{"id":2444582,"date":"2019-05-24T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=839645"},"modified":"2019-05-24T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:11:25","slug":"perry-farrell-rips-strongmen-in-new-pirate-punk-politician-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/perry-farrell-rips-strongmen-in-new-pirate-punk-politician-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Farrell Rips Strongmen in New \u2018Pirate Punk Politician\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/perry-farrell-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/perry-farrell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_perry-farrell\" data-tag=\"perry-farrell\">Perry Farrell<\/a> unleashes a blast of blistering agitprop in the video for his new song, \u201cPirate Punk Politician.\u201d The track will appear on the Jane\u2019s Addiction frontman\u2019s new album, <em>Kind Heaven<\/em>, out June 7th via BMG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Per a statement, the video was directed by a collection of artists known as \u201cMortis.\u201d The clip blends animation and live action, with footage of Farrell and his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, performing the song amidst a steady stream of jarring illustrations that take on President Donald Trump, environmental decay, economic uncertainty, war and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Farrell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/perry-farrell-new-song-pirate-punk-politician-album-kind-heaven-814998\/\">released \u201cPirate Punk Politician\u201d<\/a> in March, describing the track as \u201ca good old fashioned protest song about today\u2019s strongmen and their tactics of oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Kind Heaven<\/em> marks Farrell\u2019s first solo album in 18 years, following 2001\u2019s <em>Song Yet to Be Sung<\/em>. He recorded the album with an array of musicians that would make up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/perry-farrell-new-solo-band-kind-heaven-orchestra-752580\/\">Kind Heaven Orchestra<\/a>, including David Bowie\u2019s longtime collaborator, Tony Visconti, who co-produced the album. <em>Kind Heaven<\/em> also features contributions from the Foo Fighters\u2019 Taylor Hawkins, the Cars\u2019 Elliott Easton and Dhani Harrison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Farrell will launch a North American tour in support of <em>Kind Heaven<\/em> June 7th in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/perry-farrell-pirate-punk-politician-music-video-839645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Farrell unleashes a blast of blistering agitprop in the video for his new song, \u201cPirate Punk Politician.\u201d The track will appear on the Jane\u2019s Addiction frontman\u2019s new album, Kind Heaven, out June 7th via BMG. Per a statement, the video was directed by a collection of artists known as \u201cMortis.\u201d The clip blends animation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:41:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}