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Iggy Pop performs on stage with members of the crowd during the Big Day Out Festival at the Sydney Showground on January 26, 2011 in Sydney, Australia.

(Photo courtesy of The Washington Post. More photos are available at Getty Images.)

The iconic Iggy and the Stooges are coming to Portugal for a performance that is expected to be incendiary. The band will play at the Optimus Alive Festival on July 7th in Lisbon. It is no exaggeration to say that without Iggy and the Stooges, rock would be very different from what we know today. The Stooges shook the foundations of music, redefining the concept of the concert and opening doors to a new generation. To buy tickets and find more information, visit OptimusAlive.com.

On January 11th, the Shout! Factory will reissue a DVD set of PUNK: Attitude, a punk rock documentary that was directed by Don Letts and features footage of The Stooges, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Ramones, Black Flag, and many others, and then-and-now interviews with David Johansen, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Henry Rollins, and more. You can pre-order the DVD at the Shout! Factory store.

The Evolution Festival is proud to announce that the legendary Iggy and the Stooges will headline its show on Saturday May 28th in Newcastle Gateshead Quayside, England, during Bank Holiday Weekend. The band’s “raw power and incendiary live performances are the stuff of rock n’ roll legend,” Evolution said in a statement. “Iggy Pop is a genuine musical icon and an influential innovator of rock n roll so expect Iggy and the Stooges sound to reverberate all over the North East.”

“I’ve always liked the north. I like the bands too. I’m ready to get down and rave like a Geordie. I’m really happy we get a chance to play at Evolution. We are all deranged spitfires. Do you wanna dance?” – Iggy Pop

“It’s a testament to the growing international profile of Evolution that we are able to secure and announce our 2011 headliners so early. Iggy and The Stooges will own the mainstage on the Saturday night – Iggy’s unparalleled energy makes him one of the finest front men ever to grace the stage and the North East is in for a real treat with this headline performance.” – Jim Mawdsley and Dave Stone, Evolution Promoters

To buy tickets, please visit the official Evolution Festival website. Plan B will headline the second night of the festival on Sunday May 29th. Ticket info: £35 +bf for the weekend / £25 + bf day ticket .

In an interview with BlogCritics.org, Stooges guitarist James Williamson talked about the reissue of “Kill City” and his work as part of The Stooges. He said, “When I first met Iggy, actually, I had my guitar with me and played him one of my songs. And I think that stuck with him. The trouble with it is that style, it works for me, but it’s difficult to work with a band … It was only the Stooges who saw the possibilities in that. I really have to hand it to Iggy because it was only Iggy who could make enough sense out of it to help me mold it into a song that he could actually sing and it had a structure.” Read more at BlogCritics.org.

New HQ video and photos have been posted from Iggy and the Stooges’ performance at Fashion’s Night Out last month. You can tune in at the DeLeón Tequila website to watch “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell” and see more concert images.

On Friday October 1st, Iggy Pop and Mike Watt joined the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles to pay tribute to Yoko Ono and celebrate in the days leading up to what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. Iggy and Yoko rocked the house with “Waiting For The D Train.” Other guests included Perry Farrell, RZA, Carrie Fisher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Vincent Gallo. Read more details about the show at the The Orange County Register.

Iggy and the Stooges have been confirmed to play at Big Day Out 2011 in Australia and New Zealand. The annual music festival includes more than 40 acts and runs between January 21st and February 6th. Tickets go on sale for Sydney on October 6th, for the Gold Coast on October 7th, and for Auckland, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on October 8th. The band is expected to play all dates. You can find more information about how to buy tickets at BigDayOut.com.

Iggy and the Stooges performed Friday night at Don Hill’s, a New York City club which played host to a party thrown by Pop magazine. The New York Observer reports that the band’s appearance was the “most buzzed-about event of Fashion’s Night Out” and “the Stooges were a revelation.” Others in attendance included Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, Jeff Koons, Selma Blair, and Chloë Sevigny. Iggy told the crowd, “I think we’re all aware it’s Fashion Week in New York City. Just remember, fashion people, your pretty face is going to hell.”

Iggy Pop will perform at the We Are Plastic Ono Band concert on October 1st at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, joining the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band and other guests including Nels Cline, Mike Watt, RZA, Perry Farrell, Carrie Fisher and Vincent Gallo. The concert is expected to be a West Coast reprise of Yoko Ono’s sold-out We Are Plastic Ono Band concerts in New York this past February. Plastic Ono Band currently includes Sean Lennon, Cornelius, and Yuka Honda. Tickets for the October 1st show can be purchased at Ticketmaster.

The Chicago Sun-Times has published a review of Iggy and the Stooges’ show at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, calling it an “aural blitzkrieg” that was “violent, briskly paced and brutally loud.” The band played 16 songs:

“Raw Power”
“Search and Destroy”
“Gimme Danger”
“Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell”
“Shake Appeal”
“1970”
“Night Theme”
“Beyond the Law”
“I Got a Right”
“I Wanna Be Your Dog”
“I Need Somebody”
“Penetration”
“Death Trip”
“Open Up and Bleed”
“Fun House”
“No Fun”

Read the full review at SunTimes.com

Get the Collector’s Edition of The Stooges – available here! Relive their historic debut trek through this amazing 26-track 2 CD collection along with a 7″ single that features the previously unreleased track “Asthma Attack.”

The Collector’s Edition’s first disc combines the original album’s eight songs with producer John Cale’s original mixes, including unreleased versions of “We Will Fall” and “Ann.” Also featured is the mono single version of “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” a song Rolling Stone named #438 on its list of “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time” – right behind Elvis’ “Love Me Tender.”

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