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R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots have been tapped to participate in the 10th annual Voodoo Music Festival down in New Orleans from October 24-26.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 2, and for all your additional info check out the festival’s official site.

Besides the Voodoo Fest, Lollapalooza and the Virgin Festival had previously announced line-ups filled with alternative bands including Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, and the Foo Fighters. Oddly enough, Trent Reznor and company will be a part of all three festivals.

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While on the Howard Stern show, Weiland announced that he was working on the album with legendary producer Steve Albini (he’s worked with the Pixies, Page & Plant, PJ Harvey and Nirvana). Also, Weiland revealed that No Doubt’s Adrian Young would be appearing as the album’s drummer.

As of now, there is no other info, but I did read that November is the expected release date, so we’ll have to wait and see.

I’m looking forward to this album, it should be interesting.

And, if anyone is concerned about this affecting anything in STP, you have have nothing to fear.

The first reason is that the guys in STP did various projects and still stuck together for a few more years. Scott had his first solo album, 12 Bar Blues, while the other guys did the Talk Show project. Plus, all the bs these guys went through, I highly doubt a Scott Weiland solo album would break them up again.

The second reason is that Scott’s been working on this solo album for years. Back in 2005 he appeared on Last Call With Carson Daily and debuted some new solo tracks. So, let Scotty boy get this out of the way so that he can focus on STP again.

Here’s the video for “The Man I Didn’t Know” from 2005.

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• Core, the band’s debut album, was released on September 29, 1992.
• Core went 8x platinum.
• Singles: “Plush”, “Creep”, “Sex Type Thing” and “Wicked Garden”
• Must have tracks: “Crackerman”, “Piece of Pie”.

“Creep”


• Purple was released on June 7, 1994.
• Purpledebuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and went 6x platinum.
• Singles: “Interstate Love Song”, “Vasoline” and “Big Empty”.
• Must have tracks: “Kitchenware & Candybars”, “Lounge Fly”, “Army Ants”.

“Interstate Love Song”


• Tiny Music…Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop was released on March 26, 1996.
• Tiny Musiconly went 2x platinum.
• Singles: “Big Bang Baby”, “Lady Picture Show” and “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart”.
• Must have tracks: “Tumble In The Rough”, “Adhesive”, “Seven Caged Tigers”.

“Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart”


• No. 4 was released on October 26, 1999.
• No. 4would reach platinum status.
• Singles: “Down”, “Sour Girl”.
• Must have tracks: “Atlanta”, “Glide”, “Church on Tuesday”.

“Sour Girl”


• Shangri-La Dee Da was released on June 19, 2001.
• Shangri-La Dee Da debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200, but failed to reach platinum status.
• Singles: “Days of the Week”, “Hollywood Bitch”.
• Must have tracks: “Too Cool Queenie”, “Regeneration”, “Bi-Polar Bear”.

“Days of the Week”


• Thank You, a greatest hits collection, was released on November 11, 2003.
• Thank You debuted at #26 on the Billboard 200.
• Singles: “All In The Suit That You Wear”, plus every other track cause it’s a greatest hits package.
• Must have tracks: “All In The Suit That You Wear”, “Plush” (acoustic)

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It’s a pretty cool song, but should anyone really complain? I mean Trent is really sticking to this giving away music thing, which is awesome.

Besides enjoying the track as is, fans also have an opportunity to remix the tune at the band’s remix site.

The band also mentioned that more tour info and “some other info about something else, too” would be arriving soon. One can only speculate with Trent.

As of now, Nine Inch Nails will kick off their tour on July 25 at the first ever Pemberton Festival and will run until September. You can check out their full schedule right here.

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What I like about “Never There”, and I guess most Cake songs, is that the music is just a tad upbeat, while the lyrics are pretty much depressing, but always manage to speak the truth. Their a clever band.

Check out the video, if you forgot the song.

Oh yeah, the video is pretty entertaining as well.

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I already did a post on Tiny Music last summer, but it’s still my favorite STP album (and their best). Besides, this beautiful weather just tells me that it’s time to bring this album back by blasting it for all to hear.

With that, here’s my post from last August: Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music…Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop.

Until next time, enjoy the groovy video for “Big Bang Baby”.

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There’s no other info at this time, but be sure to check out the band on May 1 when they appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

I love STP, but I’m not too sure about this. It seems kind of lame to release a live DVD with only 7 tracks, but if they add some special features then I’m game.

For now, check out this little sampler from the April 7 performance.

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“Pork and Beans” was released as a 30 second sample last week and will be released as a single this Thursday, April 24.

The band has also released the tracklisting for their new album, which is supposed to come out in June.

It should go something like this:

1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin’
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. The Angel and the One

The deluxe version, which will be through iTunes, will feature the additional tracks: “Miss Sweeney”, “Pig”, “The Spider” and “King”.

