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"Some Days Never End," Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, June 16, 2008 Wrap-up.

SETLIST

Loose
Down on the street
1969
Wanna be your dog
TV Eye
Dirt
Real Cool Time
No Fun
1970
Mindroom
Fun House / LA
Skull Ring
My Idea Of Fun
Search And Destroy
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I Got a Right
I'm Fried
Electric Chair.

Online, TV coverage:
Virgin radio IOW coverage starting at 9PM GMT
Isle of Wight Festival highlights
When: 9.00pm on Saturday, 14 June 2008
Until: 12.00am on Sunday, 15 June 2008
Info: Join Ben Jones and Sarah Champion for a look back at Friday and Saturday's performances at the Isle of
Wight
Festival.
The pair will be playing out live tracks and interviewing bands from a special studio, on-site at Seaclose Park

ITV
The Isle of Wight Festival 2008
Saturday 14th June
ITV 2 11pm - 12am
Music, interviews and backstage gossip from the second day of the festival, which features performances by Iggy
and the Stooges, the Zutons, the Enemy, Kate Nash and headliners the Sex Pistols

Virgin radio IOW coverage starting at 9PM GMT
Isle of Wight Festival highlights

When: 9.00pm on Saturday, 14 June 2008
Until: 12.00am on Sunday, 15 June 2008

pc: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/on_your_computer.html
UK radio: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/on_your_radio.html
Other Virgin radio stations:
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/other_stations.html
Listen on TV: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/on_your_tv.html
webcams (no sound, maybe useless they turn it on later -- IOW Virgin
studiocam and stagecam:
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/festiva...ht/webcams.html

Info:
Join Ben Jones and Sarah Champion for a look back at Friday and
Saturday's performances at the Isle of Wight Festival. The pair will
be playing out live tracks and interviewing bands from a special
studio, on-site at Seaclose Park

"The question of who survives in the world of music and who doesn’t is often a vexed one – and by survival we don’t mean not losing your record deal after one single, we mean literally staying alive.

The ones you might least expect to go young often do, many you can see coming and some, well some just defy logic. Iggy Pop has put his body through more abuse than most – both physical and chemical - but has survived to tell the tale. In this month’s cover story, he and the Stooges Ron Asheton recount the story to Paul Byrne, a story of a friendship that fell apart and was rebuilt, a career that has teetered on the brink of collapse on many an occasion and their redemption – both personal and professional. Oh, and getting whipped by a Nazi on stage before being dumped in the street by the audience. Nice."

6.13.08: ITV will broadcast parts of the Isle of Wight show, interviews Fri-Sun nights at 11PM GMT; the Stooges will participate..

Loose
Down On The Street
1969
I Wanna Be Your Dog
T.V. Eye
Dirt
Real Cool Time
No Fun
1970
Mindroom
Fun House /L.A. Blues
Skull Ring
My Idea Of Fun
Search & Destroy

Encore::
I Got A Right
Little Electric Chair

iggy and the Stooges add "Search and Destroy" (and "I Got A Right") to the setlist!

Loose
Down On The Streets
1969
I Wanna Be Your Dog
TV Eye
Dirt
Real Cool Time
No Fun
I got a right (didn't get played)
1970
LA Blues
Mindroom
Fun House
Skull Ring
My Idea of fun
Search & Destroy
Little Electric Chair

Thanks, rc!

4.25.08: The leader of the Stooges channels his inner grade-schooler and gives his real impression of Donald Rumsfeld. Video from Comedy Central 2008 here.

DIANA ROSS, "LAST TIME I SAW HIM" (HIP-O SELECT)
J DILLA, "JAY DEELICIOUS: THE DELICIOUS VINYL YEARS" (DELICIOUS VINYL)
MARVIN GAYE, "HERE MY DEAR" (MOTOWN/UME)
RICHIE HAWTIN, "CONCEPT 1 96"
**SONIC'S RENDEZVOUS BAND "MASONIC TEMPLE: DETROIT 1978" (ALIVE)**
VARIOUS ARTISTS, "MUSIC FROM & INSPIRED BY THE MOVIE 'PANIC IN DETROIT' " (HARMONIE PARK)

ARETHA FRANKLIN, "JEWELS IN THE CROWN: ALL-STAR DUETS WITH THE QUEEN" (ARISTA)
DIANA ROSS, "I LOVE YOU" (MANHATTAN)
KID ROCK, "ROCK N ROLL JESUS" (TOP DOG/ATLANTIC)
LOVE ARCADE, "LOVE ARCADE" (ATLANTIC)
**STOOGES, THE, "THE WEIRDNESS" (VIRGIN)**
WHITE STRIPES, "ICKY THUMP" (THIRD MAN/WARNER BROS.)

ARETHA FRANKLIN (WITH FANTASIA BARRINO) "PUT YOU UP ON GAME"
CHIODOS, "LEXINGTON (JOEY PEA-POT WITH A MONKEY FACE)"
KID ROCK, "AMEN"
KID ROCK, "SO HOTT"
**STOOGES, THE, "MY IDEA OF FUN"*
WHITE STRIPES, "ICKY THUMP"

Iggy interview in The Ticket, Irelands leading newspaper 4.18.08, "The soul of Pop" here.

New Books: The Stooges: A Journey Through the Michigan Underworld and Punk Pioneers: When Punk Was Fun, read about them here.

Hugh 'Jeep' Holland was in many ways the catalyst for the Detroit rock revolution of the late 1960s. This enigmatic individual graduated from running hip record store Discount Records in Ann Arbor to his operating his own label and management stable, as well booking every major act that played in Michigan during that heady era. The legendary bills at Detroit's Grande Ballroom were all overseen by Jeep, and many musicians in the state still single him out as the true steward of 60s Detroit rock.

