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Iggy and the Stooges, along with other artists, have provided signed collectibles to be auctioned to raise money for victims of the Queensland Floods that devastated the state during December 2010 and January 2011.

The Stooges have provided two t-shirts signed by the entire band, along with a set of drumsticks signed by Scott Asheton, for Queensland Music Network’s Rock N Roll Auction. Bidders can check out the Stooges auctions at RocknRollAuction.com.au, and start placing bids through eBay. All profits will go to The Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.

“Your pretty face is going to hell” — Iggy and the Stooges are confirmed to play Hellfest in Clisson, France, on June 17th! They’ll be playing at the festival’s main stage #1. More information can be found at the official Hellfest website, and tickets can be purchased at Digitick.com.

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.)

“I heard about what happened to Alex almost immediately after the fact from his brother Whitey who played guitar alongside Alex in The Trolls, my band from 1998 to 2003. I felt terrible and although it won’t bring him back I really hope they find the person who hit him and ran.
Alex deserves a lot of recognition for his contributions to the arts. He was a drummer with a thunderous left hand but he was so much more than that in the arts scene around Los Angeles. He was a member of a very interesting indie band called the Nymphs and he’d had a very solid career as a set designer in major studio films and TV for some years. His son Lucius danced his debut this week with the American ballet theatre in New York and I wish Alex had been around for that he had a lot to do with it. The Kirsts are a unique and artistic family and I know they will all miss him, as I do.
Alex was a very, very nice and good person he helped a lot of people, including me.”

Iggy Pop

In a recent interview with Crawdaddy! magazine, James Williamson talked about rejoining the Stooges, working on Raw Power and Kill City, and mixing and songwriting. He also spoke about the possibility of recording new singles with the Stooges, and said: “We’re continuing to work on new material, even though we haven’t had much time off the road yet. So this is the period when we’re starting to do that. But we have to have new riffs that capture our imagination, and the lyrics have to match that, and finally the performance has to be such that we can feel proud of it. The bar is set pretty high … we don’t want to release something that’s not up to par with the Stooges material, but I think we can do it.”

Read more at Crawdaddy!

Iggy and the Stooges have been confirmed to play the Rock in IdRho Festival on June 15th! The event, at Arena Fiera in Milan, Italy, also will feature the Foo Fighters, Social Distortion, Band Of Horses, and more. You can buy tickets at Vivaticket. Stay tuned for more information at RockinIdRho.com.

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.

Praxis’ album Profanation: Preparation for a Coming Darkness, previously only available as an import, will be released in the United States on January 25th. The album features Iggy Pop singing on the track “Furies.” You can read more about the album at the Detroit Metro Times.

The Isle of Wight Festival 2011 has added more star power to its line up, with Iggy and the Stooges performing on the main stage on Saturday, June 11th. You can read more information and buy tickets at the official Isle of Wight Festival website.

James Williamson has told FasterLouder that he is eager to return to the studio to record with the Stooges. He’s been “writing new riffs and so forth with the hope that we’ll record some new material at some point. We keep working through that to see if we can find some stuff that we think is up to par with some of our earlier stuff and see what happens there.” He added, “Albums are kind of meaningless these days so it’s not really important to wait till we have a whole album. If we’ve got one or two songs that we like then we can just cut ’em and release ’em and go that way.”

Read the full article at FasterLouder.

During a benefit event on December 9th for Los Angeles radio station KCRW, which was hosted by Henry Rollins, he said plans are in the works for an Iggy and the Stooges 40th anniversary performance in Michigan. Rollins said he may host the event and possibly sing on a few songs. “We’re just working on it right now, but whatever they ask, I’ll do it,” he said. You can read more at The Hollywood Reporter.

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.