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| Carl |
Posted - 04/17/2006 : 18:32:16
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=musicNews&storyID=2006-04-14T231924Z_01_N14177608_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-IGGY-DC.XML&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13
Q&A: Iggy Pop making new music with Stooges
Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:19pm ET
By Tamara Conniff
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Punk icon Iggy Pop says he has been holed up in "a little cottage in the boonies on a little river" in Florida writing music with his old band the Stooges. Yes, the much-talked about reunion record is finally happening. (The Stooges released only three albums between 1969 and 1973, before Pop went on to have a solo career.)
He expects the album to come out next year on his solo-work label, Virgin Records. Steve Albini -- whose numerous credits include albums by the Pixies, Nirvana and PJ Harvey -- will produce, but the set also will include a package of songs produced by Jack White, frontman of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs and producer of Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose."
The band also will plan its first full-blown reunion tour. To date, it has done only the festival circuit and one-offs. And Pop will be feted Monday (April 17) when the Florida chapter of the Recording Academy presents the Recording Academy Honors 2006.
Q: What does the Florida chapter honor mean to you?
A: It's a peer group honor. It comes down to a nod to your work and your stature in the industry. It used to be called the Florida Heroes Awards. Wow, a Florida hero. That would be Mickey Mouse, the astronauts and me! It means a lot. I always felt guilty for not going to the Grammys more often.
Q: You moved from New York to Miami seven years ago. Do you miss New York?
A: I moved from there to an old house in Miami Beach, and things got too terribly groovy. There are birds here. I go to New York from time to time, and it's really exciting when I go. Miami's never been more than a spit from New York anyway.
Q: Hasn't New York changed a lot in the past 10 years?
A: It goes through phases. It seems to be in its prosperous phase right now. A lot of pod people. It's pure pod. Hey, that's OK, I'll swing a little pod.
Q: What's it like writing with the band again?
A: All the same passions and problems are there. But the problems are in a more muted style. I'm still the showoff in the group that gets all the attention. Everyone has their role. It's pretty much the way it was in high school.
Q: What direction are you going in musically?
A: We experimented a lot. We're stubborn people. We could have just started out and in 10 minutes we would have sounded like us, but that would have been too easy. We experimented a lot. We'd have these get-togethers every two or three months for four or five days and bang out stuff. As time went on, it started to sound more and more like us.
Q: Why reunite now?
A: I'd sort of run out of ideas. I ran through everything, all the permutations. I got to the point on my last (solo) record, "Skull Ring" (in 2003), where I just threw it open and did a guest-oriented album. I had resisted doing a Stooges reunion, but when I was putting "Skull Ring" together, the two brothers (Stooges founding members Ron and Scott Asheton) were getting really active on the road playing Stooges songs. Suddenly they were in sight and in mind. I thought, "If I'm going to try a couple tracks with Green Day, why not get the original band?"
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/26/2007 : 02:21:33
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/the-stooges-the-weirdness
The Stooges - The Weirdness
WHAT else could you expect from The Stooges other than an album of full steam ahead rock and roll? In their heyday from 1969 to 1974, they became one of the most influential American rock acts of all-time, paving the way for both the punk and heavy metal movements.
Fronted by Iggy Pop, the band put out three seminal albums (The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power) before their hedonistic lifestyle began to take its toll and they were eventually dropped by their label and forced to go their separate ways.
The band reformed in 2003 and their current line-up comprises original members Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, as well as Steve MacKay on sax and Mike Watt on bass.
New album The Weirdness is the sound of a band rolling back the years. It’s a breathless collection of ball-busting rock songs, given extra grit by Pop’s lived-in vocals.
Original fans of the band will enjoy the nostalgia trip, while newcomers will be able to tick off the names of contemporary artists who have clearly been influenced by them (everyone from Kurt Cobain to The Pixies etc).
What’s more, the album isn’t interested in re-inventing the band, rather getting back and thrashing out songs for the sake of the good old times.
The songs thunder out in quick succession – sometimes impressing, other times merely existing. It’s unapologetically formulaic for this kind of thing and just as intense as an Iggy Pop live performance (you can practically imagine him staggering/swaggering about on the stage, stripped to the waist, or further, and dripping sweat).
Unlike bands like The Rolling Stones, or performers such as Eric Clapton, their sound hasn’t mellowed with the years. They’re still as angry and confrontational as ever before, the guitars trading blows with the sax, while Pop’s voice screams out over them.