A-Square (Of Course), named for Jeep's booking agency, chronicles the fascinating career of this lovable rogue whose reputation preceded him. It draws principally on the vaults of his A-Square label, so beloved of 60s garage collectors, but also includes rare recordings by some of the groups that Jeep managed and/or booked.

Foremost amongst the latter are the MC5, whose super-rare 1968 single Looking At You was issued by the band on A-Square without Jeep's knowledge. It is featured here from the original master tapes, as are the incendiary early recordings by the Scot Richard Case, later known by the acronym SRC. The Thyme were another popular group that Jeep nurtured, and in addition to their singles, several unissued tracks by the outfit are included.

Jeep also booked the Bossmen, later to become Grande stalwarts the Frost, and several previously unreleased tracks are present on A-Square (Of Course). Of great interest to Stooges freaks will be a live track by the rarely heard Prime Movers, featuring a snotty young Iggy Pop on drums and lead vocals, circa 1966. Collectable items by the Up, Apostles, Rain and others round out the set, which is profusely annotated and illustrated with items from Jeep's personal archive. A-Square (Of Course) finally and definitively documents a major chapter in Detroit rock history.

Interview with Michael Erlewine, Prime Mover member and founder of AMG here at the great Aussie music site The I-94 Bar. Buy it, tracklisting here.

We can exclusively reveal that Iggy & The Stooges will be heading to London this summer for a very special headline set at the infamous Get Loaded in the Park festival.

Held on the sunny plans of Clapham Common, the indie-dance lovin’ Get Loaded in the Park takes place on Bank Holiday Sunday 24th August – so no work Monday!

13 July 2008
France, Rouen, La Grande Armada

19 July 2008
France, Angouleme, Garden Nef Party Festival

Open Up and Bleed signings

Open Up and Bleed, the Iggy biography by Paul Trynka, is out in paperback this month. There are author signings and appearances in London on April 19, Ann Arbor on the 28th, and Detroit on the 30th.
More info here::
http://www.trynka.net/Site/Open_Up_Blog/F304C5F0-9144-4ACB-81E1-1A664ADBF3EA.html

4.09.08: Pop Goes Wild

By Patrick Donovan
March 28, 2008
theage.com.au/

The Australian music industry is gearing up for its official 50th anniversary this July, but will the rest of the world care? Possibly, thanks to a canny plan to re-record Johnny O'Keefe's The Wild One with Iggy Pop backed by Melbourne rockers Jet. The recording is due to take place in Pop's hometown of Miami next month, with the single set for a worldwide release.

Jeff Tweedy, Colin Meloy, Iggy Pop on "Lil' Bush" DVD

Kevin Federline set to join their illustrious ranks

Remember "Lil' Bush", the Comedy Central cartoon show starring a tiny, boxy, juvenile version of our President? You might recall that said show featured a cavalcade of rock star voices during its first season: Jeff Tweedy (as God), Colin Meloy (as the smart version of Lil' Bush's brother Lil' Jeb), Iggy Pop (as Lil' Donald Rumsfeld), Frank Black (as Satan), Henry Rollins (as a veteran), and Dave Grohl and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as themselves.

Well, now you can enjoy these vocal performances accompanied by funny drawings in the comfort of your own home. Today, Comedy Central releases the DVD Lil Bush: Resident of the United States: Uncensored: Season One: The Invasion Begins. (If there were any more colons in that, it would be a Coheed and Cambria album title.) The DVD extras include deleted scenes, interviews, a "tour of the White House", and segments from "The Colbert Report", "South Park", and "The Sarah Silverman Program".

The second season of "Lil' Bush" starts on Thursday, March 13. Iggy returns as Lil' Rummy, and OMIGOD Kevin Federline cameos as Karl Rove, as well as his dreaded rap alias, MC Rove.

Here's a picture of Iggy on set, getting into character. Fun fact: Donald Rumsfeld is known to only wear shirts when cameras are around.

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Rock n Roll is[n't] Dead

Nothing was more heartbreaking to punk fans than losing CBGBs in October 2006. The venerable East Village club that launched acts like The Ramones, Television, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and countless other underground bands shuttered its doors after 33 years. If it had been replaced by a CVS pharmacy, Starbucks or a Citibank, that would have been the corporate nail in the coffin of cool.

I know what you may be thinking: John Varvatos is a designer of high-priced (as well as some moderately priced) clothes. A business. I agree. But the Detroit-born designer also a huge rock 'n' roll fan. This is the guy who features Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper in his ads, and who hosts classic rock performances at his Soho space. He's probably thrilled to own "the birth place of punk" and will probably treat it with reverence.

And, Varvatos is not planning on lining the place with marble or lining the walls with gold (not really his style anyway) but plans to keep it gritty with the original cracked paint, poster art and stickers. I'm actually excited to see the space. If it won't be used as a music venue, I can't think of a better guy to own CBGBs.

Gallery: ‘In the Public Eye’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

That’s the operating idea behind “In the Public Eye: Photographs and Fame,” a new exhibit drawn from the vast holdings of the Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

UK terrestrial Channel 4 has commissioned Rockfeedback.tv Productions to deliver a third season of alternative music show Rockfeedback (6x30'), with cabsat MTV2 in talks with the prodco about licensing a second run.

C4 began airing the show's second season, which runs at 01.25 on Saturday mornings, on March 29, and will air the show's third season after a one-off special in August.

The second and third seasons will feature live performances and interviews with artists such as Iggy Pop, Mystery Jets, The Young Knives and Justice, with specials at live events that Rockfeedback is partnered with, such as the Underage festival and the Field Day festival. Complete article here.

