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Inside Perry Farrell’s Enduring Mission to Popularize Stateside Warehouse Culture
Losing a million dollars will teach a man a few things. Just ask Perry Farrell. Farrell has maintained just the right combination of DIY attitude and an appetite for controlled chaos to continue effectuating his lifelong ambitions in music—but it hasn’t always been sunshine and roses for the legendary rocker. Today the Jane’s Addiction frontman is planting the seeds of a promising global event series, “Heaven After Dark.” While the event itself has the makings of a hit, Farrell needed to apply decades of experience and intangibles to make it so. Ahead of the upcoming “Heaven After Dark” takeover of Los Angeles’ Catch One in early December 2022, Farrell caught up with EDM.com for a candid interview wherein he shared his view on...
Hooping With Perry Farrell
“I used to play high school basketball,” Perry Farrell says, serving as a message and warning statement, but not in the Al Bundy sense. Standing in the Lollapalooza press area mid-Friday afternoon, the Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros singer (and Lollapalooza co-founder) has his eyes on one thing: a basketball version of Connect 4. His warning is well-taken — after all, he bested Post Malone in a game of beer pong at a Lollapalooza in South America back in 2019. Basketball and Lollapalooza may seem like an odd pairing, but Farrell said that legendary rock promoter Bill Graham kept a basketball hoop at Shoreline Amphitheater in Northern California, a reason why it was a favored destination during the festival’s touring years. Firing off mid-range jumpers amid a crowd of curious onlookers in...
Perry Farrell Is Not Most People
“You ever get those thoughts, those inspirations, that hit and you just go, ‘Wowww…I can’t believe I just figured something out!’” says Perry Farrell, by way of introduction. “Well, I just figured something out today…” Typically, when greeted with a conversation-starting “How are you?” most people are inclined to answer with a routine “Fine.” Perhaps an “I’m good.” But Perry Farrell is not most people. And so less than 30 seconds into our phone call, Farrell, fresh off a plane from Lollapalooza Paris, and, before that, a plane from Lollapalooza Stockholm (in between, there was a week of rehearsals for the reunited Porno for Pyros), is already getting into the next thing. This next thing is one that is particularly important to him: a benefit concert to raise funds for the victims of the Ju...
Perry Farrell Posts Video Tribute to Taylor Hawkins: ‘He Was My Best Friend’
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell has shared a heartfelt video tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, calling him “my best friend” and “one of the most passionate drummers I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. When I think of him, I sum it up with one word: velocity,” Farrell said. “He had the gift to maintain a confident, striking and stroking velocity on drums.” Hawkins died Friday (March 25) at a Bogota hotel, hours before Foo Fighters were to play a festival in the city. Farrell had joined the band a week earlier in Santiago to sing the Jane’s Addiction classic “Been Caught Stealing” and was planning to spend time with the Foos again on March 27 at a Lollapalooza stop in Sao Paulo. Hawkins was a lifelong Jane’s Addiction fan [he wore a Jane’s Addiction shirt at last year’s...
Watch Perry Farrell Join Foo Fighters Onstage to Cover Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Been Caught Stealing’
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Lollapalooza Founder Perry Farrell Says He’s Producing House Music
Perry Farrell, the fabled Lollapalooza founder and Jane’s Addiction frontman, has revealed he’s been busy working on house music. In an interview with L.A. Downtown News, Farrell talked about his new “Heaven After Dark” project, which is set to debut this week in downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed an “audio sensory journey,” the monthly series is said to incorporate musicians, dancers, comedians and street performers, as well as DJs playing acid house music. When asked about any current endeavors as an artist, Farrell said he’s been producing house music as well as a score for an orchestra. “Me, personally, I’m working on music for an orchestra,” Farrell said. “I’m working on music for Porno for Pyros, working on music for Jane’s ...
