The 15 Best Band Cameos on TV
From The Ramones horrifying Mr. Burns in The Simpsons to Iggy Pop sweetly serenading his daughter in The Adventures of Pete and Pete, TV appearances can be charming, hilarious and even cringe-worthy. Here are some of our favorites. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayDavid Lynch Releases Compilation Album for Charity
Award-winning filmmaker David Lynch has released a digital music compilation, Download For Good: Music That Changes The World, to benefit his non-profit organization the David Lynch Foundation.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsIggy Pop: Roadkill Rising...The Bootleg Collection: 1977-2009
Iggy Pop has had a few retrospectives in his career, none of them especially persuasive. At a mere 17 tracks, the single-disc Nude & Rude in 1996 proved so cursory as to be insulting: No “TV Eye”? No “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell”? Seriously? Nine years later, A Million in Prizes more than doubled the tracklist, but it still sounded like a superficial dip into his rich catalog, with too much obligatory emphasis on his late-career duds. Despite so many excellent songs, Pop simply may not be a musician who lends himself to that sort of retrospective.... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsIggy And The Stooges' Raw Power Live Receives Digital Release
At 2010’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, the reformed Iggy and the Stooges performed their iconic Raw Power. The audio document of the event, Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans was digitally released today.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsIggy Pop to Release 4-CD Bootleg Collection
Shout! Factory is set to release a massive 4-CD collection of newly-remastered, live bootleg Iggy Pop recordings. Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009 is sequenced by decade and includes key tracks from throughout Pop’s days with The Stooges as well as his extensive solo career.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Stooges Announce Raw Power Live Album
After performing their 1973 classic Raw Power throughout much of the last year, Iggy and The Stooges will release a live recording of the record. On April 5, the band will bring Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans to stores. The record documents the proto-punk legends playing the record live in its entirety at last September’s All Tomorrow’s Parties. “Getting this top-notch performance of the entire Raw Power album by The Stooges realized a life long dream,” Iggy said in a statement. “This shit really sizzles and we are so obviously a crack band in a class... read more
Found in: Music, NewsWatch Yoko Ono, RZA, Sonic Youth, Lady Gaga, More Peform "Give Peace a Chance"
Yoko Ono brought some celeb-heavy show to Los Angeles this weekend.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSeven Inexplicable Musician TV Cameos
This week on CSI, the cause of death will be Bieber Fever, but you don’t need to be a detective to figure out that putting the teeny bopper on a grisly primetime drama is an interesting casting move.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayJim Jarmusch Working on Stooges Documentary, Nikola Tesla Opera
Pokerfaced filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, the man behind fantastic films like Ghost Dog and Dead Man, talked to Pitchfork recently about a few upcoming projects that it seems only he could announce.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsAppliance Rock: Rhythm, Distortion and Pyrex Bowls
Before Iggy Pop became a bare-chested rock icon, he was just another guy with leathery skin and a collection of strange instruments... read more
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