We've been through this already, but it bears repeating because it keeps happening: In 2009 Iggy Pop somehow became the king of oddball duets (often with younger ladies). He's also the best part of this campy video for Jemina Pearl's... CONTINUE READING NEW JEMINA PEARL (FEAT. IGGY POP & THURSTON MOORE) VIDEO - "I HATE PEOPLE" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on October 15, 2009 in (52 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | Jemina Pearl | Thurston Moore
As mentioned, Norwegian rocker Ida Maria recently re-released her catchy Fortress Round My Heart opener "Oh My God" with additional vocals courtesy of Iggy Pop, aka the new Tony Bennett. (In the last few months Pop's placed his baritone on... CONTINUE READING NEW IDA MARIA (FEAT. IGGY POP) VIDEO - "OH MY GOD" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on October 7, 2009 in (23 comments)
Tags: Ida Maria | Iggy Pop | Perez Hilton | Thom Yorke
Rock Band seemed a lock to own fake-guitar-gamer discourse with their Beatles installment, but they didn't count on Guitar Hero's classy Cobain maneuvering. Still, the battle for most ridiculous mock-musician timesuck springs eternal: Meet Lego Rock Band, the video game... CONTINUE READING IGGY, BOWIE GET LEGOFIED FOR LEGO ROCK BAND»
Posted on October 7, 2009 in , (12 comments)
Tags: David Bowie | Iggy Pop | Rock Band
The Norwegian rocker's two-year old hit now has extra vocals by that fellow from the Jemina Pearl song. The digital 45 is out and can be streamed at SPIN. She's headlining the Perez Hilton Presents (shudder) tour this fall.... CONTINUE READING IDA MARIA RERELEASES "OH MY GOD" WITH IGGY POP»
Posted on September 1, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Björn Yttling | Ida Maria | Iggy Pop | Perez Hilton | Pretty Good Dance Moves
For Iggy Pop's most recent curious career turn, he's doing a poppy duet with his granddaughter (just kidding) ex-Be Your Own Pet vocalist Jemina Pearl. The track's "I Hate People" from her forthcoming solo debut Break It Up. It may... CONTINUE READING NEW JEMINA PEARL (FEAT IGGY POP) - "I HATE PEOPLE"»
Posted on July 24, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Be Your Own Pet | Iggy Pop | Jemina Pearl
The last time we heard from the old folks at Breakfast At Sulmay's, they were affixing Bob Dylan and "Oriental music" to Dirty Projectors. Their take on Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" is pretty accurate, and complete with Poseidon Adventure references.... CONTINUE READING OLD FOLKS REVIEW GRIZZLY BEAR»
Posted on July 6, 2009 in (30 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Iggy Pop
When not recording French Pop albums Iggy Pop spends his time performing the BPA's (aka Brighton Port Authority, aka Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim and various guests) version of the Monochrome Set's "He's Frank" on various late night programs. You... CONTINUE READING IGGY POP & THE BPA BRING "HE'S FRANK" TO LETTERMAN, FALLON»
Posted on June 24, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Iggy Pop | Jimmy Fallon | The BPA
Yes, this is the year of Dark Nights (but not that kind, which is very last year). We'd told you about Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's ubiquitous Dark Night Of The Soul posters, and now we can point you toward a... CONTINUE READING STREAM DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL»
Posted on May 6, 2009 (12 comments)
Tags: Danger Mouse | Dark Night Of The Soul | David Lynch | Frank Black | Gruff Rhys | Iggy Pop | James Mercer | Jason Lytle | Julian Casablancas | Nina Persson | Sparklehorse | Suzanne Vega | The Flaming Lips | Vic Chesnutt
A sequel to "I Wanna Be Your Dog," right? Not really. "King Of The Dogs" comes from Iggy Pop's forthcoming solo New Orleans jazz-influenced album Préliminaires, which was also inspired by the French writer Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility Of An... CONTINUE READING NEW IGGY POP - "KING OF THE DOGS"»
Posted on May 5, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Gang Gang Dance | Green Man Festival | Iggy Pop | Trailer Trash Tracys
Préliminaires (6/3 on Astralwerks) is inspired by Michel Houellebecq's 2005 novel The Possibility Of An Island and includes jazz standards "Insensatez" and "Les Feuilles Mortes" along with Cajun flavored originals like "King Of The Dogs." A press conference about it... CONTINUE READING IGGY POP PREPS FRENCH JAZZ ALBUM»
Posted on March 25, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop
If you recall, the BPA, aka Brighton Port Authority, is Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, and any number of guest vocalists (Emmy The Great, David Byrne). That in mind, when I saw Coldplay's video for "Life In Technicolor II" I... CONTINUE READING NEW BPA (FEAT. IGGY POP) VIDEO - "HE'S FRANK (SLIGHT RETURN)" »
