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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Kid Rock Gives $50K to Detroit
Kid Rock has presented five Detroit community groups with checks for $10,000. The star, who hails from the Detroit 
suburbs himself, gave checks to the Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit, Youthville Detroit, Friends of Belle Isle, Habitat for Humanity and the Detroit Recreation Department.
The Detroit News reports that Rock, wearing a “Made In Detroit” hat said: “I’m just happy I can do it. This city and the surrounding areas have given me a lot in the course of my ascension to be where I’m at today. This is just a start.”
Rock had promised to give something back to Detroit while being honored by the NAACP at a dinner earlier this month. Rock had been criticized buy some for his use of the confederate flag at concerts but Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said the rock star does plenty for his hometown.
“Here’s a guy that’s Detroit through and through,” Bing said. “Whether it’s here locally, whether it’s regionally or whether it’s globally, I always see him promoting Detroit. We need more people like this who just care about people.”
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Jane’s Addiction Gives Away New Song
Making the best of an aggravating situation, Jane’s Addiction are offering a free download of a track from their fourth album The Great Escape Artist, which is due in August. An unfinished version of the song, “End to the Lies,” was leaked last month, and the band has responded by offering up the finished version on their official website for free. Well, mostly for free. One must subscribe to the band’s e-mail list in exchange for the song.
Of the track, Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro told Spinner.com, “To me, it sounds like an updated Jane’s Addiction as it has the hypnotic repetitive nature of some of our early work combined with a modern approach. This track was released as a taste of the record for our die-hard fans. I can’t wait for everyone to hear our first single next month and then the album later in the summer.”
The band’s first album in eight years, The Great Escape Artist includes songwriting and bass-playing from TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek.
In a press release, frontman Perry Farrell said that the during the recording process the band was “fully immersed in the process of making modern music. It has been a great experience thus far, and the results have so much potential.”