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NEW JANE’S ADDICTION JAM IS THE JAM!

 Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 at 10:30am by

The most recent album by Jane’s Addiction, 2003′s Strays, was a big-budget, big-production heavy rock record that kinda flopped despite its awesomeness. Since those distant days, Jane’s members have flirted with a full reunion (momentarily counting longtime hold-out Eric Avery as a returned member), with ex-Guns N’ Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagen (he came and went within weeks), and with total futility (via singer Perry Farrell’s lame project The Satellite Party, featuring his wife and Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt).

So, along with my fandom, Jane’s has my curiosity about their new stuff — not just for the abovementioned travails, but also ’cause the album is a Rich Costey production (Mastodon, Muse, Cave In) and is the beneficiary of creative goosings by TV On The Radio dude Dave Sitek. I don’t care about TVOTR, but I’ve surmised that a dose of noisy post-rock might be good medicine for trio of moribund freak-rockers whose attempted return to glory was a safe, anthemic rock radio record. And now I see that my diagnosis is accurate, so far: Just listen to their thunderous, cacophonous new jam “End To The Lies” and its nipply new video (above, NSFW; audio only here). The jam is on fire! Turn it up!

-ADF

Jane’s Addiction’s fourth album The Great Escape Artist is out August 23 on Capitol Records.

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  • Jonathan

    I’m not sure I could ever listen to JA ever again, since their songs are constantly playing on the radio non-stop. In fact, hearing either Jane Says or been Caught Stealing every single day on the radio was the prime motivator to get Sirius. Yes, you heard me right you local radio station whores…YOU chased me away.

    Seriously though, every time I would get in the car it would be on of the two aforementioned JA songs, or even worse “Epic” by Faith No More.

    Yeah, we were sick of those songs 2 decades ago.

    • Dissolution

      I’d kill to hear “Epic” but I hear you on the Janes Addiction. Made me HATE the band. Ugh.

  • Justin Foley

    Anso –

    This song is terrible.

    = Justin

    • http://hipstersoutofmetal.blogspot.com/ Anso DF

      Justin –

      Turn it up louder!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Freeman/1315346890 Phil Freeman

      100% agree. This song is fucking awful. It doesn’t even sound like a Jane’s Addiction song, and there’s one inescapable reason for that – no Eric Avery. His basslines were as important to that band’s sound as any other member’s contributions. Indeed, with “Strays” and this steaming turd as evidence, you could very easily argue that he was the single most important member of Jane’s Addiction.

      These dudes should just fuck off, for the sake of everyone like me who remembers them when they were awesome.

  • mynutz

    No Avery=No Janes

  • wha?

    I think this new one will actually be their 5th album….

  • Jewers

    I’m pretty excited to hear this album. Good way to start the day.

  • Buckaroo

    That’s a good one.

  • Brian R.

    ‘Strays’ was god-awful, who seriously thought that was a good record. This isn’t bad, but I kind of find myself agreeing with above poster, if Eric Avery isn’t a part of it, why bother…

  • ferris

    After being burned by a couple different relapse lineups of Jane’s in concert, I took a vow never to ever to Strays.

    I watch Entourage. For a couple years, when I heard the theme song, I thought, ‘Who is this sh*tty band trying to sound like Jane’s?”

    Eventually I learned that the sh*tty band trying to sound like Jane’s actually WAS Jane’s. Or the latest incarnation of the group, at least.

    The true reunion tour with Avery was the real deal, though.

    Everybody involved is gonna go to hell for not following through on the new album with the original lineup, produced by [Grammy winner] Trent Rez-not.

    So I’ve also taken an oath to not listen to this album.

  • ferris

    I meant “After being burned by a couple different relapse lineups of Jane’s in concert, I took a vow never to ever LISTEN to Strays.”

    I remember early on, thinking, “Wow! ‘Jane Says’ on the radio! Awesome!”

    Cut to a year later, every time I heard the song — and, as y’all noted, they played it ALL the time — I felt like I was being beat with it.

  • Nick

    This is crap, it sounds nothing like Janes Addtiction. I grew up listening to this band and while like others have said the live version of Jane Says and been caught stealing were so overplayed that it made those songs horrible to listen to, the rest of the songs on their earlier albums were great. They had a much better sound, funky, “pigs in zen”, “mountain song”, to epic “three days” yet this new shit sounds like radio rock.

  • lost goat

    this song is just kinda whatever,but its better than that construction rock shit on the radio at least,and the chick was pretty hot looking,so….

  • William Grimmklvt

    It wasn’t bad but then again anything would sound good compared to Strays. A cd of nothing but Cristina for Lacuna Coil queefing would sound better than Strays. At least Dave’s playing guitar again. For a while it seemed like he was more interested in being a reality tv whore than being a guitarist.

  • Sickboy666

    I think the new song is cool, and I love Strays, save for a few of the filler tracks (Hypersonic, Wrong Girl).

  • LarBear

    Is it just me or is it “obvious” that this song is about Eric Avery?
    (see what i did there? if not: http://members.cox.net/g12241/songs/obvious.html )