First mention of the new record!!

Here a link New Stooges Recordings

finally , and Scott seems to be onboard !

Nice find. I hope it is better than the last one. A lot better.

At last, i agree lets hope it's better than last time.

Nigel

That's great news! I like the album title too.
JW and Ed Cherney did a terrific job on the reworked Raw Power a couple of years ago, so there's every reason to think that Ready To Die wil at least sound excellent.
I just hope that Iggy spent more time on his vocals and lyrics than he did on The Wierdness (on which he seemed very half hearted).
No indication yet of a release date is there? But it would make sense if the album was out in time for the summer shows.
Cheers,
Richard

Was just about to post this. Great news, great title.

Really looking forward to this.

Hope we hear more soon.

Production wise, it should be really good. Reading between the lines on James W's facebook posts, he spent at least 3 weeks at the studio. I hope Iggy took writing more seriously this time. The engineer that mixed this did the Kill City re-mix, so he gets the sound

Exciting news, and yes, great to see Scott's on board. For me, it can't really be a Stooges record without at least one Asheton. ..

Rock ON!!!!

Nadja wrote:

Exciting news, and yes, great to see Scott's on board. For me, it can't really be a Stooges record without at least one Asheton. ..

Absolutely!

I wonder what he means by "They're the antichrist of anthems"?

I suppose it means the guys are as tough as antichrists making music as strong as antianthems? or something like that...sounds good to me , sounds like stooges music !

fabrice wrote:

I suppose it means the guys are as tough as antichrists making music as strong as antianthems? or something like that...sounds good to me , sounds like stooges music !

Hopefully YES!!!

The Stooges have lots of anti-anthems hopefully we get some great new ones

I'm pretty sure that new record will be much better than "The Weirdness". Very excited to hear it!

Independent on Sunday has an interview with Iggy today to promote 40th aniversary edition of RP with yet another publication of the Mick Rock Photos in Fulham basement and Scala gig. Anyway the real news is that the release date of this new album is 22 April to tie in with Iggy's 66th birthday

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/i-did-debauch-myself-to-achieve-that-look-iggy-pop-looks-back-to-his-iconic-1970s-heyday-8483820.html

nice!

thanks for that info harmonia.

Came here to post about the interview

Excellent news, its coming quicker than i'd expected - and two days after my birthday!

Great link there. So Iggy wants to quit?! He's just messing right?

This new LP sounds like James's record more and more.

Do we know if there will be some Ron Asheton stuff on this record?

Surely not?!

Is that even possible?

Wow. That would be really something.

951Sib wrote:

Do we know if there will be some Ron Asheton stuff on this record?

Doubt it. The Jim Jarmusch documentary plan to use some of the Ron/Scotty recordings though.

Ok, thanks. I hope this will be a great record anyway.

Other question: did Steve McKay participate?

IGGY AND THE STOOGES

READY TO DIE

NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 30 ON
FAT POSSUM RECORDS



"a real fucking group... they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money" Iggy Pop



Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo - the immortal proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power - will finally be out April 30, when Fat Possum Records releases the all-new Iggy and the Stooges studio album, Ready To Die.



Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time since the legendary Raw Power sessions, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. The results are the closest thing to a time capsule to 1973 - or at least to Iggy's subsequent efforts with Williamson, including 1977's Kill City and 1979's New Values - that rock 'n' roll is likely to proffer in this millennium. The new album's opening one-two of ‘Burn’ and ‘Sex & Money’ pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as intensely single-minded as Iggy's lyrical statements of intent. Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date--the succinctly and aptly titled ‘Job’ - as well as a title track that mixes a signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of ‘Search & Destroy’.

Just as Iggy exhumed the original Stooges name when he reunited in 2003 with the Asheton brothers, the revival of the Iggy and the Stooges moniker that first appeared on the cover of Raw Power heralded the return of guitarist James Williamson to the fold in 2009, or as Iggy put it then "although 'the Stooges' died with Ron Asheton, there is still 'Iggy and the Stooges'." As far as the decision to record and release a new Iggy and the Stooges album for the first time since 1973, Iggy recently commented:

"My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It's just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a real fucking group when they're an older group they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money..."

Iggy and the Stooges will begin the Ready To Die live assault shortly. Stay tuned for coordinates.



Available For Pre-Order At http://fatpossum.com/products/ready-to-die

For Further Information contact Sarah Lowe or Stuart Kirkham at Fifth Avenue PR fifthavenuepr@mac.com / stuartkirkham@mac.com + 44 208 960 1744

Thanks for posting the press release Donald.
Ready To Die - sounds like it's going to be an angry album.
And with James on production duties it's probably going to sound excellent.
Cheers,
Richard