Tag: Jane’s Addiction

  • L.A. Takedown is the rough draft for Michael Mann’s masterpiece Heat

    L.A. Takedown is the rough draft for Michael Mann’s masterpiece Heat

    I finally, finally, finally had the opportunity to cross L.A. Takedown off my movie watchlist — a largely unavailable holy grail that I’ve been desperately curious to see for years. If director Michael Mann had not reworked this material into the masterpiece Heat, L.A. Takedown would probably be pushed so far down his IMDB or Letterboxd listings that […]

  • Nine Inch Nails & Jane’s Addiction live at Jones Beach, June 7, 2009

    Nine Inch Nails & Jane’s Addiction live at Jones Beach, June 7, 2009

    Street Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social Club, the new band formed by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, opened. Their badass cover of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” was a highlight. Nine Inch Nails It felt wrong somehow to see a band as moody and dark as Nine Inch Nails play while the sun was […]

  • 26 Albums I’m Told I Should Remove From My Collection

    26 Albums I’m Told I Should Remove From My Collection

    Chalkills, the XTC fansite, wants to help you sift through the detritus of your music collection, pronto: One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately (spotted on DGMLive). I own (or once owned) a whopping 26% of these overrated (so they say) canonical classics! Hey, Chalkhills, what did I ever do to you? […]