While Post Pop Depression has been billed as a collaboration, it’s Iggy Pop‘s name on the album’s marquee and spine. Producer, multi-instrumentalist, and co-writer Joshua Homme and Pop are both revered musicians and celebrated collaborators in their own realms. Homme worked with John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl in Them …
Read More »Watch for Post Pop Depression, a new album featuring Iggy Pop and Joshua Homme
One of the forefathers and icons of punk rock and heavy music, Iggy Pop, has teamed up and collaborated with Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) to release a new album in March, 2016. Titled Post Pop Depression, the album will be released by Loma …
Read More »The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn
Emerging from the shadows to release a full-length record for the first time in five years, America’s The Dead Weather has returned. The group’s third album, Dodge and Burn, finds a reinvigorated band which has embraced its scruffy rocker identity and strength. The quartet maintains a stellar connection, which is …
Read More »Hello=Fire – Angle To See [single]
Wow, what a fantastic surprise. Hello=Fire‘s heavy, dramatic, bombastic single, “Angle To See”, released in 2013 for Record Store Day and recently promoted by Schnitzel Records, represents a near-180 degree turn from the melodic, varied rock and pop heard on 2009’s eponymous debut. Hello=Fire mainman Dean Fertita‘s tenure in The …
Read More »Hello=Fire – Parallel [single / video]
Similar to how Bob Dylan‘s “All Along the Watchtower” gained wider attention through Jimi Hendrix‘s incendiary cover, Dean Fertita‘s “Parallel” made music news headlines several years after being laid to tape, through The Dead Weather bandmate Jack White‘s quirky, angular-blues cover version. And that’s a good thing. The original “Parallel” …
Read More »Dean Fertita Joins Jack White’s Touring Band as Keyboardist
According to Consequence Of Sound and Third Man Records, American rocker Jack White has recruited fellow Dead Weather (and former Raconteurs) bandmate Dean Fertita to play keyboards and piano on his remaining Lazaretto tour dates. Fertita, who also plays in Queens of the Stone Age, was recruited to join White’s …
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