The collection is due out April 21 through Rhino.

Here is the track list for all three CDs.

Disc 1:
1. Jane Says
2. Pigs In Zen
3. Mountain Song
4. Had A Dad
5. I Would For You
6. Idiots Rule
7. Classic Girl
8. Up The Beach
9. Suffer Some
10. Thank You Boys
11. Summertime Rolls
12. City
13. Ocean Size
14. Stop!
15. Standing In The Shower…Thinking
16. Ain’t No Right
17. Three Days

Disc 2:
1. Ted, Just Admit It…
2. Maceo
3. No One’s Leaving
4. My Time
5. Been Caught Stealing
6. Ripple
7. Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
8. L.A. Medley: L.A. Woman/Nausea/Lexicon Devil
9. Kettle Whistle
10. Whole Lotta Love
11. 1970
12. Bobhaus

Disc 3:
1. Drum Intro
2. Up The Beach
3. Whores
4. 1%
5. No One’s Leaving
6. Ain’t No Right
7. Then She Did…
8. Had A Dad
9. Been Caught Stealing
10. Three Days
11. Mountain Song
12. Stop!
13. Summertime Rolls
14. Ocean Size

Disc 4 (DVD):
Soul Kiss: The Fan’s Video
1. Mountain Song (unedited version)
2. City
3. Had A Dad
4. Ocean Size
5. Stop!
6. Been Caught Stealing
7. Classic Girl
8. Ain’t No Right
9. Whores* 10. Then She Did…*
11. Three Days*
* previously unreleased

His new solo album, Since 1972 will be available via digital downloads starting March 24 exclusively at Freese’s site, for $7. The $15 CD/DVD combo will arrive in stores April 14.

Personally, I’d believe the the $7 through maybe the $250 packages. After that, things get a little weird.

$7

• Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15

• CD/DVD double-disc set
• Digital download

$50

• CD/DVD double-disc set
• T-shirt
• “Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Signed drum head and drumsticks
• Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)

$500 (limited edition of 15)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Signed cymbal and sticks
• Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)
• Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and “all you can eat” shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks
• Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his car
• Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
• Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
• Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino
• Signed DW snare drum
• Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
• Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Josh writes a song about you and makes it available on iTunes
• Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the YouTubes
• Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
• Get drunk together. If you don’t drink, we can go to my dad’s place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
• Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on Since 1972

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour
• Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
• Twiggy from Marilyn Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles in Long Beach for dinner
• Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)
• At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours … take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour
• Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)
• Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals’ old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
• Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts and Legends” tour. (Separate rooms … no spooning.)
• Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on ‘em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)
• Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again … couples welcome and discreet parking available)
• Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Go on tour with Josh for a few days
• Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
• Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
• Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
• Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
• If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
• Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
• If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
• Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna

(via soundcheck.freedomblogging.com):

I reached out to Jane’s to see if they’d want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.

Their post already has over 2200 comments. Head on over to their site to read the entire post and check out some of the comments. Hate to see NiN go, but hopefully it will only be for a short time. In the mean time, sounds like this farewell tour with Jane’s Addition will kick ass. When/if this tour comes to fruition, be sure we will detail all the information here on 90’s Rockers.

Of course, the songs are not available via mp3, but are streamed in random order. However, they make it easy for you to buy any of the songs via the iTunes store.

Dave Dederer, the lead singer of the Presidents of the United States of America, calls the app “a Whitman’s Sampler for the ears.”

Don’t think this will entice other bands to do the same thing because of ownership of recordings. Most bands are at the mercy of their record labels, and we all know how cutting-edge record labels can be. I’m sure they will consider this a good idea in another 3-4 years when everyone else has moved on to better music distribution methods.

Tickets go on sale next Saturday, February 21, at 10 a.m. EST. For up to concert details, go to www.rockontherange.com.

To get this offer, you must purchase the CD at a Best Buy store.The offer is limited to copies of CDs purchased at Best Buy stores.

