The Stooges (Band)

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

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

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 >>

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 >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

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 >>

Friday Night: Mike Watt Plays the Grizzled Natural at Bottom of the Hill

Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Friday night. ​ Mike Watt April 29, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Listening to the words without the face. If such a thing were possible, I'd believe, without hyperbole or winking wit, that Mike Watt was born to play the bass. His fingers fly across t ... More >>

Catching Up with Mike Watt, Former Minuteman and Writer of Punk Operas

Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Friday night. ​ Mike Watt April 29, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Listening to the words without the face. If such a thing were possible, I'd believe, without hyperbole or winking wit, that Mike Watt was born to play the bass. His fingers fly across t ... More >>

KUSF Still Isn't Saved; Help Support it by Seeing Economen This Friday

Minutemen tribute band Economen: Too econo to hold still.​Raise your hand if you still miss KUSF 90.3 FM. Raise your hand if you still pine for the good ol' days of earlier this year, when you could turn on a radio in San Francisco and hear a DJ who was also in San Francisco playing music by peopl ... More >>

Get High on Motor City: Here's Detroit Rock 'N' Roll and the Fat Buds To Go with It

​Hear this while high: Part 2 of Julian Cope's excessive and entirely essential Detroit rock sampler. (Click for free download.) Behind the buzz: This second massive installment of vintage Motor City psychosis provides the Yang-like get-down-everybody's-gonna-leave-their-seat to last week's tum ... 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 >>

Faith No More's second coming

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 >>

Frisco Freakout

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 >>

A new postpunk festival highlights a genre's revival

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 >>

Sonic Youth massages the past

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 >>

Lust for Life

Iggy Pop wants to be your Naughty Little Doggie

Recordings

Iggy Pop wants to be your Naughty Little Doggie

Revolting Cocks

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press