Month: August 2024

Jane’s Addiction original lineup — vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins, and bassist Eric Avery — has returned to the studio for a new song, “Imminent Redemption”, marking their first new music together in 34 years.

The band debuted “Imminent Redemption” live earlier this year when their original lineup performed together in London for the first time since 2010. Their tour run began in Europe, and comes to North America in September. The band said in a press release: “It is different this time. To have everyone back together, releasing new music. It’s time. Welcome to the next chapter of Jane’s Addiction. ‘Imminent Redemption’ is only the beginning.”

Jane’s Addiction’s last album was The Great Escape Artist in 2011, but the new material marks the original lineup’s first since 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual.  Navarro had been out of the group due to symptoms from long COVID and was replaced on the road in recent years by former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist/Pearl Jam multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer and Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen.

Listen to “Imminent Redemption” via the lyric video – here.

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Searchlight Pictures released its first trailer for its upcoming movie A Complete Unknown, featuring Timothée Chalamet (Wonka, Dune) as iconic folk and rock musician Bob Dylan. The film covers Dylan’s early years in New York City, and initial rise to fame in the 1960s.

The film is based on the Elijah Wald book Dylan Goes Electric! and is co-written and directed by James Mangold (‘Walk the Line’, ‘Logan’, ‘Ford v Ferrari’). Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Folger, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy also star.

An official synopsis for A Complete Unknown reads: “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.”

The trailer for A Complete Unknown opens with Dylan (Chalamet) performing the early hit “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” on a small stage, following an introduction from Edward Norton’s Pete Seeger.  As he sings, the two-minute teaser cuts to shots of Chalamet walking the streets of 1960s New York City, romancing Elle Fanning’s Sylvie Russo (who is inspired by Dylan’s past girlfriend artist Suze Rotolo) and falling for Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez.

A Complete Unknown does not yet have a specific release date, but it will begin playing in theaters in December, per a press release. See the trailer for A Complete Unknown – here.

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Jelly Roll and  Machine Gun Kelly have premiered their collaborative single, “Lonely Road,” which the duo previously teased and fine-tuned for two years.

“Lonely Road” features an homage to John Denver’s 1971 tune “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” and MGK captioned a post of the collaboration: “Countdown to KellyRoll activated. Thanks to John Denver for paving the way .. 2 years, 8 different studios, 4 different countries, [and] changed the key 4 times ..we finally got it right.”

“Lonely Road” is accompanied by a video featuring MGK and Jelly along with their respective partners, Megan Fox and Bunnie Xo. MGK and Jelly star as hardworking car mechanics doing their best to make ends meet for their families.  In addition, Megan is shown sporting a baby bump, and is holding a newborn baby at the end of the clip (it has since been revealed that Fox wore a fake bump in the visual, and is not expecting in real life).

“Lonely Road” is available to stream: here.
Take a look at the video for Lonely Road via YouTube.

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Aerosmith has announced their retirement from the road and cancelled the remaining, rescheduled dates of their Peace Out farewell tour.  Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sustained a vocal injury which forced the band to initially postpone their farewell tour after just three dates in September 2023; they were scheduled to resume the tour on Sept. 20 through late February.

The band shared in a statement on social media: “It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith,” they wrote. “Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history. It has been the honor of our lives to have our music become part of yours. * In every club, on every massive tour and at moments grand and private you have given us a place in the soundtrack of your lives. We’ve always wanted to blow your mind when performing. As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other. He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury. We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side. Sadly, it is clear that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage. * We are grateful beyond words for everyone who was pumped to get on the road with us one last time. Grateful to our expert crew, our incredible team and the thousands of talented people who’ve made our historic runs possible. A final thank you to you — the best fans on planet Earth. Play our music loud, now and always. Dream On. You’ve made our dreams come true.”

Tyler sustained the vocal injury during a concert last September and initially said he wouldn’t be able to sing for the next 30 days, but later announced that the tour would have to be ‘put on hold’ because the injury was more serious than initially thought.   Aerosmith were scheduled to resume their farewell tour on Sept. 20 in Pittsburgh, with stops after that in Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and New York.

Aerosmith noted that tickets purchased through Ticketmaster will be automatically refunded, while all other refunds will be available at point of purchase.

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Garbage have issued a statement regarding their tour cancellation due to frontwoman Shirley Manson’s unspecified injury, stating that all of their remaining 2024 tour dates have been canceled, but they plan to return to the stage in 2025.

While the band didn’t specify what type of injury Manson sustained, the vocalist assured fans in the caption of the post that she would do the tour if she could, writing: “No one is more crushed about this than I am. You know I would push through if I could.”   It remains unclear which show Manson was injured at; the last concert Garbage played was on July 20 at the OVO Arena in Wembley, England.

The band’s social media statement read: “It is with great and sincere regret that we announce the cancelation of all our remaining tour dates for the rest of the year due to an injury that Shirley sustained on our recent tour in Europe that will require surgery and rehabilitation to correct. This is not a decision we have taken lightly and we apologize wholeheartedly to our amazing fans and supportive promoters. We look forward to playing for you all again in 2025.”

Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival also announced that Devo would take Garbage’s place at the fest.  Garbage were originally set to perform on Sept. 27 with Pearl Jam, Crowded House, Maren Morris, Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar and a few others:  “We are excited to welcome DEVO to our lineup on Friday, 9/27 Unfortunately, Garbage will no longer be joining us this year. We wish Shirley Manson a speedy recovery. Tickets, Hotel Packages and waitlists are available at http://ohanafest.com/tickets”

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