The band returned to touring in 2023; Kenney was forced to sit out the 2023 touring cycle after having surgery to remove a brain tumor ; Tal Wilkenfeld took over bass duties until March, and Nicole Row from March onwards.
Following the completion of the tour, the band entered the studio with producers James Ford and Peter Robinson to work on new material. Farrell, Avery and Perkins contributed to the recordings as a trio, with open invitations offered to Navarro and recent touring guitarists Van Leeuwen, Klinghoffer and Ash to…
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On July 9, 2022, Rage Against the Machine played their first concert in 11 years at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin . After De la Rocha ruptured his Achilles tendon during a show in Chicago in July, Rage Against the Machine canceled their European tour and their…
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Following Taylor Hawkins’ death in March 2022, Farrell reached out to Avery: “He presented this idea of me returning to Jane’s, and how we would do it. He was like, ‘Here’s a few years’ plan of how to return some luster to Jane’s Addiction.’ It involved writing new music and…
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Upon reuniting Porno for Pyros, Perry Farrell stated that he would also like to see Jane’s Addiction record new material in 2022 in addition to touring. On August 17, 2022, the band revealed on Instagram that founding bass guitarist Eric Avery had returned to Jane’s Addiction after a twelve-year absence.…
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On August 9 and 10, 2022, Primus played the South Park 25th Anniversary Concert alongside Ween and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker . It was broadcast on Comedy Central on August 13 and on Paramount+ on August 14.
On May 11, 2022, the Smashing Pumpkins announced the Spirits on Fire Tour, a 32-date trek across America with Jane’s Addiction, starting in Dallas on October 2 and wrapping up in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl on November 19. After contracting COVID-19 in December 2021, Dave Navarro continued to…
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In an August 2021 interview with The Spokesman-Review , Claypool confirmed that a new Primus album was in the works: “Some ideas are being thrown around, but we’re not there yet. We will have a new album at some point. We’re focusing on this tour and Farewell to Kings .…
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On April 8, 2021, it was announced that the Public Service Announcement Tour had once again been rescheduled to the spring and summer of 2022.
At the beginning of 2020, the band announced that they would be doing a tour in which every night they would cover Rush ‘s 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety. The tour was postponed twice. Once due to the fact that Primus joined Slayer on their retirement…
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