Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, who passed away in 2009, would be turning 70 on July 17, and that day, in his former hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a very impressive cast of musicians will pay tribute to him...
The world lost a true original voice last week, Mark E Smith of The Fall. We paid tribute to him on this week's edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU.
Moon Duo follow up last year's two-part Occult Architecture records with a new single that'll be out January 19 via Sacred Bones. One side features a cover of Suicide's "Jukebox Baby" and on the flip it's a cover of The Stooges' "No Fun."
Liz also picks five albums “for the strictly uninitiated“ to hear to get “in the mood“ for 'Wizard Bloody Wizard.'
You can also watch tonight's show via livestream.
Having just played You're Living All Over Me in full at Riot Fest, Dinosaur Jr are continuing on tour with Negative Approach frontman John Brannon's band Easy Action...
This week's show had music from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Digable Planets, Blood Orange, Hot Chip, Vince Staples, Ministry, Ariel Pink, Dinosaur Jr, Sleep, Grizzly Bear and lots more.
Check out Metallica's full setlist (they played a Stooges song with Iggy)...
The upcoming Post Pop Depression Live concert film is not the only new documentary to involve Iggy Pop. Jim Jarmusch has made film about The Stooges titled Gimme Danger, which premiered at Cannes and just showed at this week's Toronto International Film Festival...
If HBO's tone-deaf series Vinyl left you cold but wanting to learn more about the NYC music scene of the '70s, you may want to keep an eye out for new documentary Danny Says which is about legendary music biz figure Danny Fields, who helped the careers of The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, MC5 and more.