Iggy Pop
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Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
IT'S TWO O'CLOCK in the morning and I'm playing The Idiot for the fifth time running. Can't stop, it's so compelling...but very VERY strange. ...
Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 11 April 1996
In 1967, when The Doors released their first LP, a young ex-drummer named James Osterberg formed the Psychedelic Stooges to voice the primal urges of ...
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Iggy Pop on the Stooges (1977)
Interview by Stuart Grundy, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1977
Iggy Pop looks back on the Stooges: on Ann Arbour and Detroit; putting the band together; not being part of the White Panther scene; James Osterberg v Iggy Stooge; the first album, 'Not Right', 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', and John Cale; his relationship with his audience; writing Fun House; being dropped by Elektra; reforming the Stooges in 1973 with James Williamson, and Raw Power; living in the UK, meeting Bowie and recording The Idiot.
File format: mp3; file size: 29.5meg, interview length: 30' 47" sound quality: ****
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, August 1988
Mr. Pop on his current album, Instinct; on giving up his "bad habits"; on Detroit and the Stooges; his confrontational stageshow; getting his business affairs in order, and on his childhood and parents.
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 June 1999
File format: MP3 ; File size: 20.9mb; Interview length: 45 minutes; Sound quality: ***
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages audio, 5 August 1999
Iggy ruminates on growing old, marriage and divorce, and the various aspects of his life that informed his album Avenue B
File format: mp3; file size: 55.5mb, interview length: 57' 47" sound quality: ***
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The Incredible Story Of Iggy & The Stooges
Special Feature by Dave Marsh, Creem, May 1970
THIS IS A story about the Stooges. I've taken some time to check it out and it seems that there's really only one way to ...
Sounds Of The Seventies: Portrait Of A Naked Iggy
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 1971
ONE DAY late last December I came home and found this message on the tape recorder that answers my telephone when I'm not home: "This is ...
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
WHO IS IT who smashes a microphone in his teeth, tears flesh from his bare chest, leaps into the audience busting bones in all directions, ...
Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy's Here
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 April 1972
AS MARC BOLAN swung his hips for the benefit of Ringo Starr's camerawork, did any of the 9,000 upturned faces notice the auburn-haired American fifth ...
Iggy & The Stooges: Kingsound (King's Cross Cinema), London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 22 July 1972
IGGY AND the Stooges made their first performance in over a year on Saturday night, Sunday morning. Despite the event happening in the dead of ...
Profile by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 July 1972
For those who think Bowie a trifle lame... ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 30 July 1972
LONDON — ONE year, when I was in London, 1966 I think, I saw the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on the same bill as ...
Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1973
Iggy in Exile: Love in the Fire Zone ...
Ray & Iggy: A Pair of Rock Aristocrats
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 April 1973
IN THEIR own ways, they are both aristocrats. Last week belonged to both of them, with Ray Davies and the Kinks playing two colleges in ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973
THE IG. Nobody does it better, nobody does it worse, nobody does it, period. Others tiptoe around the edges, make little running starts and half-hearted ...
Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia KC 32111).
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1973
The Genuine Depravity of Iggy ...
Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS 65586, £2.17) ****
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 June 1973
Iggy gives power to the people... ...
Iggy and the Stooges, Rufus: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1973
Iggy and the Stooges —Theater of Cruelty ...
Iggy and The Stooges: Raw Power (CBS); Dean Martin: Sittin' On Top Of The World (WEA)
Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 28 June 1973
Punk drunk junk ...
Iggy & the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS)
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 July 1973
Teenage insanity ...
The "Fun City Sound" Is What's Happening in Rock
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973
SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...
New York Confidential: Iggy Pop
Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 30 August 1973
HIS PLATINUM hair was ratty; his polo shirt was wrinkled and a big plastic hairbrush-handle stuck out of the back pocket of his Midwestern Prole ...
Iggy and the Stooges: At the Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood
Live Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, October 1973
The Stooges have made the Comeback of the Year, no doubt about it, and their energized stay at the Whisky sealed it. The night before ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Breaks Out Of His Cage
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 October 1973
IGGY POP swam out to sea, his wiry frame floating over the waves of Manhattan Beach, his dyed blonde head bobbing along the ripples, his ...
