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Reviews are pouring in from across the internet in the wake of the much anticipated Jane’s Addiction reunion show last night at the El Rey in Los Angeles. Check links and video below.

LA Weekly | Stereogum | Rolling Stone | LA Times

Sea Wolf has contributed a song entitled “Song of the Magpie” to the upcoming audio book for Augusten Burroughs’ new book “A Wolf at the Table”. Burroughs asked Sea Wolf’s Alex Brown Church to read the book and respond with an original song. The results hit shelves on April 29th; be sure to check it out.

After much speculation in the previous week, Eric Avery has agreed to join former band mates Jane’s Addiction for a one-night-only performance at the first-ever U.S. NME Awards. The iconic foursome will be crowned with the Godlike Genius Award during the ceremony and performance, to take place at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, April 23. Jane’s Addiction is joining the likes of The Clash, New Order, Primal Scream and Manic Street Preachers, who are among the acts to have picked up the Godlike Genius prize at the UK awards.

Avery has continually declined offers to reunite with the band and instead focused on his musical endeavors, most recently, a debut solo LP, Help Wanted, released last week on Dangerbird Records. “I’ve chosen to reject the prospects of reuniting in the past, for personal and philosophical reasons. I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around,” Eric Avery attests. He adds, “The reason I started to even consider this is because it’s honoring the past instead of trying to recreate it.”

NME will bestow this award upon Jane’s Addiction because, as they state, “[they’ve] done more than any other band to introduce American alternative music to the mainstream, founding the touring Lollapalooza Festival and giving what frontman Perry Farrell refers to as the ‘alternative nation’ a real cultural focus and voice.”

See Eric’s new video for “All Remote and No Control” HERE.

The 2008 Capitol Hill Block Party is going to be HUGE, and Darker My Love is gunna be there. Also confirmed are:

Vampire Weekend
Les Savy Fav
The Hold Steady
Girl Talk
Chromeo
Kimya Dawson
The Dodos
Jay Reatard

Click HERE for the official flyer.
Tickets for the two-day event go on sale this Friday at 10a.
For more info, head HERE.

Eric Avery will join his former Jane’s Addiction bandmate Dave Navarro on his weekly “Spread TV” show on maniaTV, this Thursday, April 17 at 11pm EST. Don’t miss it, as this is the first time Eric and Dave will appear together on camera since the Jane’s breakup…

Looking to catch a sneak peak of the forthcoming La Rocca album “OK Okay”?

Thanks to the TV show “One Tree Hill,” you’ll have the chance to hear three cuts in three different upcoming episodes of the show. Think of it as a sampler beamed over TV airwaves.

Here’s a list of the songs and episode air dates:

“Love Under Key” / April 14
“Roadway Hymn” / April 21
“Half Speed” / May 19 (season finale)

Each song will be available to purchase-starting on the show’s air date – exclusively on iTunes.

La Rocca’s sophomore album, “OK Okay,” is due out 9 September.