What's this? Well. Bob Gruen is a man who likes to take pictures of rock 'n' roll stars. Now, we're not talking some snap happy chappy hanging around with Snow Patrol here. We're talking John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, The Clash, The New York Dolls... y'see? He's probably taken loads of your favourite rock 'n' roll pictures and you never even knew it! Well, Mr Gruen is to exhibit 280 of his fave and most iconic photographs in an exhibition at The Morrison Hotel

Sadly, you'll have to make your way to New York to see the goods. When? April 24th onwards. Where is that again? Morrison Hotel Gallery, 313 Bowery, NYC. Yeah, but how much is this baby gonna set me back? Well, it's free... so if you're in town, it ain't gonna cost you a dime son. The Morrison Hotel Gallery is, apparently, 'the world's leading purveyor of fine art music photography'. If you need more info, visit the Morrison Hotel Gallery website by clicking here. (This site is not to be missed! -- cb)

Persopolis returns to theaters

Persepolis, the Oscar-nominated animated feature, will return to 100 theaters in an English-language version on April 11. Co-written and co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, it’s based on Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel.

The English version of Persepolis features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni and her mother, Catherine Deneuve, as Marjane and Marjane’s mother. Sean Penn provides the voice of Marjane’s father; Gena Rowlands plays Marjane’s grandmother; Iggy Pop is Uncle Anouche; and Amethyste Frezignac plays young Marjane.

It's Pop music with a twist as Madonna enters Hall of Fame

Jon Pareles, New York
March 12, 2008

LEAVE it to Madonna to make the right gesture. For her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she didn't worry about whether her career as a pop hit-maker, image-maker, sex symbol and provocateuse qualified her as an important figure in any narrowly defined genre of rock'n'roll.

She just brought on an unquestioned rocker — Iggy Pop, the blunt, anarchic and durable songwriter and performer — to sing punk-chorded versions of her hits Burnin' Up and Ray of Light. He was shirtless, hyperactive and backed by the Stooges, who along with him have been nominated but snubbed by the Hall of Fame. Full theage.com.au article here.

Madonna Shocks, Justin Timberlake Pays Tribute At Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony

By Chris Harris
mtv.com
Mar 11 2008 9:07 AM EDT

...Those words served as a fitting preamble for the punk-paced covers of Madonna songs from a leathery and topless Iggy Pop, who, along with the Stooges, paid tribute to the singer with covers of "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light," during which Pop tossed out an F-bomb. At one point during that performance, the cameras panned to a horrified-looking Clive Davis...
Full article here.

3.11.08: Press, Pictures, Video from the 2008 Rock Hall of Fame induction Ceremony

First see the Iggy Pop and the Stooges performance of Madonna's "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light." Explore the menu button -- there are 15 videos here.

Don’t be too worried, Stooges fans: They haven’t sold out to the other side.

So proclaims guitarist Ron Asheton, who Monday night joined band mates Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and Steve MacKay as the Stooges to play a pair of Madonna songs — “Ray of Light” and “Burning Up” — during the latter’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Asheton was reacting to online reports that have described the band’s scheduled performance as a “tribute” to the dance-pop star, whose music is a far cry from the Stooges’ own gritty, primal Detroit rock.

“The Stooges represent everything that’s against what she is,” Asheton told the Free Press from his New York hotel Monday afternoon before the show. “I don’t wish her ill. I don’t hate her or anything. But I’d never even heard of these songs until I had to listen to a tape and figure out what’s going on with them.”

In reality, Asheton said, Madonna asked the Stooges to perform as an act of protest: The group, widely considered a linchpin of early punk, has yet to be inducted by the rock hall, despite six appearances on the nomination ballot. By inviting the group on stage, she sent a message, said Asheton.

Last year’s rock hall ceremony featured a similar demonstration, when the night’s inductees performed the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” during a jam session finale.

“Basically she was upset that we’ve been nominated so many times and never made it, so she asked us to play in protest. And it was under those auspices that I thought we were doing it,” Asheton said. “At first I went, ‘Whaaat?’ Then Iggy said, ‘Why don’t you think about it?’”

It came together quickly: Madonna reached out to Iggy Pop just two weeks ago, Asheton said. The band, which had not performed together since closing out its latest tour in December, worked on the songs long-distance, with the Ashetons in Ann Arbor and Iggy home in Florida.

“Iggy said, ‘We’re gonna rock them up — just play ‘em like Stooges songs,’” Asheton recounted. “They actually sound pretty cool. We just rock ‘em out. You wouldn’t even recognize them as Madonna songs. I never thought I’d say this, but I’ve actually enjoyed playing them.”

On Monday afternoon Asheton had yet to meet Madonna, who was an elementary school student in Rochester Hills when the Stooges started shaking up the Detroit rock scene in the late 1960s. He said if he encounters her during the rock hall’s afterparty action, he’d be sure to be polite.

But he can’t help feeling a little cynicism about the whole ordeal: He probably wouldn’t be in the Stooges without it. With Madonna’s entry into the hall of fame drawing criticism from some diehard rock corners — and with the star’s new album due in April — he figures she may have more than one motivation for handpicking his band.

“I thought that right off the top — that, gee, I just heard she’s got a record coming out, and she’s trying to get a little Stooge shine. She’s a savvy businesswoman,” he said. “I think she actually does like the band. She wouldn’t have asked for us if she didn’t. But she’s also using us for business purposes.”

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Madonna
By JON PARELES, New York Times
March 11, 2008

Leave it to Madonna to make the right gesture. For her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she didn’t worry about whether her career as a pop hitmaker, image maker, sex symbol and provocateuse qualified her as a important figure in any narrowly defined genre of rock ’n’ roll. She just brought on an unquestioned rocker — Iggy Pop, the blunt, anarchic and durable songwriter and performer who’s a fellow Michigan-born musician — to sing punk-chorded versions of her hits “Burnin’ Up” and “Ray of Light.” He was shirtless, hyperactive and backed by the Stooges, who along with him have been nominated but snubbed by the Hall of Fame. Full article here.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Iggy & The Stooges will perform for Madonna at this year’s induction ceremony. Madonna will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next week, March 10th with a tribute by Iggy Pop and his band, The Stooges.

The Museum will broadcast the 2008 Induction Ceremony from the Waldorf Astoria (no tickets available) in New York City on several giant screens located throughout the building. There will a drawing for a pair of tickets to the 2009 Induction Ceremony held in Cleveland. (You must be present to win.) The 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees are Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five, Madonna, John Mellencamp, the Ventures, Little Walter and Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. A cash bar, soft drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. Tickets are $5 and are available through Ticketmaster and at the Museum box office.

VH1 Classic will be airing the show live on March 10. VH1 will show it on March 22.

David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan For 'Heroes' Soundtrack
Accompanied by podcasts....
by Jason Gregory on 29/02/2008 for gigwise.com

David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan will all feature on the first official soundtrack for the television show Heroes. A number of new songs, including Panic At The Disco’s forthcoming single, ‘Nine In The Afternoon', will also be included on the compilation, which is released on CD on March 17th.

All the songs on the soundtrack have been put together in collaboration with the shows creator Tim Kring, and executive producer and director, Allan Arkush.The soundtrack will be preceded by five video podcasts compiled by Arkush which feature clips from the series set to songs from the album.The first, entitled Weightless, is available to download from today (February 29th).

Wendy & Lisa – ‘Heroes Title’
Wendy & Lisa – ‘Fire and Regeneration’
Brighton Port Authority featuring Iggy Pop – ‘He's Frank’
New Pornographers – ‘All for Swinging You Around’
Wilco – ‘Glad It's Over’
Nada Surf – ‘Weightless’
Panic at the Disco - "Nine in the Afternoon’
My Morning Jacket – ‘Chills’
Wendy & Lisa – ‘Natural Selectio’
Shelia Chandra – ‘ABoneCroneDrone 3’
Imogen Heap – ‘Not Now but Soon’
Death Cab for Cutie – ‘Jealously Rides With Me’
The Jesus and Mary Chain – ‘All Things Must Pass’
Wendy & Lisa – ‘Homecoming’
Bob Dylan – ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’
Yerba Buena – ‘Maya's Theme’
The Chemical Brothers featuring Spank Rock – ‘Keeping My Composure’
David Bowie – ‘Heroes’

"He's Frank" info: It's the Fatboy Slim thing. The Heroes episode is season 2, episode 8 "Four Months Ago," aired first in Nov. 07. See a bit here:
http://www.cucirca.com/2007/11/13/heroes-season-2-episode-8-four-months-ago/
Bottom video window best (alternative.) Bar scene starts about 7:20 mins from the end when a blonde girl in a silver babydoll dress (Niki) looks like she's doing a line on a table in a bar, then gets up to dance to "He's Frank." (The official NBC site has the wrong episode up.)

The song is a cover of the Monochrome Set's song -- I see Adam Ant was a founding member, original here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFc8jIBvNO4

He’s got secular joy
He’s a peculiar boy
But now the lustre has gone
The peculiar boy is no more

He’s got precious youth
But forsaken, forsooth
And now the shine grows dim
Change tradition for whim

He’s got clothes all red
All on a purple bed
But now the red’s in his eyes
He’s no longer a prize

He’s a peculiar boy
Yes, he’s a peculiar boy
But now his skin is slack
He shows a certain lack

Inclues a Mick Rock interveiw -- thanks for the heads up Gui, http://iggy-pop.com -- the other bands' Ts and more pix of Iggy. I admit many of us have been caught up with the fine details about Iggy's T shirt but the point is to Rock The Vote!

Since I'd received requests concerning the design of the Iggy Rock The Vote T, here's the lowdown on the the T shirt: "When playboy asked me to design a t-shirt for their charity project I said through an intermediary; well ok, my idea is... that they pick whatever photo of me they like and stick bunny ears on it. I've always liked bunny ears. So that was my concept. I did not choose the photo because sometimes it's more fun to be surprised."

Iggy has also supported Rock 4 Choice. (10/28/92 New York, NY show: David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Cyndi Lauper, Iggy Pop, Juliana Hatfield, Jeffrey Gaines, Joan Osborne.)

Rock for Choice was founded by L7 in the fall of 1991 to mobilize the music community to protect abortion rights and women's health clinics. After meeting with the Feminist Majority, which heads the largest clinic access Project in the country, L7 organized the first Rock for Choice concert at the Palace in Los Angeles on October 21, 1991. This historic concert featured Nirvana, Hole and Sister Double Happiness.

Since then, Rock for Choice, now a full-time project of the Feminist Majority has gained enormous momentum with concerts organized in dozens of cities across the United States and Canada featuring popular artists such as Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Salt-N-Pepa, No Doubt, the Offspring, Fugazi, Liz Phair, Bikini Kill, Joan Osborne, Rage Against the Machine, the Foo Fighters, Sarah McLachlan, Rancid, Melissa Etheridge, the Bangles, Joan Jett, Stone Temple Pilots, Paula Cole, Iggy Pop and many others.

"We Need Rock! We Need Choice! Music Needs a Woman’s Voice!" recent article mentioning his suppoet here.

Now I'm sorry I missed Henry's Spoken Word Tour! (schedule here) Funny 20 minute video of Henry's story about trying to best Iggy at festivals they played together here. Visit his IFC show site for clips of the Stooges' appearance there May 4, 2007.

Rolling Stone Chief Photographer Shares Images From 60s
Robert Altman Exhibits Photos From His New Book 'The Sixties'

The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman

From Publishers Weekly:
Those nostalgic for the free love era will revel in this handsome, oversized collection of gritty photographs by celebrated photographer Altman. A master at catching his subjects at the moment of emotional overload-whether they be mischief makers, war protestors or musicians-the black and white photographs collected here are pure nostalgia, making a powerful you-are-there impression that simultaneously highlights the era's distance-chronologically and otherwise-from the current moment. In addition to period luminaries like Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin and Mick Jagger, the compendium highlights lesser-known players on the scene, as well as average attendees at rallies, "be-ins" and festivals. Altman's particular genius is best showcased in his legendary crowd scenes; what these photos occasionally lack in technical precision, they more than make up in the raw, wild feelings they've miraculously captured. Despite the book's title, images straddle the period from the late 60's to the early 70's (though none of the subjects seem to make much of the distinction), and a fun introduction by longtime Rolling Stone editor Fong-Torres reveals that Altman has always felt his purpose was to depict "the life and times that the Sixties inspired"; he succeeds beautifully with this, an impressive social document and a powerful remembrance.