Open Up and Bleed: Stooges in New York
Report by Lenny Kaye, Rock Scene, March 1974
IGGY IS hurt, he's down there on the floor, he's picking up these pieces of broken glass and tossing them down again, pissed at the ...
Farewell Androgyny n. hermaphroditism (Gr. Gyne, woman)
Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974
Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 October 1974
Glitter-Rock Stages a Symbolic Wake ...
Iggy Pop: The Mighty Pop vs. the Hand of Blight
Special Feature by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
Never before told! The story of a brilliant monster called IGGY POP, whose life and countless near-demises have provided Rock with one of its most ...
Overview by Phast Phreddie Patterson, New York Rocker, February 1976
IN THE BEGINNING... ...
Iggy & The Stooges: Metallic K.O. (Skydog)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
Iggy — still burning his brain at both ends. ...
Bowie Now: New Songs for Day and Night
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 28 February 1977
THESE ARE the facts:David Bowie's latest album, Low, is two-sided. Side One contains seven crypto-disco tracks, no track shorter than 1:42 or longer than 3:26. ...
Iggy Pop on the Stooges (1977) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Stuart Grundy, Rock's Backpages transcripts, March 1977
This is a transcript of Stuart's audio interview with Iggy. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Iggy Pop: A new career in a new town
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977
Iggy Pop, touring Britain this week, speaks to MICHAEL WATTS from Berlin. David Bowie's saying nothing... ...
Iggy Pop: Introducing the Idiot. The return of the World's Forgotten Boy
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 March 1977
As half the world waits with bated breath for the doors of the Funhouse to finally swing open once more the valiant ladies of the ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 12 March 1977
Run with the pack as ace reporter Joe Varnish checks out Iggy Pop, The Heartbreakers, Cherry Vanilla, Wayne County and one or two local boys ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Said It, Iggy Had The Power, Iggy Had The Disease
Comment by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 March 1977
THINKING BACK, IT WAS almost a year ago to this very day when I last ran into Iggy. An assignment had got me holed up ...
From Russia with Love: Bowie's Iggy
Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Phonograph Record, April 1977
"You got a personality crisis,You got it while it was hot But now frustration and heartache is what you got... Personality, when your mind starts to ...
IG and Super IG — Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA); The Stooges: The Stooges/Fun House (Elektra)
Review by Max Bell, Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977
Igs past and present collide in sonic fury as NICK KENT & MAX BELL once more grasp for the identity of the enIGma, quest for ...
Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA APL1-2275)
Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977
IGGY POP has always been the greatest rock comedian. As leader and frontispiece for that most extreme wing of rock nihilism represented by the Stooges, ...
Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA Victor)
Review by Wesley Strick, Circus, 12 May 1977
IN 1974, RAY Manzarek invited Iggy Pop to front for the Doors. It's said that Iggy dyed his hair jet black to suit the part. ...
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 26 May 1977
The Return, In Relative Good Health, Of Rock's Ragged Edge ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1977
LET'S SEE, 1977 minus 1973 is four; it's been four whole years since Iggy and the Stooges' milestone Raw Power was released. Four years can ...
Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA AFLI 2488)*****
Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 20 August 1977
"Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk,no more beating my brains,no more beating my brains,with liquor and drugs,with liquor and drugs,well I'm just a modern ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
GOG AND MAGOG?! No, Dog And Maindog. A Pure Pop Person Pleads Sanity. MAX BELL Was At The Hearings. ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1977
WHILE countless young groups do weak imitations of the Ig of five years ago Jimmy Osterburg himself moves on at a rate of revitalised progress ...
Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 15 October 1977
TIM LOTT meets Iggy Pop/The Ig/James Newell Osterburg/Idiot/Genius the man of many tangents ...
TRUE LIFE ROMANCE LIBRARY PRESENTS... The Day A Young Gurl's Dream Came True...
Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 29 October 1977
RAGS TO riches. I met Iggy Pop. He opened the door stark naked. I sat in his lap. Got three kisses. Spent two whole days ...
Live Review by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 5 November 1977
Iggy suffers metallic KO, Ramones rule OK? ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 21 January 1978
SO, NO RAW POWER retreads – it's only possible to live that once – but afterburn: the Ig goes right TO THE EDGE; LOSES CONTRACT/band/sanity/life ...
Iggy Pop and James Williamson: Kill City (Radar Records)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978
WELL, IT'S finally out and yup, disregarding the shoddy cover, it's a great album. ...
James Williamson: Real Time Musician From Kill City
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 25 February 1978
A PHONE CONSERVATION with James Williamson at his present home in Claremont, half-an-hour outside Los Angeles. Mainly to talk about the newly released 1975 Pop/Williamson ...
New Albums: Best at the Theft — Suicide Outclasses Blondie
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, March 1978
AMONG OUTSIDERS, the paramount issues of the punk/new wave movement revolve around stuff like clothing styles, politics, and the effect of massive success on a ...
Lou Reed: From Genius to Jerk and Back
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1978
LOU REED has been called everything from genius to jerk, and in the course of his career he's lived up to it all. With New ...
Iggy Pop: Pure Pop……For Iggy People
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 24 June 1978
Iggy Pop: Music Machine, London ...
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 March 1979
"I am totally into corruption." ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 April 1979
WHAT WE have here is James Osterberg in control. What we have here is the cunning Osterberg using the sensual Iggy, isolating personal standards and ...
Iggy Pop: The Factory, Manchester
Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
THE RETURN of the simian from oblivion: a club tour, much heralded by local media, ensures a leisure factory stretched to the limit of its ...
Iggy Pop: Metallic J.C.'s Consciousness-Raising Wrap Session
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1979
TURIN, ITALY – In a surprise announcement this week, it was revealed that the so-called "Shroud of Turin," long believed to be the cloth in ...
Iggy Pop: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 May 1979
IGGY POP'S FREUDIAN SLIPS IN THE NIGHT. COUCH AND NOTEPAD: GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
Iggy Pop, UK Subs: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 16 June 1979
GIVE IGGY Pop a sense of occasion and he'll rise to it — magnificently. The difference between Friday's concert and the first London appearance of ...
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1979
REEMERGENCE OF IGGY POP ...
The Discreet Charm of Iggy Pop
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, December 1979
Mr. and Mrs. Osterberg's favorite (and only) son learns 'tis better to consume than to be consumed, or "They call me Mister Pop." ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
Some Facts About Madness, Rape, Zombies, And Other Intense Human Behaviour ...
Iggy Pop/Psychedelic Furs: Friars, Aylesbury
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 9 February 1980
THREE BANDS shaped up as good value but that wasn't all. There was an unannounced surprise star guest – all the way from Vegas let's ...
Iggy Pop: I Can't Stand to be Alone
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 23 February 1980
TO OPEN A DOOR and find Iggy Pop behind it is like opening a well shaken-up can of lager unawares. ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
AMERICA TODAY: the old and the new. Play these in a row... ...
Iggy Pop: World's Most Forgotten Boyo Discovered Performing Alternative Service For The Bourgeoisie
Comment by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1981
COMING, ON your own TV, sometime around 1986: A loud, but dry, staccato male voice opens the commercial: "Do you remember those thrilling days when ...
Iggy: Always a Sucker for a Good Party
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 18 July 1981
IGGY POP, American entertainer and war poet, has just issued an eleventh album, and the day we met he'd weathered ten promotional interviews. "So much ...
Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, International Musician & Recording World, August 1981
'IT SEEMS MY reputation's met you before me' sang the Milky kid Bobby Vee back in the '60s. In a sense it sums up Iggy ...
Iggy Pop: Zombie Birdhouse (Animal Records/Chrysalis) ***
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 September 1982
IGGY POP is a man of honour. Not for him the Lou Reed path of self-mockery; the one time he tried it for money's sake ...
Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 4 October 1986
"I'M A real wild one." Iggy Pop, 1986. ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy Stardust – His Lust For Life
Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 18 October 1986
"I think I am a little different upstairs, yeah. But so are a lot of people," admits the former King Stooge to one of his ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986
BACK IN the bleak wastes of the early ‘70s – when, of course, things were really no more bleak than they are now – there ...
Iggy Pop: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 3 January 1987
MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS ...
Iggy Pop: The Madcap Laughs Again
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1988
Iggy Pop "The Prophet Of Punk" — has ricocheted through some combustible times. There were fleeting stabs at bona fide rock celebrity, then prolonged bouts ...
Danny Sugerman: American Excess
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
DANNY SUGERMAN is the wastrel previously responsible for the Doors' epic biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive. Now he's back with Wonderland Avenue, his ...
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, April 1990
IGGY POP is the greatest. He was metal before metal. He was punk before punk, he was and is poetry in motion. He's a wild ...
Reading '91: Reading, Writhing And Riffmatic
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...
Empire States: Iggy Pop: American Caesar (Virgin)
Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 11 September 1993
WHERE THERE ARE the glowing embers of a fire to be stirred, you can trust Iggy Pop to be first with the gasoline. ...
Iggy Pop: American Caesar (Virgin) ****
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1993
IGGY POP'S LAST ALBUM, Brick by Brick (1990), seemed as if it might be his swan song — one last blast of creative juice after ...
Iggy Pop: American Caesar (Virgin 39002; CD and cassette)
Review by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 14 November 1993
Iggy Pop Is Still Doing It His Way ...
Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums
Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994
Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...
Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1996
IT’S BEEN SAID before but bears repeating once Iggy Pop is witnessed at the close quarters of his cramped bedroom in London’s Halcyon Hotel: If ...
Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 26 June 1996
On Sunday, the punks were rocking again. But what on earth were they wearing? ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, The Face, December 1996
Is it possible for a man to live a long and happy life on a diet of sex, drugs and sausage? Iggy Pop explains to ...
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Dazed & Confused, 1997
ONE HUGE problem with 1997 is not that rock groups are everywhere but that they are almost without exception over-promoted, overindulged and half-baked. ...
Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
LOOK OUT, honey, cos they're using technology. Or rather, remixer Iggy Pop is. ...
Iggy Pop: London, Shepherds Bush Empire
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, 1999
HE WALKS through the cones of striped, sick-white lights, shirt off, a graceful, sinewy man with an impossible six-pack and road-map veins. He sits down ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 1999
What impact did the breakup of your marriage have on Avenue B? Curiously, once my back was up against the wall and I was really ...
Iggy Pop: Message From Under The Rock
Interview by Edward Helmore, Interview, September 1999
IGGY POP could have become a sacred rock dinosaur, giving benedictions and receiving ring-kisses on the nostalgia circuit. Instead, he's still rattling the cage and ...
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1999
Named after the NY street where Iggy and the ex Mrs Pop lived. Ten songs and three spoken word pieces recorded in a former East ...
Iggy Pop: Coming Through Slaughter
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 1999
Where lesser rock gods have become overweight and obsolete, Iggy Pop endures. In Miami, prompted by the bitter-sweet musings of his 13th album, he reflects ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 2001
THE ICON flexes his implausibly limber, scar-studded torso and un-focuses his piercing blue eyes for a few seconds as he casts his mind back over ...
Review by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, July 2001
After the introspective Avenue B, it's gloves off for Iggy as he comes out swinging. ...
Iggy Pop: The Importance of Being Iggy
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2001
JAMES NEWELL OSTERBERG, a.k.a. Iggy Pop, once billed himself as the "world's forgotten boy," but that is no longer the case. From fronting the proto-punk ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 October 2002
THE SHORTLIST PRIZE for Artistic Achievement in Music is out to rectify years of Grammy frustration, and as it attempts to become an American analogue ...
The Stooges Deliver A Real Cool Time
Live Review by Edward Helmore, The Independent, 15 August 2003
The Stooges, Jones Beach Theatre, New York ...
