Watch Iggy Pop perform @ Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin on June 19. The show was filmed by Arte.
Setlist:
Classically trained harpist Kety Fusco never got around to properly record her first ever composition, She, and she did not think that Iggy Pop would get back to her after she had sent him the track. Well, he did, and he persuaded her to get a take that is worthy of release. O, and he made good on his offer to do the spoken word bit as only he can. The result: a brooding track about a fragile yet powerful creature that was inspired by the movies of David Lynch and Dario Argento, dark and captivating.
On July 14, 1971 Lou Reed, performed at the Scala Cinema in London. The day after that Iggy & the Stooges played up a storm at that same venue. Photographer Mick Rock was there for both nights and shot the pictures that would become iconic album covers. A blue plaque will be unveiled today to honor these events. Thurston Moore will be there to help out:
This Thursday July 14, 5:30pm at London’s Scala Cinema I’ll be helping in unveiling a blue plaque in honor of Lou Reed, Iggy & the Stooges + Mick Rock and the one-two punch of their game changing concerts there in 1972 as seen on the Raw Power and Transformer LP jackets. Bar open with Lou and Stooges music til 9pm. Gimme danger!
» Lou Reed on Wikipedia
» iggyandthestoogesmusic.com
» mickrock.com
Watch David Bowie tackle the Iggy Pop classic Lust for Life. Recorded live at the Rockpalast Open Air Festival 1996 @ Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany - June 22, 1996. They wrote the song as a team in 1976 and it became the title track for Iggy's album that was released in 1977.
Philip Frobos, member of Atlanta based post-punk band Omni, laid down two covers for Aquarium Drunkard's The Lagniappe Sessions: Lou Reed's Berlin (MP3) and Iggy Pop's Tonight (MP3):
Iggy Pop will be bring the noise, and maybe some poetry, to Europe next year. The original "world's forgotten boy" will be 75 by then, but age is only a number. The French love and respect him - they made him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017, the highest cultural honour, and that might explain why there are 12 shows in France in his itinerary.
Live dates:Watch the original Siouxsie and the Banshees clip for their cover of The Passenger. Their version of the Iggy Pop classic was released on their all covers album Through the Looking Glass in 1987.
Leave it to Iggy Pop to release a fine rock song with a punk attitude about COVID-19, Dirty Little Virus: "She is only `9, but she is not my type". Co-writer Leron Thomas took care of the arranging and played trumpet. Chris Berry is on drums and Ari Teitel played guitar and bass.
Family Affair is a self-released single. Buy it from his website.
Iggy Pop, who turned 73 today, has released a surprise cover of the Sly & the Family Stone classic Family Affair, featuring Bootsy Collins on bass:
To all Poptimists!
this track] made me feel good and it was good company and I hoped I could put it out and it would be good company for someone else too.
John Cale will perform at Desert Daze Festival in Joshua Tree, CA (October 15-15).
Watch Mick Rock revisit the locations where he shot iconic photographs of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Syd Barret in a short film made by Zoe Travica.
(thanks: Bettina Der Fuchs)
Jim Jarmusch directing a documentary about The Stooges. What could possibly go wrong? Find out when it hits the theaters on October 28th. He interviewed all the survivors, unearthed rare footage and made into a cohesive story of sorts: Gimme Danger - Story of The Stooges.
No other band in rock’n’roll history has rivaled The Stooges’ combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a front man who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud. There is no precedent for The Stooges, while those inspired by them are now legion.
GIMME DANGER is more an 'essay' than a document. It's our love letter to possibly the greatest band in rock'n'roll history, and presents their story, their influences and their impact, complete with some never-before-seen footage and photographs. Like the Stooges and their music, GIMME DANGER is a little wild, messy, emotional, funny, primitive, and sophisticated in the most unrefined way. Long live The Stooges!"
Jim Jarmusch
Iggy Pop has posted a stream of American Valhalla on YouTube, another song from his new album Post Pop Depression. Far Eastern inspired keyboards intro, a nod to the melody to Led Zeppelin's No Quarter and just his voice in the coda ("I am nothing but my name"). He wrote the songs with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age).
A lengthy tour kicks off in March 28.
Iggy Pop has posted a stream of Sunday on YouTube, another song from his new album Post Pop Depression (March 18 on Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International). Good ol' basic rock evolving into a lush orchestrated string coda (shame about the schmaltzy female backing vocals). He wrote the songs with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age).
A lengthy tour kicks off in March 28.
Iggy Pop got Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), drummer Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) and multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather & QOTSA) to play on his new album Post Pop Depression. They have just announced a tour, playing shows in the USA and Europe.
The core band that recorded the album will be expanded with two guitarists: Troy Van Leeuwen ( QOTSA) and Matt Sweeney.
Live dates:Iggy Pop has posted a stream of Break Into Your Heart on YouTube, another song from his new album Post Pop Depression (March 18 on Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International). He wrote the songs with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age).
Nobody says no when the elder statesman of punk gets in touch. Iggy Pop got Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), drummer Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) and multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather & QOTSA) to help him out on his forthcoming new album Post Pop Depression.
The groundwork was laid by Pop and Homme during writing sessions in the desert. It's an album that looks back (German Days points to his classic albums The Idiot and Lust For Life) and forward - Pop is always game for trying out new stuff and the same goes for Homme. Lead single Gardenia can be streamed on YouTube.
Iggy Pop delivered this year's John Peel lecture. He shared his thoughts on the current state of the music industry ans stresses the importance of not being in it just for the money.
We are now in the age of the schemer and the plan is always big, big, big, but it's the nature of the technology created in the service of the various schemes that the pond, while wide, is very shallow. Nobody cares about anything too deeply expect money. Running out of it, getting it. I never sincerely wanted to be rich. There is a, in the US, we have this guy “Do you sincerely wanna be rich? You can do it!” I didn’t sincerely want to be rich. I never sincerely felt like making anyone else that way. That made me a kind of a wild card in the 60's and 70's. I got into the game because it felt good to play and it felt like being free. I'm still hearing today about how my early works with The Stooges were flops. But they're still in print and they sell 45 years later, they sell. Okay, it took 20 or 25 years for the first royalties to roll in. So sue me.
To start with, I cannot stress enough the importance of study. I was lucky to work in a discount record store in Ann Arbor Michigan as a stock boy where I was exposed to a little bit of every form of music imaginable on record at the time. I listened to it all whether I liked it or not. Be curious. And I played in my high school orchestra and I learned the joy of the warm organic instruments working together in the service of a classical piece. That sticks with you forever. If anyone out there can get a chance to put an instrument and some knowledge in some kids hand, you've done a great, great thing.
Read the full transcript or download the podcast via the BBC.
Iggy Pop is featuring in a rather brilliant ad in Belgium for Amnesty International: L'avenir du rock, c'est Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber is the future of Rock 'n' Roll). Torture a guy and they will say anything ....
