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Iggy Pop

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 7, 2011

    'Slightly Damaged': A Conversation with Iggy Pop

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    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!

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2010

    Misfit Medleys

    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!

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 6, 2009

    Charlie Horse

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    January 28, 2009

    Franz Ferdinand

    Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

  • Music

    December 24, 2008

    Getting 'Touchy' in 2008

    Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    The Big Studio Slump

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

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2008

    Altered States

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

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

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

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

  • Music

    February 13, 2008

    Sia

    Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle Records)

  • Music

    October 17, 2007

    Liars

    Liars(Mute)

  • Music

    April 11, 2007

    Don't Call It a Comeback

    The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

  • Music

    September 27, 2006

    Misc. Reviews

    Band-name watch: Gettin' Grizzly

  • Music

    October 19, 2005

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

    Band-name watch: Gettin' Grizzly

  • Music

    September 15, 2004

    Chuck Prophet

    Age of Miracles

  • Music

    May 5, 2004

    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.

  • Music

    January 7, 2004

    New Year's Repetitions

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

  • Music

    September 10, 2003

    Prick

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

  • Music

    December 18, 2002

    Hear This

    The apocalyptic acid-rock attack of Comets on Fire

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    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.

  • Music

    June 28, 2000

    House Of Tudor

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

  • Calendar

    October 27, 1999

    Going to a Go-Go

    The GO

  • Calendar

    September 15, 1999

    Fingerpickin' Good

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    March 17, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    February 10, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    January 29, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    December 25, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    August 28, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    Bad Livers

  • Music

    August 21, 1996

    Sunday in the Park With the Sex Pistols

    An eyewitness account

  • Music

    February 28, 1996

    Lust for Life

    Iggy Pop wants to be your Naughty Little Doggie

  • Music

    December 27, 1995

    Heat Stroke

    Pulpit-pounding with the Reverend Horton Heat

  • Music

    April 26, 1995

    Delusions of Banjer

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

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