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  • Iggy Pop: Reviews About New Album Hint At Bleakness, Mediocrity

    Iggy Pop: Reviews About New Album Hint At Bleakness, Mediocrity

    Iggy Pop seems to have closed the curtain on a decades-long career full of erratic performances and a few memorable collaborations.

    With Iggy Pop‘s latest album, which is assumed to be his last, he seems to be giving up and going home and neither in a particularly exciting way, if early reviews are to be believed.

    While Iggy Pop has shared iconic moments in music history with the likes of the late great David Bowie, among others, it seems the feeling he gives off in Post Pop Depression is sort of…meh.

    Post Pop Depression is a collaboration with Queens of the Stoneage’s Josh Homme.

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    Writer Dan Weiss from Spin gave his opinion on Iggy Pop’s final bow, saying, “Pop’s increasingly box-checking discography veers dangerously close to novelty, and could use a bit of seriousness if he’s ever gonna pull off that elder statesman thing.”

    He later added, “It’s hard to say if Homme and Pop are better served by the nine-track length or not. Post Pop Depression doesn’t feel particularly tight or focused, but neither dude is conceptual enough to really justify a larger sprawl. They’re both too old to not get in and get out, yet their solid collaboration feels slight anyway.”

    However, despite the many reviews that pan Iggy Pop’s album as mediocrity, it seems his live performances may still be as fulfilling as fans have come to expect over the last several decades.

    Iggy Pop was recently at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, and if one writer for the New York Times is to be believed, he’s still got it.

    The review read, “On Wednesday night he hurtled onstage with legs pumping, arms flailing and hair aswirl. Two songs later he tossed away his jacket and he remained bare-chested through the rest of his two-hour set at the Moody Theater here. After he belted out the credo of “Funtime” — “I just do what I want to do” — he stage-dived into the audience. At 68, he was not holding back.”

    Have you heard Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression? Were you impressed or not so much?

  • Iggy Pop Says Music Shouldn’t Be About Money

    Iggy Pop was once a punk musician, but now he spends his time giving lectures. His recent lecture was directed at the music industry.

    Iggy said that he thinks too many people are focused on how much money they will make from a song or album instead of the actual music itself. He suggested that musicians stop worrying so much about the financial aspects of their careers, and focus more on enjoying the music they make.

    “If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I’d be tending bar between sets,” he said.

    “Personally, I don’t worry too much about how much I get paid for any given thing, because I never expected much in the first place and the whole industry has become bloated in its expectations,” he told a live audience at a radio festival in Salford near Manchester.

    Iggy was once the frontman for Iggy and the Stooges and performed for sold out crowds all over the world. He said that he always enjoyed being able to have a music career and wasn’t focused on how much money he made.

    He also said that he feels like the music industry makes it hard for artists to stay creative and hard for new artists to break into the world of music and entertainment.

    “Music was never a for-profit enterprise. The best forms were developed as a kind of job in the community. ‘Yeah, I’m a musician and I’m going to skip doing the dishes or taking the trash out’ — it was more like that. And it’s not surprising at all that the greatest singers and players come from parts of the world where everybody is broke and the old ways are getting paved over,” he said.

    While Iggy may be right, it’s not likely that many musicians will be willing to give up their fortunes made from making music.

    Do you think Iggy has a point?

  • Johnny Depp Sued Over Iggy Pop Concert Brawl

    Johnny Depp has been a fan of Iggy Pop’s for years; in fact, Pop was an early idol for the actor/musician. Depp had the opportunity to play an opening set for the punk legend as a teenager, and when he finally met his idol it didn’t quite go down like he’d imagined it would. It began with Depp yelling obscenities at Iggy rather than do something lame like introduce himself, and Iggy didn’t take too kindly to it, calling Depp a “little turd”.

    Of course, the two later became friends after working together on the John Waters film “Cry-Baby“; Pop played Depp’s grandfather, of all things.

    Depp checks out live shows whenever he can, and last December he met up with his old friend at Pop’s show in L.A. That’s where the trouble started.

    Robin Eckert, a 52-year old woman who was seated in the V.I.P. area with Depp, says his security team caused her bodily harm and humiliation and is suing for an unspecified amount.

    Eckert says she was just trying to reach her seat when the actor’s bodyguards attacked her from behind, restrained her, and pinned her wrists behind her back. They also allegedly tore her cell phone–which she says contained confidential medical data about her patients–from her hands “one finger at a time“. She claims she suffered several injuries from the incident–which included the men dragging her from her chair, causing her pants to be yanked down and her backside to be exposed to other concert-goers–and that the injuries only added to existing painful fibromyalgia.

    Eckert filed a police report after the concert, and TMZ reported that she appeared to be intoxicated at the time. Johnny Depp has yet to comment.

  • Urban Decay, Ass. Cream Cakes, & Iggy Pop

    It’s the end of the week and what better time take in the dazzling photos we found today on Google+. Move your mouse cursor over each image to read the caption (if the photographer gave one). Also, if you like what you see here be sure to visit the Google+ accounts of the sharers. It’ll be like yoga for your eyes.

    Also: Support the artists.

    Buon appetito.


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