It would be impossible to describe the music scene of the 1990’s without mentioning the alternative rock music scene which dominated from the early part of the decade toward its middle part. Furthermore, the rise of grunge music that time defines an important part of what has been the alternative rock phenomenon in that decade. Grunge music is sometimes referred to as”Seattle Sound” because a lot of the bands then were from Seattle.

In enumerating the best bands of the grunge music scene then, (and justifying the choices in the process,) the following five of the biggest band names of the movement definitely made their mark in half-decade run highlighted by bands’ quick rise to fame and success but marred by problems such as drug abuse and a short period of fame for rock bands.

5. Soundgarden

Soundgarden was actually formed in 1984 in Seattle, Washington but did not actually gain success and recognition until the 1990’s because of Nirvana and Pearl Jam’s eventual success that plunged the entire grunge music scene into mainstream music. Soundgarden’s defining album in 1994, “Superunknown,” became their most successful album. The album itself ranked number 1 in the Billboard Top 200 charts and was nominated for the “Best Rock Album” in the Grammy Awards in 1995. The more renowned Soundgarden singles from the album, “Black Hole Sun” and “Spoonman,” each won a Grammy award.

4. Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains was another rock band from Seattle, Washington. The group was formed in 1987 and would eventually release three albums and an EP, “Jar of Flies,” responsible for over 10 million copies sold worldwide up to date. The group was known for their guitar-intense and distortion-filled music as exemplified in their album, “Dirt,” and this had a lot to do the group’s signature guitar-driven attack by Jerry Cantrell and vocalist Layne Staley’s singing.

Despite the successful tours, live performances and album releases by Alice in Chains however, Staley’s drug problems would affect the band’s future and his eventual death from substance overdose would cause its inevitable unofficial disbanding.

3. Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots, (STP,) is one big grunge rock band name that is from outside of Seattle. With over 17 million album copies of the group’s 5 albums sold in the U.S. alone, 15 singles topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy Award for “Best Hard Rock Performance” and several American Music Awards tucked under the group’s belt, STP remains as one of the more popular names among alternative bands in the early 1990’s.

Something noteworthy about STP is that despite the instantaneous rise in their number of fans because of their equally instantaneous successful debut album, “Core”, so did the harsh criticisms against them. In fact the “Rolling Stone” magazine in January 1994 simultaneously had the group as the “Best New Band” according to its readers and the “Worst New Band” according to its music critics. Nevertheless, Stone Temple Pilots would eventually release four more successful albums to etch a name among the grunge music groups of the generation before eventually disbanding in 2002.

2. Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is another Seattle-based grunge rock band and is responsible for the album, “Ten.” “Ten” together with Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” is generally considered to had catapulted alternative rock in the early 90’s towards the mainstream music spotlight. While “Nevermind” was generally considered to have had a greater role in plunging the whole alternative rock business mainstream, “Ten” still had considerate influence on the runaway success that was the 1990’s alternative rock. Pearl Jam’s album in itself is certified 12x platinum at present and remains the group’s most successful album.

The band has been criticized early in its career as a “corporate cash-in” on the phenomenal rise of alternative rock during that time but would eventually prove to be praiseworthy because of the different causes it stood up for such as going against rock star excess, their much publicized battle against Ticketmaster and their refusal to create music videos of their shows. It is also worth noting that Pearl Jam has outlasted a lot of its contemporaries and its

1. Nirvana

The grunge group that tops the list has to be Nirvana. With the remarkable success of its single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” from its 1991 album, “Nevermind,” Nirvana almost single-handedly brought the whole alternative rock commercial success. The album in itself has already sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. and more than 25 million internationally. Because of its feat, Nirvana is considered to be the “flagship band of Generation X” as aptly worded by Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone.

Nirvana was so noteworthy in placing so much passion in perfecting its music that it had a lot of other drummers before being satisfied with Dave Grohl and it had to redo some of its songs such as “All Apologies” and “Heart Shaped Box” because it did not sound “perfect.”

Nirvana’s run came to a halt after Kurt Cobain’s death on April 8, 1994. However the support of Nirvana fans whose ranks have swelled by then for Nirvana records released after Cobain’s death only serve to highlight the legacy left by the band on the movement that was grunge rock.