Lollapalooza today is a sleek, reliably well-oiled pop music festival. But it was born of chaos. On the festival’s first date — July 18, 1991, at Chandler, Arizona’s Compton Terrace — nearly everything that could go wrong did. The sweltering weather fried Nine Inch Nails‘ gear, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell …
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Enigmatic goth icon Siouxsie Sioux has released her first new recording in nearly a decade — a new cover of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger,” recorded as a duet with Iggy, for an ice cream commercial. Siouxsie is of course plenty familiar with “The Passenger,” covering the song in 1987 with …
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Do not ask Simon Le Bon — a man whose name literally translates to “Simon, the Good” — why Duran Duran‘s latest album revels in the bad, the gothic, and the macabre. “I’ve got no fucking idea, mate — it wasn’t mine,” he jokes on a Zoom from his home …
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Siouxsie Sioux will make a grand return to the stage next summer at the U.K. Latitude Festival. The punk musician, best known as the singer of Siouxsie & The Banshees, last played live at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown festival at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2013. Latitude, set for July 20-23, …
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