Iggy Pop opened this year's virtual Tibet House Benefit with a dramatic reading of Dylan Thomas' classic poem 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' against a soundscape created by Noveller and Leron Thomas. Directed by Simon Taylor, it features Iggy Pop staring straight into the camera lens and reciting for 1 minute 47 seconds.
Iggy Pop gave a great speech on Nine Inch Nails' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, describing NIN's music as "a focused and relentless process of emotional destruction which paints a portrait of pain, pressure, and dissatisfaction", CoS reports. He then described how seeing NIN live (1995 in LA's Forum with David Bowie) felt - "Trent held the center of the room just by being a kind of dark spot, hunched behind the mic. I had seen the same thing accomplished in different ways by T. Rex at Wembley, Nirvana at the Pyramid Club, and Bob Dylan in 1965. This is the mark of a master artist – simply to connect”. Trent Reznor said that “as an artist I think the most significant accomplishment or feeling is realizing that something you created from a fragile and intimate place has reached out, resonated, and affected someone else", adding “the journey is far from over"
Iggy Pop is taking his song back - he shared the music video to ‘The Passenger’, 43 years after the song has been released, and covered numerous times since. In the visuals, black and white photos of a young Iggy Pop fade into view over vignettes of night-time motorway driving (watch below). ‘The Passenger’ was the B-side to Pop’s song ‘Success’, the first single released from his second solo studio album ‘Lust For Life’ (1977).
"Now I wanna be your brew" - coffeelovers of the world are heard singing on the news of Iggy Pop making his own signature coffee. It's a collaboration with Stumptown coffee, produced by the Bies Penantan community in the province of Aceh, Sumatra and assembled for Stumptown by the female-led Ketiara Cooperative. The coffee arrives […]
The eccentric auteur has filmed a feature-length zombie comedy 'The Dead Don’t Die', which boasts one hell of a cast, including musicians Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, RZA and Selena Gomez, as well as actors Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, and Steve Buscemi. Brothers Coen-ish movie comes to theatres in june. Consequence of […]
"The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled" will star in Jim Jarmusch's zombie movie 'The Dead Don't Die'. So, in musicians-first order, it's: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, RZA, Selena Gomez, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Sara Driver and Carol Kane. The plot is not […]
