Iggy Pop Makes Album Of Covers

  Iggy Pop announced he is working on a album of covers songs named 'Apres'.  Some of the covers getting Iggified?  The Beatles 'Michelle' and Frank Sinatra's 'Only The Lonely' to name a few.  But most of the tracks on the album are French songs.

  "All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat.  Rap, hip-hop, metal, pop and rock producers will tell you that the beats they use imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies.  I've always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head."  Iggy told NME.

  "I wanted to sing some of these songs myself, hoping to bring the feeling I felt as a listener to my listeners through my voice.  Many of these songs are in french, probably because it is French culture which has most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine."

  'Apres' will be released May 9th.

'Apres' Track list:

'Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas' (Joe Dassin)
'La Javanaise' (Serge Gainsbourg)
'Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson)
'I'm Going Away Smiling' (Yoko Ono)
'La Vie En Rose' (Edith Piaf)
'Les Passantes' (Georges Brassens)
'Syracuse' (Henri Salvador)
'What Is This Thing Called Love?' (Cole Porter)
'Michelle' (The Beatles)
'Only the Lonely' (Frank Sinatra)

Iggy Pop Named Record Store Day Ambassador 2012

  Iggy Pop has been named ambassador for Record Store Day 2012.  The annual event is used to publicize and drive business to independent record stores.  This years Record Store Day takes place on April 21st.  It is marked with special shows and one day sales events.

  Iggy Pops statement on his new position on the Record Store Day website:

 "A person should have a personality.   You won't get one dicking around on the computer.  It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons.  Persons who are interested in something you are.  That's how a record store or any shop that's got some life to it should work.  It's not about selling shit."

  I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during the tender years.  In the 50's and 60's the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat.  You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick.  Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads (Jack Holzman) and faces on album covers (like me).

  Personally I feel best in a store that, while staying small and socially relaxed, still keeps a complete variety of music types and non musical recordings on offer.  All of this is cool and has a much bigger future than most people realize today.

  As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead."  

  So on April 21st. make sure you go to your favorite record store and pick something up, browse around, talk to the guy behind the counter, because he is a hell of a lot more interesting than clicking that button on your itunes account.  Hopefully you enjoy it and go back, because there aren't a lot of them around anymore, and we sure the fuck will miss them when it's too late.

                       -In 2012 'Occupy' A Music Venue And A Record Store-
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