Posted on January 23, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: Audrye Sessions | Bumbershoot | Iggy Pop | The BPA
The 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees were announced this morning, and again prog get no respect. However, cheers to The Stooges for finally getting the nod (Iggy Pop's Madonna tribute put him in the Hall's good graces)... CONTINUE READING ROCK HALL NOMINATES METALLICA, RUN-D.M.C., STOOGES»
Posted on September 22, 2008 (29 comments)
Tags: Bobby Womack | Chic | Iggy Pop | Jeff Beck | Little Anthony And The Imperials | Metallica | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Run-D.M.C. | The Horrors | The Stooges | Wanda Jackson | War
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. For the cover story, Bob Guccione Jr. himself gets in the ring with... CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: SPIN, NOVEMBER, 1990»
Posted on June 23, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: Axl Rose | Bon Jovi | Iggy Pop | Judas Priest | Pixies
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. A paint-by-numbers Iggy Pop feature/interview gets the November 1986 cover love (first interview... CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: SPIN, NOVEMBER 1986»
Posted on April 14, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop
Adding to our Madonna reportage, according to Rock Daily, Iggy and his Stooges are going to cover the Material Mom at this year's Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. (Looking at that pic to the right, he may... CONTINUE READING STOOGES TO COVER MADONNA AT HALL OF FAME INDUCTION»
Posted on March 4, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | Madonna | The Stooges
We pulled this together just in time for your lunch break. Make it a long one. In memory of Tom Snyder, who passed yesterday at the age of 71. From 1973-1982, the coveted post-Carson slot on NBC belonged to the... CONTINUE READING TOM SNYDER'S GREATEST ROCK MOMENTS»
Posted on July 30, 2007 in (19 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | KISS | Plasmatics | Public Image Ltd. | The Clash | The Sex Pistols | Tom Snyder | U2
History is being made over at Comedy Central: The network we love to laugh with (save the looping MADtv reruns; make it stop!) has picked up the animated satire Lil' Bush, originally an Amp'd Mobile downloadable short, for a six... CONTINUE READING IGGY POP & JEFF TWEEDY ARE LIL' RUMMY & LIL' GOD, RESPECTIVELY»
Posted on May 31, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Foo Fighters | Iggy Pop | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Wilco
As promised, here's our last photo roundup of the shows we hit and folks we pestered on the streets of Austin during this year's South By Southwest music festival. All in all we had a great time, saw some old... CONTINUE READING SXSW: LAST DAY IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 19, 2007 in (26 comments)
Tags: Aziz Ansari | Bill Callahan | Donovan | Eugene Mirman | Iggy Pop | Jesse Harris | Joanna Newsom | Kings Of Leon | Mike Watt | Spoon | SXSW | The Apples In Stereo | The Good The Bad And The Queen | The Pipettes | The Polyphonic Spree | The Stooges | Thunderbirds Are Now!
The Stooges: Version '07's distinction from its earlier incarnation is best illustrated with this line from the band's profile in this weekend's NY Times:While recording, Iggy swam laps in the hotel pool every day before going to work at noon.... CONTINUE READING NEW STOOGES - "FREE AND FREAKY"»
Posted on February 26, 2007 (11 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | Mike Watt | The Stooges
With more acts than you can shake a wristband at added by the day to the SXSW 2007 lineup, it'll be tough for any one showcase to be a must-hit -- but Esquire's booked a doozy. The Stooges, Kings Of... CONTINUE READING ESQUIRE'S SXSW SHOWCASE»
Posted on February 8, 2007 (23 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | Kings Of Leon | Spoon | SXSW | The Stooges
The new clip from Swedish rockers Teddybears has Iggy doing his best Sting, in a vid pulled from everyone's favorite Cadillac commercial. But then, unlike the Jaguar clip, there's some irony to mine from the sweet, high-res images of a... CONTINUE READING NEW TEDDYBEARS (FEAT. IGGY POP) VIDEO - "PUNKROCKER"»
Posted on January 19, 2007 in (39 comments)
Tags: Iggy Pop | Teddybears
Golden Fiddle links to some casting news about an upcoming Keith Moon biopic. Apparently comedian Mike Myers has signed on to play the wild Who drummer. Pete Townshend has yet to complain about it on his blog, so that's a... CONTINUE READING CASTING COUCH: KEITH MOON»
Posted on September 30, 2005 in , (31 comments)
Tags: Elijah Wood | Iggy Pop | Keith Moon | Mike Myers | The Who
