Iggy Pop

'Greetings' and Hallelujah! Jeff and Tim Buckley live!

In Daniel Algrant's new drama, the singer/songwriter is distantly looming

The Best Concerts to See in OC This Weekend

Friday, March 8 Death Hymn Number 9 Unit B Studio Once, there was a band called the Gories, and there was a guy called Hasil Adkins, as well as a dude named Tav Falco, and they played like maniacs. If they weren't sweating blood, it was only because someone else bled on them first. That's what Deat ... More >>

BRONCHO Are Not, In Any Way, Associated With Mexican Ponies

First and foremost, it's pronounced Braun-cho. Secondly, the capitalization is purposeful. And thirdly, this is a band, not a Mexican pony (important!). It's a band that plays gritty, straightforward punk songs a la The Replacements and Iggy Pop. It's a band that calls Oklahoma home (which is impres ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Foxygen - The Constellation Room - Feb 14, 2013

In the past month, both California psychonauts Foxygen and New Zealand export Unknown Mortal Orchestra have released critically heralded albums that base their templates on the weirder, wayward side of rock and pop. Both band's albums are divergent from more standard rock fare such as music made for ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Tuesday, December 18Stevie TombstoneThe Prospector Stevie Tombstone's sweet, soulful country croon juxtaposes delightfully with his hard craggy face. Rocking some hard-luck chic, his songs feature mentions of the undertaker and give thanks for the little things in life--such as not being in jail ... More >>

El Vez Mex-Mas

Detroit Bar

30 Facts About Ke$ha We Learned From Her New Book 'My Crazy Beautiful Life'

By: Brian McManusIf you listen closely to Ke$ha's songs (and is there any other way to listen to Ke$ha? ), you already know quite a bit about her. She wakes up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. She uses a bottle of Jack to brush her teeth (which sounds dangerous). Etc. Etc. So on. So forth. ANYW ... More >>

Top Five Long Beach Dive Bars

When it comes to dive bars, Long Beach has some of the best in Southern California.  An area stuck between Orange County and Los Angeles, Long Beach is truly its own city, belonging to no one.  An iconoclast.  A haven for cheap beer and wild stories.  And after spending many hour ... More >>

BLOK to Headline an Extra-Spooky Edition of Plugged Into Local at Alex's Bar, Oct. 24

We don't give a fuck that it's happening a week before Halloween, Plugged Into Local can and will scare the shit out of you this month. October's installment of our lil' monthly concert series returns with three bands who trade in bone-cracking agression, blood-curdling screams, and three signature ... More >>

Moonlight Graham To Host 'Clockwork Orange County' Documentary Event

See Also: *Former Korn Drummer To Plead Not Guilty In DUI Case *How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score *Of Monsters and Men - The Observatory - 8/8/12 For as much old-school, OC punk culture as like to dig up here at the Weekly, we always get a little giddy whenever we c ... More >>

Road & Track Zooms Out of Newport Beach

Road & Track magazine is driven . . . to leave Newport Beach for Ann Arbor, Michigan.It's not leaving Orange County to be nearer Iggy Pop's Muskegon birthplace but to be nearer its new editor-in-chief, Larry Webster, who calls Ann Arbor home. So do Automotive and Car and Driver magazines.

Top Five Hits: Vinyl Solution in Huntington

​Here are the top fivers for Vinyl Solution, 18822 Beach Boulevard #104 in Huntington, (714) 963-1819. This week's top seller is Velvet Underground & Nico's self-titled.

Gonjasufi, Jeremiah Jae, and Dot At Low End Theory, Feb. 29, 2012

​Gonjasufi, Jeremiah Jae, and DotLow End Theory at the Airliner, Eagle RockFeb. 29, 2012 A roster such as this at Low End Theory is one not to go unnoticed. Having the Bjork-Lee Perry hybrid of the western United States' beat culture Gonjasufi perform with manufacturer of skull ... More >>

Iggy and The Stooges at the Hollywood Palladium Last Night

​Iggy and The StoogesHollywood PalladiumDecember 1st, 2011Click here to see the slideshow.Iggy Pop is a living legend. Originally scheduled back in November but postponed due to Iggy breaking his foot, the Hollywood Palladium show was beyond sold out by fans feverishly awaiting to be bludgeoned wi ... More >>

Iggy Pop, Paco Rabanne's New Poster Boy

​File this under well, at least it's better than endorsing car insurance. According to Women's Wear Daily, Iggy Pop is the new face for Paco Rabanne's latest men's and women's fragrances--called Black XS L'Excès--out in January in France. Music vid director Jonas Akerlund (famous for Lady Gaga's ... More >>

