Jane's Addiction to Release Rarities Box on Rhino in April

If the rumor Trent Reznor started about the possibility of a NIN-Jane's Addiction tour and the apparent full-time return of long, lost bassist Eric Avery into the Jane's fold wasn't enough for us aging Gen-X types, Pitchfork Media just this week announced that Rhino Records is putting out an amazing-looking rarities box set entitled A Cabinet of Curiosities on April 21. Though a good amount of us diehard Jane's fans most likely have a fair portion of the stuff featured on this collection (most of which appeared on the 1998 single-disc rarities package Kettle Whistle as well as the hard-to-come-by 1991 Warners import Live and Rare, this collection nevertheless contains some worthwhile nuggets, including some demos dating back to 1986 and 1987 and an entire December 1990 show originally recorded by MTV from a gig in Milan, Italy, not to mention the long-awaited DVD debut of their indelible VHS tape Soul Kiss.

Additionally, for this year's Record Store Day, Rhino will also be releasing their two Warners albums, 1988's Nothing's Shocking and 1990's Ritual De Lo Habitual.

For more information, visit www.rhino.com.

A Cabinet of Curiosities:

Disc 1:

01 Jane Says (Radio Tokyo Demo) *
02 Pigs in Zen (Radio Tokyo Demo)
03 Mountain Song (Radio Tokyo Demo)
04 Had a Dad (Radio Tokyo Demo)
05 I Would for You (Radio Tokyo Demo)
06 Idiots Rule (Demo) *
07 Classic Girl (Demo) *
08 Up the Beach (Demo) *
09 Suffer Some (Demo) *
10 Thank You Boys (Demo) *
11 Summertime Rolls (Demo) *
12 City (Demo) *
13 Ocean Size (Demo) *
14 Stop! (Demo) *
15 Standing in the Shower ... Thinking (Demo) *
16 Ain't No Right (Demo) *
17 Three Days (Demo) *

Disc 2

01 Ted, Just Admit It... (Demo) *
02 Maceo (Demo) *
03 No One's Leaving (Demo) *
04 My Time (Rehearsal) *
05 Been Caught Stealing (12" Remix Version)
06 Ripple
07 Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey [feat. Ice-T & Ernie-C]
08 L.A. Medley: L.A. Woman/Nausea/Lexicon Devil (Live)
09 Kettle Whistle (Live) *
10 Whole Lotta Love (Live) *
11 1970 (Live) *
12 Bobhaus (Live) *

Disc 3:

01 Drum Intro (Live) *
02 Up the Beach (Live)
03 Whores (Live) *
04 1% (Live) *
05 No One's Leaving (Live)
06 Ain't No Right (Live)
07 Then She Did... (Live) *
08 Had a Dad (Live) *
09 Been Caught Stealing (Live) *
10 Three Days (Live)
11 Mountain Song (Live) *
12 Stop! (Live)
13 Summertime Rolls (Live) *
14 Ocean Size (Live) *

DVD:

Soul Kiss:

01 Mountain Song (Unedited Version)
02 City

Music videos:

03 Had a Dad
04 Ocean Size
05 Stop!
06 Been Caught Stealing
07 Classic Girl
08 Ain't No Right

Live at the City Square in Milan (for MTV Italy, October 1990)

09 Whores *
10 Then She Did... *
11 Three Days *

* previously unreleased

Jane's Addiction "Three Days" Live at City Square in Milan: