Blog: Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster

Iggy Pop had never interested me. Of course now that I've heard his newest album, the break from punk-form Preliminaries (out 6/2), I find myself so intoxicated with his voice and writing I can't help but wondering if French pop and New Orleans jazz might be a gateway drug to the world of punk. Based on the French novel Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq , and originally conceived as a film soundtrack , Preliminaries is [...]