No Age Battle Beer Puddles to Bring New Rock to Lollapalooza

No Age's Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt sat down with Rolling Stone at Lollapalooza to explain why Randall performed yesterday's set while wrapped in giant bandages. His injury stems from a dance contest on the tour the band is currently playing with Dan Deacon and Deerhunter. "Bradford [Cox] and I were battling it out and I didn't notice this huge puddle of beer on the floor," he says. "I slip backwards in some type of banana-peel-style fall and I land on my shoulder and dislocate it." As a result, Randall reports, "We might actually be the first musicians to play on actual, prescribed pain killers." Watch the duo talk about their new songs and a bit of their Lolla set, above.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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