On Monday, August 4th, some really crappy person broke into THE STOOGES’ rented truck, stealing the truck and making off with all of the band’s gear inside. The break-in happened outside the band’s hotel at the Embassy Suites in Montreal.

All equipment was in a rented Penske 15 foot yellow truck with US (Michigan) license plate number AC46493 parked immediately outside the hotel, the theft had to have happened in the morning, between 6:30 and 7:30 am - the truck and all gear stolen.

Literally everything was taken, Ron Asheton’s guitars, Scott Asheton’s drums and Mike Watt’s bass (pictured above), Iggy’s microphones, everything.

Mike Watt posted a list of all the gear stolen on his website as well as some pictures of the gear. If you have any leads or have seen any of this gear they ask that you get in touch with Eric Fischer nycentral13@gmail.com or call his cell phone (646) 932-1907.

You can also see the list of stolen gear after the jump. (more…)

Rock legend IGGY POP is taking on politics but not how you’d think. In a new animated show, Lil’ Bush airing this summer on Comedy Central.

Pop, is to play the voice of a young Donald Rumsfeld aka Lil’ Rummy. The show is basically about the president and his cabinet of characters as children. The series is said to be a mixture of Muppet Babies and D.C. Follies portraying the main players as youngin’s ready to rule the world.

In addition to Pop, other musicians have been confirmed to do voice work. The likes of Frank Black, Jeff Tweedy and Dave Grohl have all confirmed upcoming appearances in the cartoon.

The cartoon itself began as a series shorts for mobile phones only but had made the jump to the tv screen once Comedy Central saw the potential.

It’s been confirmed that actor Elijah Wood will be playing the legendary Iggy Pop in an upcoming biopic about The Stooges frontman.

The movie, The Passenger will document the early years of Iggy with The Stooges through the 70’s. The movie was given the blessing from Iggy himself but he has no plans to star in the movie even though he had appeared in movies before. The movie is set to start filming in the next 6 months and hit theaters in 2008.

We’re not really sure what to make of this, in fact we are so confused about this that we feel there’s only one way to determine how we feel…Boxing Robots. We’re thinking that even though Iggy is 60 years old he could still kick good ol’ Frodo’s ass in a bareknuckle brawl as well. So it’s decided, Iggy and Frodo fight and we play with robots. This is starting to seem like a win-win situation already.

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There are certain advantages to being young. You have a faster metabolism, random things don’t ache, and you tend to not get hurt as easy. Well I just had all those things proven wrong to me this week. For I witnessed someone older than my father put on arguably the best rock show I’ve seen in years…

This Monday I rolled out way uptown to the United Palace Theatre to see THE STOOGES perform on their national tour. Before walking through the doors, I kept my salty promoter guy expectations modest. For I’ve seen many reunion shows before and with few exceptions they never seemed as necessary as one would hope.

I was a bit late but while walking into the theater and approximately 2 chords into “I Wanna Be Your Dog” a shirtless Iggy Pop took a faceplant dive into the front row of the younger-than-expected crowd, bounced back up onto the stage and proceeded to gyrate like he had just been hit with an exposed power line. The Ashton brothers and Mike Watt, played like men on a frantic mission. In between songs Iggy would tell us how much he loved us, ask for the house lights to be turned on so he could see us and then he would shout the name of the next tune and, without missing a beat the band would break into it a more frantic pace than the song before. As their pace sped up, so did Iggy’s dancing.

The band tore through an hour and a half set list of old and new Stooges tunes as well as an Iggy solo song. The highlight of the evening had to be when Iggy invited the entire crowd on stage as the band busted into the best version of “No Fun” one could ever hope for! The crowd happily followed Iggy’s orders, pushed past security and joined the band on stage for one of the biggest sing alongs in recent memory.

The crowed DEMANDED 2 encores where Iggy could barely keep his pants on. There was no opening act. Anyone crazy enough to do so would have paled in comparison. There was no light show, they didn’t need it. The Stooges were the opening act. They were the light show. They were the entertainment. They were the soundtrack. The Pimp. The Ho. The Cops. And The Meth Dealers. You name it, The Stooges had it. If it wasn’t there that night, it wasn’t needed.

If a man older than my father could level New York City. It really makes me question why men my age aren’t doing it with a 1/3 of the cool or style that Iggy Pop And The Stooges did earlier this week.

I took some lousy pictures of the event so look at these our buddies at brooklynvegan took instead. part 1 | part 2

Tour dates for The Stooges and the show setlist can be seen after the jump. (more…)

THE STOOGES are set to drop their first studio album on you in over 30 years. The band’s album The Weirdness is set to land in stores on March 6 via Virgin records and boasts the original lineup of Iggy Pop, brothers Ron and Scott Asheton. The death of original bassist Dave Alexander meant the band had to reach out for help and found it in legendary musician Mike Watt (Minutemen) to handle bass duties.

If you can’t wait the week, you can check out a new track of theirs “Free and Freaky”.

STREAM: The Stooges “Free And Freaky”