Look, I don't think it's too much to ask for an album called "Dog Tracks: Songs By Dogs" to feature, I dunno—songs by dogs?
I was incredibly excited when the album came in the mail today. Who could blame me? Dogs are cool, I like music. It seems like a winning proposition. So imagine my horror when I popped the CD in and realized that is, in fact, a wholesale farce. The songs are actually by humans. Yeah, WTF, right? There are already plenty of albums by humans, a.k.a every other album in the
Last Night: Bloc Party at the Grove of Anaheim, Dec. 15th, 2008.Better Than: Sulking at home while it rains.Download: The "Mercury" video from Bloc Party's Web site.Rain didn't scare away the throngs of kids who soaked up a mesmerizing performance Monday night by noted Britain indie rockers Bloc Party. Touring behind their third album Intimacy, just released in late October, Russell
Lissack's electronically mangled guitar on songs like "Trojan Horse" underpinned Kele Okereke's impassioned vocals
By RYAN RITCHIEI don't make a habit of waxing poetic about people I've never met, and I sure as hell won't pretend to know anything about Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton that doesn't involve his music. But I was still shocked when I popped on my computer this morning to discover the 60-year-old was found dead of apparent natural causes at his Michigan home, because his intense playing inspired me--and countless others--to ditch life's safety net in favor of diving into the deep end without first c
The big question on the mind of anyone amid the crowds at Edwards Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights was: My God, don't these people work? And a second: Don't they know we're teetering on Depression? Finally: Buddy, can you spare a ticket?
The masses were expected at the Newport Beach Film Festival over the weekend, but Monday night's healthy crowd became Tuesday night's packed house which became Wednesday night's mob scene. Bet your hou
The history of the Stooges is long and complicated. Basically, the original group (singer Iggy Pop, drummer Scott Asheton, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander) recorded two albums that you should have (The Stooges and Fun House).
Alexander left, then after running through a few bassists, the group disbanded. Until they reunited. For its second go-round, the Stooges re-christened themselves Iggy and the Stooges and had a new lineup that included Pop and drummer Asheton with n
It's what's for dinner!Some of us can still recall the 1970s, when the economy was in the toilet, joblessness was the No. 1 concern and distrust of anything coming out of Washington, D.C., was at an all-time high.Sound familiar?The media is those days were filled with stories about the dire measures the suddenly new poor were undertaking merely to survive. This was especially true of senior citizens and those tossed out of work. Turns out Iggy Pop was not the only one living on dog food. And
After the death of guitarist Ron Asheton, many hoped Iggy Pop and his bandmates would recruit former axeman James Williamson and keep the band going. Well, they did and by clicking this link, they'll get to hear a bunch of professionally shot videos from the new lineup's first show. Of note is the band's inclusion of Iggy solo songs "The Passenger" and "Lust for Life," along with Stooges outtakes such as "I Got a Right," "Cock in My Pocket" and "Kill City."