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• The festival was inspired by the “A Gathering of the Tribes”, which was held October 6 and 7, 1990 at Mountain View and Los Angeles, CA.
• “A Gathering of the Tribes” featured: Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, Indigo Girls, Ice T, Joan Baez, Queen Latifah and more.
• Perry Farrell attended the L.A. “A Gathering of the Tribes” and came up with a similar and diverse festival as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.
• Lollapalooza means: “remarkable or wonderful person or thing”, and also means a lollipop.
• Farrell heard the word lollapalooza in a “Three Stooges” short.
• The inaugural line up in 1991 was: Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes.
• 1992 a second stage was added and the show included: Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush   Side Stage: Jim Rose Circus, Sharkbait, Archie Bell, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, Vulgar Boatmen, Truly, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Rage Against the Machine.
• 1992 often saw Pearl Jam and Soundgarden popping up during each others sets, even some Temple of the Dog reunions.
• 1993: Main Stage: Primus, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr, Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool, Rage Against the Machine       Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, The Coctails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Glue, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Hurl, The Goats
• Nirvana was offered to headline the 1994 edition, but declined. The Smashing Pumpkins replaced Nirvana after Kurt Cobain was found dead.
• 1994: Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)                                      Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes.
• 1995:  Main Stage: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, Sinéad O’Connor (first few shows; bowed out due to pregnancy), Elastica (replaced O’Connor, as did Moby for a few shows), Beck, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones          Side Stage: Coolio, Doo Rag, Possum Dixon, Poster Children, Yo La Tengo, Brainiac, The Coctails, Geraldine Fibbers, Dambuilders, Laika, The Pharcyde, Tuscadero, Built to Spill, Helium, Redman, St. Johnny, Dirty Three, Mike Watt, Versus, Hum, Blonde Redhead, The Roots, Blowhole, The Zeros, Pork Queen, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Sabalon Glitz, Psychotica, Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange Wrestling.
• In 1996, Farrell quit the organization that planned the festival. The William Morris Agency bought most of the rights. And, the decline begins…
• 1996: Main Stage: Metallica, Soundgarden, The Ramones, Rancid, Shaolin monks, Screaming Trees, Psychotica  Main Stage on Selected Dates: Rage Against the Machine, Cocteau Twins, Waylon Jennings, Cheap Trick, Violent Femmes, The Tea Party, Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Earle, Devo, 311                                                                Side Stage: Beth Hart Band, Girls Against Boys, Ben Folds Five, Ruby, Cornershop, You Am I, Soul Coughing, Sponge, Melvins, Satchel, Jonny Polonsky, Fireside, Ass Dildo                                                                                                                                          Indie Stage: Chune, Moonshake, Lutefisk, Capsize 7, The Cows, Long Fin Killie, Thirty Ought Six, Varnaline, Crumb.
• 1997: Main Stage: Orbital, Devo, The Prodigy, The Orb, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tricky, KoЯn, James, Julian and Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, Eels, Failure                                                                                                                                 Side Stage: Beck, Summercamp, Artificial Joy Club, Jeremy Toback, Radish, Old 97’s, Inch, Porno for Pyros, The Pugs, The Lost Boyz, Agnes Gooch, Demolition Doll Rods, Skeleton Key, Molly McGuire, Orbit.
• 1998, the festival couldn’t land a headliner and ended.
• In 2003, the festival and Jane’s Addiction return.
• 2003 line up: Main Stage: Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age (7/5-8/13), A Perfect Circle (8/15-8/23), Jurassic 5, The Donnas, The Distillers, Rooney                                                                                                             Side Stage: Steve-O, Burning Brides, Cave In, Kings of Leon, Hierosonic, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Music, The Mooney Suzuki, Fingertight, MC Supernatural, Boysetsfire, Billy Talent, Campfire Girls, Mondo Generator.
• In 2004, Lollapalooza planned a touring two day festival, but was cancelled after poor ticket sales.
• 2004 line up, if it happened: Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Killers, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, The Von Bondies, The String Cheese Incident, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Danger Mouse, The Polyphonic Spree, Broken Social Scene, The Datsuns, Bumblebeez 81, The Secret Machines, Brayndead Freakshow, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Elbow, Wheat, The Coup, Wolf Eyes, The Dresden Dolls.
• In 2005, the festival becomes a three day at Chicago’s Grant Park.
• 2005 included: Weezer, Primus, Cake, The Killers, Liz Phair, Pixies, Billy Idol, Death Cab for Cutie, and a ton more.
• The festival returned to Chicago on August 4-6, 2006 and featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, Blues Traveller, The Racounteurs, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth and more.
• On October 25, 2006 the festival and the city of Chicago agreed to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago until 2011.
• 2007: Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Muse, Daft Punk, Silverchair, Kings of Leon, Iggy Pop and The Stooges and many, many more.
• August 1-3, 2008: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Blues Traveller and more.

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Now, it gets even better.

The band’s original bassist, Eric Avery, will be reuniting with the rest of the band. This will mark the first performance from the original line up since 1991.

Jane’s will be receiving the award on April 23 in L.A. and are scheduled to play a three song set at the event

Like I said last week, maybe this will be the beginning of another Jane’s reunion, although with Avery this time, makes it pretty sweet.

Now enjoy a blast from the past with the video for one of my favorite Jane’s Addictions songs, “Classic Girl”.

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