Perry Farrell's Got A Brand New Band

One of Generation X’s most prominent and prolific space cadets, Perry Farrell, has a new project on his hands. First, he was in Jane’s Addiction, later Porno for Pyros. He founded the revolutionary Lollapalooza, dissolved it when it got too big for its own good and restarted it some years later with a different, sleeker concept. Now, he’s got a new band, a lot of help from his friends and that same unique, hallucinatory way of talking about things.

The band goes by the handle Satellite Party and, according to Billboard, has a new album on the way titled Ultra Payloaded, due out May 15 from Columbia. Guest artists appearing on the album include New Order’s Peter Hook, Fergie, Flea and John Frusciante. Composer Harry Gregson-Williams also appears, fronting a 30-piece orchestra on five songs.

The album features a song written around a previously unreleased Jim Morrison vocal track called “Woman in the Window.” It also has a revamped version of “The Revolution Solution,” a track Farrell previously recorded with Thievery Corporation.

Satellite Party will make its live debut Monday, Jan. 15, in Aspen, Colo., as part of ESPN’s Winter X Games.

“There’s a story about the music,” Farrell told Billboard. “This group of people, who call themselves the Solutionists, try to create a myth. It's the idea of, by putting together their own parties and their own media hub on the Internet, they begin to redesign and come up with solutions for the world.”

Gotcha, buddy. Soon as we figure out what that means, we’re right there with you.

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