Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker take on Peaky Blinders theme for season four

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Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker take on Peaky Blinders theme for season four

Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker will record a cover Nick Cave‘s Red Right Hand for the upcoming fourth season of Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders returns to BBC Two tonight (November 15). Helen McCrory, the show’s star, broke the news on The One Show yesterday. “Every year, [the producers] look out for different singers, and who’s going to do the cover music,” she said. “One of the ‘Red Right Hand’ covers will be from the duet…

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Iggy Pop tops Rough Trade’s ‘100 Best Albums’ list

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Iggy Pop tops Rough Trade’s ‘100 Best Albums’ list

Iconic record shop Rough Trade have shared their top 100 best albums of 2016, with Iggy Pop coming out on top with Post Pop Depression, followed by Anderson .Paak (Malibu) and Margo Price (Midwest Farmer’s Daughter). Mark Pritchard, with Under The Sun, and Charles Bradley’s Changes make up the top five. The likes of David Bowie (Blackstar), Radiohead (A Moon Shaped Pool) and Teenage Fanclub (Here) all feature outside of the top ten. Rough Trade…

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Iggy Pop slates modern music: ‘Why don’t I just die now’

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Iggy Pop slates modern music: ‘Why don’t I just die now’

Punk rock pioneer Iggy Pop has slammed the state of modern music and urged people not to use drugs. The 69-year-old icon was speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, where a new documentary about his band The Stooges premiered. Gimme Danger is directed by legendary auteur Jim Jarmusch, whose friendship with Pop goes way back, with the singer turning up on screen in the director’s films Dead Man and Coffee and Cigarettes. “The digital age…

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