We Were Feared Cuckoo's Nest Documentary Needs Your Votes Early and Often to Win Festival Slot

​ArcLight Cinemas on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood has come up with an interesting way of picking films for its inaugural Documentary Festival. On its Facebook page, the theater has posted the trailers of 20 documentaries. Anyone can watch and then vote for the film they would like to see the rest ... More >>

Everybody Must Get Stoned: The Six Druggiest Rock Stars of All Time

EPA/The Independent​In honor of Aaron Carter getting out of rehab (who, by the way, looks like absolute shit), we wondered, "Hey, just who were the most fucked-up rockers ever?" Yes, there are some very deserving people not here (David Crosby, Station to Station--era Bowie, Iggy Pop, Fleetwood Mac ... More >>

Drummer Alex Kirst of the Nymphs/Iggy Pop Band Dead at 47

​Alex Kirst, former member of seminal LA glam rockers The Nymphs and, later, longtime drummer for Iggy Pop's band, died tragically Jan. 13. According to The Desert Sun, Kirst was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Cathedral City, Riverside County. The Nymphs had their heyday in the late '80s and ... More >>

On the Record

[Mental Notes] Memorable lines from Brent Amaker, Juan Manuel Torreblanca and Sam James Velde

Brent Amaker & the Rodeo: 'We Play Western Music, and We Do Whatever the Fuck We Want.'

​Call it a throwback to a time when Johnny Cash ruled the airwaves and Ennio Morricone made soundtracks for movies, but Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's "it's beer-swillin', foot tappin', shit kickin' country and western" music--straight from Seattle--is the antithesis of every wanna be hipster band t ... More >>

Don't Pigeonhole the Dum Dum Girls

This all-girl noise rock band packs old-school melodies with sonic din

Weeding Out the Weenie Roast

Our handy-dandy guide to sorting the wieners from the dogs

Jerry Roach of Cuckoo's Nest: Not Dead

Photo by John GilhooleyJerry Roach is not dead.​Controversy and the Cuckoo's Nest--it's as if Jerry Roach never left us. But many assumed the owner of the former Costa Mesa punk rock club had left permanently. "People thought I was dead," he tells me with a chuckle.

Ten Don't-Miss Films at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Billie Joe Armstrong Inducts the Stooges, White Stripes Return(?), 'American Idol' Idiocy, Gorillaz Go 'Electric Avenue'?

Billie Joe Armstrong inducts the Stooges--and a shirtless Iggy Pop--into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The White Stripes will return. We hope!American Idol idiots butcher Rolling Stones songs--sounds so bad almost wished I saw it.Did the Gorillaz really rip off Eddy "Electric Avenue" Grant??

Today in Music News: Shooter Jennings, Stephen King, Mariah Carey, Elvis Presley, Iggy Pop

Shooter Jennings--one of country's coolest acts--working on concept album featuring Stephen King.Mariah Carey admits to being pretty much plastered when she gave acceptance speech at Palm Springs International Film Festival. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical cocaine, Demerol and fried peanut butter ... More >>

New Stooges Videos

​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 th ... More >>

Come and Get It!

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 meas ... More >>

Four Albums In, Peaches Is Still Successfully Freaking Out Squares

The Stooges reform (again)

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 ... More >>

The Most Blatant Case of False Advertising Since 'The Neverending Story'

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 wh ... More >>

Tear Jerker

Cry-Baby

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Breaking Away,' ' Cry-Baby,' 'Hero' and More

Fall Art Threat

The last band lasts forever

Faceless Shreds, Secret Sorrow

Buckethead returns from the mountaintop

Oh, What a Station!

Remembering Oldies AM with the Dells and Dramatics

Live Reviews

Secondhand Smoke

Spilling the beans in 11 chatty skits

Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?

The Year in War

We Got the Neutron Bomb!

Sold On Selling Out

Or: How I learned to stop bitching and love a TV commercial

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Twang Bangers

Drag the Rivers country-punk ethos

Make a Joyful Noise

10 bands to watch in 2002

LOB

Director, word artist, general manager of Vinyl Solution Records and sales manager of Sweet Water Productions

Stimulating!

Getting off with the Vibrators

Up In Murk

Evaporators front man Nardwuar keeps his past and present mythic

Rewind

Great gigs of '00

Skie Bender

Painter, writer, voice and bass player for the Fireants

Real American Graffiti

Rhino exhumes the scariest rock of the 1950s, buries Alice Cooper