The rental truck that housed Iggy and the Stooges’ gear when it was stolen sometime Monday morning has been found, but the equipment inside has yet to be recovered. The Stooges’ show tonight in Toronto will go on despite the loss, but the band members will have to use rented and donated equipment until their stuff turns up. C’mon, this story needs to have a happy ending! Full list of stolen items–via Hootpage, which has pictures of some pieces–after the jump.
Somebody stole the Stooges’ gear from a truck parked outside their Montreal hotel this morning. What gives, man? Full list of stolen property at the link, in case you want to be on the lookout. More »
Clothing designer John Varvatos, whose new shop on the Bowery replaced CBGB, is still trying to play up his punk rock bona fides, telling the New York Post that his first concert was an Iggy and the Stooges show in 1970. “Even back then, he performed shirtless. More »
Clothing designer John Varvatos, whose new shop on the Bowery replaced CBGB, is still trying to play up his punk rock bona fides, telling the New York Post that his first concert was an Iggy and the Stooges show in 1970. “Even back then, he performed shirtless. More »
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, perhaps looking to bolster the rocker cred of one its most undeniably pop inductees yet, is going a little left field with its choice of performers to pay tribute to Madonna at next week’s induction ceremony: Iggy & The Stooges. Then again, it’s not clear who would be a more obvious choice as a younger heir apparent to the singer’s legacy of blonde ambition, given the more wholesome new crop of Disneyfied starlets, and the fact that the pop tarts of yesteryear that Madonna previously passed the torch to with her tongue are currently popping out babies or otherwise, er, indisposed.