41 Artists Reflect on Nirvana’s Nevermind Turning 30
The world changed 30 years ago today. Though it took a few months before the proverbial train left the station, the rumblings from the underground completely blew up when college rock and punk blended to form alternative rock, with Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl serving as the conductors. Nevermind’s legacy is firmly and safely entrenched in music history. It’s been discussed so many times before, but here’s the CliffsNotes version. All of these years later — even though Nirvana burned out instead of fading away — Nevermind continues to resonate. Cobain’s powerful lyrics are still influencing people of all generations (maybe not Boomers, but Gen X and beyond) and their musical tastes. It still serves as the gateway to rock for countless fans. When SPIN spoke with Nov...
30 Artists Reflect on 30 Years of Pearl Jam’sTen
The story has been told thousands of times, but it bears repeating: Pearl Jam should never have happened. The ’90s had just begun. In March 1990, the promising Seattle rock band Mother Love Bone was about to unveil their debut album. But on the eve of the release, the band’s lead singer, Andrew Wood, died tragically of a heroin overdose. His band members, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament were blind-sided, devastated, and decided to end the band. Over the next few months, Gossard slowly found his way back to music. He made a few demos that landed in the hands of a surfer from San Diego via Chicago who got them from ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons. The surfer’s name was Eddie Vedder. The songs he sent back? “Alive,” “Once,” and “Footsteps.” Pearl Jam formed around t...
Perry Farrell’s 5 Favorite Lollapalooza Moments
Lollapalooza has defied the old F. Scott Fitzgerald adage from The Last Tycoon that “there are no second acts in American life.” Since 2005, Perry Farrell and partners have hunkered down in Chicago’s Grant Park (for the American version) to bring the once-alternative playground that spit in the face of the mainstream more into the mainstream. Though this year’s fest’s impact is yet to be known, there’s no doubt in the festival’s 30 years (on and off at various points), Farrell has seen it and been through it. So, what better way than to get the best stories from Lollapalooza’s history than from Farrell himself? However, just as we got rolling, the Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros didn’t pull any punches and came out of the gates firing. In fact, he blamed SPIN for him n...
To Live and Die in L.A.: Our 1996 Red Hot Chili Peppers Cover Story
This article originally appeared in the April 1996 issue of SPIN. “Los Angeles is my favorite city in the world!” declares super foxy Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro, offering as proof of his conviction the city’s name tattooed on the back of his neck. “I would never live anywhere else.” Navarro, drummer Chad Smith, and I are wedged into Newsroom, a trendy Beverly Hills restaurant/coffee house/media mill where omnipresent TV monitors serve up the latest from the E! network with your rice-milk cappuccinos. “But I feel like the bad is taking over,” says Smith, an unadulterated rock dude and Detroit native who, Navarro says, wrote the book on that city’s infamous evening of arson known as Devil’s Night. “I wouldn’t want my kids growing up here,” admits Smith, who at age 33 s...
SPIN Presents Lipps Service With Guest Perry Farrell
SPIN is partnering with Scott Lipps to bring to you SPIN Presents Lipps Service. The acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Shepard Fairey, Courtney Love, Dove Cameron and many, many more. This week’s episode features none other than Jane’s Addiction and Lollapalooza co-founder Perry Farrell. In the episode, Farrell spoke with Lipps while dealing with the everyday riff-raff of family life. The duo discuss Jane’s Addiction’s origins in the ’80s, how he managed to receive previously unheard and unreleased Jim Morrison tracks from folks in Israel that landed on his new career-spanning box set, and what it was like to be a male escort in Los Angeles. A...
Perry Farrell Reveals More Details About Lollapalooza’s Possible 2021 Return
Perry Farrell has revealed more details about Lollapalooza’s potential return in 2021. While speaking to iHeartRadio’s Jason Rockman, the Jane’s Addiction frontman/festival co-founder said he’s hopeful the festival will happen in some capacity this summer. “If we can all stay on course, get vaccinated, stay socially distanced and masked up, maybe — please, God, maybe — we’ll get to go to Chicago in early August in one capacity or another,” he said. “If it’s not a giant Lollapalooza, it might be a half-capacity Lollapalooza or no Lollapalooza. But I want there to be a Lollapalooza in some capacity so bad.” Farrell went on to note they can only follow the public’s lead. “But we can only respond to the people. If the people are getting it right and we’re flatteni...
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