Iggy Pop News

KOLARS announce their upcoming spring North American headlining tour, with 29 shows including appearances at SXSW, Treefort Music Festival & Flying Burrito Festival. They will be stopping by Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY on April 20th. Tickets are available here!

Alt-rock godfather and Chainsaw Kittens frontman Tyson Meade has shared a new track, 'P.S. Nuclear Forest Dance Boogie'. The song premiered on Popmatters who writes that the track 'reminds us of Meade's ability to weave the unusual into the familiar and create musical settings that are as forward-looking now as they were when he began his recording career in the 1980s.' The track is the second single from his upcoming album Robbing The Nuclear Family, which will be released on March 22nd on Shaking Shanghai.

Producers Anita Greenspan and Tony Hawk with Executive producer Adam Zotovich announced today that a new musical adaptation of the 2007 Nick Hornby novel, SLAM, is in development. This new project will feature a book by Tony Award Nominee Kyle Jarrow (SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical) with music and lyrics by Mark Mothersbaugh (prolific film composer, co-founder of new wave band Devo). Pro-skater Tony Hawk, who is featured as a character in the novel, is a producer on the project and is slated to develop skate choreography.

'Bring it On' meets 'Dreamgirls' in the girl-group musical, 'Betty and the Belrays' by William Electric Black aka Ian Ellis James, which will be presented by Theater for the New City January 31 to February 17. The piece tells the story of three white female singers from Detroit who struggle to change a racially divided society by singing for a black record label. Book and lyrics are by William Electric Black. Music is by Black, Valerie Ghent (arranger/keyboards for Ashford & Simpson) and Gary Schreiner. Choreography is by Jeremy Lardieri. Director is Mr. Black.

Today marks the announcement of Violinvocations, the forthcoming release from accomplished violinist Hugh Marsh, out February 15, 2019 on Western Vinyl. With the announcement comes the premiere of the song 'I Laid Down In The Snow' via Tiny Mix Tapes, on which Marsh captures mournful, wraithlike moans that sound nearer to thehuman voice than a stringed instrument.

Sony Music proudly announces the release of SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring original music by multiple Golden Globe nominee Daniel Pemberton. The soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD on December 17, 2018. Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animations' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will debut in U.S. theaters on December 14.

A musical celebration of how Native American musicians transformed blues, jazz and rock, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, will premiere on Independent Lens Monday, January 21, 2019, 10:00-11:30 PM ET (check local listings) on PBS, and will also be available simultaneously for online streaming at pbs.org. As the film reveals, early pioneers of the blues such as Charley Patton had Native as well as African American roots, and one of the first and most influential jazz singers, Mildred Bailey, had a voice trained on Native American songs. As the folk rock era took hold in the '60s and '70s, Native Americans such as Robbie Robertson and Buffy Sainte-Marie helped to define its evolution, and Native guitarists and drummers like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Ed Davis and Randy Castillo forever changed the trajectory of rock and roll. The film is directed by Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun), co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, executive produced by legendary rock guitarist Stevie Salas (Apache) and Tim Johnson (Mohawk), and produced by Christina Fon, VP and Executive Producer of Rezolution Pictures.

Premium network EPIX has greenlit Punk, a four-part docuseries from executive producer John Varvatos.  Varvatos brings his passion and deep connection to the roots of the PUNK movement to the series, partnering with filmmaker Derik Murray's Network Entertainment to produce the quintessential story of punk.  The series is currently in production, and will premiere on EPIX on March 11, 2019 at 10 PM. 

In partnership with Touch and Go Records, Third Man Records is re-issuing the full discography of punishing Michigan hardcore punk blues band Laughing Hyenas for the first time in over 25 years. The first two of these reissues, Merry-Go-Round and You Can't Pray A Lie, were released in February of this year. The second installment, which includes Life Of Crime, Hard Times/Crawldouble LP, and a 'bootleg' covers 7', arrive next Friday, December 7th. All of the Laughing Hyenas reissues can be pre-ordered HERE.

The award-winning PBS series Independent Lens today announced its Winter and Spring 2019 slate, a series of documentary films that take viewers on a cross-country journey through modern America. From renowned film veterans including Eugene Jarecki (The King) and David Sutherland (Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore) to first-time filmmakers Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green (The Providers), Denali Tiller (Tre Maison Dasan) and Ciara Lacey (Out of State), the lineup offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute look at America, from the rural south to urban Baltimore, from the vineyards of Napa to the Louisiana bayou.

The beloved R&B songstress, MAURISSA ROSE, has announced her live musical tribute to the beautiful, late jazz singer, PHYLLIS HYMAN.

Petaluma Records has released the second edition of their new double-A Side series, Petaluma Presents: Songs of Peace & Protest, today – in conjunction with tomorrow's Midterm Election – featuring Dawn Landes covering Buffalo Springfield's “For What's It's Worth” and Victoria Reed's take onCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young's “Ohio” – listen via Spotify + share via Soundcloud.

John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, the Tony Award winning co-creators of Hedwig & the Angry Inch, are bringing their Origin of Love tour to New York!

Following sell out performances in 2013 and 2016, Goran Bregovi? & his Wedding & Funeral Band continue the Balkan party with their fiery, brassy Gypsy sounds, when they return to Hamer Hall for one feverish night on 14 May, 2019.

With anticipation building for this weekend's opening of the Mick Rock Iconic Gallery Show being held at The Jewelry Studio (1107 Old Country Rd, Plainview, NY 11803) - the legendary Rock n' Roll photographer Mick Rock himself along with respected jewelry artist Robert Pepkin are excited to unveil “Mick's Picks”, their jewelry creations inspired by Rock's countless iconic images.

Kelsey Lu will make a special appearance in two songs at the West Coast premiere of Oneohtrix Point Never's MYRIAD performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Monday, October 22, 2018. Examining disorienting forms at the intersection of theater, installation art, and musical performance, and imagined from the perspective of an alien intelligence, MYRIAD explores film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphal histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being. It looks toward the possibilities of the future while considering the conflict between today's civilization and the environment.

Dream Team Directors Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir who have worked with the top names and brands in entertainment including Coldplay,  Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo, top model Bella Hadid and viral sensation  Lindsey Stirling, present their breakthrough digital series 'The Dream State'. The dynamic award-winning husband and wife filmmaker duo founded Dream Team Directors in 2007. Their vision was to combine imagination, humor, beauty and a desire to positively impact the world through their stunning creative work.

SLASH and his band, SLASH FT MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS have released the new video for “Driving Rain ”—which features a hilarious live-action, animated adventure with ragdoll puppets--the first single off their new album LIVING THE DREAM today, September 25.  Watch the official video for “Driving Rain” HERE .

Photographer and revered long-time on-air radio personality Julie Kramer will unveil her rock & roll photography exhibition The Basement Archives: Volume One: The Ghosts of WFNX, featuring portraits and behind-the-scenes images of celebrity musicians. The exhibition takes place at The Factory, located at 545 Washington Street, in downtown Lynn, MA.

Photographer and revered long-time on-air radio personality Julie Kramer will unveil her rock & roll photography exhibition The Basement Archives: Volume One: The Ghosts of WFNX, featuring portraits and behind-the-scenes images of celebrity musicians. The exhibition takes place at The Factory, located at 545 Washington Street, in downtown Lynn, MA.