Category Archives: Iggy & The Stooges

Iggy & The Stooges, Press Releases

IGGY AND THE STOOGES ON THE COLBERT REPORT TONIGHT; READY TO DIE OUT TOMORROW

Available For Pre-Order At

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ready-to-die/id637018136

New Video Live at

http://youtu.be/n3vbymBA6ag

“fast, loud, aggressive… their live gig was the surprise hit of SXSW last month”–NEW YORK

“Iggy is, as you can tell, in blunt fuck-you and just-try-to-kill-me form”–ROLLING STONE

Having just slayed a live and online audience with a Sunday matinee NPR First Listen Live from New York City (http://n.pr/17dKrYc), Iggy and the Stooges will make their debut appearance on The Colbert Report tonight, April 29.

The new Iggy and the Stooges album, Ready To Die, is officially out tomorrow, April 30, on Fat Possum. For an exclusive behind the scenes look at some of the juju that surrounded into its creation, check out http://youtu.be/n3vbymBA6ag.

The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo–the immortal 1973 proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power–Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott “Rock Action” Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time in 40 years, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. “Burn,” previously unveiled at http://bit.ly/Z86ZXE, opens the record recalling  those halcyon opening salvo of “Search & Destroy,” while the still-unreleased-until-tomorrow “Job” has already become a singalong anthem of the band’s live set, with “Sex and Money” and “Gun” becoming staples as well. The record also finds Iggy and the Stooges in reflective mode, with its closing ballad “The Departed,” a somber tribute to late founding Stooge Ron Asheton.

For further news, tour dates, etc., stay tuned to http://www.iggyandthestoogesmusic.com/us/news

Iggy & The Stooges, Press Releases

IGGY AND THE STOOGES: “BURN”

HEAR THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE NEW ALBUM HERE:
https://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/iggy-and-the-stooges-burn/

APPEARING LIVE AT SXSW MARCH 13 AT HOUSE OF VANS AT THE MOHAWK

READY TO DIE OUT APRIL 30 ON FAT POSSUM RECORDS

Available For Pre-Order At
http://fatpossum.com/products/ready-to-die

Photo: David Raccuglia

Iggy and the Stooges have just unveiled “Burn,” the first full taste of the all-new studio album, Ready To Die, out April 30 on Fat Possum.

The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo–the immortal 1973 proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power–Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott “Rock Action” Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time in 40 years, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. “Burn” opens the record in suitable fashion, doing the legacy of its predecessor proud with guitar pyrotechnics recalling those halcyon opening salvos of “Search & Destroy,” a sublime vocal paean to the goddess of beauty, and a relentless rhythmic thud that anchors and propels the proceedings.

Iggy and the Stooges have unveiled the initial coordinates of the Ready To Die live assault: On March 13 in Austin, Texas, Iggy and the Stooges will burn a swath through the annual SXSW Festival, with a one-off show at House of Vans at the Mohawk presented by Fat Possum. The Austin show will be the public’s first chance to hear any of Ready To Die played live–and U.S. fans’ last chance to see Iggy and the Stooges before they return to American stages this summer following a slew of overseas dates.

“Burn” can be heard at https://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/iggy-and-the-stooges-burn/.

Iggy and the Stooges Live 2013
On Tour:

03/13 Austin, TX – SXSW @ Mohawk (Vans/Fat Possum)
03/25 Adelaide, Australia – Thebarton Theatre
03/27 Melbourne, Australia – Festival Hall
03/30 Byron Bay, Australia – Byron Bay Bluesfest
04/02 Sydney, Australia – Hordern Pavilion
06/08 Long Beach, CA – Ink-N-Iron Festival
06/24 Zagreb, Croatia – INmusic Festival
06/26 Goteborg, Sweden – Stora Scenen pa Liseberg
06/30 Marmande, France – Garorock Festival
07/04 Rome, Italy – Rock in Roma
07/09 Argelès-Sur-Mer, France – Parc de Valmy
07/11 Milan, Italy – City Sound

Iggy & The Stooges, Press Releases

IGGY AND THE STOOGES: READY TO DIE OUT APRIL 30 ON FAT POSSUM RECORDS

Available For Pre-Order At
http://fatpossum.com/products/ready-to-die

“a real fucking group… they also make fucking records. They don”t just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money”–Iggy Pop

Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo–the immortal proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power–will finally be out April 30, when Fat Possum Records releases the all-new Iggy and the Stooges studio album, Ready To Die.

Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott “Rock Action” Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time since the legendary Raw Power sessions, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. The results are the closest thing to a time capsule to 1973–or at least to Iggy”s subsequent efforts with Williamson, including 1977″s Kill City and 1979″s New Values–that rock “n” roll is likely to proffer in this millennium. The new album”s opening one-two of “Burn” and “Sex & Money” pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as intensely single-minded as Iggy”s lyrical statements of intent. Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date–the succinctly and aptly titled “Job”–as well as a title track that mixes a signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of “Search & Destroy.”

Just as Iggy exhumed the original Stooges name when he reunited in 2003 with the Asheton brothers, the revival of the Iggy and the Stooges moniker that first appeared on the cover of Raw Power heralded the return of guitarist James Williamson to the fold in 2009, or as Iggy put it then “although “the Stooges” died with Ron Asheton, there is still “Iggy and the Stooges”.” As far as the decision to record and release a new Iggy and the Stooges album for the first time since 1973, Iggy recently commented:

“My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It”s just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a real fucking group when they”re an older group they also make fucking records. They don”t just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money…”

To see and hear the rest of this statement, clickHERE.

To see an exclusive ad for the new record, click HERE (Embed code below)

Iggy and the Stooges will begin the Ready To Die live assault shortly. Stay tuned for coordinates.

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