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Santa Monica Press (September 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1595800247
ISBN-13: 978-1595800244

Greats of US punk music interviewed in book by Czech music journalist Alex Švamberk
By Ian Willoughby

The Czech music journalist Alex Švamberk is the author of a book on American punk and hardcore music entitled Nenech se zas oblbnout, which translates as Won’t Get Fooled Again, as in the song by The Who. Among the many important and influential figures he interviewed are Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop. When Alex Švamberk stopped by at our studios, he explained how he himself got into punk music, American punk music in particular... “It was quite interesting to talk to Iggy Pop, because he talked about the comparison of a rock concert and the rituals of Pacific Island tribes." Full article here. In depth radio (audio) interview with author here.

In Studio With The Stooges
(New York Times video interview during the recording of "The Weirdness") here.

Fuse TV: Steven's Untitled Rock Show: Lollapalooza 07 Interview with Iggy Pop
To be broadcast on Fuse TV, Monday, Feb. 18th 4PM. For those of you who do not have Fuse, here are video clips:

NPR: All Songs Considered: The Blog: The Lust For Life Beat
by Bob Boilen

"Thirty years ago, Iggy Pop put out Lust for Life, the second of two albums released in 1977 with David Bowie acting as producer. Lust for Life opens with one of the most infectious drum beats in rock.
(clip from LFL)

Credit on Lust for Life goes to Hunt Sales for the drums and Tony Sales for the bass. The two brothers were the children of Soupy Sales, a comedian and host of a very silly kids show in the '50s and '60s. Soupy even had a few records out, and was ever so briefly a Motown recording artist.

Now, we've all heard this beat before. But what hadn't occured to me (until a recent shuffle of songs on my iPod) was that..." Read the rest of this amusing National Public Radio article here.

Site News: Link addition: Rock On TV: Iggy Pop
Thanks to all who have contributed photographs to Easy Action's search for Iggy photos circa 1982-1983.

Update: Iggy has personally authorised the release of these box sets.

The new one picks up where they left off on vol 1 starting with the 1982 tours and 1983 . As yet they don't know which shows they are going to use to represent those two tours .

Then Iggy took a couple of years off and came back in 86/87 with the Blah Blah Blah tour then the Instinct tour 88/89

Easy Action is looking at prob six audio discs plus a dvd called "This is TV ...I'm Not !" with 30 minutes of unseen footage and a 30 minute interview withIiggy

disc one 1982 show ( U.S show )
disc two 1983 show ( poss australia)
disc three/ four blah blah blah show ( poss edinburgh)
disc five & six instinct tour ( poss s.america )
disc seven dvd (pinewood studios )

plus great quotes from band members unseen pictures memorabillia etc the usual easy action package.

"There is one track on there I've done with Iggy Pop called He's Frank. It appears on the soundtrack for Heroes in the episode Four Months Ago - it is the background music in a club scene.

"The album has collaborations with people like Iggy, so it's about me working with different people in a way you might not expect.

"Dance music really has become a little bit lost - it needs someone to come along and reinvent it like The Prodigy or Daft Punk did. I'm trying to find a different way of doing it and I think I have done that.

"It was a challenge and a thrill working with people like Iggy. I have been doing this for nearly 25 years and I don't want to get complacent about it - it has to be an adventure. " Full article here.

This month 1-28-08 through Amazon.com in the US, March in Europe. Here's the sleeve.

One month after its release, Juno has deservedly become a commercial and critical success, but more importantly, has caught the attention of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's FunnyOrDie.com. The site has produced three animated videos celebrating the Jason Reitman film, using Iggy Pop as a hallucination/mentor of sorts to help guide the pregnant teen. He also joins her band, along with Oinky the Pork Sword, Debbie Diaphragm and Rascal Rapper the Blueberry-Flavoured Condom, who also gets a starring/singing role in a video for "Juno (The Safe Sex Song)," where he schools Bleeker and his friend on the importance of wearing him. See videos here.

Best Picture: "Juno"
Besy Actress: Ellen Page "Juno"
Best Actor: Johnnny Depp "Sweeney Todd"
Best Director: Jason Reitman "Juno"
Best Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody "Juno"

Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical --"Sweeney Todd"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Comedy or Musical: Johnny Depp "Sweeney Todd"

Depp credited Iggy as a major influence on his performancer as Sweeney Todd. (See Johnny Depp interview in the 1.11.08 news roundup.) The lead in "Juno" is "an Iggy Pop- liking, hoodie-wearing, baggy-jeaned indie girl." Iggy is the voice of the Anoush in the Eglish language version of "Persepolis."

Persepolis’ Creator Marjane Satrapi Loves Iggy Pop, Bruce Lee, Screwdrivers
nymag.com

New York Enertainment: "Iggy Pop is voicing the uncle in the English-language version!"

Satrapi:" Yes, he’s playing my uncle Anoush. I chose him myself. I was in L.A., and one morning I woke up like, "Jesus! Shit! Iggy Pop has to be the uncle! It can’t be anybody else." Because he has this deep voice, and he’s so virile, and because I love his music. It was so incredible to work with him because he was one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met in my life. He’s extremely nice, extremely gentle, and very articulate and cultivated. Plus he has that great body. I listen to his music almost every day."

