Rock quartet the Panic Channel, which features former Jane's Addiction members Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney, along with singer Steve Isaacs, hit the road for a three-week tour Tuesday in San Diego. And the tour couldn't come soon enough for Navarro, who hasn't been on the road since 2003, reports RollingStone.com.
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I'm really excited to get back into the clubs and just start rocking the people and having the people rock me," the guitarist says. "
The Panic Channel sound is jam-oriented rock,"
Navarro says, "
a storytelling band that combines melody, mystery and unapologetic power."
The band will release its debut album, "(ONe)," on September 12 via Capitol Records. Among the selections on the CD are "Bloody Mary," a story-song about a mythical Hollywood Hills drug dealer that Isaacs describes as "the goth version of 'Hotel California'"; "Tea House of the Spirits," which Navarro calls a cross between "Led Zeppelin and punk rock" and "Night One," the song Navarro says he's most looking forward to playing live. "It's eight minutes on the record, which could potentially turn into fifteen minutes live," he says. "I'm just a fan of songs that could go on and shape-shift and I can certainly get lost in."
Isaacs says there are a number of such sprawling tracks on the disc. "A lot of these songs have these big end-jams and collapsible middles where, when we play live, we can open those up and let these tunes grow free," he says.
Isaacs hopes fans will judge the Panic Channel on their own merit and take it for what it is -- a new band. "I hope that people really like and really appreciate the music, that they can feel it as its own separate band and can look at it as just what it is, a really high-octane garage band that was created by some people who got in a room and found out they can write songs together," he says. "And for rock, a lot of times it's just that simple."
Read more at Rolling Stone. The band's tour dates can be found here.
In related news, a video clip of the band's acoustic version of "Outsider", shot on the last day of rehearsal prior to the band's U.S. club tour, has been made available online at this location. Check out the tracks "Teahouse Of The Spirits" and "Why Cry" at the MySpace page.
