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“The ‘godfather of punk’, Iggy Pop returns to 6 Music with even more eclectic and exciting music choices, delving into his personal record collection to give listeners an exclusive insight into the mind of one of the most influential rock stars of the last 40 years. This week he’s dealing with the Complaint Department […]

The contrast between Robert Cray and the thousands of bands that can be heard murdering 12 bar boogies in bars across the planet every night of the year could not be more complete.While the music is technically ‘blues’ in both cases, Cray imparts an […]

In the aftermath of Morrissey´s most difficult year in a 2013 full of illnesses, cancellations, and the lack of a record label (a constant in his career), it seems that Manchester´s melancholic poet´s back in shape […]

Words of wisdom by Dee Dee Ramone on Iggy´s most troublesome phase

Frank Zappa surely was one of the greatest musicians on the planet. But to hell of it, there are more “greatest musicians ever” than I could ever count, and that will not make a big impression on you. More important, this dude was simply the craziest and most unpredictable, sometimes disturbing dude that the music scene had to offer.

“The ‘godfather of punk’, Iggy Pop returns to 6 Music with even more eclectic and exciting music choices, delving into his personal record collection to give listeners an exclusive insight into the mind of one of the most influential rock stars of the last 40 years. This week’s show is In Praise of Beauty.”

“We’re just a bunch of fucking weirdos you wouldn’t let anywhere near your kids”, says Chris O-C (organ/synth keys/backing vocals) from Phobophobes – an outrageous and perverse gang of reverberating misery and decadent but endangered coolness.