Jane's Addiction and Guitar Center Join Forces for Guitar Center On-Stage: Jane's Addiction, Awarding One Unsigned Artist the Opportunity to Open for The Alt-Rock Pioneers on Tour

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer, is partnering with alt-rock pioneers Jane's Addiction to offer an unsigned artist a chance to open for the band through the innovative Guitar Center On-Stage program.   Guitar Center On-Stage: Jane's Addiction is the third installment of their groundbreaking unsigned artist program.  

The program offers one unsigned band the career-altering opportunity to open for Jane's Addiction as part of their summer album launch tour in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago as well as; $20,000 in new gear from Gibson and Epiphone, a $10,000 Guitar Center shopping spree and a mentoring session from Prospect Park, the management team behind Jane's Addiction.  Unsigned bands nationwide can submit their music now at http://www.GConstage.com.

"What they're doing here at Guitar Center, this opportunity for young bands, is essential," says Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.  "It should happen more often because we love being able to give back to emerging bands."

Watch a video about Guitar Center On-Stage: Jane's Addiction here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkJ-zmytrrM

Guitar Center On-Stage: Jane's Addiction is another example of Guitar Center's ongoing commitment to developing unique programming that provides unsigned artists and bands career altering opportunities.  Previous editions of Guitar Center On-Stage featured Motley Crue and KISS, with the Motley Crue winning band, The Last Vegas, going on to win iTunes critics' 2009 "Rock Single of the Year" with their hit single "I'm Bad".

Over the course of their 25-plus year career, Jane's Addiction merged alternative and rock like no one before, becoming the first alternative rock band and creating a new sound and attitude in the process. Writing the rulebook for alternative music and culture through their combination of genre-defying classic songs and trademark cinematic live experience, Jane's Addiction has sold over seven million records in the U.S. alone, garnering Grammy nominations and spearheading the movement of modern American festival culture by launching and headlining Lollapalooza.

2011 marks another momentous year for Jane's Addiction, with the band set to tour the world and release a new album, The Great Escape Artist (Capitol) produced by Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol) with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek brought on as part of the creative team.  The group was also recently inducted into Guitar Center 's RockWalk in Hollywood, joining other equally accomplished musicians and innovators such as Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, Carlos Santana, Johnny Cash, Van Halen, AC/DC, Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith, Carl Perkins, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Run-D.M.C and Queen, among numerous others.  

About Guitar Center

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About Jane's Addiction

Forming in 1985 in L.A., JANE'S ADDICTION has been firmly embedded in the collective pop culture consciousness for 25 years now. Perry Farrell stands out as one of music's most forward-thinking and enigmatic frontmen. Dave Navarro remains a veritable guitar god. Drummer Stephen Perkins' tribal stomp has also influenced a generation of percussionists. The hugely influential Los Angeles-based band has sold in excess of seven million records in the U.S. alone. When lead singer Perry Farrell created the traveling Lollapalooza festival, it galvanized the alternative rock movement and brought it to a whole new level.  JANE'S ADDICTION have written the rule book for alternative music and culture through a combination of genre-defying classic songs and a cinematic live experience. Great bands break rules, but legends write their own.

SOURCE Guitar Center