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  Hear Perry Farrell's Shockingly Tender Remix of Matthew Herbert's 'Addiction'

  January 29, 2013 – Any good scholar of dance music can tell you that its history is a dialectical one — an interplay between experimental techniques and visceral immediacy, between mind-bending sonics and floor-filling functionalism — and few artists have navigated that balancing act better than Matthew Herbert. …
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  Perry Farrell Staging Jane's Addiction Musical Theater Without a Theater

  January 4, 2013 – Perry Farrell's next musical project won't be a follow-up to Jane's Addiction's 2011 album, The Great Escape Artist, or a Porno for Pyros reunion, but rather an actual musical, one involving Jane's Addiction."My next project is that I'm working on a play, it's a musical," the "Just Because" singer tells Prefix. "But it's going to be immersive theater. …
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  Perry Farrell Will Bring Lollapalooza 2013 to Israel

  August 6, 2012 – Lollapalooza is heading to the Holy Land. What began as a nomadic alternative music tour in the early '90s has become a globe-trotting multi-day event in Chicago, Brazil, Chile, and starting next year, Tel Aviv. Even before this weekend's (weather-challenged) festival wrapped up, organizers announced that Lollapalooza Israel would take place August 20-22, 2013 in the capital city's Yarkon Park, the largest park in Israel. …
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  Perry Farrell: Color-Coded Lollapalooza Lineup Is No Coincidence

  April 11, 2012 – What's black, white, and red all over? This morning, Lollapalooza officially announced their 2012 line-up, complete with the color-coded Crayola box daydream headliners of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Jack White, and the Black Keys (alas, Yellow Ostrich can only bring yellow sunshine on the undercard). …
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  Perry Farrell Has Become Stefon

  January 25, 2012 – Did Perry Farrell morph into Saturday Night Live's lovably eccentric nightlife correspondent Stefon overnight, or was a slow evolution over the past decade? Jane's Addiction will be premiering a new video for The Great Escape Artist's "Underground" today on Vevo in a few hours (we'll add it here when it's live It's live!). …
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  Perry Farrell Lays Out Lolla Lineups, Plan to Save the Music Biz

  November 21, 2011 – This morning Perry Farrell announced the lineups for Lollapalooza Chile (Foo Fighters, Björk and Arctic Monkeys) and Lollapalooza Brazil (Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys and Jane's Addiction), two massive events that'll take place March 31-April 1, 2012 and April 7-8, 2012, respectively. When SPIN caught up with the always-chatty Jane's Addiction frontman a week ago, he talked about bringing his Lolla dream to South America... …
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  Perry Farrell Talks New Jane's Addiction LP

  February 4, 2011 – Friday, January 28, was a very big day for alt-rock pioneer Perry Farrell. He celebrated his ninth wedding anniversary at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with his wife and collaborator, Etty Lau, and unveiled the lineup for Lollapalooza Chile, the first international installment of the legendary rock fest, which he founded 20 years ago. …
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  Arcade Fire, Em at Grammys, Queen Movie + More

  January 13, 2011 – Arcade Fire, Eminem, Cee Lo, and Katy Perry are all slated to perform at this year's Grammy Awards, airing February 13 on CBS. Lady Gaga has also been confirmed to perform, after the singer's backup dancer announced the news yesterday. More performers will be revealed soon. [Grammy.com] The biopic on Queen's Freddie Mercury, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, will begin filming later this year, with an expected Fall 2011 release date. …
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  Jane's Addiction Recording With Dave Sitek

  January 4, 2011 – Jane's Addiction have been hard at work on their first album since 2003's Strays. And now Perry Farrell and his crew have roped in an new collaborator: TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. The multi-instrumentalist (and producer of albums for his own band, plus efforts from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, and others) will be playing bass and writing songs with Jane's for the still-untitled LP, according to Spinner. …
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  Lil Wayne and Eminem Set for SNL and more

  November 19, 2010 – Lil Wayne is set to perform with Eminem on Saturday Night Live's December 18 show. The two will perform their duet "No Love," from Em's Recovery. The Black Eyed Peas will perform during the halftime show of the next Super Bowl, set for Feb. 6 in Arlington, Texas, at Cowboys Stadium. …
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