For Punk 365 Holly George-Warren offers 365 images of punk through the ages, starting with Iggy Pop (shirtless, of course) before the sound even had a name. Later, the MC5 clutch their belts and the Ramones line up for the camera in various places, and by the end of the ’80s NYC kids are still sporting safety pins. Each snapshot, band promo or live shot is paired with a concise but surprisingly comprehensive description, making Punk 365 ultimately a history book fit for dummies as well as those who already know that Pulsallama inspired Bananarama. More here.

From the publishers: Thirty-plus years ago a dark rumble of noise gurgled up from the Lower East Side of New York City, made its way across the Atlantic to Great Britain, zigzagged back over the pond to the West Coast, and exploded. Its name—Punk. InPunk 365, the most provocative photography documenting the performances, the looks, and the attitude has been gathered together, revealing reverberations that continue to shake up the status quo.

Here we see it all: Pre-punk pioneers, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, the MC5. New York’s harbingers of change, the Ramones, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. London’s anarchists, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Slits. The West Coast’s anti-Beach Boys, X, the Germs . . .the list goes on. By the mid-1980s, from the Replacements to Bad Brains, the sound transmogrified into everything from garage punk to hardcore. Punk 365 has them all, including more than 300 different artists by the most talented photographers who captured the scene, including Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jill Furmanovsky, Stephanie Chernikowski, Godlis, Janette Beckman, and more.

1.13.08: Morrison book opens doors to a musical poet's life
'The Jim Morrison Scrapbook' is a colorful look at the late-1960s icon

The book's design is reminiscent of a kids' pop-up book, with envelopes and fold-out pages featuring photos and artifacts. Each chapter is topped off with a quote from another rock star — Alice Cooper, Nuno Bettencourt, Iggy Pop and Pete Yorn, among others, describe the influence of Morrison and the Doors on their careers. Full review here.

’Tis the season for easy-to-read boomer coffee table books. Here are two heavy rock tomes from the art-book experts at Abrams Publishing:

Iggy Pop wrote the foreword for his onetime college classmate Lynn Goldsmith’s Rock and Roll, a massive thick-paged collection of rock portraits both posed and candid. You’ll immediately recognize many of the images from the slick pages of Rolling Stone. Goldsmith’s career spans the same era and cast of characters as Richard Aaron’s, but her work is generally cleaner and brighter, particularly well suited to ’80s pop acts like Cheap Trick, The Police and They Might Be Giants.

There’s a weird appendix that tells you vaguely where each photo was taken, but generally avoids commentary by the photographer herself in favor of canned quotes by other celebrities paying tribute to the people in the photos. One photo that does get a proper explication, by its main subject, is a stunning two-page spread of Blondie’s Chris Stein, video camera in hand, inches (and a phalanx of policemen) away from being crushed by an admiring throng outside a London record store. (The photo’s misidentified as “New York 1978,” but Stein’s own description, the British Bobby’s uniforms and the posters for Eat to the Beat, which came out in 1979, suggest otherwise.)

HANSA STUDIOS, in Berlin, where David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Nina Hagen all recorded career-defining albums, looks out these days on a modern red-brick apartment complex behind the gleaming new Potsdamer Platz. But in the late 1970s, when Bowie and company were recording there, the landscape was bleakly romantic: a sandy wasteland marked only by the Berlin Wall, which inspired Mr. Bowie’s epochal song “Heroes.”...

Ulf Poschardt, the editor of the German edition of Vanity Fair and leader of a 30-something pack of night-owl journalists, said, “To keep ahead of things you have to avoid clichés, and though I love the ‘New East’ and Mitte, it has become a cliché. And to my generation, the Berlin of Bowie and Iggy Pop was always the cool Berlin.” ...

Mr. Maak and his crew of artists and writers typically congregate in Paris Bar (Kantstrasse 152; 49-30-313-8052), where Iggy Pop once gave a Rolling Stone journalist a blitzed interview that ended with him rolling around on the sidewalk out front....

Proto-punk guitar legend Ron Asheton (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) has collaborated with Reverend on a new signature model to debut at January NAMM. Based on the popular Volcano model, this guitar includes three Reverend P-90 pickups, lightning bolt body logo, and Ron's signature on the back of the headstock.

The korina body construction features a raised center section which improves clarity and sustain, while the thinner wings increase resonance for an instrument that is lively, clear and rich in harmonics.

The custom designed pickups consist of a bridge pickup that is slightly hotter than vintage, and middle/neck pickups that are slightly cleaner. The passive Bass Contour adds versatility, ranging from a slight low-end roll off to percussive single-coil sounds.

Ron Asheton will appear at the Reverend booth (5822) on Saturday, January 19th at 3pm.

Solid korina body
Three Reverend P-90 pickups (RWRP middle pickup)
5-way pickup switch
Wilkinson staggered EZ-Lock tuners
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24.75" scale
one-piece korina neck

Dual-action truss rod
Rosewood fingerboard with 12" radius
Options: Black or Rock Orange
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For more information, visit their web site at http://www.reverendguitars.com. and
http://www.namm.org/

"I'm making $5000 aday, so screw ya!" Contract of gig that was half of the Metallic KO CD, originally posted on the fine Australian site, the Barmans Rant, an off shoot of the i-94 Bar.

Trynka, Paul. Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed. Broadway. ISBN 978-0-7679-2319-4. $23.95.

Trynka presents the showman who is Jim Osterberg, Iggy Stooge, and Iggy Pop, covering a career of drug-addled success and failure that has embraced sex appeal, cocaine revelry, and self-inflicted violence. Band mates, roadies, and lovers told Trynka of Iggy’s complete penetration of Osterberg, and the biographer marries the ego and the alter ego beneath leather pants and silver gloves. (LJ 4/1/07) Full article here.

