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Record Store Day is proud to announce the appointment of IGGY POP to the post of Record Store Day 2012 Ambassador.
A person should have a personality. You won't get one dicking around on a computer. It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons. Persons who are interested in something you are. That's how a record store or any shop that's got some life to it should work. It's not about selling shit. I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during my tender years. Small indie shops have always been a mix of theater and laboratory. In the 50's and 60's the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat. You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick. Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads, (Jack Holzman) and Faces on album covers (like me).
Personally I feel best in a store that, while staying small and socially relaxed, still keeps a complete variety of music types and non musical recordings on offer. I'm aware though that a lot of great places are genre-specific, like dance hall shops in Jamaica or Compas here in Little Haiti. In Europe and on the West coast the same goes on for Punk and Goth. All of this is cool and has a much bigger future than most people realize today. When the record and record store businesses began to die at the turn of the new century, they deserved it because they got too big too boring and too plastic.
As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead. --IGGY POP
2012 OFF Festival In Katowice, Poland: Iggy And The Stooges To Perform August 5th
The godfather of punk and his band, Iggy and the Stooges, and cult bands Suicide and Death in Vegas open the long list of performers who will play at the OFF Festival from August 3 to August 5 at the Three Ponds Valley in Katowice. Tickets for the 2012 OFF Festival are available now!
Iggy And The Stooges
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re proud to announce that Iggy and The Stooges will perform at the OFF Festival! Pleas of their loyal fans have not gone unheard. They’re coming so that we can try to outscream Iggy during “Raw Power,” “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” and “Search and Destroy.” They’re coming to show the youngsters playing the OFF Festival stages how it’s done. Iggy and The Stooges – pioneers and punk-rock legends, synonymous with on-stage antics and the sheer vital force of rock and roll. Oh, how we want to be dogs right now – announcements like these truly deserve a howl of joy!
Iggy And The Stooges To Perform In Sweden August 10th Next Year
Iggy and the Stooges' first show for 2012 has been confirmed! The band will perform at Gröna Lund next summer in Stockholm, Sweden on August 10th. Rock on!
Henry Rollins Reviews Iggy And The Stooges At The Palladium
A chance to see Iggy Pop -- the Heavyweight Champion of rock and roll -- causes three things to happen to me every time. First, the excitement I feel before Iggy hits stage is unlike any I have for any other band. Second, the amount of adrenaline coursing through me when the band is ripping through their set makes me feel like I am plugged into life's main circuit. Third, it takes days for me to come down. I have to listen to Stooges and Iggy records constantly until I finally level out.
A Stooges show is unlike any other. It's like the chase scene in an action film. It's like watching a boxing match that goes the distance. It is not just another night out -- it is a chapter of your life.
The other night at the Palladium was one of those nights. ...Song after song erupted from the stage and it was like I had never heard them before, never marveled at how damn good and solid songs like "Search and Destroy," "I Need Somebody," "Open Up And Bleed" and "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" are. This happens every time I see them.
Read more at LAWeekly.com.
James Williamson Interviewed, Warfield Show Reviewed
Watch James Williamson in this interview below from NBC Bay Area News. In a related article, the interviewer wrote: "Sunday’s Warfield performance showed the band in full gain. Iggy still takes the stage like a twenty-year-old trapeze artist."
LA Weekly Reviews December 1st Hollywood Palladium Show
If there was something to be learned from Thursday night's sold out Iggy Pop and The Stooges show, it's that dynamism knows no age. ...Shirtless and as abnormally ripped as ever, he launched into "Raw Power" without hesitation, jumping and noodling his torso like a tanned fish out of water. It wasn't more than two songs before he was sailing into the crowd. By the fifth he had fans scaling barricades and dodging security guards to join him onstage. And by the time "I Wanna Be Your Dog" hit, the floor's multigenerational circle pit had grown to engulf nearly half the crowd.
Read more at LA Weekly.com.
Photo by Timothy Norris
SF Weekly Publishes More From Its Interview With Iggy Pop
SF Weekly has published additional bits from its interview with Iggy Pop earlier this year. Here is an excerpt:
Q: So I hear there's possibly a Jim Jarmusch documentary coming out about the Stooges?
A: ...Jim's a fine artist and a completely independent and unpredictable character. And he's also musically knowledgeable, and he knows and loves the group, so that was the idea. I asked him, "Listen, please, I need you to do some coverage of the group," so he's done some coverage. I'll probably talk to him this fall to see what he wants to do with it, whether it might be like a box of DVDs, or whether it might be -- I'd love to give him some music for it. It's sort of in the sense that when you work with somebody really good, you expect that you're not necessarily gonna like or really agree either with whatever it is they make. That's important.
Read more at SF Weekly.
Iggy And The Stooges To Perform Tonight! Still The Epitome Of ‘Raw Power’
It’s a real Renaissance period for veteran punk rocker Iggy Pop. At 64, he is surfing a tsunami-sized wave of diverse projects that began with the recent rerelease of “Raw Power,” his 1973 classic with his old outfit The Stooges. Reunited, they play a two-night stand in The City starting Sunday (rescheduled after an August foot injury forced the tour’s postponement).
