Hear the exclusive advance single from the ‘Repo Man Soundtrack Tribute’
As if we weren’t amped already! The much-anticipated Repo Man Soundtrack Tribute via American Laundromat Records is just weeks away from its September 18th release, but to whet our whistles, an exclusive advance single — Repo Man from Those Darlins — is now available for purchase via iTunes and can be streamed in its entirety right effing...
Iggy Pop and Bethany Costino pair up for ‘True Blood’
Surprise! It’s just been announced that this Sunday’s episode of HBO’s True Blood will feature a collaboration between True Blood fanatic Iggy Pop and Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino. The suitably bad-ass song entitled Let’s Boot and Rally, co-written by James Combs with the show’s music supervisor, Gary Calamar, and can be streamed over at Soundcloud now.
Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins cast as Iggy Pop
Despite building brouhaha between filmmakers and surviving kin of deceased club owner Hilly Kristal, the casting for the forthcoming CBGB movie plods forward with Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins announced in the role of sinewy, punk legend Iggy Pop. Hawkins joins the rapidly growing cast which includes Micky Sumner (The Borgias) as Patti Smith, Joel David...
Iggy Pop’s new covers LP to drop May 9
It would appear that the newly turned 65-year-old, punk-rock pioneer Iggy Pop is finally showing his age. The celebrated rocker has officially announced that forthcoming, 16th LP Après – to be released May 9 through Vente-Privee.com – will be made up of mostly-French, adult-contemporary covers. In his press release, Pop claimed: “All popular music forms...
The Disciplines: Ken Stringfellow and crew no virgins to musical success
Ken Stringfellow (Big Star, The Posies, R.E.M.) is one of those rare, consummate, multifaceted musicians who lives and breathes his craft. Among his multitude of ongoing projects is The Disciplines: a band formed in Norway that is notably louder, rockier and more raucous than any of Stringfellow’s bands before – yet still, as he attests...