From the Boss Martians -- Here's a note from one of the group's MySpace bulletins:

Hey!! just got back from recording Iggy's vocal parts on "Mars is for Martians" (the song he wrote with
us for the new Boss Martians album "Pressure in the S.O.D.O.") It sounds so killer!!! Iggy is nothing
short of a ROCK POWERHOUSE and it was a mindblowing experience (and an honor) to work with him
on this track. I'll be mixing the track with Endino this Sunday, so stop by the Martians MySpace late nex
t week for a preview!!! THANK YOU IGGY POP!!! More release news soon... EVAN

The Bush Tetras have included a cover of Sister Midnight on their new CD "Very Very Happy" released
late 2007.

C.B.G.B. won’t be the only East Village music venue to close this year. Continental, the punk club where Joey Ramone, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, D-Generation and the Dictators once took the stage, will no longer host live music after Aug. 26,
said Trigger, the club’s owner. Full article here. Poster above the bar I shot a pic of while at the Continental in 2000, with anecdotal info about one of Iggy's 1993 gigs there here -- a fire, here.

John Varvatos Named GQ'S ''Designer of the Year'' You may remember his fall-winter '06 campaign featuring Iggy in suits? If you haven't seen it before here it is, under the fall-winter '06 campaign link.

Iggy Pop on Lil' Bush and The Stooges
Crave Online talks to the Street walking Cheetah, Iggy Pop.
Fred Topel, CraveOnline
June 6, 2007

Donald Rumsfeld probably won't be happy to hear that the cartoon version of himself is being voiced by one of those ungodly rock n' roll types. Iggy Pop is providing the voice of a miniature Rummy in Comedy Central's new animated series Lil' Bush. Portraying the current administration as kids in a politically-themed high school, the show calls upon Pop's distinct speaking voice rather than his crooning, even though the tykes have their own band. Pop took a break from touring to call in an interview about the upcoming show.

Iggy Pop: Basically I’m a musical vocalist but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline like plumbing or something. And when I got the call for the gig I took a look at the pre-existing cartoon that was on the cell phone and I thought it was funny. And what I liked was there was something really human about reducing all these powerful figures to little people. And it was just real entertaining. So there you go. It’s a gig.

Iggy Pop: I used to watch Donald’s press conferences. At the beginning I thought he was just terrific at working publicly. Whatever it was he had to say he did things masterfully I thought because I have a similar line. I have to stand up in front of people and open my mouth. But I noticed, you know, he got into trouble as time went on once everybody had a chance to open theirs then life gets trickier.

Crave Online: This isn’t your first time doing a voiceover either. You did an episode of American Dad, right?

Iggy Pop: Yeah I did. In fact I just did something for Grand Theft Auto 4 last night so I do a bit of stuff yeah.

Crave Online: Having such a distinct voice, how hard is it for you to sort of disguise it or come up with a different one for your voiceover?

Iggy Pop: You know, I haven’t. I don’t know well I’ve done. I hope I blend in and do all right in the show but Donick [Cary, creator and producer] had me pick it up from my natural speaking voice. I think that would be fair to say. So it’s a little more like this, everything’s kind of pitched like this. [Higher and faster] Like 'Okay you guys this is serious and we’ve got to take care of this now and don’t disagree with me,' you know.

Iggy Pop: I mean, if somebody puts on Bill Maher I’ll generally sit and watch it to the end. But I’m not flipping through the TV Guide to find out when it’s on, either. It’s something, you know, I’m in the middle somewhere. It’s kind of take it or leave it with me.

Crave Online: Does this give you a chance to express any political view through the voice of Rummy?

Iggy Pop: No, absolutely not. I don’t even think that way. I’m kind of a weird bird so my interest in Rumsfeld is as I said earlier, I thought I noticed just independently I was interested in when he started becoming a visible figure at the news conferences. And I thought he was really good with a crowd. I thought he was good at public presentation. And I used to watch him just to see how he did it. Then at some point maybe what he wasn’t good at was disagreement. And I noticed that. So when all I was really trying to express was hopefully my little bit of the insight as an actor trying to do the guy and that was basically that he should be very insistent and firm about whatever he thinks when he says it. And then he should be the kind of person that’s easily ignited so that if anybody questions him or he should get hyper urgent very quickly. So that was what I was trying to do. That’s about it. No politics in there for me I’m afraid.

Crave Online: Independently of the show, do you have any political feelings about the administration?

Iggy Pop: Well, you know, I noticed like before the presidential election when Bush was elected the first time there was a photo op down there in Crawford. I think he had Cheney and Powell with him and they were all walking this cowboy walk. I’ve lived a few years and I just said to myself, “Okay we’re going to get into a scrap with some country when this guy gets elected, you know?” And that’s what I kind of like. I’m not condemning the political ramifications or all that but some of this stuff is just plain human, you know? On the other hand look at your [alternatives]. I’m not a fan of Kerry or Clinton, Ms. Clinton or any of the other candidates either so what the hell.

Crave Online: Do you ever worry that some of the Bush bashing jokes get old?

Iggy Pop: Donna Summers songs still sound good. So does Kool and the Gang and KC and the Sunshine Band. I mean, you know, it’s okay.

Iggy Pop: He’s the kind of guy that has put a lot of thought and preparation into deciding that he’s going to put over. He’s a put over, sell it to you, this is the way we’re doing it guy. And he’s going to get rattled really easily if anyone disagrees so the can go from definite to urgent to strident to edge of hysterical.

Iggy Pop: I doubt it. They probably can’t afford me. I’m cheap for voices, for voiceover.

Crave Online: But the boys have a band, so what do you think of their music?

Iggy Pop: The band’s good. That little band, that’s a good little song, the little theme song. It’s good.

Iggy Pop: I played a gig a couple of weeks ago. I’m playing one in a few days. I just put out a record. There’s an album by The Stooges, you might have heard of them, called The Weirdness. I reunited a few years ago with my high school band The Stooges. We recorded a record and released it this spring called The Weirdness and we just finished touring the US and we’re starting Europe for the summer.

