Iggy Pop

Six Club Drugs to Get You Through the Mayan Apocalypse

New Year's Eve is the high holiday of unacceptable behavior suddenly becoming acceptable. Because, well, you were fucking wasted. And just imagine if the next day nobody was going to be able to hold you accountable for your despicable life choices. Sounds kind of ideal, right? Well, you might not ... More >>

50 Best Miami Bands of All Time: From 40 to 36

After wildin' out to the brutal, punk-y, funky, bass-y, fuzzy strains of only ten Best Miami Bands of All Time (i.e. Scraping Teeth, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers, Iko Iko, ANR, Miami Bass Warriors and Nuclear Valdez, The Goods, Locos Por Juana, Cynic, Avenue D), our ears are already freakin' ... More >>

Sweatstock 2012: Jesse Jackson, Arboles Libres, and The State Of

See Crossfade's full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there's a Miami musician who's best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it's Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill's Pub by the rain, Miami's favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his appro ... More >>

Top Five Ridiculously Outrageous Rock Star Rider Requests

Crossfade's rider demands a fountain of pink Kool Aid.​After the money, sex, and drugs, the best part of being a rock star is the ability to ask for absolutely anything -- even shit you don't really want -- and then throw a nuclear-strength temper tantrum when you don't get it. The ridiculously o ... More >>

Charles Manson, Slipknot, and Other Rock 'N' Roll Boogeymen That Aren't Actually Scary

Charlie Manson was a rock 'n' roller too.​​After sex and drugs, rock 'n' roll is often paired with scary. Ever since the darkly psychedelic burnout at the end of the '60s (epitomized by Iggy Pop's amphetamine-inspired caterwauling and Lou Reed's doom-y bad trip bummer jamming), there have b ... More >>

Iggy Pop on American Idol: Was It a Sign of the Apocalypse?

​What? Are you serious? Iggy Pop on American Fucking Idol? I thought the apocalypse wasn't scheduled to swallow us all till 2012. Yet according to Crossfade's own personal bible, the end of the world would be heralded by five terrifying occurrences: (1) Steven Tyler would fall off a stage in Sturg ... More >>

Raw and Confidential

Iggy Pop Launches a T-Shirt Collection Even Though He Says He Likes to Spend Mornings Naked

Photo courtesy of Barney's​It seems like anyone with any sort of vocal ability is launching some sort of clothing line lately (hello, Madonna). But Iggy Pop's new designer/clothing collaboration, of course, hits closer to home.He's teamed up with Barney's and Archive 1887 tees for a line of Iggy-f ... More >>

Dark Night of the Soul Album With Iggy Pop, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse Finally Set For Legal Release

​Dark Night of the Soul may sound familiar to you. Danger Mouse and iconic filmmaker David Lynch displayed photographs from the illustrated companion book to the album at the O.H.W.O.W. gallery this past Art Basel.The album was set for release last May, but never made it out to record stores. A le ... More >>

Watch Soccer With Cool Kids at Bar's USA-Ghana Party

​When it comes to hipsters, there's a very short list of sports about which they give even the tiniest shit. (This whole phenomenon can be linked back to the punk notion that jocks are nothing but incipient fascists.) Really, you can narrow it down to skateboarding, drug hunting, and soccer. Yeah, ... More >>

Mickey Rourke and Iggy Pop Make Top Ten Worst Celeb Faces List

painting by CP1Iggy Pop's face put to good use​Iggy Pop's face is literally the reason every time you go into Miami's cherished you're greeted by the cool breeze of air conditioning, so it can't be that bad, right? Not according to a new poll, which ranked Pop has having the worst c ... More >>

SunFest: Will Iggy Pop Crash the Party Tonight?

Photo by Xavier MartinNo Iggy Pop at SunFest tonight, sorry​In spite of what some commenters told us earlier today, Iggy Pop will not be making a surprise appearance at SunFest tonight to replace the Flaming Lips.SunFest media rep Melissa Sullivan says regarding the flamboyant Miami resident, who ... More >>

Happy 62nd Birthday, Iggy Pop!

The musical legend born James Osterberg is Miami's most famous rock and roll resident. And though he guards where, exactly, it is that he resides, lately it seems it's been easier than ever to see him out on the town. And boy, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau should consider hiring ... More >>

Churchill's Looking For Bands for Iggy Pop Tribute Night on April 21

photo by Xavier MartinA shirt-less photo, of course, from a shoot for Iggy's most recent album, last year's 'Preliminaires.'​Over the last year or so, Iggy Pop sort of became the patron saint of Miami, showing up everywhere from limited-edition Sweat Records T-shirts to random openings during Art ... More >>

Best Miami New Times Covers of 2009

​The end of the year is almost upon us and since a lot of us are on vacation and too lazy to do any actual reporting, we fill up our time doing awesome end-of-year pieces recapping everything that was. Still, it's nice to take a step back and look at everything that was produced. And with 52 weeks ... More >>

Iggy Pop Needs A Manssiere

Banana Republican kicked off his Art Basel festivities at the opening of Primary Flight's Blue Francisco AlvaradoIggy Pop's man boobs attract a crowd.Print For Space inside Art Center South Florida on Lincoln Road. Mighty impressive display of street inspired art I must say, especially photogra ... More >>

"Star Power" at Art Basel: Which is to Say, We Totally Stalked Iggy Pop Last Night

Natalie O'Neill Iggy Pop at OHWOW​On the front page of the Miami Herald today is a photo of Sylvester Stallone,  posed in front of an abstract red painting. The article goes on to cite "the star power" at Art Basel this year. It explains the rich and famous are spending more ... More >>

The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent

Sweat Records Resumes Normal Hours of Operation

Courtesy of Sweat Records​No more "sweaty" jokes people, Sweat Records finally got that much needed AC. The independent record store in Little Haiti announced today that it would be resuming its normal hours of operation: noon to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday, starting Monday.The record store h ... More >>

Around Town this Weekend

With not a cloud in sight, it seems like the due-to-weather cancelation of tomorrow's Summerfest (featuring T-Pain, Flo Rida, and Keri Hilson, among others) was a bit premature but luckily there are plenty of other places to get your music fix tonight. From the locally cool: The Hongs, Band Num ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Pain" by Iggy Pop, Getting His Face on Sweat-y Tees This Saturday at the Awarehouse

​The final, frenzied countdown to party time has begun. In exactly three days, the Magic City's most discerning club rats -- and fanatical apparel collectors -- will swarm the Awarehouse for Saturday's Sweat X Iggy Pop T-Shirt Release. (If you haven't yet RSVP-ed, get on the list right now. Note: ... More >>

Iggy Pop Helping Sweat Records Cool Down

via Sweat Records​What's a helpless independent record store to do when it needs to raise money for a new AC unit? Get some star power, of course.For months, it seems Sweat Records has lived up to its name, forcing owners Lauren "Lolo" Reskin and Jason Jimenez to amend store hours and cancel event ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers.Best-sellers for the week of July 6-10:via journalstar.comMichael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Number Ones" albums topped the chart at Uncle Sam' ... More >>

Miami According to Brooklyn: The Cinema Paradiso Record Swap

To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. Last Sunday I went to the Cinema Paradiso record swap that was put on by Mark Pollack of New Art School. Three local bands played: the first was No Class Action, the second was Band Number 12, and the third was the Shakers ... More >>

Stonefox and Monty Warren Play Swampgrass Willy's on July 4

via myspace.com/stonefoxmusicReady for some proselytizing? Stonefox is one of the current saviors of South Florida rock. That's a lot to heap on a trio of guys in their early twenties, but this Boca- and Lauderdale-based band has clearly digested the gospel of rollicking, psychedelic, bluesy, rock a ... More >>

Vinyl Upgrade

Iggy Pop: King of the Dogs

He gets down, dirty, and quieter on his new album, written in Miami.

Take a WMC break & talk to Iggy Pop

The end of the video also includes part of one of the new songs

Iggy Pop: "Miami's a hell of a good town to eat a banana!"

Sorry Rosie, Diddy, and Gloria, but Iggy Pop may just be our favorite celebrity resident of the Magic City. CNN Travel caught up with Mr. Pop to talk about why he moved to the city. Apparently he was looking for a place that was like an "elegant coma." CNN: Is Miami similar to you as a person? IP: ... More >>

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone to Kick Off NADA Art Fair

Iggy Pop Has The Only Artist Flat in Little Haiti with Versace Sheets

Get Sweaty

Enormous artwork gets unveiled in Little Haiti.

The Frustrations

The Shows Go On

Ten good live moments in South Florida this year.

Last Night: the Stooges at Art Basel's Art Loves Music

Pop Culture

Iggy and the Stooges are back and still searching to destroy.

A Little Old School Iggy

The Detroit Cobras

A Loveless Fascination

Demolition Doll Rods

There Is a Difference (Touch and Go)

SET LIST

The Art of Investing in Art

Wall Street gives new meaning to the term "artist portfolio"

Sexless Beast

Celibate celebrity stays south for the season

Iggy Pop

Skull Ring (Virgin)

Kulchur

Getting an earful

Rotations

No Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

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Aural Sex

This new release straddles the line between CD and seedy