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Have you been jonesing for some good ol' raw, in-your-face, explosive music? Not to worry: Jane's Addiction are reuniting.



Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins will be honored at the NME Awards on July 23 in Los Angeles, at the El Rey Theatre. According to a RollingStone.com report earlier today, the band will also perform at the event.

Jane's will be presented with the NME Godlike Genius Award for Extraordinary Services to Music — they're the first American band to be granted the honor by the U.K. magazine. Farrell and the gang are being recognized for their pioneering efforts to bring American alternative music to the masses, via the creation of Farrell's Lollapalooza festival. This year will mark the first time the ceremony will be held in the States.

According to RollingStone.com, NME Editor Conor McNicholas said Thursday: "When we were in the planning stages of bringing the NME Awards to America, Jane's Addiction were always in our thoughts. They are exactly the sort of  once-in-a-lifetime inspirational, aspirational, no-holds-barred, genre-busting, risk-taking, pioneering group which sums up what the NME Awards is all about. Breath-taking live, phenomenal on record, they blazed a trail for alternative music from which others have truly benefited over the past 20 years and it is with the very greatest pleasure that we acknowledge and honour their contribution to making music which makes the world a better, more exciting place to live in."

Formed in 1985 by Farrell, guitarist Navarro, drummer Perkins and bassist Eric Avery, the ceremony will mark the band's first performance since their third disbanding in 2004. The band had previously split up in 1991, with a brief reunion in '97, before re-forming in 2001, only to split again in '04, the same year the touring Lollapalooza was canceled due to poor ticket sales. Farrell has since reformatted Lollapalooza into a stationary two-day festival in Chicago.

In recent years, Navarro, ex-Jane's bassist Chris Chaney, and Perkins formed The Panic Channel, while Farrell went on to create Satellite Party with his wife, Etty. Neither band achieved mainstream success.

As of yet, there's no word on a reunion tour. But here's hoping that this time Jane's Addiction will find the cure to what ails them, and actually stick together.

-Leah Ann Cevoli