Iggy Pop: I have nothing against that idea. I’m sort of neutral. The guy’s actually an intelligent actor, contrary to the blather that the producers are putting out. I haven’t given them any permission to do it yet but I wouldn’t object to Elijah.

Iggy Pop, Shins, Gogol Bordello, in Playboy's "Rock the Rabbit 2008"
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 11:00 PM (EST)

Iggy Pop, Gogol Bordello, The Pipettes and The Shins, are among the bands participating in the second annual Playboy Rock the Rabbit music showcase. (That link is probably not safe for work. )

Rock the Rabbit artists will also redesign the iconic Playboy Rabbit Head logo by creating limited edition t-shirt designs. Original prototypes of all t-shirt designs will be auctioned off, with proceeds benefitting Rock the Vote. (This one is probably fine, unless you work in North Korea or something where they don't allow voting.)

Feature articles from Iggy, Gogol Bordello and others are expected to surface on the website in the coming weeks.

Easy Action is putting together Vol. 2 of "Where the Faces Shine"
which will cover '82-'89 and will come with a free dvd too. They are
looking for photos of Iggy from both the '82 and '83 tours. Anyone have
some? Write me!

Iggy Pop, Duran Duran and Daft Punk are among the musicians who have designed T-shirts to raise money for political charity Rock The Vote. The stars have all come up with their own take on the world-famous Playboy magazine 'bunny' logo for the 2008 Playboy Rock The Rabbit T-shirt series.

The shirts will be sold at Bloomingdales stores in the U.S. and online at ShopTheBunny.com.

The bands' original designs will be sold at auction with proceeds going to Rock The Vote, an organization which encourages young Americans to get involved in the political process.

Among the other artists to have contributed a T-shirt design are Hot Chip, The Shins, Gogol Bordello, The Pipettes, New Young Pony Club and Jamie T.

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Collins; 1 edition (October 23, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061374563
ISBN-13: 978-0061374562

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Miami New Times: The Shows Go On: Ten good live moments in South Florida this year

Iggy Pop, the beach at Collins Avenue and 21st Street, Miami Beach, December 7: This year's "Art Loves Music" event on opening night of Art Basel Miami Beach was the best edition yet, featuring a set by adopted hometown guy Iggy Pop and all of the remaining Stooges. The crowd was an amazing mashup of aging rockers, little punk kids, rich collectors trying to be down, and straight-up drunks peeing in the nearby dunes. Iggy was properly shirtless, writhing, and berserk, and an adoring mob rushed the stage, making it look as though "No Fun" were performed by a gigantic sweaty pink centipede. Entire article here.

The Library of Michigan has announced its 2008 Michigan Notable Books, 20 books published in 2007 highlighting Michigan people, places and events...

"Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed," by Paul Trynka (Broadway Books): Nicknamed "The Godfather of Punk," Iggy Pop rose out of Ann Arbor to front The Stooges, one of America's most influential rock 'n' roll bands; the musical genres of punk, glam and New Wave were all heavily influenced by Iggy's performances. Trynka's work is the first full biography of Iggy Pop (James Osterberg Jr.), yet is more than just a story of his life. It also illustrates the enormous role Ann Arbor and Detroit played in the development of the alternative music scene and provides a tragic depiction of the death of the hippie dream. The rest here.

Cody's writing seems to sacrifice clarity for hip pop-culture allusions; would a guy like Mark who played
in a band that toured with the Melvins really be unfamiliar with 1970s Patti Smith and Iggy Pop music;
and would Juno -- a professed fan of stylish Italian horror auteur Dario Argento -- really find
Herschell Gordon Lewis' cheesy "The Wizard of Gore" superior to "Suspiria" after Mark convinces her to
watch the Lewis film? More here from Scripps Newspaper Group — Online.

Okay...You based your look of Jack Sparrow for Pirates Of The Caribbean, on Keith Richards.
Did you base Sweeney on anybody?

JD: No, it was probably a combination. Early on, Tim and I spoke a lot about silent film. And the king
f silent cinema, especially the horror genre, was Lon Chaney. So using him was a great inspiration.

And Boris Karloff is one of the classic iconic images of these monsters. So is Peter Lorre, whom I love.
And in terms of sound, it's hard to say. Iggy Pop, maybe. Iggy has a beautiful, deep quality. And he's a real crooner. That's probably the closest that I've come to anything. The rest from News Blaze.

Live and Kicking: Top concerts of '07 (per the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot)
But before 2008 arrives, here’s one last look at my favorite concerts of 2007:

*1. The Stooges at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Aug. 5: About 250 fans charge past overwhelmed
security guards at singer Iggy Pop’s behest and dance, sing, and celebrate on stage with the Stooges
during “No Fun.” Somehow, Pop manages the chaos so that no one gets arrested or killed. The singer’s
writhing, wriggling dancing verges on performance art, and Ron Asheton’s guitar still sounds like a riot in progress.
Full article here.

PARIS: A wind of reconciliation swept the music industry in 2007, making reunions of ageing rockers
the defining theme of the year... Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Iggy Pop and the Stooges,
and what remains of The Doors, also headed once more for the road, drawing fans to often expensively
priced concerts for an opportunity to relive the past. Full article from the Economic Times here.

WHEN TRUTH IS FUNNY: Persepolis

American theaters will get two versions of "Persepolis" - one with English subtitles where every character speaks French (Catherine Deneuve voices the character of Satrapi's mom), and one where the characters' lines are presented in English (with voice-overs by Deneuve, Sean Penn, Iggy Pop and Gena Rowlands). The French version will play in cosmopolitan cities such as San Francisco, Satrapi says. The version in English will screen elsewhere. Full article here.

Best CDs of 2007 (News 8 Austin)

Kelly Willis, Translated From Love

After a five-year break from recording, Kelly Willis returned to the stage and to CD rack