nine Inch Nails made their name with infamously destructive live shows – this is the true story behind their epic guitar smash-a-thons

It was the tour that made Nine Inch Nails – and destroyed countless guitars. In an exclusive extract from Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, Trent Reznor, Richard Patrick and Dave Navarro look back at their all-star guitar-smashing rituals

The Guardian - US

Los Angeles musicians lost homes, studios and instruments: ‘A part of you is gone’

From the piano used for The Wizard of Oz to backyard studios, losses have performers and composers concerned for the future

Guitar World

“I was having so much anxiety about getting a great sound that I wasn’t writing songs… I said, ‘I’m gonna stop thinking about it. This is going to be my sound’”: Tom Morello on his tone struggles and what he learned from teaching his son Roman how to play

Rage Against The Machine icon discusses his unreleased Post Malone song, being outshredded by his son, pushing Iron Maiden for the Hall of Fame and why he avoids most endorsement deals

Metal Hammer

“Some of us were getting sober and cleaning up, others were not. It’s a recipe for disaster”: The chaotic story of Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual, the debauched masterpiece that changed music

Forget Nirvana’s Nevermind – it was Jane’s Addiction’s game-changing second album Ritual De Lo Habitual that ushered in the alternative rock decade

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The Guardian - UK

Boybands Forever: this denim-packed history of 90s British pop is a magical piece of TV

Robbie Williams and co open up in this stellar deep dive into the world of male musical groups. It makes you so nostalgic it feels as if your nerves are gnawing at your flesh

Metal Hammer

“I was just looking at it as a chance to go play Master Of Puppets for an afternoon”: Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery reveals what shocked him about 2003 Metallica audition

Avery auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, but the role ultimately went to Robert Trujillo

MusicRadar

"Even if the album only had that one track on, it would still be on this list": Humanist's Rob Marshall on the 9 records that changed his life, supporting Depeche Mode in stadiums, and why he'll never switch to digital amp modelling

As he releases a triumphant second album with guest vocalists, the former Mark Lanegan collaborator remembers his friend and champion

The Guardian - UK

Noisy neighbours, nasty plagues and a winning smelly penguin – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Guitar World

“On the chorus setting, this feels like a churning wave – with reverb, it's a monster growing out of your guitar”: Rainger FX has found a way to make distortion pedals fresh again – fade-in multi-FX

The Pull Focus integrates a ramping chorus, reverb and noise gate for a unique multi-FX take on high-gain distortion

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 8-14

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Sept. 8-14 include singer Pink, guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith and radio and TV personality Tavis Smiley

Guitar World

Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer sued for wrongful death

Klinghoffer allegedly ran over and killed 47-year-old pedestrian Israel Sanchez while in a black SUV

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