Trollin’ sets things rolling in suitably gutsy fashion, before the likes of My Idea Of Fun, Free & Freaky, She Took My Money and Mexican Guy provide the foot-stomping highlights.
Taken as a whole The Weirdness can be a little relentless – but it’s not without its magic moments.
Download picks: My Idea Of Fun, Free & Freaky, She Took My Money, Mexican Guy
Track listing:
1. Trollin’
2. You Can’t Have Friends
3. ATM
4. My Idea Of Fun
5. The Weirdness
6. Free & Freaky
7. Greedy Awful People
8. She Took My Money
9. The End Of Christianity
10. Mexican Guy
11. Passing Cloud
12. I’m Fried
Review by Jack Foley
IndieLondon Rating: 3 out of 5
Elijah Wood to play Iggy Pop:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=Cannes2007&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965043&cs=1 |
| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 12:36:20
I am sooooooooo going to that show.
purple lambchops |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 17:04:54
http://www.earvolution.com/2006/05/stooges-to-record-new-material.asp
Monday, May 01, 2006
The Stooges to record new material
The revamped and rejuvinated Stooges hit Reykjavik
this week, stop in Norway for Bergenfest and then
head out for a series of shows in Europe.
Before leaving for the shows, bassist Mike Watt told
Earvolution that the Stooges will indeed hit the studio
later this year with engineer Steve Albini. Alibini's
roster of bands he has worked with includes the Pixies
(Surfer Rosa), Nirvana (In Utero), Low, Mclusky, Mogwai,
Bush, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and The Auteurs.
// posted by JD @ 10:29 AM
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/16/iggypop-stooges.html
Iggy Pop, The Stooges reunite for album
Last Updated Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:22:16 EDT
CBC Arts
The grandfather of punk, Iggy Pop, has confirmed he's making a
reunion record with his old band The Stooges, more than three
decades after the band broke up.
Pop told Billboard Magazine he's been "holed up in a little cottage in
the boonies" in Florida writing music with his old band —which
released only three albums between 1969 and 1973.
"I'm still the showoff in the group that gets all the attention," Pop,
who was born James Newell Osterberg, said in a preview of the
interview to be published within days.
Formed in Chicago in 1967, the band was composed of Pop as
singer, Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother Scott on drums and
Dave Alexander on bass.
While the band's albums did poorly, they are largely credited with
influencing the punk movement. Pop's antics during his time with the
band have been copied by rockers the world over, including his
trademark stage dive.
Some of Pop's most popular songs as a solo artist include Lust for
Life, I'm Bored and The Passenger.
The album, due out in 2007 on Virgin Records, is being produced by
Steve Albini, whose credits include albums by Nirvana, the Pixies
and PJ Harvey.
It will also include a set of songs produced by Jack White, frontman
of the White Stripes.
A reunion tour is also in the works. So far, the band has only done a
few festivals and one-off concerts.
Pop's last album, 2003's Skull Ring, featured collaborations with
Canadian punkers Sum 41, Green Day and the Trolls, as well as the
Asheton brothers, with whom he has kept in touch with since the
band split.
Pop says the band is trying out new sounds: "We experimented a lot.
…We could have just started out and in 10 minutes we would have
sounded like us, but that would have been too easy."
Recording the album has not been easy, according to the singer. "All
the same passions and problems are there."
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/inbrief/story/9962017/from_the_stooges_to_the_crowes
IGGY POP is currently locked away with the reunited
STOOGES writing new material for the band's upcoming
album. Produced by STEVE ALBINI (NIRVANA, PIXIES,
PJ HARVEY), the as-yet-untitled album, due next year,
will be the Stooges' first in over thirty years. JACK
WHITE has also been enlisted to produce several cuts.
Since reforming in 2003, the Stooges have only played
sporadic dates, but the band will schedule a proper tour
to coincide with the release. The band is already set to
appear at the Nightmare Before Christmas Festival,
December 8th through the 10th in Somerset, England,
curated by SONIC YOUTH's THURSTON MOORE.
Raw power, reunited
Photo by Barry Brecheisen
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/05/0305.cfm
Reunion Album In The Works For Iggy
And The Stooges
Wednesday May 03, 2006 @ 06:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Iggy Pop and his former band The
Stooges are working on their first album
since 1973's legendary Raw Power.
