Mali blues-punk outfit Songhoy Blues unveiled an incisive new song “Bamako” from their upcoming second album, Résistance, which arrives June 16th via Fat Possum/Transgressive Records. The record will notably feature guest vocals from Iggy Pop, Elf Kid and Stealing Sheep. More
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme allegedly assaulted an autograph collector after an Iggy Pop show last year in Detroit, according to a lawsuit the collector filed Monday. More
Iggy Pop has teamed with UK band PINS for a new song, “Aggrophobe.” It appears on the band’s upcoming Bad Thing EP—out March 24. Iggy explained to i-D how the collaboration came about: “They sent me a good song and they’re looking for a narration in it, and I liked their music and their picture, so…
Terrence Malick’s next film is titled Song to Song and will feature appearances by Patti Smith, Lykke Li, the Black Lips, Iggy Pop, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more, as IndieWire reports. Previously called Lawless, and then Weightless, Song to Song takes place in Austin, TX and stars Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale as “two entangled couples” that “chase success through a rock ‘n’…
Iggy Pop opens up about his latest album, his unpublished collection of essays about former sexual partners and his history of playing appliances in a new interview with Thurston Moore. The clip marks the first installment in an hour-long documentary from Rough Trade, I’ve Nothing But My Name, Pitchfork reports. More
Rough Trade have shot a new documentary, “I’ve Nothing But My Name,” in which Iggy Pop and Thurston Moore converse at Iggy’s home in Miami. In the first instalment, they discuss themes ranging from the Stooges’…
The lineup for the 30th annual Tibet House US Benefit, curated by Philip Glass, has been announced. On March 16 at Carnegie Hall, Patti Smith and her band, Iggy Pop, New Order’s Bernard Sumner, Laurie Anderson, Phil Cunningham, Tom Chapman, and more will perform for the benefit’s 30th anniversary. Chuck Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Arden…
Iggy Pop and Danger Mouse collaborated on “Gold,” a new song featured in the upcoming Matthew McConaughey drama about a geologist searching for gold in Indonesia. Pop and Mouse co-wrote the track with director Stephan Gaghan and composer Daniel Pemberton. They previously worked together on Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s 2010 album, Dark Night of the Soul.
“This beautiful and unpredictable film spoke to me of violence, desire, destiny, lust and the inescapable twists of fate,” Pop said in a statement. “The actors and the story spun a web of excitement that left me spent and breathless, so I tried to perform the vocal with that feeling…
