Despite looking like Death with anorexia, Iggy Pop is a busy man with tons of new and old music in the pipeline that he can’t wait for you to listen to. In a recent interview with Billboard, Pop revealed a couple of projects on his schedule sure to satiate fans.
First up, Shout! Factory is releasing Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977 - 2009, a four-CD set of Iggy Pop bootlegs that includes material from Pop’s solo career and with The Stooges, plus some covers, with each CD representing a different decade. If you’re more of a video fan, then you can check out the new DVD Raw Power Live: In The Hands of the Fans, a recording of The Stooges playing at last year’s ATP Festival in New York where the band played their album Raw Power in its entirety.
In future news: Iggy told the magazine that he’s hard at work on a follow-up to 2009’s Préliminaires (TMT Review) where he plans to still sing in both English and French and do another all-covers record. Pop is planning his own versions of The Beatles’ “Michelle,” Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” as well as songs from Serge Gainsbourg, Henri Salvador, and plenty of others, with a release tentatively set for late 2011 or early 2012.
Iggy has also been working with his buddy in The Stooges, James Williamson, on new material: “about eight things right now that are… sort of complete songs. Maybe some of them need to be more complete or some of them need to be forgotten. And then some of them… just flow right along.” So, here’s to hoping that we get a new Stooges album in the next five years!
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