The album has yet to be titled, but it will be
produced by Steve Albini (Nirvana, The
Pixies) and White Stripe and Raconteur,
Jack White. Virgin will release the record
next year.
"All the same passions and problems are
there," the 59-year-old Pop told
Billboard.com of what it was like to write songs with guitarist Ron
Asheton and his drummer brother Scott. "But the problems are in a
more muted style.
"We experimented a lot. We'd have these get-togethers every two or
three months for four or five days and bang out some stuff. As time
went on it started to sound more and more like us."
The Stooges formed in Detroit in 1967 and, along with such bands
as the MC5 and The Velvet Underground, were the forerunners of
the punk rock movement that followed in the '70s. They were never a
commercial success, but their three albums (1969's The Stooges,
1970's Fun House and Raw Power) are now viewed as influential
classics. James Williamson and Ron Asheton both played guitar in
the band at different times, but Asheton will handle that role in the
21st century version of the group. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt
has been handling bass duties.
A reunion tour is also being planned. The Stooges have played
select festivals and one-off performances since first reuniting in
2003, but a major tour is being planned to showcase the new
material and old warhorses like "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun,"
"Loose" and "Search And Destroy." The only performance
confirmed so far will be at the U.K.'s Thurston Moore-curated
Nightmare Before Christmas festival in December.
—Eva Lampert
Iggy Pop
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/ENT04/703040565/1039
Still testy after all these years
Stooges have no fear on first album since '73
March 4, 2007
BY MARTIN BANDYKE
FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
With all due respect to the Pixies, the Police, Roxy Music, Wire, etc., the recent Stooges reunion is easily the one that matters most.
On the Ann Arbor-born band's first album since 1973's "Raw Power," original Stooges vocalist Iggy Pop (a.k.a. James Osterberg), guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton are joined by bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose), who ably fills the role of the late Dave Alexander.
With the Stooges having a major hand in the creation of punk rock with the group's self-titled 1969 debut and "Fun House" follow-up a year later, it might be a bit daunting to imagine the original crew trying to recapture those powerfully unhinged early days. But if you saw the still-marveled-at reunion concert at DTE Energy Music Theatre in August 2003 or checked out the four songs this lineup released on Iggy's "Skull Ring" album that same year, you know the group is still capable of hammering out some thrilling, dangerous rock 'n' roll.
Don't worry at all about "The Weirdness" sounding lame, embarrassing or tepid. There are no pretensions to speak of, just the usual pissed-off, bored and lust-filled lyrics with commanding but no-frills backup from an obviously fired-up band. Ann Arbor's finest recorded this effort at producer Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, and what you hear was done mostly live with a minimum of overdubs.
"Trollin' " gets things off to an incendiary start. It's an ode to girls, sex, driving in a Cadillac convertible and dissing rock critics -- touché. "Now is the season for war with no reason" is the guiding principle behind the aggressive "My Idea of Fun," while Iggy gets into a crooning mood of sorts on the title track. "Mexican Guy," with its quasi-Bo Diddley beat, contains a rare bit of Pop nostalgia as he recalls mid-'70s life in Los Angeles. Debating whether he should "swallow a little pill or listen to Dr. Phil," Iggy concludes that "modern life is certain to make one ill."
Album closer "I'm Fried" is comparable to the Rolling Stones' "Shattered," but it's an even nastier kiss-off to the world. Welcome back, Iggy & Co. Nihilism hasn't sounded this good since 1969.
(CHAPMAN BAEHLER)
From left, Ron Asheton , Iggy Pop and Scott Asheton.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Stooges
"The Weirdness"
****
out of four stars
(Virgin)
In stores Tuesday
The Stooges will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 13 at the Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit.
313-983-6611. $35-59.50. |
| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 04/20/2006 : 21:36:35
Can you imagine how strange it's going to be when Iggy finally dies? After all the shit that he's survived through. I'm a bit suspect of this reunion album but I'm sure they'll pull at least a few good songs out of it, the stuff on Skull Ring wasn't half bad if a bit predictable.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 04:30:23
woah, i am listening to raw power now, freaky.
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| Garbonzia |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 03:47:16
i can't believe that! yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
| soundofataris |
Posted - 04/17/2006 : 19:45:15
That's really cool. I saw Iggy and the Stooges play Jones Beach two years ago and it was awesome. They only played stuff from the first two records, and for some reason played I wanna be your dog twice, put still, a great show.
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