“I got into a position where I could do a few things I wanted to — that was part of it,” he says of this sudden resurgence. “But mainly, it was that other people started thinking of me, and all these invitations — and opportunities that really were opportunities — came up.”
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner.
'Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans' Reviewed By Jambands
Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans works perfectly from concept to recording to end result. Unlike the Beastie Boys’ “Awesome: I…Shot That!” it doesn’t just hand over cameras to fans and let ‘em run amok. (That was the anarchic spirit of that film.) Taking its cues from these Stooges diehards, this is more than just a concert document of the Stooges performance at 2010’s All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival.
Because of the six ultra-devotees selected to film the show and interview members Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and James Williamson, the overall product has a layer of punk rock street cred that would be lacking if a group of pro cameramen took positions around the stage and presented the usual range of shot selections. These are serious students of the influential band and they are chosen to sit in for the rest of us music geeks. The questions they have for the band members show their deep interest; the culmination of years and, sometimes, decades of listening to the music and collecting anything related to the legendary act. And it’s nice to see that the replies are treated with the respect they deserve and given with just as much thought.
Read more at Jambands.com. You can order your copy on DVD and Blu-ray!
First Listen: Iggy Pop Contributes Two Tracks For Michel Legrand Album
Grammy®- and Oscar-Winning Composer Michel Legrand Releases Holiday Album Featuring: Iggy Pop, Jamie Cullum, MIKA, Teddy Thompson, Madeleine Peyroux, Carla Bruni, Rufus Wainwright and more!
LOS ANGELES -- Celebrated Oscar® and Grammy® Award-winning French composer Michel Legrand teams up with an eclectic and critically acclaimed group of artists from around the world for his new studio album, Noel! Noel!! Noel!!! Set for release on December 6th through Verve, it's just in time for the holiday season.
Legrand called on a glittering array of recording artists from around the world who jumped at the chance to work with the globally acclaimed songwriter and composer on his new studio album. This diverse group of artists includes the Grammy® Award-nominated, jazz-pop singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum; the multi-faceted singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright; the eclectic pop styling of MIKA; acclaimed singer and composer Teddy Thompson; folk-soul chanteuse Ayo; noted French singer Carla Bruni, and punk pioneer Iggy Pop. All gathered together for the recording of this unique holiday collection while recalling the melodies that lit up the Christmas of their own childhood.
Iggy Pop remarked, "Gee. Wow. Michel Legrand. No kidding? Yeah, I'd love to do it. So that's kind of how the phone call went when I heard about this record. I was just really, really happy to be included, and to be present in a small way for Joyeux Noel En France 2011. Everybody singing on this is really bloody good. I envy Rufus, his beautiful French as well as his talent, and the three ladies on 'Noel d'espoir,' each one, are nothing short of bewitching. I guess now I'm cool with Santa Claus. By the way, when I was a boy, I too played the drums. Many thanks to Michel for the beautiful tracks and for allowing me to be a guest."
Michel Legrand and his team, comprising of the Big Band Jazz featuring 50 musicians including an orchestra of 34, and renowned sound engineer Lawrence Manchester, who has worked with Diana Krall, Regina Spektor, the Coen brothers on the True Grit soundtrack as well as Scorsese's The Departed, plus Spiderman, flew to New York for the recording of Noel! Noel!! Noel!!!
Included are Christmas classics such as "Jingle Bells," "Silent Night," "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "Santa Baby," as well as the exclusive Legrand-penned song "Hope Christmas," written and recorded specifically for this album. Said Jamie Cullum, "Over the years of committing songs to memory I kept coming across songs and arrangements I loved. So often the name Michel Legrand turned up. I'm honored to be included on this collection created by Monsieur Legrand in some seriously auspicious company as well. This is not your typical Christmas album! God bless it for that!"
Tearing down the barriers between jazz, classical music and pop, Michel Legrand is at home in any musical situation and has worked with the likes of Orson Welles, Marcel Carne, Clint Eastwood, Norman Jewison, Louis Malle, Andrzej Wajda, Richard Lester and Claude Lelouch, to name just a few. His instrumental LP I Love Paris topped the U.S. album charts and was the first in a string of Legrand's hit records, including Holiday In Rome which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200; the top 10 album Castles In Spain; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg which achieved massive worldwide success; the Thomas Crown Affair featuring the hit "The Windmills of Your Mind"; and the 1972 hit song "Brian's Song (The Hands Of Time)."
Tracklist:
1. Jamie Cullum - "Let It Snow"
2. Teddy Thompson/Rufus Wainwright - "White Christmas"
3. Madeleine Peyroux - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
4. Madeleine Peyroux, Emilie Simon, Carla Bruni, Rufus Wainwright, Iggy Pop - "Noel d'Espoir"
5. MIKA - "Vive le Vent"
6. Emilie Simon - "Santa Baby"
7. Carla Bruni - "Jolis Sapins"
8. Iggy Pop - "The Little Drummer Boy"
9. Ayo - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
10. Imelda May - "Silent Night"
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