Iggy Pop spoke with The BBC about the The Stooges plans to reunite for a tour in 2010 and how the band will continue without guitarist Ron Asheton. Asheton passed away in January 2009 . Pop explained: We're all very sorry about Ron. His spirit within the group remains with the rest of us and he is still a presence within the group without being on the physical plain. Check out the interview here ....
Last week was all about the much-maligned institution of the super solo. Now we want you to suggest your favourite lunar tunes I think this week might have been the One Where I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew. Certain impish colleagues are suggesting my next topic should be songs with guitars in them, as it might be more restrictive. Certainly, selecting 20 tracks from the thousands nominated was no...
A new box set has emerged - 'You Don't Want My Name, You Want My Action' - which contains extremely rare recordings of the short lived line up with both Ron Asheton and James Williamson on guitar and Jimmy Recca on bass - which lasted less than two months. They only played ten shows in this guise and the box set contains four of them. I imagine the sound quality is as poor as usual for Stooges bootlegs,...
If only the video and audio quality in this clip were better! Iggy Pop at the first peak of his greatness (I think he's still pretty great), talking about how the technology and industrial ambience of his hometown Detroit influenced the " raw power " that became his trademark sound. He reveals to Dinah Shore that his mom worked at a military technology company that made bombs and missiles,...
The Stooges 1971: Ron Asheton, Jimmy Recca, James Williamson, Scott Asheton, Iggy Pop The Stooges Ask The Musical Question: Who Stole James' Trousers? The first time I met Lenny Kaye, in early '77, the subject of the Stooges came up and he told me--"they were at their peak around '71, when Ron and James were both playing guitar, if they'd recorded that line up, they'd have really kicked ass"....
Iggy Pop @ Road Recovery Benefit in May (more by Arcadia Media) Iggy Pop will be at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble (97 Warren St) tonight (10/13) at 7pm. He's speaking with Robert Matheu, who just wrote The Stooges: The...
Iggy Pop is enjoying a renaissance… and has been since the late 70s when David Bowie produced a couple albums for him in Berlin, which catapulted the inadvertent co-inventor of punk back into the stratospheric level of pop culture in which he belongs. This last quarter of 2009 brings forth not one but two books where Iggy is a subject matter. On November 1, Dave Thompson ’s Your Pretty...
LABEL ROCK Radio Show PLAYLISTE DIMANCHE 27 SEPTEMBRE 2009 http://www.archive.org/details/LABELROCKLABELROCKDIMANCHE27SEPTEMBRE2009 (Download/téléchargement) ANATHALLO “Italo” ( http://www.myspace.com/anathallo ) ANNA TERNHEIM “My heart still beats for you” ( http://www.myspace.com/annaternheim ) ¡DELA DAP “Kaj tu salas” (Melinda Stoika remix)...
Ron Asheton of The Stooges at The 2008 Virgin Festival (08/10/08) Photo: Tim Griffin (more) More often an acknowledgment of career longevity and album sales than a true mark of “greatness” (at least in the “Performer” category), the nominees for the 2010 Rock’n Roll Hall Of Fame were announced yesterday. ABBA, Darlene Love, Donna Summer, Genesis, Jimmy [...]
Warner Bros. Interactive and MTV Games have announced that Iggy Pop, the former leader of the Stooges, will be featured as a minifigure in Lego Rock Band. Players will have a chance to play as the iconic artist, and sing his song “The Passenger,” which is included on the game’s set list. Lego Rock Band is currently [...]
Iggy Pop once sang a song about heroin. In fact, now that I think about it, the guy sang a lot of songs that were, essentially about the horse. He's also made a lot of great music, both as the lead Stooge and as a solo artist. Until now, however, it seems his vision has never truly been realize. More than 30 years after the formation of The Stooges, MTV Games is doing something Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton,...
Yes, we know this is a bit of "old" news since it was making the rounds last week. But Warner Bros. Interactive and MTV Games have just officially revealed that legendary rocker Iggy Pop will appear in LEGO Rock Band ... as a LEGO minifigure. The Iggy and the Stooges track "The Passenger" will appear in the game as a playable track, and Iggy himself will provide the voice over for...
While the members of The Black Keys are both busy touring with their solo projects this fall, the Akron-based act did manage to make their way into the recording studio this summer for an interesting collaborative project they’ve dubbed Blakroc . The duo, who are known for their fuzzy blues-rock, have teamed up with an all-star roster from the world of hip hop that includes Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA,...
Rock icon IGGY POP is to be crowned a 'living legend' at this year's Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.The Stooges frontman has been singled out for the prize and will...
James Williamson, for those of you who aren't up on your proto-punk history, put his three-chord punk guitar jams all over The Stooges' final record, Raw Power. In fact, he wrote a lot of the songs on that record. But after Williamson and Iggy Pop had a falling out in 1980, they hadn't talked in 20 years, and Williamson gave up guitar and became a dentist. That is, until Iggy called him up earlier...
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