Iggy Pop

David Bowie Continues a Long-Held Obsession With Berlin

Everyone and their mother got a bit excited yesterday when David Bowie released new material for the first time in 10 years, to coincide with his 66th birthday. Not only is "Where Are We Now?" very good indeed, but it's also accompanied by a freaky video, which reassures us that the old Bowie magic ... More >>

The 5 Worst Appearances by Musicians in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films

Apparently, someone behind the scenes at Game of Thrones has really bland taste in music. Now, in addition to Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody making a cameo in Season 2, Coldplay drummer Will Champion is going to be joining the HBO show for Season 3 -- playing a drummer. (How creative!) The ... More >>

Signal to Noise: Benoit & Sergio Pick Five Influential Songs

There really isn't anybody else like Benoit & Sergio. Based out of Washington D.C. and Berlin, the duo has spent the past couple years supplying dancefloors with strange athems that combine '80s pop appeal with slick tech-house aesthetics, leading some publications to describe them as Ricardo Villal ... More >>

From Rushmore to Mr. Fox: The Best Uses of Songs in Wes Anderson's Films

Oh, Wes Anderson, you beautiful, whimsical, detail-oriented genius, you. Today, Anderson's latest movie, Moonrise Kingdom, sees release nationwide -- so naturally we're already anticipating the gems he'll have pulled together for the soundtrack. Wes Anderson movies of course always, always, always h ... More >>

The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 15-11

"Cocaine," as Rick James famously said, "is a helluva drug." Yup: The white powder's effects have left an influence that's both sublime and downright hideous on decades of pop music. So what happens when you give already-famous musicians a quick burst of energy, ego, paranoia, and euphoria? Most of ... More >>

Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it was one thing above all: A surefire plot to join the ranks of the middle-finger-flashing musical elit ... More >>

Iggy Pop on Making Kill City, Life in '70s Los Angeles, and the Jim Jarmusch Stooges Doc

Earlier this year, before Iggy Pop was aware that he'd broken his foot during a Stooges show in Romania, he had a delightful, cuss-filled conversation with us from his home in the Cayman Islands. Afterward, when Pop found out that his foot was seriously busted, the band rescheduled its S.F. dates to ... More >>

'Slightly Damaged': A Conversation with Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop on Playing with the Stooges, Where He Can't Go in America, and More

Iggy and the Stooges​Music stories from SF Weekly's latest print edition: "Slightly Damaged": A Conversation with Iggy Pop: After two rings, a gravelly voice picks up the phone and mutters a chewy "hello." There's no publicist or handler -- this is Iggy Pop himself, taking press calls at wh ... More >>

Iggy Pop Breaks Foot, Cancels Stooges' West Coast Gigs

Iggy Pop at a Stooges gig this summer. Via Facebook​ Turns out Iggy Pop is mortal: After breaking two bones in his foot during a Stooges' show in Romania, the shirtless madman canceled all four of the band's upcoming West Coast dates, including the shows planned for Sept. 12 and 13 at the Warf ... More >>

Is There Something Ironic About Buying Vinyl Online?

We use our newest gadgets to buy some of our lowest-tech gear.​ A colleague today raised this question: Is it ironic, or weird, or even funny, to buy vinyl -- analog music -- online? The issue was prompted by the news of Vinyl Dreams, a new online-only record store started by Michelangelo Bat ... More >>

Lose the Groupies: Glitter Wizard Explains How to Be a Rock God on a Budget

As we all know, rock gods are a vital piece of the world's cultural fabric. Think of how much duller Earth would be if Iggy Pop hadn't developed a lust for life, David Lee Roth had never jumped, and Def Leppard had never prompted hysteria. The world needs more rock gods. But how do you become one ... More >>

Best Practices for Eating a Burrito in San Francisco

​John Birdsall​ A happy man once said, "The best burrito in the city is the one you are eating." He said it while cradling a ruptured super whose mass had burst through its tinfoil housing and was flowing, lavalike, down his forearms and plopping onto the sidewalk. We caught sight of let ... More >>

