Video: Iggy Pop - New album Preliminaires (trailer)

Legendary Stooges frontman Iggy Pop has posted three new songs from his upcoming album, Préliminaires , on his MySpace. The jazz-inspired album dropped yesterday in Europe and is scheduled to hit U.S. shelves on June 2. You can check out the new trac...

I love Iggy Pop and, obviously, I love New Orleans jazz. I never dreamed the two would mix; the thought conjures an image of pouring rot-gut whiskey on strawberry ice cream. Apparently, though, Iggy is releasing a New Orleans-flavored jazz album in May. I thought it was a joke when I saw a Youtube video of Iggy talking about the album. Then I saw several interview with him talking about the album, including one on Rolling Stone's Web site. There's also an Amazon listing for the album, "Preliminaire." And if you fast-forward to the end of [...]

What does Iggy Pop do when he no longer has the riff-tastic guitar stomp of Ron Asheton (R.I.P.) backing him? Make an ambient classical jazz album dedicated to a French novel called Préliminaires , of course. Wait, what? That's right, with the whole world wondering what Iggy Pop was going to do with the Stooges in limbo following the death of their guitarist, Iggy Pop had actually been thinking about Préliminaires [...]

by Andrew Frisicano Mike Watt and Iggy Pop @ Terminal 5 ( more by Lori Baily ) As previously reported , Mike Watt is heading out on the road with The Missingmen to debut songs off his third studio album Ten and Tweny Don't Make Fifty , which the band will record May 5th on a three-day break in Brooklyn. The touring line-up is "Tom Watson on guitar, Raul Morales on drums and Watt [...]

Even if you don't like Punk, you got to respect Iggy Pop. The man is a legend, and put on one of the, no THE craziest show I've seen, and this was just two years ago...Dude still gets it in. Iggy just announced that he is readying a new LP set for a release of late April overseas, on June 2nd in the US. The album, Preliminaires , is inspired by Michel Houellebecq's 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island, and translates to "foreplay". The album is quieter than his usual stuff, and was born when Iggy became bored [...]

A jazz album?!?