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, November 2003
Ageless rock'n'roll motherlode reconvenes Stooges, toys with Green Day and hooks up with art-rapper Peaches. ...
The Stooges: Raw Power Revisited
Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 10 August 2005
Warning: The following article does not constitute an endorsement of current phonographic products. – Editor ...
Iggy Pop And The Stooges: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 1 September 2005
SEEING THE STOOGES' name on the one-time Hammersmith Odeon's marquee, 30 years after they split, feels like an eerie warp in time. When the band ...
Story of the Song: 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop
Interview by Robert Webb, The Independent, 2006
Author's note: I'm not sure where the Q&A came from. Maybe Ricky taped the interview and transcribed the audio. ...
Where the Debris Meets the Sea: Iggy Pop and James Williamson in Kill City
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, September 2006
IGGY POP remains rock’s ultimate protopunk – the "world’s forgotten boy" who took the menace of the MC5 and the demonic danger of the Rolling ...
Retrospective by Paul Trynka, MOJO, April 2007
How shy, preppy James Osterberg built himself an alter ego that would allow him to dominate, ingest and fornicate at will. And how, in turn, ...
The Stooges: Kill City Dreaming
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 7 October 2009
Iggy Pop and James Williamson talk Raw Power, their rift and reunion, Ron Asheton and the glory that (still) is Detroit ...
What's It Like To Be Iggy Pop?
Interview by Jim Sullivan, JimSullivanInk.com, 2010
NB This article contains material taken from a story originally printed in The Boston Globe on July 8, 1990 ...
Memoir by Nick Kent, The Observer, 14 March 2010
In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music ...
Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power
Review and Interview by David Quantick, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2010
Fine 3-CD reissue with live bootleg and much more ...
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...
Iggy and the Stooges: Ready To Die
Review by John Lewis, Metro, 26 April 2013
ONE MIGHT mock Iggy Pop for advertising car insurance, but the truth is that being a rock legend doesn't come with a guaranteed stipend: his ...
From Iggy Pop to Michael Hutchence: The rock stars influenced by Doors frontman Jim Morrison
Comment by Johnny Sharp, Daily Mirror, 8 December 2013
THE SINGER, POET, self-proclaimed shaman and "Lizard King", exhibitionist and riotous drunk: The Doors' iconic frontman Jim Morrison would have celebrated his 70th birthday today. ...
Iggy Pop: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 May 2016
Iggy Pop is bloodied but unbowed when he leaves the stage of the RAH says Julian Marszalek. ...
Gimme Danger: A Fun House Story of the Stooges
Film/DVD/TV Review by Betsy Sherman, The Arts Fuse, 4 November 2016
The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times, showing how the Stooges went against the grain of ...
Velvet Goldmine: 20 years on, has the time come for Cool Britannia's Citizen Kane?
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, BFI, 22 May 2018
In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes' kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic. Now Bowie is dead and Britain has turned a ...
Gaz Coombes: The World's Strongest Fan
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2018
Ever been curious about what's pumping on Gaz Coombes' stereo? RC's Jamie Atkins was, so he headed to Oxfordshire to find out. ...
Live Review by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 16 April 2019
That supple physique can't move quite like it used to, but the 71-year-old's voice is in unbelievably good shape. ...
Live Review by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 16 April 2019
Sydney Opera House: That supple physique can't move quite like it used to, but 71-year-old's voice is in unbelievably good shape ...
Iggy Pop Still Wants to Be Somebody
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 21 October 2019
From the sound of the Stooges to his raw, norm-shattering displays of masculinity, Iggy Pop has been a cultural pioneer for a generation. Now he's ...
Between Fun House & 'Funtime': Iggy Pop in the '70s
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, TIDAL, 7 July 2020
Brilliantly out of step, the rock provocateur architected revolutionary sounds with the Stooges and Bowie. ...
Cancel Culture: Starring Iggy, Janis, Zappa & Others
Memoir by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 25 October 2021
Long before it became a conversation-stopping mantra of the extremist right wing, "cancel culture" visited rock 'n' roll on numerous occasions. Guitarist, deejay, scenemaker and ...
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