'The Anthropology of Bono,' and Other Music Courses We'd Like To See

​Recently a few colleges, including the Universities of Virginia and South Carolina, announced plans to offer an undergraduate course on the music, celebrity and all-around mindfuck of Lady Gaga. UVA's is called "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity."We've all heard about legendary and hard-to ... More >>

Bare Wires' Matthew Melton Talks Oakland Vs. S.F. and the Band's Upcoming Album

Bare Wires, with Matthew Melton in the center​Bear traps? Painful. Barbed Wire? Equally dangerous. But Oakland garage-rock trio Bare Wires is mostly harmless. No matter how much its members may have been influenced by The Stooges, the no-holds-barred confrontational demeanor of Iggy Pop was left ... More >>

Monday's Pick: M.O.T.O., Midnight Creeps, Sharp Objects, The Spurts at Elbo Room

The Midnight Creeps' Jenny Hollywood​M.O.T.O.Midnight CreepsSharp ObjectsThe SpurtsElbo Room9 p.m., $6Camps that teach young women how to rock are certainly commendable, but it's a safe bet Jenny Hurricane learned the old-fashioned way: by simply watching Iggy Pop. The Midnight Creeps frontwoman p ... More >>

What to Do? Tuesday's Pick: Chemlab @ DNA Lounge

Chemlab @ DNA Lounge Apparently they're calling this multi-band package jaunt the "MIDI Ghetto Tour" -- a phrase that encapsulates the Chemlab ethos nicely. Chemlab has always been self-consciously cyberpunk, a gang of sci-fi rock 'n' roll poets and pill-popping console jockeys looking for their ... More >>

Peaches and the Hologram

Electro-clasher and performing artist Peaches explains to The Creators Project what goes into being Peaches and putting on a good show. Hint: it involves time travel, tech revolutions and an Iggy Pop Hologram. SOLD!

Misfit Medleys

Halloween Clips: The Ten Scariest Music Videos of All Time

1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? ... More >>

Last Night: Noisettes at the Rickshaw Stop

​Noisettes Rickshaw Stop July 28, 2009 Better than: Any show I've seen in a long time. America hasn't yet fallen under the spell of London trio Noisettes, but it's gonna happen soon. They are well known in their homeland, and their latest single, "Never Forget You," leaps out of my speakers whe ... More >>

Charlie Horse

Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

Getting 'Touchy' in 2008

The Big Studio Slump

The body count of legendary recording studios that have gone silent is undeniable.

Altered States

Half-Naked Twister, Steely Dan, Comic-Con and a Reality TV Overdose: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Sia

Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle Records)

Liars

Liars(Mute)

Don't Call It a Comeback

The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

Misc. Reviews

Band-name watch: Gettin' Grizzly

Chewy Marzolo's b-day and bands, Heavy Trash's wretched rock, and the return of goth pinups Bauhaus

Chuck Prophet

Age of Miracles

The Art of Reuniting

Once upon a time, S.F.'s Death Angel was poised to bring thrash metal to the mainstream. Then its bus crashed. Now the band is back to finish the job.

New Year's Repetitions

Somehow it found me: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout. And work out I did.

Prick

Hear This

The apocalyptic acid-rock attack of Comets on Fire

Survival

When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

House Of Tudor

Murder City Devils; Superstarlet AD; All-You-Can-Eat Fourth of July Barbecue

Going to a Go-Go

The GO

Fingerpickin' Good

Bad Livers

The House of Tudor

The House of Tudor

The House of Tudor

Suspicious Minds

Suspicious Minds

Sunday in the Park With the Sex Pistols

An eyewitness account

Lust for Life

Iggy Pop wants to be your Naughty Little Doggie

Heat Stroke

Pulpit-pounding with the Reverend Horton Heat

Delusions of Banjer

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner